Seven hours?

just wow.

I just found out that my friend living in Chengdu is all right. Big Sigh of Relief.

Yeah, this basically seems like low-power LCD. and those Tiger Electronics watches were just horrible. There were thousands of games, all of the the same.

This sounds like a primitive version of RadiKS Smartwheels from Snow Crash:

Buy a set of RadiKS Mark II Smartwheels—it's cheaper than a total face retread and a lot more fun. Smartwheels use sonar, laser rangefinding, and millimeter-wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris before you even get honed about them... Each one consists of a hub with many stout spokes. Each spoke telescopes in five sections. On the end is a squat foot, rubber tread on the bottom, swiveling on a ball joint. As the wheels roll, the feet plant themselves one at a time, almost glomming into one continuous tire. If you surf over a bump, the spokes retract to pass over it. If you surf over a chuckhole, the robo-prongs plumb its asphalty depths. Either way, the shock is thereby absorbed, no thuds, smacks, vibrations, or clunks will make their way into the plank or the Converse high-tops with which you tread it.

I really wish these existed.

Chuck, are you referring to Guantanamo-type detainees or more mainstream defendants? I'm not defending the former, just curious.

I haven't played this game and have no plans to, but it's my understanding that the GTA series was revolutionary for being extremely 'open,' that is, you can do pretty much anything you want. You play a criminal, so the game's missions involve killing people, but those who beat up women on the street are just sad people taking advantage of the freedom the game offers them. You're equally free to escort old ladies across streets or take long peaceful walks in central park, but for some reason no one does, or at least it doesn't receive news coverage. It's not marketed as a virtual prostitute-killing game and that's not what it is. If the matrix were real and simulated reality perfectly, would it be condemned as misogynistic when people inevitably used it to exorcise their demons in the same manner?

This is worse than C-SPAN trying to copyright footage of congressional hearings. I know that a work of a federal employee in official capacity is exampt from copyright, why isn't the same true for the states?

@Mullingitover: That would be a novel defense; "Your honor, I was stumbling around naked in public because I couldn't afford to check the laws to see if it was OK!"

Chicago passed a handsfree-only law for drivers a little while ago, and I've yet to hear about a single person ticketed for it. Probably because Chicago highways are an unpatrolled no-mans-land.

Also, I have to point out that the rules are ambiguous. You say 1 kilobyte, 1 kilobit, and 1,000 ASCII characters, all of which represent a different number, and consequently, the sizes of the submissions are different.

And if you reply, please don't say anything to me that starts with kibi-.

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translation of untitled by WoooT (It's ascii):

Ode on a Terabyte.
A taste of earth taunts
and taints the tongue
a trillion times over.
Pica fantasies kiloed
a mega times over.

Personally, I prefer the ones and zeros :P

Boo @ having to use an adapter; That thing looks bigger than an ipod shuffle. I've been using a bluetooth-compatible mp3 player and headset for the past six months and the joy of not spending five minutes untangling the headphones every time they've been in a pocket far outweighs the occasional hassle of figuring out why the headphones didn't pair correctly. Even though it's somewhat unsafe, I nearly always bike with music, and it's really nice to have phone calls interrupt my music and come in over the headset while I'm riding. Some people complain about the quality, and it's true that bluetooth uses a lossy codec for transmission, but I find that it depends hugely on the models being paired (a2dp uses a low-complexity codec at up to 375kbps but some devices seem to prefer lower bitrates). In this case, I lucked out.

I agree that this is a pretty funny post. Absinthe is at least as gross as that fake moonshine they sell in mason jars. Although the label's pretty cool and seems to evoke Ralph Steadman, the overall bottle design looks a lot like Boone's Farm.

@JJJ:
iTMS is no different than MSN music, You'd just be substituting one form of DRM-encumbered music for another. Just because Apple puts on a friendlier face than Microsoft and would likely never do something like this doesn't change the basic fact that they could if they wanted to. When you agree to DRM you are agreeing to have zero control over what you've paid for, being forced to ask permission every time you play it. Yeah, there's iTunes Plus, but from what I've heard that only covers a small portion of the catalog.

It frustrates me so much that Microsoft could have the audacity to do this, yet I've got to admit I'm not surprised; it was only a matter of time that something like this would happen. They complain about the complexity and cost of supporting legacy DRM schemes, but isn't that part of the cost of opening such a store? Their current solution is to tell customers to burn and rip their music which is problematic due to time (especially tagging, which would only maybe work in situations where you could cddb full albums) and quality issues, but if they're ok with burning all your tracks, why not just provide a tool to decrypt all purchased music? The end result would be the same but they'd be pissing off a lot less people.

Arkizzle:
Modern configurations of vi don't force you to do silly things like use letters to move the cursor, and if you can't deal with modal editing or remember things like 'd means delete', 'w' means word, etc., how could you efficiently use a program like photoshop?

12-year-olds can remember complex key combos for video games with ease.

Arkizzle:
You are ignorant. all extremely powerful software has a steep learning curve. Granted vi(m) requires a good deal of customization and knowledge to be worth it, but its extensibility is such that it can do literally anything any other text editor can, and is lightweight as hell to boot, unlike its main competitor which shall remain nameless. Vim increases my productivity many fold.

Outrageous. These are obviously derivative original works, he didn't create them because they're not verbatim copies.

@Hofftv:
Thus taking it one step closer to the Best Beverage in the World, The Carbomb. Oh god I had too many of those last night

That was what I was thinking. A device meant to protect your eardrums from damage shouldn't be adding extra noise to the mix, especially since, like audiotherapist said, most people would turn the volume way up in a noisy environment. It seems plausible that in some corner cases this could actually be worse than not wearing protection.

#35:
It's a silence of the lambs reference. Which, again, is insulting, essentially saying that no 18-year olds can be bothered to see or know about classic films. What's perplexing is that they assume that this 1991 classic film is unheard of among 18-year-olds but the 1991 film 'Wayne's World' is greatly respected and admired to the point of annoying over quotation. That's really inconsistent; This list looks like it was thrown together haphazardly by someone who doesn't have a very good idea of when anything happened.

Flash mobs exist. News at 11.

Yawn.

#13

My problem with this list is that it pigeonholes a whole generation into a certain mindset and level of knowledge, assuming none of them are familiar with even recent history. The whole list reads with a derogatory and dismissive tone to me, as well as being largely inaccurate and anachronistic. For example, they reference the 1989 film 'Batman' as these kids' only exposure to Jack Nicholson as if he hasn't been in a million films during these kids' lifetimes; they seem to think that people who were five years old at the time were huge 'Beavis and Butthead' fans; Ditto to 'Wayne's World', which was a sketch in the 80s and whose film was released when these kids were two. The list goes on and on from there; if you're going to assume that kids are fluent in media from before they were born, why not assume they have a basic knowledge of history as well?

This list seems much more interested in masturbatory generational self-congratulation than actually informing faculty about these kids' mindset. If they were serious, they'd get a well-educated 18-year old versed in 60s trivia to write this list instead of a hopelessly out of touch baby boomer.

This is a terrible shame, but you're doing an injustice to your readers by sensationalizing the headline. Kambaksh was charged with blasphemy for *distributing* the report, which is quite different from "death sentence for downloading report on oppression of women". It's difficult to have a real discussion on the crimes of sharia when people inject half-truths into the debate. That said, this is entirely consistent with Islamic law, which seems to be at the developmental stage that Christianity was at during the crusades. All five recognized schools of thought on Islamic jurisprudence believe that if a sane Muslim converts away from Islam, he must be put to death. I'm certainly no xenophobe, but it would be easier for western nations to integrate and cooperate with Islamic ones if their legal systems didn't all resemble something from the 1200s.

Crone, n.
an ugly evil-looking or frightening old woman; a hag

A better porn name is 'Cruella stinkbottom'

not if you jump!

The Maxalot site is literally physical wallpaper, something that initially confused me as they appeared to be charging for wallpaper images

John Edwards talks a whole heap of shit about corporate interests in this country, which I like. But when asked to provide an example of a good corporate citizen, AT&T always comes up. How can anyone, after the wiretapping scandals, the net neutrality issues, price gouging, and now this, consider AT&T to be anything but harmful to the American people? They may be helpful to the government, but its customers are surely getting the shaft.

you forgot to mention how senseless and irresponsible this is.

I find any situation where using cracked software is more expedient or usable than the paid-for equivalent incredibly funny.

I love this so much. THIS sort of post is the essence of boingboing to me, not goatse analogues or even papercraft.

^-- i.e. 33 million coupons.

These converters are hard to find and expensive right now. You'd be better off waiting a bit for prices to drop. Problem is only 33 million are available, 2 per house, and you can't horde them because they expire 90 days after you get em'.

Can anyone tell me why Jason's character is drawn with those odd vertical lines on his glasses? I've wondered for years and even Google doesn't seem to know.

Not nearly enough people have been commenting on the fact that this is NOT a statement or decision made by any Lakota tribal leadership of any kind. This is a publicity stunt by a group of activists who do not represent the Lakota, lead by Russell Means, perhaps the best known Native American activist. It will come to nothing, although hopefully it will achieve the intended result of calling atention to their cause.

I'm very pissed the n800 is that cheap. I thought I got a deal!

Youtube recommended the 'mr rogers goodbye message', and I have to admit, it made me cry a little.

'fuck the mashed potatoes' is certainly a brilliant phrase, but it's borrowed from a sample off the Beastie Boys' Ill Communication. But 'cooly slipping one centimeter lengths of candy cane into your mouth at constant rate'? pure lovely.

The text is kind of littered with these tags. TO get rid of them, you need to do a search and replace with an actual html tag, like

%s///g

Wow, they're even actually square! I wonder if they're actually weighted, too? Because otherwise they won't work with my 1500 megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-colliding Super-button.

Please shut up about the cake and its veracity. Every time you repeat that tired cliche, GlaDOS kills a companion cube.

#20:

I agree; for a professional writer, learning the basic features of vi is well worth it. Gedit is designed to be easy to pick up, not powerful. If you spend more than an hour a day with a text editor, it only makes sense to spend a few minutes learning some commands in exchange for the thousands of timesaving features vi or (if you must) emacs can offer.

Personally, I think this lady sounded kind of dumb when she slammed the company for advertising treatment for a condition that affects "only" 3% of the population. There's plenty of well-marketed conditions that affect far fewer people.

I've been hearing about this for a while. It's a cat and mouse game, with the casinos trying increasingly draconian measures to make sure you don't cheat. At this point every major poker site will scan your RAM and installed programs for traces of known poker bots, similar to Punkbuster and similar FPS anticheating platforms. And what did the cheaters do? simple, move the bot to another computer and have it control the poker game via VNC.

A computer can't be 100% optimal at poker like it can at checkers, because of the uncertainty involved. Real human players do things like analyzing other players' personalities and categorizing them, or gauging moods. These are hard things for computers to do, but it's only a matter of time.

At any rate, readily available software can still beat most fish out there, which worse news for a poker exec than finding out his flight has an unexpected layover in the US.

I love SomaFM so much, especially Indie Pop Rocks. I'm lucky enough to live in a town with two really good indie-friendly stations, but Soma blows them both away.

Hooray for increasingly early xmases!

Plutonite. Ha!

I'm really interested in stuff like this, but this video has got to be the most boring one on youtube. The principles may be cool, but that doesn't mean that anyone wants to watch some guy play with a pumpkin for 10 minutes.

And please, Rick, lighten up.

also, to stay OT, one of my favorite quotes from portal goes

"Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and i said 'Goodbye' and you were like 'NNOO WWAAYY', and then I was all 'We pretended we were going to murder you', that was great."

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T.I, I agree with your implied sentiment that this a bunch of new age horse-hockey, but it's harmless and non-violent, whereas religious extremism quite often leads to hatred, violence, and opression (cf. abortion clinic bombings, The Troubles in Ireland, the KKK, Islamic militantism and terrorism, anti-semitism, forced conversion/cultural eradication in Colonial Latin America) For something that seems so fundamental to our species, it sure is harmful. Only within the last few hundred years has speaking out against a religion been something that's not likely to get you killed, and in many countries, it still will. Upsetting yourself about FSM jokes is just one example of how tight a grip this phenomenon of believing in magical overlords has on us.

The sex pistols may have been manufactured, but they were *extremely* influential. Also, you certainly can't say they're not abiding by the punk ethos given things like this:

Sex Pistols Spit on Hall of Fame Honor

"Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain," the statement read. "Your museum. Urine in wine. Were (sic) not coming. Were (sic) not your monkey and so what?"

egotistical much? But the sentiment is pure anti-establishment, something "pop punk" bands like Fall out Boy or Green Day are entirely disconnected from.

In other Stephen Fry related news, the 5th series of his awesome panel show, QI started weeks ago and I didn't even realize, but when I found out I had 7 episodes to watch, I was glad I missed the news. Until the dvd comes out, us poor yanks have to use illegitimate means to watch it, however much I'd love to pay for a television licence.

Wow, that flash game is actually a pretty entertaining 2d clone of the original.

From the article:
"I think 10GB of ebooks ought to be enough for pretty much anyone."


Do you really?