"but all the prioritized packets get through the tube at 2x pps (or however much of the increased bandwidth we can get), doesn't that prioritize without de-prioritizing?"

No. An open road is an open road. Would you like a BMW only lane on your local toll-road? How about a BMW only lane that expanded to take up the slower lanes when there were a lot of BMW's on the road, causing you to drive on the shoulder?

Think of all the parking tickets you could write...

or one of those anti-mosquito field generators!

Do you live in an office?

I only ask b/c I've never seen a glowing green EXIT sign in a residential setting.

Does it fly? Is there a link? will it blend?

Apparently they're stealing one copy out of a larger shipment. Contents may settle during shipping?

Good point. As soon as I got a watch that got phone calls I started to keep it in my pocket. Which is to say as soon as I got a cell phone I stopped wearing a wristwatch.

Birth control pills, bikinis, AND Beatles records?

Hmmmmm.

@ 158 "Fact: if you don't have a sample of the DNA from those lizards BEFORE and AFTER..."

Fact: They do. Did you not bother reading the article?

I think in Brazil they hack Central Services.

If the new lizards can still make babies with the old lizards, then it's not quite evolution and is more like plasticity.

Still, totally awesome. Go UMass!

#10 - "Every single time he gets a hit, regardless of my surroundings, I am compelled to shout, "Hu's on first!""

NICE!

I got my 12-year old nephew a USB version of and Eyeclops-like-thing a while back, he LOVES the thing. He has the kewlest insect photo's.

#1, do you suppose that puts anyplace within 100 miles of any coast (from international waters!) into the jurisdiction of ICE? Because most of America lives there, and it wouldn't surprise me at this point.

How can a "W"-anything be a winning sales pitch just now?

it's not the size of the hard drive, it's the compression.

#6 - Printhe Cathpian?

one of the men wearing a BARGAIN MADNESS shirt twisted my arm violently behind my back, i winced in pain and could hardly breathe in agony.

Where I'm from that's called 'assault'.

increase the resolution by an order of magnitude, as well as the lumens, and put that projector in a bigger iTouch (about 4x the surface areas), support wireless QWERTY and I will be a very happy camper.

That was unexpected fun, tyvm.

Theresa could use that as a backup for disemvowelment, for when a commenter -really- deserves a 'point and laugh' session.

"the potential misuse of such weapons radically challenges traditional notions of criminal responsibility by effacing the distinction between thought and act."

The last 7 years has been a challenge to traditional notions of criminal responsibility.

I hear a Maytag (or two) in the yard keeps the blackflies away.

After several years of assessing hazardous waste sites I've developed a sense of how the variably lazy or greedy people who spill or mishandle hazardous materials tend to operate, where the systems in place tend to fail, and what the signs are of a likely problem. I can really appreciate his mindset.

That sweet smell from the mimeograph machine was usually methanol.

Sharpies - 15 years ago - used Xylene (which is part of gasoline) as a solvent, but now they use n-propanol.

Material Safety Data Sheets are a good place to look for information like this. They are required for most toxics you might encounter in the workplace. Your company OSHA person is supposed to have them.

My god! They're still allowed to use markers!!!!

It must be stopped!

they gave up way more then WE got in the deal.

I swear they're just trying to distract us all so we don't have time left over to prosecute war crimes

That's more fun than it looks.

My 80's version did not have headlights. This thing is sweeeeeet.

p.s. you put 'yer weeeeeeeed in it.

#13 - that is pure geek art.

Similarly, when someone is denied unemployment benefits because their former employers are shady, they also don't get counted.

That's my one data point.

ooh, a WiiPlayer, v. nice.

#30 - I'll bet a paper towel would do the trick.

how about a retractable leash for your iPhone?

Some companies just flail all the way into the ground.

I wonder how much they'll charge you if you return their box late after deciding it sucks?

Murders went down within 250 feet of the cameras, but the reduction was completely offset by an increase 250 to 500 feet away, suggesting people moved down the block before killing each other.

I guess that could help prove premeditation?

Ahhhhhh, so spice is fungus spores. That makes the whole story make just a little more sense. Granted, just a little.

Dear disbelievers:

Global warming means higher highs, and lower lows, and less time in between.

But by all means, shoot every single messenger if it helps your bottom line.

First, they came for the databases, but I wasn't a database....

Ann Thrax is changing all her luggage tags as we speak.

The town/city will own it after about 2 years. I suspect your kids will pwn it before then though.

Dear History: please treat us better than we deserve.

Shooooom!

Of course, now we know why we'll all have to upgrade from HD.

FTW!!!

Jake, in 'computer years' (similar to 'dog years') a 5 year old sound card IS fairly said to be 40+ 'years' old. C'mon, work with me.

then (again) why not strike a deal with someone who can?

Profit. They own the thing, it's their right to develop it as they see fit (and to lose customers while they are at it).

You disagree with the lack of official support? Go buy another brand.

You want to change the decision making process? Buy shares.

Capitalism sucks, but there it is.

As for the coder himself: Hack away, but the minute he started profiting off of someone elses copyright/whatever, he had to expect well organized resistance under the law.

You don't like the law? Vote.

Ceronomus, I think that's not the same sort of analogy. The swap to Vista is more like changing the fuel to ethanol from gas - it wasn't Creatives decision to revamp the whole OS. So, unless you install a certain widget, the car will run very poorly if at all, and although the widget can be easily made and will restore performance, doing so opens GM up to all sorts of hassles when the n00bs install it themselves.

#2 - Why would they? How is Creative, a hardware company, going to sell more hardware by working with him?

May I draw a comparison? Would you take your 1965 GM into a modern GM dealership for repair? Or would you take it to "Jimbo's old-time car shop"?

I do not see it being in GM's financial interest to keep the tools on hand to service every car they ever made, nor do I see any reason that GM should be expected to offer free advertising that will help Jimbo make money. Further, should Jimbo start selling his service as being of "Mister Goodwrench" quality, I rather expect there would be some repercussions.

just my 2c

omfg, it's Logorrhrea-palooza.

Brevity is the soul of more than just wit.

Do any of you tell street musicians how to play their instruments?

Clearly, some of you do.

Well, I love the moderator and the site.

So there!

That could make a very cool hotel/B&B.

Hot Topic is invariably within 500 feet of Target, and I am invariably found miles from either of them.

I'd get the moleskine with the lead stylus.

It's only a week.

No, that's a painting. Please follow up on this one.

I know what I'd use to block the lens

The toxic cloud is the best part. What's Hulk been eating?

What #3 said. They're eating their own.

#13 - for the troll

@ #1 - How well did the smokescreen and the tacks work?

ooooops - wrong thread!

maybe it's the (lower case) kkk.

Northern Brewer is huge. I use them too. I also us a more local mon'n'pop place (with some sweeeeet shop-made kits) - NFG Homebrew. Look 'em up, they're online too.

They don't look kindly on bootleggers in Hazard County.

YeeHaaaa!

I hope the zombies don't figure it out.

I say you go retro for a while. It'll be like using a TRS-80 after being exposed to a Mac for the first time.

If torture worked, 7 years of it would have gotten us to Osama Bin Laden by now.

This is and has always been about humiliating the Muslim world and justifying a juggernaut military budget.

Juggernauts require sacrifices, your rights are next.

“I’m talking about being able to take on twice the responsibility, work twice as fast, write more effectively, manage better, be more attentive, devise better and more creative strategies.”

Can it set the arm you break while patting yourself on the back?

See!

it DOES turn your bones to dust!

User Agent Switcher = Awesome tip.

It's copyrighted because we say it is! Maggot!

and by "outside" I mean "the great unwashed".

#8 - "and Apple has the final right of refusal on everything."

Apple are control freaks who make elegant machines.

The surprise is that they're even considering submissions from outside.

My "Disappearing Civil Liberties" mug (where the 1st, 4th, etc amendments disappear when in hot water) didn't survive a trip through the dishwasher.

They all washed off eventually, though that may also have been the fault of the 2004 elections.

"three trillion could have fixed America's social security problem for half a century."

Breaking Social Security is just one of many parts of the American social contract that our President has worked hard (and directly) to destroy. He's no fool. It's no accident.

A little dab will do you.

I meant the MAPS! in a good way. DeLorme maps are unbelievable.

Yeah yeah, customer service. Have you seen their MAPS!?!?

So campy, so good.

Turn them up to 11

#8 for the win

I hope Dave finishes the set. It looks sweet.

Betting my sweet ass since 1991, tyvm.

How big is the flash?!?

I take ethanol enhanced over silicon enhanced any day.

I'm with #9.

The difference between JetA and diesel diesel is pretty small in terms of petrochemistry, but fairly big in terms of biochemistry - and this is biochemistry we're discussing.

I have seen the future, and there is still litter.

brevity is the soul of more than wit.

Beautiful, yes, but where does one get 5 1/4 floppies in 2008?

#12, that is a very big detail

#6 & #8

Now we know, and knowing is half the battle!

For safely enjoying Pina Colada's while caught in the rain?

What a wonderful thing!

$440!?

Fail.

I for one welcome my swarming robot overlords.

I can has unicorn?

Oh, that one is definitely a keeper. Just imagine your grandson getting it appraised on "Antiques Roadshow 2100"...'and I have an archive of the entire "blog" he ran, including a primitive fileshare video of the construction'

also, the 'yellows' taste terrible. Try the dark red ones.

Maybe he tried to swallow it to make a buck?

and imagined a second compartment that would release a factory-selected random flavor into your mouth.

ewwww, this one's earwax!

[/potter ref]

I just found the TED website about 2 months ago, I think it was through a link from here at BB!.

I was deeply skeptical. Then I noticed there was no attempt to sell me anything except maybe tickets to the conference. Seems like clever people sharing bright ideas, in 18 minute blocks of time, gratis.

Antonio's of Amherst, MA and a 2nd one in College Stn, TX.

They have a 'meat pie', and Each slice weighs in at almost a pound. They have tortellini on pizza. They have chicken and -anything- on pizza. They have a webcam too.

Hilarious at midnight, when the surrounding bars let out, but just watch those drunk kids inhale that pie and you'll know it's worth going a little out of the way for.

Lewiston, ME?

I'll pet it's a mass of paper pulp from one of the mills.

The Qwest PAC? the AT&T Federal PAC?

I guess that explains why our phone bills are so easy to read, and have such small numbers on them.

Investigation and disclosure are key.

I got in touch with my Senators. Thanks.

I was always more of a DikuMUD guy.

And yeah, almost nothing has changed between then and now in terms of how people are towards each other from the text based / imagination intensive words of then to the graphics heavy / imagination limiting worlds of warcraft.

My uncle (in law) grew up with a remarkably similar train set taking up half the third floor of the mansion he grew up in (and still owns). It is from the 30's and absolutely amazing.

How awesome would your kids birthday parties be with THIS as a draw?

My uncle (in law) grew up with a remarkably similar train set taking up half the third floor of the mansion he grew up in (and still owns). It is from the 30's and absolutely amazing.

How awesome would your kids birthday parties be with THIS as a draw?

Yeah, but that was the -criminal- not paying his bill, and realizing his phone wasn't shut off.

This is the people 'protecting' us. You know, with all that wiretap evidence they've collected under the PATRIOT Act to get all those terrorism convictions. You know, all zero of them.

Patriot 'act', indeed.

Re: the Mars symbol: I was hoping Volvo had made a safe motorcycle.

We're gonna have a lot of 'splainin to do when our kids ask what is so great about America.

Jesus was way cool, he could even play hockey better than Wayne Gretsky.

I really enjoyed The Diamond Age.

pure porn, for makers

Seems like a guaranteed way to rid yourself of 150 dollars, plus shipping and handling.

Look up to find the ledge the raptor is eating on.

where's the "HAPPY MUTANTS" tag?

I perform property inspections, and I've never once found a note. People won't willingly disclose anything they might just get away with.

What the former homeowner -should- have done is notify his local board of health, a regular point of information for inspection professionals.

I've designed this thing a few times in my head, but then the novelty of the relationship wore off.

For decades, LEGO refused to make toy guns or weapons. Than they allowed swords and catapults, then space lasers, then cannons for the pirate ship, then flintlock style pistols, and now.... vehicle mounted machine-guns.

As far as slippery slopes go, I fully expect an Enola Gay playset within the year.

Man-cave approved

Science in 2007 told us that fat people and skinny people have different intestinal flora, and that that *may* have as much to do with obesity as diet and exercise, so why not?

What #1 said

A good sized 'disposable' cheap briquette grill (of the sort one takes tailgating or camping) is probably just as good as a huge trash can, and only costs about 20 bucks more than the zinc-plated galvanized can.

"But if your mother or child, or wife/girlfriend was in that airport and someone came up to the counter and had something with wires and a battery hanging off it with play doh or something that could look like explosives in their hands would you want the police to do nothing?"

No, I'd want the police to behave rationally.

I don't believe they did.

And I believe that is true largely becauase she has olive skin and a shaved head (which few people have brought up), and because different is scary to small-minded people the world around.

We can fight against small-mindedness, or we can give into it.

the address is menlo park, the area code is marin county.. sigh.

and the phone number (415) 555-1515, is either made up, or a variant of the local information number, the only testimonial is from "John Doe", and the website contact address is to their ISP.

best line - "we believe your satisfaction should be guaranteed".

but because that was the first time I felt smug about a lucky guess that didn't affect my life in any measurable way.

I've heard it said a lucky man is who whose vocation is his avocation.

What's so bad about grabbing your ankles?

Oh, I see, that's a homophobic euphemism. Bravo.

What exactly does this have to do with that Spears girl being preggers?

"Hello, IT..... Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

/IT Crowd reference

Could my fellow commenters whine a little louder about a plug-in? Familiar (YouTube, and it's plugin that you installed forever ago and forgot about) is comfortable, but different (divx, with arguably superior quality compression) is scary or annoying.

Talk about griefing! ;)

Right on ya' brits!

recognizing 'terrorism' as a tactic used by fanatic criminals and 'terrorism' is not a nation, on which war can be declared.

It's your language, England, I for one am glad to see you take it back.

There have been tens of thousands of "Patriot Act" related secret search warrants that have reportedly been granted here in the US since 2001, and what worries me is the number of prosecutions.

Zero.

If the US had no history of keeping lists of internal enemies, and if these lists had never been used to justify second class citizenship, then we wouldn't be paranoid about their existance, would we?

Nothing says organic (or good morning!) like a pressurized metal cylinder.

#29

want some pie?

Merry Christmas BB!

Kafka knew the terror of unchecked bureaucracy.

I saw EBN back in 1991. Sweeet. They had a budget and a half since they had just come off tour with U2 on their zooTV tour, for which I understand they did the 'tech' end of that first of it's kind tour.

what #10 said. The Mr. Magoo theme is needed.

Show Chris Dodd some love, he is swinging hard for our side.

Now we're only 7 years behind them.

Brooks was here

@9 & Cory - checking sources is so MSM

a "mess" of kitchen timers? is that like a herd of buffalo.

it would make a much cooler ring.

Oh, so that's why I sorta like Philip Glass.

anything that claims to "wake up your body" and is not entirely made of hot coffee makes me nervous.

#5 - they are definitely Arrakan still shorts.

The Minds I is brilliant, and the 'pleo' might be a good pet to find those children who DO torture animals as, whether unknowingly or intentionally, some do.

A refreshing choice after London's razzle-dazzle

Clearly, the lady is no Bostonian.

No dolby 5.1? No video inputs? no sub-out? no "arena" effects? no monitor channel? No buttons?

Excellent! (not to mention, FINALLY!)

How did the rams carry the blankets? ;)

Sounds like a professional snow job.

A whore is a whore is a whore.

On a slight tangent, I use a site for public radio schedules, podcasts, and streams called PublicRadioFan.com. Global listings too, and with lots of different ways to organize the listings.

It's inspired me to join more than one station, based on how their schedule fits my taste better than my local NPR affiliate (who are doing fine without me), and I kick the guy 10 bucks a year just for sharing such a thoughtfully executed project.

What else would you expect from such deep thinkers?

I can say the tuner on my Model One (similar, though not waterproof) is awesome, and the sound is expansive.

This item is exactly why I read your blog. I mean, i love steampunk gadgets, daleks, and flowcharts the same as any other rational person, but periodic table shower curtains are just the cat's meow.

when do we get an unmanned aerial hunter-killer water tanker?

O, Canada.

You are learning quickly from us.

I WILL STICK TO MY C=64 TYVM

is this the same guy who did the Trans-Siberian Orchestra light show?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgf60CI_ks

no dark sarcasm in the classroom?

"Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer,"... for the famous ACME design firm, known previously for the devlopment of earthquake pills, personal rockets, and coyote-sized slingshots " has proposed that women...."

Sugar makes you a swinger?

sweet!

good thing those field kits never give false positives.

I wonder if the sheriff already seized her home, car, and financial assets? Chances are....

anyone remember Picture Pages?

I think it's just a very low res LED-TV.

I have played SimCity since the beginning. The SimCity modd community has done amazing things to make a decent game (SC4) good.

It's quite bad enough that the new SC has done away with most of the unnecessary (yet quite fun) complexity of the past games. But British Petroleum? Seriously? Sorry EA. You'll not get a dime from this fan.

Also, EA, could you open source the older SC4 if you are otherwise going to let it die? Your past fans have work to do.

"Maximum data existentialization." I hear that's going to be in Leopard.

thread winner

If it explains The Abyss, it must have something to do with the Stargate too.

looks good for car-camping too.

My cast iron gives your cast iron an "Amen! Tell it!"

Bell wasn't arrested for improvised electronics?!?

amazing.

@icky2000 - Maybe the Harvard kids should be nicer to the MIT kids then? They're notoriously dismissive, or so I've heard.

It's really hard to be a fascist in Cambridge. The police are just not on your side.

I've seen Cambridge cops buy homeless people lunch.

@89 "To prevent them, law enforcement is taking the obvious next step: we have criminalized the act of confusing a police officer!"

all that media showed up... we just had to have a party.

I love us up here in Boston. This is way funnier than the Mooninites.

But seriously, if a redheaded freckled kid walked in with this thing....

Commander Yossarian, I presume.

I think listening to that whole song would make you crazy.

"This ride accepts 9 tickets??"

@christovir

I've heard the same, but when your 'rights' are infringed, on what legal basis can you claim it?

You may have 'felt' like your rights were more protected, but that's only because the British police mostly don't carry guns and so mostly don't act like cockheads.

@christovir

I've heard the same, but when your 'rights' are infringed, on what legal basis can you claim it?

You may have 'felt' like your rights were more protected, but that's only because the british police mostly don't carry guns and so mostly don't act like cockheads.

"There's no way they could just tromp in there and set up the operation without permission, surely."

Yes, it must be uncosntitu... oh, right.

The Brit's are "subjects" of the monarch. This does actually mean they have rights only at the discretion of the executive.

and it does explain both Concord and Lexington.

As for the swabs and tests... holy beejeebus.

Her mistake was stepping back into the store. Something similar happened to me once, and I told them to call the police immediately and have me arrested.

They didn't, because I hadn't stolen anything. I had carried a CD in my back pocket for 20 minutes before putting it back where I got it.

Remember, unless they are arresting you - if they lay an hand on you it is assault, and you are allowed to defend yourself.

It sure leaves me wondering.