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• Commented on Cop gets 7-day paid vacation for Tasering child
  "Noggle said the girl will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile in the incident." This is getting better and better......
• Commented on I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
  Good to know that I'm not the only one who thought of Sparklelord! :D...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  I won't buy this book because the guy strikes me as one of those "Yay, I'm edgy! Pay attention to me!" guys. But the good news is that I'm HELPING him by giving my money to authors who don't have...
• Commented on Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers' families with Internet disconnection by 2011
  I think it goes more along the route "Copyright holder or the RIAA/MPAA equivalents connect to a torrent and note which IPs they're being connected to." Much easier than actually asking the ISPs to constantly spy on you, and you...
• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  And in a few weeks, we'll see the following on Boing Boing: "FBI surveillance team surrounded by SWAT after being reported via iWatch by the drug dealer inside the house they were observing."...
• Commented on Social marketing vs publishing -- funny!
  *rubs temples* What did we do wrong to deserve such a buzzword barrage, Cory...?...
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  To the people who suggested leaving notes or simply explaining - how much evidence would YOU ask for if some guy you have never seen walked up to you and told you (for example) to quit your job right now,...
• Commented on Brit ISP TalkTalk shows why cutting people off because a record exec says they're file-sharers is dumb
  Why would you need to wardrive if you could just hijack your neighbor's connection that way? I agree that the argument is not exactly the strongest one they could have made, and the scenario isn't the most likely, but it's...
• Commented on Vegas uses computers to nab card counters
  So the game can now basically be summed up as: I win -> "OMG U GOTZ BOT HAXXORZ" I lose -> "LOLOLOLOL U NOOB" Why does this sound familiar...? Oh, right, online games like Counterstrike....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  "1) you can't stuff a lot of explosives into a body cavity" Someone clearly has never seen Goatse......
• Commented on Gimme Indie Game: the psycho/schizo puzzling of McMillen/Good/Karpel's <em>Time Fcuk</em>
  Okay, it's now 4am, and the only reason I stopped playing is that the insane time keeps making me accidentally press the wrong button (pick up/warp) in a level I'm not even sure yet how to solve. But I fear...
• Commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
  Coming next: A fee to ensure that your luggage will actually be on the same plane as you are....
• Commented on That is not a sufficiently potent botfly maggot unicorn chaser, Mark, this is the strength we require.
  Thank you Xeni, I can now hopefully go to bed in peace. ("Funny" story: I read this post first and then clicked the botfly video to see what would require such an epic chaser. Intelligence is obviously not on my...
• Commented on Speed-trap-happy cops shoot complaining fire-chief in court
  "Payne could face a misdemeanor charge stemming from the scuffle" Wait, the guy who got shot might face a misdemeanor charge? And the cop... will get nothing at all or what? That makes the sudden memory loss (more like Sudden...
• Commented on What's the best multiple-button mouse for Macs?
  For me, Logitech's MX-510 is good enough and works well with the Logitech drivers on my 10.5 Macbook. However, after hearing all the horror stories about Logitech's Mac drivers and newer mice, I'm going to do some VERY thorough research...
• Commented on HOWTO Make A Cheap Version of Muji's CD Player
  Huh, nice! The only thing that's making me go "meh" is the "needs batteries" part. I know that using power cables would take away part of the style, but it would make it more useful in my eyes. But I...
• Commented on Apple iPod Announcement: Sept 9th
  After the success of the new Shuffle, the Nano will also lose its main interface and will be operated through the headphone controls. Yes, including the camera. As for serious predictions, I dunno. I guess the camera for the Touch/Nano...
• Commented on Claim: Nasty Evony ads merely top of the sleazeberg
  The last of the five ads there (from the first link - and I actually had to check the other links to verify that that's actually a real ad!) makes me both happy and sad that I got AdBlock Plus:...
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  @#23 by Pantograph: I think that's what he meant. Germany is the country with the mandatory ID, but not the mandatory carrying-around (I think.) - THAT (=country where you have to carry it around) would be the Netherlands....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Watermark
  Alternatively, just make snapshots of people holding products - and then slap the watermark over their faces ;) (Also, font outline in another color so that the watermark will still be annoying even when the background roughly matches the fill...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Watermark
  Assuming that I interpret this correctly: Good to know that I'm not the only one who finds excessive watermarking silly. Sometimes it's hard to focus on (or FIND) the product on a photo because it's hidden behind some sort of...
• Commented on Hacking the Sony Reader
  "An advantage Sony's Reader still has over the Amazon Kindle is that it's easy to hack." ...and that it's not limited to a single country....
• Commented on Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net without full judicial review
  @wylkyn in (currently) #25: If they want to be able to declare you guilty without the possibility of a fair trial, does it really matter how many "strikes" you get?...
• Commented on Gimme Indie Game: make mine meta with <em>This Is The Only Level</em> & <em>Upgrade Complete</em>
  I love these meta games, especially "Achievement Unlocked" (which is also one of my all-time-favorite happyfun exploration games) and "Upgrade Complete". The new "This Is The Only Level" reminded me a bit of "Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman" with the occasional out-of-the-box...
• Commented on Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans
  That remix totally made my day, thanks. :D...
• Commented on Listen: Da Chip! Vintage game system covers of Daft Punk
  At first read, I thought this would be lame somehow, but the video quickly proved me wrong. Great stuff!...
• Commented on Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads
  Quite hilarious (and interesting - I bet few keypad makers think this far ahead), but just a quick note: URL changed to http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/information-lea-1.html...
• Commented on BB Video - Pirate Bay Surrenders to Hollywood: Peter Sunde interview
  Commenting more on the LA Times post than the video: I find the concept that KaffN8ed (comment #5 here) pointed out interesting, but I somehow don't think that it will work (in the sense of actually influencing the behavior of...
• Commented on City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks
  Password for your Google account? Someone help me out since I never made such an account, but doesn't Google have this Web History thing with the Toolbar where it tracks the pages you visited...? *cues ominous music*...
• Commented on Fear And Loathing: The Board Game
  @mr_josh: I somehow doubt you would even get that far....