Somewhere the RIAA is furiously trying to figure out a way to make DRM for this.

@ #60

Going faster than the speed of sound was probably stupid hard to even imagine back in the 1500s.

Just trying to bring it all into perspective.

I'm stuck editing iptables by hand via SSH and they get fancy touchscreens that protect the whole US by just sliding things around?! They get all the fun toys.

I don't doubt that it is expensive due to it's luxurious components but, I would be so afraid of tearing it, or staining it... anything really. Especially since I wear a hoodie almost constantly.

Perhaps they could someday produce a similar(ish) design but more adequately priced for those of us who don't want to live in fear of sullying their clothes?

Also, what's with the limited run?

Does that say "U SUK" ? Kinda looks that way.

Their Chicago guide is 468 pages? That's not a travel guide, that's a travel novel. You'd spend the majority of your trip reading the beast.

That... is... huge.

On the subject, an old job had some "higher ups" who figured out that instead of purchasing new inkjet cartridges, it was cheaper to purchase a brand new printer (a very cheap one, albeit) that came with the cartridges and then turn around and sell the printer online for dirt cheap.

Then perhaps a large, influential group of bloggers should get together and lobby for a standard to be created and put in place by people that make blog software.

Now who could help with this... *ponders*

Incredibly spicy foods make me feel better by cleaning out the sinuses; if only temporarily.

Huh. I've been around for many (roughly seven) people who did salvia and they all "came out" of it saying that it was cool, but nothing to write home about. I don't know the specifics but that's the only vicarious interaction I've had with it.

To add to that, in every single person I watched do it, they always... spun. Sounds weird but I'm absolutely serious. If they were standing after they did it, they would turn. Thing was a couple of them never met eachother and noone mentioned that the others turned so I doubt it was a suggestion type thing.

Weird stuff.

@#9:

Clearly the solution is to create AI and hook it up to all these CCTVs. A constant, incorruptible guard.

[Open the pod bay doors Hal!]

Heh.

I'm predicting some trackers will reciprocate by blocking Comcast users for not seeding, ever.

Whoops. Silly me, neglecting to read the fine print. I now see that some of the things I brought up were addressed.

But wouldn't the sauces sashay their way into the other divisions also? The cooking times though is a solid example.

The only "meh" to the cooking time point is perhaps they just shouldn't be in the same pot at the same time. Perhaps one would impart a flavor on the other that you don't want.

What about if one required a different temperature?

@#2:

Huh, that's a mighty hard and fast rule you got yourself there. So if someone were to go "Hey Nick! Check out these awesome deals!" you would respond with "Oh yea-- oh wait? Is that a supermarket circular? Screw that."

@#1:

If your skin were permeable on your feet, would that not be a horrible, horrible evolutionary flaw? Think of all the disgusting and rancid things people most likely walked through (far) back in the day.

Then again, IANAD or anything.

To err is human. No biggie. Did put a nice human face on Amazon's MP3 service though when they were so kind as to show up, that was nice. I may try their service out now after that.

Isn't that kinda like saying "We have a proprietary XML system"; everything that defines ID3 can be easily found out, there are plenty of specs out there on it.

If it were in fact proprietary, it wouldn't be ID3.

"Just a little trivia: Piegato means Folded in italian."

Cat pie?

@ #11

You could always use the VPN feature inside the phone.

As for encryption being a pain, check out Tor (Just Google Tor) for all your encryption needs. It encrypts and then "hops" your data through multiple encrypted networks. It's pretty neat and I believe it changes the entirety of your net traffic to be encrypted (Save for email, IM which wind up in cleartext anyways)

The ability for a publisher (read, MPAA, RIAA, etc) to insert a digital "watermark" that is distinct enough from the normal data would be a ridiculous undertaking considering the multitude of different codecs, formats, bitrates, you name it.

Thing is that if they were so gung-ho that they set their "sensitivity" to the watermark so low, they may wind up getting false positives or, perhaps, may be so specific and obviously out of place that the watermark is easy to circumvent.

"Mr. Lynch is an artist, and he's concerned about how people view his art and the art of other artists in his medium. Is anyone really surprised?"

I'm going to post an equally adamant rant on YouTube yelling at anyone using IE to visit my websites. I understand now.

"Neven, you could watch a dvd on a portable player or laptop, or read a book, or spend the six hour flight meditating!"

Couldn't you be spending this time meditating? Why would someone spring for a portable DVD player when their phone can do it? I don't imagine Mr. Lynch would view a portable DVD player as a huge step upward from a phone.

"Oh get off the FUD, he never said anything of the kind. Apart from his perk of not putting chapter stops on his DVDs I never heard him deride people's setups."

Didn't he kinda do just that?

If I'm on an eight hour flight and my choice is reading the in-flight magazine or watching anything at all that I chose on my iPhone, I'm picking the phone.

If only my Grandmother knew how instantly cool she now is because of all of this. I expect to find her hanging out at the local book store knittin' up some mad book covers; you know, cause she's crazy subversive and guerrilla like that.

How do you fit a hundred babies in a...

Oh I just can't do it; too easy.

I don't see how this is any different than someone saying something along the lines of "God damn you"

Awesome timing. Just the other day I was at a stoplight and saw a pedestrian drop his cell accidentally into the street. A car hit it but I thought I'd check it out, parked quickly, ran over and found that just the battery had come out.

I had to wind up running three blocks screaming at this guy "Hey! You dropped your cell phone!" Apparently he had headphones on. That's probably the fourth cell I've returned along with a whole slew of pets; for some reason I find them all the time wandering.

I'll be damned if a cop gets in my way of helping someone out.

This is a simple and, almost disturbingly, easy contraption to make. Especially when you realize the fact that almost every single one of the parts I bet nearly all of you have in your home or apartment at this very moment. I believe 60Mins ran a episode awhile back concerning just such technology that they had modified to fit in a suitcase.

I know that the office building of some relatives of mine was built inside a large Faraday Cage (around their server room) to protected against just such an attack. It seemed paranoid at the time I heard it but now it seems like a good idea.

@ Cowicide
Woah there fella', sit for a spell and relax. I'd hate to see the Boing become a place for you "fanboy" flamewars.

@ braschlosan
They got a point. Apple drivers on non-Apple hardware does scream problems.

I think we all need to take Sanity's advice from above: "Be smart. There's no excuse for not knowing the fundamentals and safe practices of the thing you're using. Cars, computers, ICBMs or your penis; if you don't know ask."

@ AFO

You can call the file whatever you'd like but as long as the server sends along the correct content type, there's no problem.

In Firefox if you view the image (just the image) you'll notice that even though it says .jpg in the URL, the title of the window says GIF.

@ Jolon

The article you linked states "Breaking one mercury light bulb in your home can contaminate your home to such a degree that hazardous materials experts are needed to remove the mercury"

That article instantly loses any credibility it may have had. Lucky for me they had that passage bolded and I could promptly skip reading the whole thing. Do your homework.

I've changed nearly all the bulbs I could to CFL's (some won't fit in certain sockets with coverings) and I love them. I don't have to replace them often. As for savings, I haven't noticed anything on the electric bill because, well, I live in a small-ish apartment and most of my electricity is for my computer.

How is this art? Disguising their intentions as "studying mall life" is a joke-- how would they accomplish anything in a closed room, in the mall's garage?

Sure you can say "Well we survived off the mall" but then again you could survive off the mall without living there.

This is nothing more than some kids found a spot, managed to keep it hidden and turn it into a place where they could hang out, drink, etc. without paying for any of it or answering to a landlord.