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Commented on Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
How to make a viable business out of distributing content digitally? Price it reasonably, make sure the quality is on par with what users can get the old-fashioned way (CDs, DVDs, etc.) and what they can get illegally, and skip...
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Commented on A bouncy, anti-gravity workout with the new AlterG treadmill
As opposed to? Running on the sidewalk? Around my house there are no sidewalks, but presuming that's what you meant sidewalks are often narrow enough that dealing with other pedestrians is somewhere between annoying and dangerous. As the runner the...
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Commented on A geeky introduction to cheap remote control helicopters and planes
The still makes it look like he's missing an arm. Made me think there had been a bad accident involving a helicopter......
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Commented on The Lost Art of Cable Lacing
When I did some consulting work for AT&T Wireless about 10 years ago I noticed that all the cabling in their production data center was laced. It looked amazing. The data center guys were really proud of their work to...
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Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
The robotics are rather spiffy, but I'm with 1B: what's the market for pre-made pancakes? Anyway, cool video....
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Commented on Griddleville: amazing cartoon made entirely by one dude.
Now that's wonderful...
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Commented on Light show caused by astronaut urine
Urine is (just recently) recycled on the ISS. Urine is not recycled on the Shuttle as the equipment to do so would likely weigh much more than the water, take up precious space, etc. And much of the fresh water...
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Commented on Laughing, flywheel-driven mechanical bellows robot
The construction looks mostly very nice, yet the flywheel wobbles. Odd. Definitely creepy....
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Commented on The Bing Thing
Bing's first three search suggestions when you enter "linux" are "linux windows", "linux microsoft" and "linux vista". None of those possibilities show up anywhere in the suggestion list on Yahoo! or Google, which leads me to believe they aren't an...
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Commented on Infinite Typewriters: Goats webcomic collection is transcendantly silly without being forced
Nifty. I have some of the previous Goats books but got out of the habit of reading it. Got me a copy of Typewriters on order now....
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Commented on Stuff it would be great to have designed
@9: F1 coverage via DirecTV and U-verse (Speed for most of the races, Fox for a few of the more high-profile ones) is in HD and very pretty. It was my test sample for deciding whether to keep DirecTV or...
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Commented on V8 motorcycle from 1918
@2: 45 HP according to the first couple of Google hits. So @9 I'm not convinced it would beat a 172 in a 1/4 mile, the second Google hit says it has a top speed of 75 mph. "There's no...
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Commented on Japanese Surgical Mask Culture
@23 Funny, I grew up in Eugene and never had hay fever there. But I get it miserably every year here in Southern California. If it weren't for the lovely drugs I might try the mask. Must have adapted to...
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Commented on Naughty speed camera prank
@#23: It was a Nissan GT-R. That episode was just on BBC America last night....
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Commented on Red-lined upside-down baby-head bowl
Why dd clck n ths pst? Yck....
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Commented on Plant an organic garden on the White House Lawn
On the TV show Invention Nation which aired about a year ago they put a small garden on the roof of their bus....
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Commented on Bill threatens lien, penalty to elderly, blind homeowner who owes one cent
My dad was the student loan manager for a large state university. His policy was that if you were within $10 of a zero balance (positive or negative) he closed the loan as paid-in-full. Saved on postage for trivial amounts....
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Commented on Working Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic
Housemates of mine in college used to make keys for Medeco locks out of some more generic key blank (Yale I think, something that was thin enough to fit in a Medeco key path). The material just needs to be...
