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• Commented on TV vs Web: consumption characteristics
  "On cranky usability guy Jakob Neilsen's Alertbox, this wonderful chart on the relative "consumption" characteristics of TV vs the web." I am not an english native speaker so perhaps I am missing something but this sentence makes no sense to...
• Commented on Mark Dery on 2012 bunkum
  2012 - not the end of the world but start of a new epoch - maybe the epoch of artificial intelligences - maybe the start of the singularity ;) maybe a good thing maybe nothing happens - I agree with...
• Commented on 3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood
  "Pixar has the luxury of making its computer-rendered movies 3D simply by re-rendering them to produce the desired 3D effects." While I am on the record saying that generally I think Cory is right with his statements above this particularely...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  Meanwhile more videos and eywitness accounts surface (including someone who was arrested for 7 hours without being told a reason before the demonstration even started) that show this was not an isolated incident at the event. Again I was there...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  The video is all over the german mainstream media and its become a huge issue! Thanks for spreading the message boingboing! Its clear that there was a prelude where a woman was beaten by the police before (no video of...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  The "black block" in question was standing right in front of me about 5 minutes before the video was shot - the police was clearly very provocative with them - I wish I had videotaped it would make it so...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  The Chaos Computer Club is asking eyewitnesses to mail them their account: mail@ccc.de also the news breaking is that the Landeskriminalamt (Buro of Criminal Investigation?) has taken up an investigation against two policeman. Rumors has it also that they are...
• Commented on Mandatory censorware comes to Chinese PCs on Jul 1
  Germany - considering we are right in the middle of censorship laws (#Zensursula) in the name of childporn. Laws against selling and "killing games" (meaning ego shooters of ANY kind) and our far center right is now the supreme leader...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  What kind of school bans "The Catcher in the Rye"? :O Is it that bad already out there? What parents are letting there kids go to a school like that? The parents should be held accountable for deprieving their kids...
• Commented on Video: Brief History of Weed
  Hemp and Cannabis are pretty much the same plant - these days they are trying to breed the plant so it does not contain so much of THC and call it "hemp" to differentiate - I don´t think that was...
• Commented on Self-serve commercial licensing: HOWTO turn the makerverse into an R&D lab
  I really like this idea but the legal hurdles seem problemativ - looking at creative commons where its still not clear if the license holds in court throughout the world not even to mention the "non commercial" issue. The way...
• Commented on Land of books: 1938 notional map
  The ocean bit reads like a book itself In the Ocean of New Publications is the Gulf of Dissapointments and the Bay of the Day Flies (which is german for one hit wonders) not far from that is the treasure...
• Commented on The Twitter Book, by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein
  Not to be negative or anything but I did the mistake in the beginning to follow one "telemarketer" spammer back and all of the sudden I had tons of the same people following me. Me beeing nosy I started to...
• Commented on Brit mobile operators blocking Pirate Bay
  this goes straight into the same drawer as the newly selfimposed censorship by vodaphone/germanTelekom/hansanet in germany against child pornography with a stop list and an IP log that the police has access too - we all expect that this is...
• Commented on Ranting lemonade label from embittered screenwriter
  Nothing beats delicious sounding lemonade, a working business model and a good rant against the established movie industry in one package....
• Commented on If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality
  I never understood why some copyleft advocates have hailed the kindle. Maybe they all had book deals and where hoping for some money from kindle sales? Its no better then the sony walkman mp3 player line in my opinion and...
• Commented on British cops identify 200 schoolchildren as potential terrorists
  Straight out of the east german stasi cookbook. I had files on me when I was a kid because I happened to comment on a program I heard on evil RIAS Berlin radio (radio freies berlin - a american sponsored...
• Commented on What could you buy with AIG's record-smashing $62 billion loss?
  If I understand correctly (and I probably don´t as I am in no way an "expert") AIG is an insurer against bank failures. Meaning that if banks or financial institutions fail it pays the creditors a percentage of its loss....
• Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  One day they are going to outlaw eyes (or looking in general) - because you copy an image in your brain - clearly infringement if you ask me....
• Commented on What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes?
  @29 and thats precisely the reason it should all go for resale or get given away. so we can stop this madness ones and for all....
• Commented on BB Video: WATCHMEN movie CG tech with Zack Snyder (director), Des Jardin (VFX)
  @13strong I am very fearfull as well that this might come out as "clean" lifeless hollywood action trash like all the others - I really really hope I am wrong and its more dirty (visually and storywise) then it seems....
• Commented on How are you coping with collapse-anxiety?
  "We can. Let's think together!" It would be lovely to see all the worlds intellect that is not centered on self interest but rather on advancement of human society actually got together and formulate a powerful enough message of unity...
• Commented on How are you coping with collapse-anxiety?
  I have been scaling down my lifestyle to the point of maximum minimum since about 3 years (thats the point where I understood that things are going to run over the cliff no matter what is beeing done). Trying to...
• Commented on What's he building in there: Introversion's <em>Subversion</em>
  Its a Spy vs. Spy MMO :D...
• Commented on Ryanair will fine passengers who board with too much carry-on
  Not even to talk about the commercials that go on all flight long telling you to take part in lotteries and other bogous endeavours ryan air tries to keep their ticket prices down with. They are so loud that even...
• Commented on What will you miss about newspapers?
  Save the trees down with the state and corp controlled propaganda is all I can say. The more individual and decentralized news reporting is getting the better. There are other endeavours out there to try to actually get funding for...
• Commented on Photos of the Northern Lights
  Isn´t there an absolute lack of sunspot activity for the last couple of month and with that also no northern lights. I might be wrong so - definately not an expert, but I always thought that northern lights are created...
• Commented on Icefields Mystery Trails
  Clearly snowboarders having fun in fresh puffy powder crisscrossing each other - no mystery here. If you ever been backcountry snowboarding you know that any slope will do no matter how shallow - espeically if the power is fresh. And...
• Commented on Macropayments: Why I don't take tips for my books
  >> "I'm convinced that taking small sums of money directly from millions of people would establish a miserable, awful career-path." I am not that convinced especially if the people paying are not forced to pay. I always saw micropayments as...
• Commented on Macropayments: Why I don't take tips for my books
  I am disagreeing with you on this matter. Just because there is no working system of micropayments it does not mean that they do not work. I have it multiple times that I would have spend 50p here and there...