http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspxThe online tech community is seized by discussions of death threats and incivility in online discourse. Actually, "incivility" is probably too mild a term when you're talking about hanging someone and other mortal threats. ...Plus... Which way is theen-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#102608Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:30:45 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:102608Gretchen, Windsor CAHi there, Will! I really love your column/blog. Thanks! http://webmod.umrg.com/RedirectS2F.aspx?t=z4ESdctkE9rTDpxSuAzh&i=1102&c=25&cc=P90vihLbF36F Here is a link to a music video from the Scissor Sisters. (I'm sending it to you because, even though I remember that you don't like disco, you were kind enough to give us the link to another SS video. The song is called "She's my man." The weird moves are the creation of Japanese puppetmasters. (You can kind of see the bandmembers' real limbs in black.) The band performed this live at the Brit Awards with the puppetmasters and it was very cool. (I saw it on Youtube but don't have the link right now.) Anyway, this is not disco and I think you'll think it's fun! Have a great day, Will!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#102656Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:06:42 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:102656Ayana, Aurora, ILTo add to your comment about Folding@Home... my husband has been doing this on all of our computers AND is doing it on our PS3. He seems to be addicted to it and our 10 month old son seems to enjoy the movement of the protein that pops up on the screen.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#102785Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:33:36 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:102785Sky, BC CanadaNot to undermine the plight of female soldiers in Iraq. But I have a hard time believing that they'd forgo drinking when they had ample access to buddies and weaponry. The suggestion that women where actually dying from the self imposed dehydration maked things even less plausible. I would think dehydrating yourself to death is about one step up from trying to hold your breath to kill yourself.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#102980Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:04:06 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:102980Mark S, Westminster, COTo follow up on the Folding@home link included above, there are actually dozens of worthwhile ways to put your computer to use doing medical and other scientific research through BOINC, a Cal-Berkeley project that touches several areas of leading-edge discovery. Very easy to sign up and run! Once it's installed, you basically never have to touch it again. Do something for the benefit of humanity right from your PC (or Mac or Linux machine)! You can learn more about these important projects at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103078Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:29:14 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103078Brendan, Honolulu, HINY Times article is bogus Will. You should know better than to accept what they write as fact (especially these days). Worst part is that they allowed it to be printed knowing six days before it hit stands that it was BS. Then followed up with a correction 11 days later on a back page. They could have reprinted or at the very least put a note in the issue letting people know. But of course they did not. http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017143.phphttp://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103122Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:59:28 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103122Sean, N.Y.This might be nitpicky but It always bugged me a bit how distributed computing is described as using "spare CPU power". Don't these programs max out the CPU using something like 60 watts that otherwise wouldn't be used? And CPU's are notoriously inefficient, hence the need for bulky aluminum heat dispersers and fans. I'm not saying I don't want a cure for cancer it's just that the descriptions of the process seems awfully misleading. In other words TANSTAAFL.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103157Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:21:22 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103157Make Your NutIt would be funnier if Tolkien's son just ended the Lord of the Rings like they ended Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Also - regarding Folding@Home - yes, a noble effort, but think of all of the electricity that you're using!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103263Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:45:09 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103263Dancing Cats"National Bike to Work Day" is Friday, May 18, 2007. Visit www.bikemonth.org. http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103378Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:50:28 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103378LVThanks for shedding a light on the various major problems women still face. Every time some man tells me that we've gained equal status, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Beyond that, though, I thought it a tad strange that Scoble mentioned that he's more offended by the threats to Kathy than to himself. Considering just how wacko some people out there really are, everyone ought to take threats of death or serious harm very seriously. Threats of that nature aren't a gender issue, they're a safety issue.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103436Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:13:56 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103436Will FemiaBrendan, the Times' online version has the correction on it and since I read the article a week late, it was there when I read it. That doesn't make the article bogus though. You should know better than to make broad generalizations... about the article, the paper, and Powerline, which does a nice job setting up and tearing apart two straw men (women in the military, which is not what the article is about, and a pot study from the 60s [??]).http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103483Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:38:06 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103483Steve Sykes, Springfield, Ill.Regarding the unfortunate Computer Doctors logo: it seems obvious that the artists accidentally vertically flipped a mouse, i.e., the cord is coming out the wrong end. I'd say it's inconceivable (ha) no proofer caught it; sadly, I know from true-life experience some gaffes are proof-proof.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103496Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:43:10 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103496Carol Anne (Seattle WA)I'm a woman, a lesbian, and a long-time women's college basketball fan. I am astonished, and sometimes disgusted, by the misogyny and homophobia with which some people post on WCBB fan boards. Moderated boards do delete the most offensive posts, fortunately. I don't understand why anyone spews contempt and hatred for women on these websites. If people had to sign their posts with their real names, perhaps they'd refrain from posting in hate.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#103514Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:49:34 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:103514Mark S, Westminster, CORe: BOINC and distributed computing, if a small amount of extra power usage per user is what it takes to help solve some of the world's most challenging problems, among them AIDS and cancer, then to me the trade-off is a no-brainer. Yes, you are in fact donating your computer time and about enough energy to run a small lightbulb. It's not technically "free," but look at the tremendous upside!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#104221Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:59:40 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:104221Redheaded AlabamianHey Will, in regards to the "worst logo ever" I'm a loyal clicker to your site, so be careful when you go to making fun of us down here in the south, we're not all ignorant! Cut some of us some slack! Besides, there are stupid people everywhere!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#104787Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:18:57 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:104787Mark S, Westminster, COFor anyone who might be interested in learning more about how distributed computing through BOINC and other efforts is working to solve some of the world's most advanced problems right now, take a look at this YouTube video made by Rosetta@home, one of the BOINC projects: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GzATbET3g54http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#105158Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:22:34 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:105158KWRegarding the female soldier dehydration story...I know this may seem nitpicky, but according to the story: "Karpinski said Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, the top deputy to Lt. Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the former senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, saw dehydration listed as the cause of death on the death certificate of a female master sergeant in September 2003.". I checked a web site for coalition forces death causes (http://icasualties.org/oif/female.aspx) and I do not see a "Master Sergent" (or any other high-ranking NCO) death within months of September of 2003. In fact, the first female NCO fatality doesn't appear until November of that year. Of course her memory could be faulty(?).http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#105978Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:17:11 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:105978One who knowsI don't think that someone is fool enough to post pictures online is the correct way to address the issue. People don't own things like that. Not only that, but they have some nerve to do that to another person. Of all the nerve!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#106456Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:18:05 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:106456Nathan in SeattleWorst logo ever? Reminds me of a link (I might have "clicked" it here) to the Phallic Logo Awards. http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/ http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#107380Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:40:09 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:107380tony gthe logo is so "bad" i have to wonder if the owners aren't in on the joke, so to speak. logo2: while it could be said, i guess, that it's vertically flipped, i don't see that the cable is coming out the wrong end. looks like the one i'm using now -- cable at the end with the buttons. of course, i'm from the south, so i could be wrong . . . excellent litany of issues with automobile deaths. the things that always have, always will, bother me about the comparison things (highway deaths vs. etc.) are a) the utter uselessness of the comparison (do traffic deaths rise and fall based on whether or not we're at war); b) conjoined to the fact that the deaths are additive -- these were, after all, deaths from war, 9/11, in addition to highway deaths. trivializing death is one of our culture's more despicable features.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/27/102427.aspx#420018Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:26:17 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:420018Armin, Torun, PolandThis interestin article because I'm socjolog and this is exciting subject.