Disturbing.

#2,

Cue the "ghost" videos of "mysterious orbs".

Personally, I'm so sick of dealer lock-ins and hardware restrictions that I'll be picking up a Freerunner as soon as I have the cash on hand. I'm willing to deal with a little flakiness to own and use such a hacker friendly device.

Hasselblad produces very high resolution cameras, but they always seem to fall short of other cameras in everything but sheer megapixels. Shooting time, lens compatibility, shutter speed, autofocus speed, etc. consistently fall short of high end models produced by more contemporary brands like Cannon, Nikon, and Olympus.

Garden? I'm thinking graveyard.

#38,

Funny, that's how I feel about the prisoners at Gitmo.

Is this some misguided attempt at humor? I'll assume for your sake that it is.

And there is a pre-arranged signal to stop waterboarding at Gitmo: tell the questioner what he wants to know.

Regardless of its veracity? Regardless of whether or not the prisoner in question actually knows something about the information in question?

There's a reason you always see mob types torturing victims in movies. It's thug behavior perpetrated by thugs. Unfortunately, unlike the movies, torture is more likely to get whatever the victim thinks the thug wants to hear, the truth rarely enters into it.

Nevertheless, most, if not all of these so called prisoners have not or will not have in the near future, seen a fair trial, meaning that it's nearly certain that some number of these prisoners are innocent of wrongdoing. If you don't see the wrong in torturing innocent people, then I don't think I can help you.

Device in-use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7XJtcfYU4

#3

Aside from the obvious price issue, I think the lamp would look much better with the smaller cassettes.

I gathered that it wasn't cable actuated so much as cable-limited. It appears (and the engineer so claims) that it is a passive device.

a few daydreams where I fly to a remote atoll and do some scuba diving, grab a quick snack, and then putter back to my island cabana.

Flying in the same day after diving is a tremendously bad idea. Especially so if you are the pilot.

Fischer then proceeded to draw a magnum revolver and pump round after round into his own foot. Authorities were fortunately able to wrestle the weapon from him before he was able to completely destroy the limb.

Garlicpunk

#15,
I was referring more specifically to those who fought in the revolutionary war. I'll digress and admit that while I may not have specified so in my original post, the "British" comments should have rang a bell.

Case in point: If you are against the idea of a standing army, that's fine by me, but please understand that it's congress and the President (again, in the US) responsible for that, not the men and women at the bottom.

In many cases, yes they were. Especially in those cases (see Vietnam) when no one wanted to volunteer. Think about it, Big Brother wants an army, so Big Brother gets one, whether it be by conscription or volunteer.

#1, #4,

Pornography is an interesting subject. Humans have always (duh) had sex, it's a social event, part of the human experience, and not least of all, our only means of reproducing. Porn has presumably existed nearly as long as man-made imagery itself. Yet, as long as you and I have known it, and indeed many generations back, porn, masturbation, and even sex have been considered in many societies, dating back to the dark ages, as sinful and shameful. For many years the Catholic church (and many others as well!) held the stance that one was sinful to even derive pleasure from such an act.

In America and Great Britain in particular, this view was still legitimate in a social context until at least the 1920's.

We've come a long way since then, but it's clear that we still have some distance to cover before our societies can hold a healthy view of our own sexuality.

Military service likely dates back as far as porn. As long as there have been governments and hierarchies, there have been physical manifestations of their presence. From our ancient ancestors smashing each other to death with rocks, stick and their bare hands, to the modern military we see today.

Comparing military servicemen (and women!) to "hired killers", however does them a great injustice. If you are American, would you consider our forefathers, who fought to establish on the North American continent a new, free nation "hired killers"? (If you are British, however, feel free to do so.) Would you consider those before you that fought the Axis powers in World War II "hired killers"?

The men and women serving in the armed forces all over the world are simply doing their jobs, they're paying their mortgages, they're feeding their families in the best way they know how. They're not involved in the decision making process any more than you are. They don't get a special sort of vote, they don't decide that X country needs to be invaded. Sure there's a few bad apples, but there's also (in the US, at least) a Uniform Code of Military Justice. Just like society-at-large, there will always be criminals, and there will always be a justice system.

I can totally understand that many people all over the world are unhappy with the US's current state of affairs, especially in regard to the middle east. However, you must understand that the men and women in the armed forces did not choose to go there. There was no lieutenant or general that just got up in the morning and said to himself "I'm going to begin a lengthly and bloody occupation of an unstable region on false pretenses. The responsibility of those actions lies solely with the United States congress and its Commander-in-Chief.

-phew-

@#7

Venture Bros. is a codeword for the secret American plan to invade Great Britain.

Bawwwwww, nobody wants to read my inflammatory troll comment. Obviously it's them and not me.

I've seen users like this on every moderated community on the internet. Boing Boing and Slashdot I think are the only ones who don't ban them outright.

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These earrings certainly aren't anything I would wear, but to each his own.

If this post were a millimeter higher, it would have been over my head.

[golfclap]

A thief would simply steal any lockbox small enough to fit inside that, toss it in a bag, and worry about opening it later.

Inventive, though.

Can't wait. I've been looking for quite a while now for a perfect convergence of phone, GPS, and media player. Currently I'm pinning all that hope on the forthcoming Neo Freerunner, presumably running either Openmoko or Android.Although if Apple makes an iPhone with decent GPS first, I might be tempted to get one of those instead.

Congratulations, #6!, you just described WoW!

The mouse didn't work at all for me, it seemed to have a mind of its own.
(gentoo/firefox)

TAKUAN, I considered such an idea a few months ago. It doesn't seem like a difficult idea to get rolling, so to speak.

#17,

You've never had an actual English teacher do that to you?

Zerth (26112) said it best.

Phlashing? And he calls his demo code PhlashDance? Good way to make this seem completely silly. "Damn it, we've been phlashdanced!" That'll really get management to up your security budget, if they ever stop laughing.

It figures that when "bricking" might be remotely appropriate, they pick something worse.

It could have been remote bricking, BOIP(brick over IP), brick-and-run, packet bricking, warbricking.

Even brick-o-gram(landshark).

Sigh...

It's also worth noting that many devices now have bad flash recovery procedures, making the "Permanent" aspect of this somewhat dubious.

I find this whole scenario to be significantly overstated.

"We [don't] brake for heretics"

:D

#3, Watch Idiocracy, 500 years from now all content will occupy only 20% of the screen in the center, the rest being filled with obnoxious flashing ads.

John McCain is older than this test.

#5,

I see where you're coming from, but I'm still going to respectfully agree to disagree.

"De gustibus non est disputandum."

I also acknowledge #4's comments, I'll concede to you there.

Next up: Titanic casemod, Hindenburg casemod, and (upcoming) World Trade Center casemod.

Very well done, and I suspect that someone will propose that just because it says "STALKER" on the side makes it less tasteless.

I also fail to see where metal enters into this. Maybe if they used blood in place of sugar...

The high altitude blogging Cory is a nice touch :)

#73

Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from pretention.

And you're pretty pretentious.

I completely agree, MAGPYE.

I was simply attempting to point out the flaws in ROBOTON's argument.

Your internet-based traffic has NO SLA WHATSOEVER, and no one is under any obligation to reliably deliver it. And you people are complaining about getting better terms of service?

It's just goofy.

So let me draw an analogy here.

Our drinking water already contains 80% fecal matter, and you people have the audacity to complain about a 10% increase in fecal matter?

It's just goofy.

If the business class customers are clogging the pipes then the QoS terms kick in, and ALL, I repeat ALL network traffic is reprioritized to make way for the business customer WAN traffic.

Surely business traffic still falls within "ALL network traffic"

Your comment is a paradox.

"The overwhelming attitude held by readers of this blog" is that Big Brother needs to fuck off and leave consenting adults behind closed doors alone. The overwhelming majority of us here utterly resent the "nanny state" and the "father knows best" mentality.

It transcends mere partisan politics.

#68,

Do you think ubiquitous illegal prostitution is less harmful than legalized, regulated prostitution?

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The existence of larger problems does not mean we should ignore our more immediate, albeit more minor problems.

P.S. That's not even the real issue at hand here, you're getting caught up in the rhetoric.

The problem with what Virgin is suggesting is thus:

As a customer, I have paid my ISP for net access.

The content provider (let's say, Boing Boing), has also paid their respective provider for the ability to host their directory of wonderful things.

Why should BoingBoing also have to pay my ISP to get a different type of access to me? All of Virgin's incoming and outgoing traffic needs to be treated the same, because all of it has already been paid for at both ends.

If you went to a restaurant, and were told that the time it takes you to get a table is inversely proportional to how much you plan on tipping the waiter, how would you react?

Cory obviously just wants to go to a different restaurant, one that's first come, first serve.

@#10,

Yes, that may very well be true, but the end result is that your taxpayer money (in that case) was used to build a lane that you can't use because BMW paid off the head of the department of transportation.

@nem0fazer, Those of us living in the U.S. have no way of telling that any of these clips are region locked, it's not BB's fault that the stupid video hosting companies did that, go complain there.

I absolutely cannot stand anything within 10 inches of my mouse. Just the zipper around the edge of that thing would drive me friggin nuts.

It seems like he waxes between sophomoric and surreal. It's all kind of 'meh' to me.