Laroquod

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• Commented on EFF sets sights on abusive EULAs
  "If they don't, their EULA will fry." And they'll warm their hands on that while moving on to the next customer....
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  Never stop openly editorialising those headlines — that's what sites like Boing Boing are for. If I want thinly veiled editorialised headlines that attempt to maintain a hopeless fiction of impartiality, I'll read a newspaper....
• Commented on Toyota marketing stalks and terrorizes woman, claims she consented by doing an online personality test
  @Antinous, re: "I keep explaining that I haven't watched television in years and hanging up." That's not an explicit 'No'. Market researchers are paid peanuts and not allowed to stray from script and especially not allowed to interpret your statements...
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  The fact that there are so obviously news organisations ready to pounce on anything like this happening, proves that there isn't really much of this happening (murderers escaping on hospital furloughs), or you would hear about it a lot more....
• Commented on Jonathan Goldstein's Wiretap finally has a podcast!
  I'm a 40-year old Canadian who reads about 100 RSS feeds and full access (though I never use it) to Canadian airwaves, and yet I have no idea what Wiretap is about, although the name sounds interesting. This article could...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  Are 48,000 views *really* enough to say a video has 'gone viral'? At that level, aren't the hits coming from this Boing Boing article likely to overwhelm the original hit count? In other words, isn't this a lot like, 'Area...
• Commented on The Significant Objects project
  "The only differences are that 1) generally speaking the product is new instead of used, 2) the story is usually less specific to any individual and more generally applicable to the mass-produced nature of the product and 3) the artifice...
• Commented on Cheap facts: what happens to science fiction when knowing something can be done and doing it are nearly the same thing
  Evaluating Google results is an acquired skill that requires a firm grounding in skeptical principles - something many geeks take for granted. I do Mac consulting, and half the time I get my answers from Google. Often the same exact...
• Commented on Sony patent for any object as vidgame controller
  I have an even more brilliant patent idea - 'any object' as bludgeon. Including bludgeons....
• Commented on Lord of the Rings considered as a D&D game -- webcomic
  "Little late to the party there, Cory!" "Funny but ooooooolddd!" Right, because everyone knows that once something has been linked once on the web, it should never again be linked in any subsequent year and should disappear from being culturally...
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  I like how Glenn Beck and Michael Scheuer both comically agree at the very end that because of what intellectuals are doing to the country, Osama Bin Laden is less likely to attack....
• Commented on My graphic novel for Android and iPhone
  Somebody should rename this comments thread, 'When Hipster Cultures Collide...'...
• Commented on Twitter comes to the Commodore 64
  Stuff like this really begs the question of why Twitter didn't happen sooner, since the interface itself is indeed so simple. Obviously not really on the C64 due to connectivity issues that are easily solved today by emulators, but why...
• Commented on Giant Burning Holes of the World
  It's dismaying that a few hyperintelligent-yet-short-lived bits of dirt routinely start fires in their planet's crust that could last a thousand orbits, *by accident*. Imagine zapping into a universe in which someone could just trip at the wrong moment, and...
• Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
  One cannot argue that racial profiling is wholly ineffective at catching terrorists, and then with the next breath argue that the terrorists are recruiting whites to avoid racial profiling, because that implies it has been effective. If the profiling weren't...
• Commented on Everyone wants to be a copyright gatekeeper, and gatekeepers are bad for copyright
  Wow. Nicely done. It's a rare comfort to know that not everyone on this planet has hallucinated an ability to possess imaginary things. I understand you have written some books. I intend to read them, thank you....
• Commented on USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
  @Cory Thanks fpr that, looks like I might have been interpreting this whole thing the wrong way....
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  Wrote haiku, sooo fun... Minimalism's awesome! Wrote a hundred more....
• Commented on USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
  @Laroquod "First they came for..." If you don't stand up for the rights of your brothers and sisters, who will stand up for yours? The problem with referencing that particular aphorism, is that they've already come for me. They've already...
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  Vague datelessness, bah! Nowhere to look for results...... I win kthxbye....
• Commented on USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
  Which I assume is kind of what this treaty would do by a back channel......
• Commented on USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
  I'm not sure it's in my interest to help carve out exemptions for all the most sympathetic victims of the DMCA, while leaving the law still in place for the rest....
• Commented on Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
  POUSTMAN you make it sound like obeying according to or against the law is an intrinsic human trait rather than simply an accident of where arbitrary remotely-designed and non-naturally-obvious rules happen to intersect our ordinary day-to-day activities. 8)...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  P.S. The guy did us all a favour by pleading guilty....
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Really there is no logical difference from prosecuting us here in this thread and prosecuting that manga collector. I have even bookmarked this page....
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  "40 years from now we'll look back on this and nervously change the subject." As the last true victims of this panic slowly trickle out of jail......
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Reading the vivid and visceral commentary of 'Calpernia Adams' and others in this thread has made me think about children raped and a couple of times particularly in the case of Calpernia's words, the reference to child rape was filled...
• Commented on Science of orgasm video
  Hey Anonymous is right, we got cheated out of two items on that list! Gods know I *never* would have clicked through to a TED video entitled, '8 things you didn't know about orgasm'......
• Commented on Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture
  Last I went against a Beholder I rolled right off the table on my attack and while trying to recover my swing, spilled my slurpee all over my pants. Embarrassing. Definitely wouldn't want to go up against one of THOSE...
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  Zombies learned to run... Oh shit next they'll learn to think! "Dawn of the Dickhead"...