User: Mononoke

Hope for the future?

On: Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies

Andrews also said that this could hurt the integrity of the Speed Camera Program. "It will cause potential problems for the Speed Camera Program in terms of the confidence in it," he said.

If we're lucky.

Remember the good ol' days?

On: Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube

I remember when music videos were essential promotional tools. That's one of the reasons artists spend their own money making them.

Now get off my lawn.

Re:a PC actually wrote this article

On: Five PC Power Myths Debunked

this article was written by a self-aware PC who is tired of the human race's waste of time and energy.

Would it still be self-aware if we turned it off?

I'm sorry Dave. You can't do that.

Obligatory review comment

On: The Mouse Turns 40

One button. You have to take your hand off the keyboard. Lame.

Re:Character ages?

On: Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn

This judgement is particularly interesting in that it prohibits material that could produce "demand", i.e. it possibly encourages something that might potentially be Thoughtcrime.

Pretty soon the crack of dawn won't be safe.

Character ages?

On: Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn

Without certified birth certificates, I wonder how they determine the legal ages of the "children" in those images?

If "She looked old enough." isn't a valid defense, then "They don't look old enough." cannot be a legally valid position either.

Re:And THIS is why

On: Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA

Ignorance is clearly bliss to several of the posters to this article.

Or perhaps they haven't endured the required sense-of-humor-ectomy yet. (No, it doesn't involve estrogen supplements.)

Re:screw warfare - how about BASEBALL

On: Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat

Please do us all a favor and keep it away from goats. See.

Re:Uhh... what?

On: iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition

I don't understand why people always whine about "not monitoring a folder for library changes."

Likely because those people are stealing music via torrents or Usenet and are too lazy to add newly arrived music to iTunes.

Re:What is the point?

On: Triple Booting an Intel Mac the Right Way

Apple hardware actually is that much better to warrant a higher price tag?

You're not only buying the hardware, but the OS and the after-sale service also.

Camera phones

On: Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption

Rich Miner, Google's group manager of mobile platforms, stated that 80% of mobile phones being sold today have cameras on them, yet the number of people who actually know how to use them or get the images off the phones ranges between 10% and 50%, depending on the model. Miner listed several reasons for this state of affairs, including bad UIs and small screens...

How about the fact that cameras are added to phones as an afterthought, and they'll always suck because they cannot have useful lenses.

Re:That's okay

On: The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day

My wife did that once.

I hear it was more than once.

"Zero dollars in manufacture"

On: DIY Hybrid Car Kit

It'll cost you $25,000 for the bits, plus zero dollars in manufacture, I hope.

Only if your time is worth zero dollars.

Re:Sure shes pretty and all but....

On: McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate

I don't like the idea of creationism being taught in a science class, but I wouldn't mind them both (and other compelling theories) being presented in an "Origins and Development of Life" class.

Creationism belongs in a Studies in the Techniques of Using Fiction for Coercive Purposes curriculum.

Pandering to the Vagina Vote

On: McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate

No better way to sway a few Hillary supporters your way, apparently.

It's so sad that so many Americans will fall for this trick.

Re:What I want to know...

On: Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts

Is how they knew he had chemicals in his basement in the first place...

RTFA.

Refusing to learn from mistakes?

On: Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes

Kinda like the Republicans?

Isn't it ironic

On: R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

This show of force by the morality police is actually going to help the pornographers make more money. How? Virtually all of the pornographic images posted to the .binaries groups were stolen from pay-to-view pornography sites, thus devaluing the images. Some of those who have had their 'free' source cut off will spend what it takes to continue their viewing habits.

Prohibition didn't work then, and it still doesn't work.

Re:Same as Predator

On: NASA Drone's Sensors Battle California Wildfires

"Primary Function: Armed reconnaissance, airborne surveillance and target acquisition."

Sure there's the benefit of not having a pilot in the danger zone, but that's secondary. The primary function isn't to save lives, it's to do the three things above.

All of which save lives.

Same as Predator

On: NASA Drone's Sensors Battle California Wildfires

NASA's Ikhana is the same aircraft as the Predator, except it's being used here to save lives."

The Predator's primary function is to save lives.

Re:Direct link to the App Store

On: Apple Launches ITunes App Store With 500+ Apps

Never mind. Here's an even more direct link:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=36&mt=8

Direct link to the App Store

On: Apple Launches ITunes App Store With 500+ Apps

This link takes you to one of the available apps in iTunes. You can then navigate backwards to the App home page: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284781777&mt=8

Isn't astrology just another belief system?

On: Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology?

Or look at it another way:

"Wired Science asks: Should scientists date people who believe in God? Apparently, the argument is quite complex. Religion is sort of a flawed mental shortcut for understanding the world, but so is disregarding someone because of their spiritual beliefs. Humans are inundated with religious nonsense from all directions, so it is normative for them to believe it even if they are otherwise highly logical. Smart people can convince themselves of silly things."

Apparently it is possible to subscribe to a "flawed mental shortcut for understanding the world," yet still be a scientist.

Re:Mail.app's IMAP model pisses me off.

On: Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes

If that means he's using an IMAP interface to gmail and Mail.app's damn "I'm not actually going to save your mail, I'm just going to cache what you've recently read" behavior is tripping him up, then I gotta say I have some sympathy with him.

Isn't that the whole point of IMAP; not relying on keeping everything local? Over the course of a day, I check my mail on three different computers. IMAP is the only reason I can do this and have every email (I keep) available on every computer. Why would Mail.app save my mail locally that's already on IMAP servers?

Yes, I can and do occasionally download and archive my IMAP mailboxes, but that's for safe storage reasons and has nothing to do with useability.

Re:SSL

On: DOE Shines $21M on Advanced Lighting Research

Only when you keep it on a flash drive.