Bi-dimensional? Are we through calling things 2-D now? Or are you just trying to sound technical?

They're European.

Just for that... I dismissed your comment.

Ok, isn't the problem that he distributed the songs to others rather than he downloaded them? So all the stolen CD analogies are wrong. A better analogy would be stealing a CD, pressing millions of copies of it, and leaving it in a pile around the corner from the record store.

Mind if I dismiss your comment to see what would happen?

shhh.... if we suggest it as a "new layout" they might unwittingly go back to a system that works!

Ok, which one of you wants to volunteer to have your comment dismissed so we can see what happens?

The accept/decline reply thing seems a bad idea. I shouldn't be able to censor the replies to my stupid comments. People should be able to tell me I'm stupid without me being able to delete those comments! I'm too vain to be given that much power!

Also... it kinda limits the conversation if I can dismiss any replies to my original thread... it seems a bad idea to give that kind of power to the trolls.

I'm with you 1000%. 2 columns is very cluttered, it looks horrible. I feel like I'm reading the classifieds section.

It's an improvement, but the 2 column layout is rancid. Go back to a single column, click to expand replies and you'll be golden.

Very true. In fact, you'll be out of luck accurately detecting wind in eversoslightlylessthan 180degrees of the 360 since anything with a southward component won't be accurate.

Or, it's not there at all.

If the wind isn't registering N, W, or E, that doesn't necessarily mean the wind is from the south. It could mean no wind at all.

you're completely missing the point here. regardless of what channel the data is transmitted over, it's still data, and with an easy conversion of video to text, that video file can be sent over a data channel that only transmits data. With a suitable eternity, I could conceivably send an HD video via Morse code.

You're really being obtuse here. I don't need to write a special app. I don't need to reprogram my phone. I don't need to use anything that doesn't exist. I just need to go to "My Files" on my Droid Razr MAXX (or download a file explorer for any other android phone), find a video file, longpress on it and rename it…

dude... take a video file, rename it from .mp4 or whatever to .txt . Open that file and SHAZAM! you have the ASCII encoding of the video file, which you can send as a text message if you split it up in to the smaller bits. Put them all back together into a single text file on the receiving end and change the file…

RadioLab did a really cool piece on this kind of phenomena called "auditory hallucinations". Turns out if you brain scan people like you (and me) who hear not just faint bits of music, but full fledged songs, sometimes in their entirety in their head, we're actually HEARING them in our brains. Not just thinking about…