Don't get me wrong, I totally get it. But, it also means that innocents are getting caught in the crossfire. I'm trying very hard to be patient and put it in perspective. You're right, the more challenging comments are less likely to slip through in this system.

I don't know. Ah well. I've never posted anything so bad as what Jezabel was dealing with —not ever. Perhaps the thing that frustrates me the most is that while I know you say that this gray thing is impersonal, it feels like a punitive measure where I've not even been told the crime. I've never been profane, or…

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My understanding was that the 'pending approval' system was to stop sexually harassing comments occurring on Jezabel. I totally understand why the system was needed in that case. I don't like that kind of trolling either.

This 'pending approval' thing is really kind of frustrating because it makes you constantly stop and wonder "So, whose shit list am I on now?"

Greg Benford's "Timescape"

Is it me, or are people just drawn to doing stupid things with these quadcopters? I've seen a guy try mount a handgun on one to weaponize it, I've seen innumerable reports of people either peeping with them or being falsely accused of peeping and someone crashed one into a thermal spring at Yellow Stone, forever…

fights that technology-related crime primarily in lingerie, but I suppose it'll be good to save some surprises for the movie itself.

Star Trek IV: Does the Alien Probe speak in sound waves, or do the Whales speak in radio waves?

It's quite dismaying. Most people don't seem to understand the scope of that threat. All of human written history is an eye-blink in universal time. It's hard for us to wrap our minds around the fact that things have happened to the Earth in the past that have blotted out the sun for a hundred or a thousand years...…

That's a sad piece of news for science. Equally sad is that the Russians have tended to underfund these sorts of missions in recent history. I'm sad it didn't work, but they do invite the failures. (So they underfund their unmanned science missions, we shoot ourselves in the foot for science education... we're about…

Not sure I see anything truly new there. Leaf weavers are well known to perform that kind of behavior. This other ant has just applied the same thing to its food. Not to say it isn't cool;-)

"The average human lifespan is increasing at a rate of around five hours a day. "

It might be a symptom of the difficulty of sorting content by automation. Amazon seems to keep adjusting the review system recently and I can see how it would be hard to address some of the these issues automatically —Jeff Bezos seems to be aiming to remove humans from the intermediary processes entirely. The whole…

It isn't right. Miyazaki is one of the few filmmakers that I would actually like to see winning an award. The next pretty, vacant star on stage gushing isn't as appealing to me.

There's a lot in this that really has me thinking. I've been watching and weighing the new technologies for a while.

Repeat after me: "genres are marketing categories." You need to care about genre labels under one condition only: You work in a marketing department, and you're trying to sell something to someone.

Not Fiction.

Followed the Q&A a bit and I did like "The Maze Runner" as I read it. I had trouble going much further in the trilogy because the drama seemed to center too much around killing characters in the most brutal way possible for it to match my taste. Good for Dashner that he's succeeded, but I truly wish that he had…

Fingers crossed on Tatum's Gambit. I'll have to pick up a comic and see where they're at... the old crew reset is appealing;-)