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  1. No Mention of Shareware on If Bad Software Developers Built Houses... · · Score: 1

    It appears Ed is getting a bit tired of really bad software designs in popular shareware titles.


    The blog entry doesn't mention shareware.



  2. New Codename for Longhorn on Nothing of .Net in Longhorn? · · Score: 1

    New codename for Longhorn: XP SP3

  3. Opie & Anthony on Radio Listening Declining w/ Digital On Its Way Up · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There are waaay too many commercials on regular radio, they play only the music that has the most sales potential and it's become completely censored. All the best radio personalities like Opie and Anthony are going to XM. I listened to the free trial and signedup after just a few hours. It's completely refreshing to hear the type of music I WANT to hear and to listen to talk radio that's actually funny and even... politically incorrect!

  4. You fund this by buying CDs on RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuits Top 10,000 People Sued · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You fund these lawsuits every time you buy a CD. Then they sue you, you settle and they sue even more people. Solution: stop buying CDs.

  5. Re:archive.org can't handle a slashdotting on Google's Past Homepage · · Score: 1

    That's me!

    If it crashed, it may have been because of some inefficiencies in the way it stored headers. Recent betas use less than half the RAM as previous versions. Binary Boy Newsreader

  6. archive.org can't handle a slashdotting on Google's Past Homepage · · Score: 1

    archive.org is slow to begin with. Now it's going to die for sure.

  7. If he doesn't do it... on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...everyone should upload the browser back to the web site.

  8. Re:A suggestion maybe on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like an interesting book. Glad to see the author got over his obsession with horse head bookends.

  9. Beta Testing on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 1

    This technology *chomp* *chomp* is really *gulp* cool *slurp* Ahhhh and it's fairly *chomp* *chomp* accurate. *gulp*

  10. Re:Mail-in sham... on Best Buy to Eliminate Rebates · · Score: 1

    I wish I could get a $2 check.

    Symantec said my purchase date was invalid even though I purchased the software through a link on their own site. Then after cutting bar codes off boxes, photocopying, printing out and filling out a form, printing out my confirmation email and mailing everything in, Circuit City said the store I bought from wasn't participating in the offer even though I ordered from the Circuit City web site. This is a HUGE scam. Let's kill the rebates and show the real prices.

  11. Re:typecast on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll bet it's a lot better than being typecast as a burger flipper.

  12. Crash on NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope it doesn't crash.

  13. Re:Similar Challenge in 1997 on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 1

    P.S. It's not the same company that's running the competition today as far as I know.

  14. Similar Challenge in 1997 on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was a "hack a mac" contest in 1997. The challenge was to break in and modify a web page. Eventually someone named Starfire succeeded. The company fixed the site and renewed the challenge. Starfire broke in again and the company refused to pay the second time due to some sort of dispute.

  15. Re:Transparent to the max? on Software Development Practices At Google · · Score: 1

    I miss my BMX Action magazines. heh

  16. Re:Doctor who on Culprit of Leaked Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's right.

  17. Political Correctness on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1

    Maybe Christian fundamentalists are just trying to be good liberals like those who protested The Passion of the Christ. Or the ones who are trying to oust the Harvard president for saying there are intrinsic difference between men and women.

  18. Re:ABOUT DAMN TIME on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 1

    Give them another 5 years and they'll say VB.Net is outdated and that everyone should move to a new acronym soup.

  19. Windows Messenger on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components
    Uncheck Windows Messenger
    Click Next
    Click Finish

  20. What They're Worried About on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"

    From the article: See, in order for us to ship the code we need to "scrub" the comments and make sure there is nothing bad in there. No swear words, no bad jokes on the part of developers, no references to specfiic customers, no geo-political faux pas.

  21. "Video" Game with Pencil and Paper on DOOM: The Boardgame · · Score: 1

    Back in the ancient days when football players looked like individual red dots, a friend and I played a videogame in school with pencil and paper.

    Draw a river horizontally across a sheet of paper. Draw a bridge on the left and right sides. Each player draws a tank on his side. Take turns moving or shooting.

    To move or shoot, put the point of your pencil on your tank, hold the pencil in place with your index finger on the eraser. Press down until the tip slips and draws line. Where the line ends is where your new position is or where your shell landed.

  22. Bugs and Issues on Scalable Enterprise Buzzword Solutions · · Score: 1

    I hate when bugs are called "issues." Bugs are nasty and should have a nasty name. Renaming them is like trying to hide the problem instead of fixing it.

  23. Re:Slow news day? on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The freedom of speech is not a freedom to be a shithead.

    Then what's it for? We don't need it to protect people the government likes.

  24. Car Crushing Robot on Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years · · Score: 1

    That giant robot that crushes cars at monster truck shows.

  25. Re:Behind the Scenes at the CES Keynote on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1

    So simple my mom could do it.