Richard Steven Hack

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• Commented on Obama DOJ invents radical authoritarian theory to defend Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping
  One word: suckers. Told you not to believe the hype about Obama. A politician is a politician. End of story....
• Commented on Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All Up
  This case reminds of one I read about some years ago. I think it was in Philadelphia, or at least reported by Philadelphia papers. The cops were using unreliable informants - again. The informant gave them the address of a...
• Commented on Poor sleep leads to more colds
  Thanks a lot for this tip - TOO LATE! I've had lousy sleep for several days now - and today I woke up with a cold which came on hard and fast. Try to be more timely, BoingBoing!...
• Commented on That Damn Ram Challenge
  Anybody notice Dodge Rams have been inserted into the "Terminator TV series? Episode "Goodbye to All That" featured the truck big time. First, John and Derek load a ton of weapons and gear into the spacious cargo features. Then Derek...
• Commented on Your Shoe Is Jacked into My Eye
  When I saw the headline, I assumed it had something to do with the recent scene in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" where Cameron was fighting the other female Terminator and stuffed the other Terminator's shoe heel into her eyeball......
• Commented on Another creepy android from Japan
  Well, leaving aside the fact that it's modeled on a five year old kid, it's got a long way to go (22 years actually) to match this sort of thing: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Cameron: "I Love You John!"...
• Commented on Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
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• Commented on Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0
  Just installed it. Went to the import media function, selected my Music folder. Anybody recognize this? "Window with title "Banshee Media Media" is not responding." In short, this thing has locked up on me at least three times in the...
• Commented on Sarah Connor Chronicles (Terminator) ARG sneak peek: part 1.
  I'll buy it - as long as the device shows me images of Cameron like these: http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x03_05.jpg http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x08_04.jpg http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x08_08.jpg http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/scc_hq/fox2_04-summer-beauty_0880.jpg...
• Commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
  This is fabulous! I loved that book! Why this book has never been made into a movie, I don't know! It has all the power of "Titanic"! I could even see Celine Dion's song being sung over the credits! Seriously!...
• Commented on Howard Rheingold launches vlog
  Well, if Howard starts readings from his old "Mama Liz" porn stories from the 70's, it could get real interesting! Bandwidth cost would shoot through the roof! Anybody but me remember those?...
• Commented on High-security UK mall breached, photos online!
  My mother used to work for Woolworth's here in the US as a floor walker back in the 60's. Go ahead - bomb it! She would approve! Her considered opinion was that all the managers were idiots. They bought tons...
• Commented on Adobe Creative Suite fails "catastrophically" thanks to DRM
  Adobe media products are known for this nonsense. I have a client who does digital media conversion - taking people's film, stills, video, etc. and digitizing and converting it. They run most of the Adobe media products. Adobe has an...
• Commented on Icelandic "shopping terrorist" menace thwarted at JFK
  Here's the reality: ANYBODY arrested in the US on the city, county, state AND Federal level is VERY likely to be treated like this - especially on the Federal level. I have personal experience with this fact. This is how...
• Commented on A Day in the Life of a Networked Designer's Smart Things diagram
  I may be dense, but it looks like a large page of circles with notes in them. Where's the linkage? Where's the mapping? Unimpressed....
• Commented on RU Sirius's two proposals
  Sirius has been promoting one cause after another for the last twenty years. None of them went anywhere because nobody outside a loose band of libertarian lunatics knows him - and quite frankly, nobody takes him or his projects "Sirius-ly"....
• Commented on Radiohead downloads were just a tactic to boost CD sales?
  I agree with oboreruhito that Radiohead shouldn't be blamed for the hype around what they were doing. People took a lot of the commentary around what they were doing and extrapolated from it more than the band was intending. The...