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 me some problems. Mainly in cases where I've been...
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 have the 'living constitution' side that...
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 are given that no one actually saw the data...
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, we tend not to be very good at implementation...
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 and it's pretty much a treat to get a reply to actually...
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 to write a spyware program.>> One every count...
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 darker than the background, and some lighter...
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.
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, the office junior will be able to do all the stuff...
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 BuyPhentramineNow in their names. I noticed that...