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I've only ever had one TSA agent realize that I didn't have a cartridge razor in my dopp and confiscate my blades. Since that happened (but before I became an enormous beardo), I've brought only the bare minimum blades needed for my trips packed edge on to the x-ray scanner and left the butterfly in my shave kit but opened to show it was empty.

I imagine a safer and less obstreperous way might be to just buy an injector razor for when you travel.


I use Harry's for the TSA and DE Safety for day to do. And because I only travel once every 6 weeks, I am okay with it.


You have a beard, and you carry DE blades on board, detailing how you hide them from TSA scanners on a public forum? Had any "longer chats" with TSA in an airport windowless room yet?


Oh man, I can confirm this. I had to take a course of SSRI's last year and my gut-mind was so relaxed and happy on them that I completely lost the sensation of hunger. It was . . . odd. I had to set timers to remember to eat.


The MPEP


It's a rite of passage for some recreational riders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_ride


Thanks for the link! I have a vague plan to do the ride as an annual event, at lease I know what to call it now :)


The Australian Innovation Patent isn't really a patent. When an application is filed a formalities check is completed, but no prior art search is conducted. Also, the inventor and assignee of an AIP can't litigate. If one wanted to, the Australian Patent Office would need to examine and issue an allowance as a standard patent.

From the perspective of the US patent system, the AIP is more like a provisional patent application than anything else.

http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/get-the-right-ip/patents/types...


Welcome to DC!

Sign up for CaBi - if for no other reason than it helps prevent you arriving at your destination looking like a sweathog from the walk from the metro.



I hope so: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/2012/06/life-in-day-of-sta...

An excerpt: Here's my daily rhythm (don't call it ritual: it's not about being repetitive, it's about being in tune).

0523 Alarm sounds on my iPhone 4GS. I don't use just any alarm program: I use Biorythym Alarm System+ which monitors my internal body clock and starts ringing at the appropriate time before 0523 to begin a smooth start to the day. It uses Gregorian chants, nature sounds and recordings from inside the womb to ease me into the day.

0530 I'm in front of my MacBook Air (with 256GB SSD) at my desk made from recycled lumber from South African railway tracks. Why did I get up 7 minutes earlier? Because, as Manic Minute Minder Pro reminds me 7 minutes wasted per day 1.7 extra days of productive time per year. 1.7 days when the competition is literally sleeping!

I drink a large bowl of Jing Tea Matcha Supreme Green and a glass of organic milk. At 0533 every day I'm hacking through my email, TODOs, tweets and catching up on Hacker News. Every 20 minutes Time Out reminds me to stop, meditate and focus.

0645 I walk into my bedroom with a green tea for my wife Cassiopeia who is waking up. We smile at each other and spend the next 15 minutes on One on One Time. At 0700 it's time to wake our two boys: Dagwood and Spaniel.


Yes, it is.

Yesterday my parody post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183) was a big hit and some people asked me to run with it.


Aimed at fighting Big Brother, or preventing others from implementing the method?


Since Apple's users actually pay for their products, Apple is more motivated to protect privacy IMO.


I would argue that fact makes there user data more marketable and valuable to third parties. Which would provide the opposite motivation to most companies.


I can't see how downvoting this comment is justifiable


"most" is the key here. For all its faults, Apple is not some sleazy strapped for cash operation that neds to sell their customer data to marketers...

Consider all the potential damage if that happened and was brought to light, and for what? 1/1000 their revenue?


They already do, and reserve the right to in their TOS. In regard to marketers and advertisers.


What I'd be very interested in knowing is how many people have decided to get print subscriptions because of the paywall.

Doesn't it seem like the digital offerings are priced so that readers who want to become subscribers will choose a comparatively cheap print subscription and get the digital access as well? The least expensive paper delivery option (Sunday only) is less expensive than the digital all access that gets thrown in for 'free' when you sub to the print.

Don't misunderstand, the Times is my paper - has been for 15 years now, but I'm deeply dissappointed that rather than find a way to embrace digital, they're using it to prop up their print rate card.


^This. The (main) goal of the NYT paywall was to push people back to print subscriptions.


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