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• Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
  I saw that installation at Phipps. It was amazing. The Phipps Conservatory is an incredible place to begin with, but with the Chihuly sculptures, it was like walking into Willy Wonka's factory....
• Commented on Humanizing Psystar
  Your example also works for OSX. I can run OSX on any box I like, EULA be damned, and Apple's ability to seek legal action against me is pretty much non-existent. Even the OSx86 project hasn't run into much legal...
• Commented on Humanizing Psystar
  Even if Psystar wins, I can promise you, OSX will not be able to run on commodity hardware. I can't predict what draconian approach Apple will use to prevent it, but they will. They have no interest in selling an...
• Commented on Humanizing Psystar
  @nixiebunny: Which is why it's misleading to think of OSX as an OS in the same way as Windows or Linux. OSX is an OS like the OS on more modern microwaves, or a DVD player, or a commodity NAS....
• Commented on Humanizing Psystar
  It's not about defending EULAs (although they aren't an inherent evil, just a practical one), it's the recognition that EULAs are enforceable under current law, and that Psystar isn't going to win this fight, which makes purchasing from them a...
• Commented on Lighting up wood fires, stoves: not so green.
  Depending on where you live, burning a wood fire in a fireplace is more decorative than functional. I've known people, mostly in more rural areas, who actively use cast iron wood stoves for heat. I'm currently in the process of...
• Commented on What Role Should GM Food Play in the Future of Agriculture?
  I am a huge supporter of GM food stuffs. I am no fan, however, of patented genomes, infertile crops, and the business practices of organizations like Monsanto. In short: YAY SCIENCE, BOO SHORT-SIGHTED PLANNING. As for people that claim we've...
• Commented on Periodic Table Table
  It's a nice table, but I couldn't see myself using it every day. It's more of a periodic table. //There's a MST3K reference for everything....
• Commented on Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism
  It's one of these hugely emotive subjects, with a fairly strong and vociferous lobby saying that any open discussion is deplorable and tantamount to Aids denialism. Whenever any debate hits this level, I get deeply suspicious. Because there's nothing to...
• Commented on Booklife: a guide to a sane, productive writerly life
  Someone needs to publish a guide on how to get paid for writing without it turning into a career. I've avoided a career my entire life, in exchange for a steady job that doesn't require too much effort on my...
• Commented on Jolielips, the lip-plumping vacuum system
  Guidettes rejoice, no longer will you have to kiss the curling iron to get the puffy lips you find desirable....
• Commented on Adaptive ride experiment
  @Eh: Well, it's like bizarro-milgram. "Make this person have FUN!"...
• Commented on More on the LRAD sound cannon at Pittsburgh G20 protests
  @blacksquare: "But maybe that's what demonstrations have become, an apolitical spectacle for bored college kids who get excited about neat crowd control technology." Are you not paying attention? That's what protests became a decade ago....
• Commented on More on the LRAD sound cannon at Pittsburgh G20 protests
  1) Oakland is not a "suburb" of Pittsburgh, but part of Pittsburgh. Not the downtown proper, but part of the city 2) As a resident of the area, who walked through a protest zone, I contest the idea that the...
• Commented on Britain's postal-code database online at Wikileaks: produced at public expense, not owned by the public
  @Cory Doctorow: That's a very narrow view of governments, limited to a very small subset of possible governments. Having met people, I'm dubious that they should be represented by their government, or at all....
• Commented on Britain's postal-code database online at Wikileaks: produced at public expense, not owned by the public
  Um, it's not all that different in the US. My wife works for a GIS company, and if you want access to the USPS postal code database, you have to pay mondo fees. The reason is this: maintaining a postal...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  In terms of legality, some states (like NY) have a mandatory retreat law- you must make a good faith effort to get away from an intruder before you are authorized to use deadly force in your own defense....
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  @Phoomp: Why should nuclear waste traffic be any different from all the other hazmat traffic?...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  They do not look like any other truck. They will, quite clearly, have emergency response information displayed in the standard locations that will reveal them as being loaded with radioactive substances. Like all the other hazardous materials that pass through...
• Commented on Cloud computing skepticism
  "Cloud" computing is just the mainframe era reinvented for the Internet. It makes sense for certain tasks- like social networks. Some information gains value by being cross-linked to other information, shared and collaborated on, etc. But the majority of the...
• Commented on Court orders Google to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit
  Another good argument against trusting other people with your data. That court order is for legal action that's questionable at best- the skank can't sue people for being insulted. It doesn't work that way- namecalling is protected speech, and the...
• Commented on Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability
  I'm glad you guys are starting to get onto the Laconi.ca bandwagon. It's about time people started drifting away from Twitter's silo. Here's the hilarious thing: Evan, the mind behind Laconi.ca, already has a plan to monetize his open source...
• Commented on High-ranking insurance PR flack defects, explains dirty tricks used to fight universal healthcare
  Call me anarchistic, but I don't think the government is qualified to make and enforce laws, let alone provide public services. //No, the market isn't either....
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  My solution has always been to make offering health insurance illegal. Without those bastards manipulating the market, we'll get to see price adjustments without expanding the functional requirements we place on the government. This is the one thing I'll never...
• Commented on Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop
  @Ted8305: the flags. Ahmadinejad has been using the Iran flag as his icon, Mousavi and now the protesters are simply using the color green....
• Commented on Lazyweb: turn the new version of Opera into an unstoppable grid of proxies for Iranians
  Tor is similarly quick and easy to setup, and can handle encryption and is a heck of a lot more secure. If people outside Iran were to establish Tor bridges and share the IP/token with select sources in Iran, as...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  Or, we could look to Europe for inspiration. In general, the drinking age is either 16 or non-existent, although in places where there is no drinking age, the purchase age remains 16. That, to me, sounds like the most reasonable...
• Commented on Cat Workout
  I have one cat that wouldn't care if he was so treated. I have another cat that refuses to be held, let alone manhandled. And, since she has cerebellar hypoplasia, she doesn't have great motor control, so her response to...
• Commented on The Art of Living Dangerously
  @Catbeller: I strongly disagree with your assessment. I've taken quite a few lifestyle risks- moving to cities without job prospects, things like that. Sometimes they payoff, sometimes the lead to a year of squatting and unemployment. I am not heir...
• Commented on Online Personal Narratives from Patients of Murdered Late-Term Abortion Provider
  Conservatives should understand, abortion isn't murder. It's an eviction. These unwanted fetuses are nothing but freeloaders, parasites on the hard working, living, breathing mothers. Nobody's killing them, they're just evicting them so that they can make their own way in...