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Great post. My feeling went from "this guy needs to get out more" to "oh god that sounds exactly like me" in a few paragraphs.

Mah pa-al ka-el indeed.

After having spent quite a few years around not so well funded labs I can assure you that any piece of equipment older than a decade that still posesses a manual is a rare sight indeed.

Hey, I wasn't a weird loner. I was a trend setter!

We await silent Tristero's empire.

Ditto. The day after campus IT borked Morpheus, 2 DC++ networks sprang up. Good times.

The caption on that picture in the article is perhaps the most apropos comment I have seen regarding the iPhone 4.

Show of hands. Who actually uses public trackers?

Hey Peter, ever hear of a little thing called willpower and self discipline?

Ever since discovering that SpaceX was going to charge around 1/3rd what the Russians charge per kg to GTO I've been waiting to see an increase in launches.

I think weev is the first person to have crossed the trolling event horizon.

I think that is the same line of reasoning some warez/piracy sites used to put those "if you are a law enforcement personnel you are not allowed to view this website" messages.

No, he has a glorious neckbeard. He fits my stereotype perfectly!

Speaking of having fun with radiation. I've never had the opportunity to point a geiger counter at the stomach of someone who has just eaten a banana, but I have "tracked" through walls and around the corner a co-worker who had just taken radioactive iodine(to destroy his thyroid). Good times.

With that many processors crammed into such a small case isn't heat dissipation a problem? Or are the Atom chips used not as power hungry as a standard commercial cpu?

Found a copy!

http://www.indopedia.org/index.php?title=List_of_strange_uni...

Ahh, this reminds me of when wikipedia used to have a "list of ridiculous measurements" page.

No, and whats worse is practically every article about Lamo uses those same talking points.

Any way you cut it, "investing" in someone else's life insurance policy is ghoulish.

Yeah, apple is making out like a bandit while AT&T ponies up the cash and takes a reputation hit every 2 months.

Great essay. Verbalized exactly what I was thinking.

You kids don't know how good you have it. Why back in my day...

Very true, but just remember "what the eye of man can conceive, a cheap factory in Shenzhen can achieve".

Very cool. I love seeing people cobble together high tech/complex equipment in their garage.

This could come in handy for the insane overclocking crowd and the arguably insaner DIYBio crowd. The advantages of being able to store cell/other cultures in LN should not be underestimated. Countdown to Homeland Security/FBI overreaction in 3, 2...

Another great example of how lawyers ruin everything.

I yearn for the day when I have this problem.