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10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets
The Byelorussian Strikes Again writes "Wired offers up 10 of the most awesome snake oil gadgets, from industrial cables sold as $200 ionized pain-relieving bracelets to a plastic chip that cures anything, improves gas mileage and cleans swimming pools.
One truly sad development: the infamous $500 wooden volume knob is no longer on sale."
Give your citizens two dollars instead of one... Watch their beaming smiles.
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I am trying to show you a picture today but it isn't working! I hope that Simon, my young technical man, is listening to me right now so he can help. One of the girls at the Women's Institute told me that I can plug in my camera and drag pictures to my messages, but when I do all that shows up is a strange word like 'dsc08080822455.jpg'.
That isn't my picture! I think I must need to talk to dsc jpg and ask for it back. Perhaps the number is his phone number but calling it doesn't seem to work. I wonder if he lives in America, I hear that is where lots of computer people come from, especially the ones with strange names. I will go see if the operator can connect me internationally. Isn't the modern age wonderful!
Yours,
Mildred
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Randi has all the right ideas, but is seriously the wrong front man for his challenge. He's so easily baited into flaming and vitriolic diatribes that he completely loses the plot, making the challenge not about the claims, but about the players tossing an exchange of schoolyard taunts.
As for the prize, it's really too small these days: a million bucks is nothing to sneeze at, but it really is chump change for the high profile targets he supposedly (but it would seem not actually) is now exclusively pursuing. It's kept around as more or less cash, when it would seem that it wouldn't be too hard to get an even bigger prize insured. I guess all that's needed is enough incentive to get applicants to take the challenge in the first place, more won't make the testing any different. Regardless, the Sylvia Brownes of the world still aren't taking that challenge -- because they'd have everything to lose from their fraud being exposed, of course -- but they're also given a fairly easy out when they can simply portray themselves as rising above abusive and insunting invective.
As a skeptic, I really do applaud the work of the JREF. I just think the challenge isn't being administered very well, and it's really about time to take a serious look at dropping it altogether.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.