Instead of linking to a Guardian article about a Vanity Fair article, why not just link to the Vanity Fair article directly?

I've been saying since the start that these no-warrant gag-ordered laws are perfect for foreign agents (aka spies). Show up somewhere with a couple guys in black suits, show some fake badges, and tell whoever that it is a War on Terror investigation and that they are not allowed to tell anyone about it. Then gather the spy data you want, and leave.

DANWHITS, try here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html#Howused
Did you know a 42 gallon produces 44 gallons of oil products? (That's because some of the products are lower density than crude oil.)

I agree with Kibble, which is why I think we really need to take the offensive position, and have the EFF or whomever start passing along *our* proposed legislation to our representatives.

The current research is working with the tongue, rather than the back. See Brainport and over here at Wired

As mentioned above, Palm devices (including the PalmOS based Treo phones) have a few z-code interpreters available for playing Infocom games.

There were some rogue-likes on palmOS as well, as I recall...

Good grief, 39 comments and no one pointed out the error: The entry heading says May 25, the main text says May 26 -- which is Monday. Cory or someone at bb needs to edit this entry and fix the dates so they all match, and so they reflect whatever Cory's actual schedule is.

This isn't anything new. 60 years ago, my grandfather used to have a pig farm in Secaucus, NJ. He and his brothers would run garbage trucks into NYC and collect restaurant garbage to feed to the pigs. Years later in the 1980s, he would "dumpster dive" at the local supermarket for extra edibles; he didn't need to (he was worth close to $1 million), but he had lived through the Great Depression and couldn't pass up the opportunity to get perfectly good food for free.

#3: what CNET has to offer is the domain name "news.com". I bet you that that within days of the deal being finalized, news.com will be the new home of what is now cbsnews.com, and you'll see an advertising blitz to go along with it.

Granted, it's a lot to overpay for a domain name, but I am sure it was a big part of their thinking.

I wonder what would happen if you showed one of these to one of those security guards that try to stop people from taking photographs in public places...

I suggest trying Evdo via a rental for a week or so, to try it out. If it doesn't work well enough for you, pony up the money for DSL -- but if it does, you can switch over to your own Evdo contract.

#1 - that's no good. 6 choose 3 means that random picking gives a 1 in 20 chance (5%) of getting it right. Throw a botnet at that, and it's not so bad. And if you have *any* cat-recognition technology, you can do better than pure chance.

10 choose 5 might work, as that cuts it down random picking to 1/252.

Of course, going down this path of human distinguishing challenges means that spammers will be the first to develop Turing-test passing AIs.

#59 -- Stop it, how? Protests are dismissed or ignored. I call and write my congressmen. I vote when given the chance. None of it seems to make a difference, not that I've stopped trying.

Great, awarded a copyright on something that should have expired in 1994 at the latest.

Back in 1938, when Action Comics #1 was created, copyright was supposed to last for 28 years, with a renewal for a second 28 year period possible if you asked for it when the first period was running out.

I have no problem with charging NiN charging $5 for a convenient download, even if the content is freely distributable, just as I have no problem with folks selling Linux distributions. I'm sure other people will redistribute ii-iv, since they are CC licensed.

Just saying "CC-licensed" doesn't necessarily mean that you can listen to it for free.

Actually, I think it does. Yes, there are several CC licenses. But all of them allow for non-commercial free redistribution. Hence the "commons" part of Creative Commons.

Antinous (#6), by my understanding of Actor's Equity, as a non-equity theater, non-equity actors smoking and drinking at such a bar would have no problem -- but Equity members could not go to such a "theater night"!

I'll also say that the two pairs I bought from Zenni Optical have been just fine.

There were a pair of Bosnian brothers found to have 4 kidneys each a few years ago. http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=37296

Shouldn't that be a bolt, not a screw? Common usage uses "screw" for tapered threaded fasteners, which could damage the tripod mount threads.

Correction, Bob Menendez is 202.224.4744. (You have Kerry's number listed for him.)

Who likes edges? Me, for one. I'm all about the slightly crunchy, chewy edge pieces.

Sad to hear this didn't work out.

Bentcorner, that probably because Hollywood cooks the books so that practically nothing ever makes a net profit, according to them. The wikipedia entry on Hollywood Accounting is a good start. I'd be asking for a percentage of the gross, too.

The heck with wingsuits, check out Jet-Man.

Zandr, why wait? According to this guy, you can use a Tekkeon MyPower battery to power your Cradlepoint. I'm thinking the combo would be good for people documenting a protest or other event where someone is likely to try and take (or force you to erase) your camera, or for a news reporter.

Also, Traveller's Tales, who made the Lego Star Wars video games have a Lego Indiana Jones game scheduled for 2008, which will let you play through the first 3 movies. See http://www.lucasarts.com/games/legoindianajones/

I believe that just as "Cyberpunk" encompasses a world-concept that includes things that are not cybernetic, and "space-age" includes items not ever used in space, "Steampunk" includes non-steam powered items.

However, if you feel you need an alternate term, "Neo-Victorian" is a partially overlapping concept.