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The downside to copy and paste

Published 28 December 7 12:1 AM | William

As much time as I spend on computers, it's really hard to imagine life without the Clipboard. Copy/Cut/Paste is such a handy feature I couldn't begin to calculate how much time and effort it's saved me. However, it's definitely caused...

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The Bill of Rights in 2007

Published 18 December 7 10:31 PM | William

So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology, Security

Another major data breach

Published 22 November 7 1:24 AM | William

Although this time the incompetence and sloppiness wasn't the Veteran's Administration . In each of the stories of this sort that I remember, the data turns up a few weeks later, is blamed on some small and innocent mistake and all kinds of assurances...

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The coolest campaign ad ever

Published 6 March 7 2:11 AM | William

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Gets Cracked

Published 4 July 6 8:32 PM | William

Took'em 1 year to crack PGP? My a55. It took them about an hour to have some dude at the NSA crack it, then they spent the rest of the year waiting to make the announcement

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Why Technical People shouldn't design interfaces...

Published 9 June 6 4:24 AM | William

Not too long ago , I discussed the fact that programmers are pretty much the last people that should be developing interfaces. My point wasn't that developers are incapable of understanding good UI design concepts, it's just that for some reason or another...

Filed under: News, Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Disabling the CAPTCHA for a while.

Published 30 July 5 3:38 PM | William

Many of my homies and Scott in particular (as well as myself) have been annoyed by the Captcha ( C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part). It definitely does it's job, but it also has a lot of false negatives...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me

How not to post in a newsgroup...

Published 31 January 5 7:47 PM | William

I was just watchign CNN and it appears that KC's brilliant CAPTCHA article edged out the Iraqi elections in terms of interest. If I can just put something in perspective: From microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp: << I would like to know how...

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Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Open Source Sanity

Published 4 January 5 8:2 PM | William

LazyCoder nails it right on the head. For reasons you'll see when you click there - I can't post the image he used although i'm in love with it. As a matter of fact - It would be a great picture to post in general but you'll have to check it out yourself...

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Are we breeding falsely skilled developers?

Published 3 January 5 2:20 PM | William

This post could have been so good - he just stopped to soon - But yes, he's dead on. Being able to drag a button onto a form and type in MsgBox(”I sure am a good developer”) doesn't make it so.

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Yeeeehaaaw - NG Cowboys are alive and well in 2005

Published 1 January 5 2:12 PM | William

Many of you made some comments to my Newsgroup Cowboy post and I really appreciate them. I just wanted to highlight a perfect example of NG Cowboy syndrome: The original post was pretty long but here's the last two paragraphs: The way things are going...

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Intelligent Blog Spam

Published 30 December 4 7:52 PM | William

Just saw Sahil's from Sahil. Well, I've uncovered something really interesting. It seems that the Spammers are using other posts, for instance on ADO.NET 2.0 - posting stuff that's related enough that it doesn't set off the stink detector - but posting...

Filed under: News, Life in General, .NET General

Newsgroup Cowboys

Published 30 December 4 6:32 PM | William

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

$10.00 is Chump Change

Published 10 November 4 11:38 PM | William

Today, I spent more than $10.00 about 6 different times: 1) Video Rental Returns + Late Fees: 10.39 2) Lunch + Tip: $12.50 3) Food for the stray cats, two bottles of diet coke, 1 bottle of ephedrine: $11.38 4) XMRadio Online Subscription + Opie and Anthony...

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