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• Commented on Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
  Someone said "All copyright should fall into the public domain after 3- 5 yr. All of it: music, books, and Saturn V rockets. How about 'creative people' work like the rest of us and we annihilate the parasitic distribution &...
• Commented on The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight Awareness
  'and have asked Google to change the name to "Issue 9".' After the Plan 9 port?...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  You know, that Leonard Nimoy photo is ever so much creepier when you have just seen this....
• Commented on Color film of 1927 London
  Ah yes, the great yellow-blue shortage of '27 This was a early color process that only used red and a greenish cyan color....
• Commented on Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter
  Now Edmund Wilson will be getting all manner of requests from people wanting these nifty all-purpose "get lost" letters....
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  What do you mean the photo's and the book are not art but are abusive? That's like saying that a painting of Mount St. Helens is the same as blowing up a mountain. Unless you are talking about nailing actual...
• Commented on Will the Duggars Inherit the Earth?
  Screamin' Jay Hawkins had about 57 children. Six generations of that and you would have 34 billion people....
• Commented on Arthur Goldwag on the queen of the "birther" movement
  Where were all these birthers when that natural born Panamanian was running ?...
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  Aside from this being the solid waste collected from an un-neutered male domesticated ungulate, I used to know a guy who had a recording studio and playback system that had been modified so that the whole thing ran off of...
• Commented on If only these retro fake ads were for real products!
  I actually wore a thermom-o-tie on a couple occasions in the 70's. I can't remember whether it was store bought or home made, but it was a gift....
• Commented on Strap-on autonomous vehicle kit
  I looked at some of the other material on their website, and, it looks a little more autonomous in their other demos. Not that I would want to drive near it in traffic though....
• Commented on Strap-on autonomous vehicle kit
  This doesn't look very autonomous to me, more like high end RC toy car than AI killdozer ( think Ted Sturgeon not the band ), er um KITT for you youngsters. These fonts hurt my eyes...
• Commented on Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings
  I think it all hinges on what is meant by the word describe. Is it " the white male 50 year old individual residing at 125 elm street with red hair seen driving a blue pickup truck past the 7-11...
• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  So why does Vegas have such a higher capacity storm drain system than it needs, that people can actually live inside it and stay dry? Corrupt contract awarding? It's because storm drains are designed for what is called a "one...
• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  For those who don't believe the CCD retro-reflector thing, put a cellphone camera at one end of a long dark hallway pointing at the other end. Go to the other end and shine a flashlight sighting down the flashlight as...
• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  It's fairly easy to detect a CCD or CMOS chip that is behind a lens pointed in your general direction , they make nifty retro-reflectors, and systems are sold for use in movie theaters and the like right now. Aiming...
• Commented on Light show caused by astronaut urine
  They spend all that money to get the water up there, and then they dump it? That really IS waste water. I'd think that they would recycle it. Funny how in the article they talk about not wanting to contaminate...
• Commented on Apple Store fixes problem with man's image files
  Original article says "Court documents show Miller came into the store Sunday afternoon because his Power Mac G5, a high-end desktop computer, was pulling photos from its hard drive and using them to overwrite thumbnails of other pictures in his...
• Commented on Old Cutlass transformed into luxury ride with magical Chanel logo
  "leak like a sieve" that's what you want it to do, I once had a 69 Chevelle convertible that would fill up with water when it rained. Had to drill drain holes in the floor. I'd be really woried...
• Commented on "Smart Parking Meters" not as smart as the hackers who pwn them
  The companies that make these things truly don't care about security. What they care about is that under the specified test conditions the product will worked as speced. "you can't manage what you can't measure" ( a slogan that proved...
• Commented on Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans
  "encapsulate" XXX in a "wrapper" is usually management speak for something like XML in my experience....
• Commented on Primer on "high frequency trading" -- AKA stockbots
  A friend of mine was the head of IT in NYC for a major japanese [ bank I think, he was forbidden to name his employer ] about 10 years ago, and a major part of the job was reducing...
• Commented on Crows Recognize Human Faces
  I had a pet crow when I was in high school, or maybe it thought it had me. It would stand on my head if it thought that guests were getting too much attention. It would drag the cats across...
• Commented on Prediction of the Automotive Future [UPDATE] [UPDATED]
  The biggest factor is that since the mid 1990s almost all cars are good for at least 150,000 miles if you treat them like crap and twice that if you change the oil and do routine maintenance. To get EPA...
• Commented on Author Michael Stackpole: I don't worry about pirates
  I live in a neighborhood where you can't spit without hitting an author or someone in the publishing industry. At parties I've been saying that in the future books will be either cheap and print-on-demand, electronic, or expensive beautifully designed...
• Commented on Smell of fear
  This I suppose explains roller coasters, slasher movies, and 600 horsepower rusted out camaros as staples of American dating....
• Commented on Cheap facts: what happens to science fiction when knowing something can be done and doing it are nearly the same thing
  So now that you know how to go to the moon, you are as good as there, right ?...
• Commented on Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA
  Has Charles Kaufmann opted rights for the screen version yet? I hear that Donald Kaufman beat him to it....
• Commented on GM's 'Tomorrow-Land' at the 1964 World's Fair
  I liked the The Ford Magic Skyway better. Disney produced it as well as The GE Carousel of Progress, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and It's A Small World....
• Commented on GM's 'Tomorrow-Land' at the 1964 World's Fair
  I rode that ride. The giant road building robot that had lasers cutting down trees in front of it and a 16 lane elevated freeway extruded out the back as it moved through the rain forest at night left a...