For the AP that was probably true (that the Internet was a deadly competitor). The AP represents one of the major things that is wrong with the newspaper business.

You look at a print version of some newspapers and it's filled with cusinarted AP articles. They've been butchered to fill empty column space. The newspaper that I actually read cover to cover has zero (0) AP articles in it.

Perhaps everyone who needed Yahoo Groups to be different had already left. By forcing current groups to change they didn't necessarily give them any new functionality that they wanted, and might have taken away functionality that they did want.

Just another example of sacrificing current users on the altar of UX. Funny how changes to improve UX so often piss off users.

After reading the article, it's clear that they mean that this leak by itself is a Level 3 incident. Not "Fukushima" is a Level 3 incident.

Remember the Boston marathon bombing.

They had several specific pictures of the suspects and the quality seemed pretty good.
They had the guy's photo in their system due to a prior terrorism related investigation.
They had several days to match the photos, i.e. not in real time

They failed.

... or you could have written it in Java the exact same way and kept recycling a large buffer over and over without any garbage collection whatsoever..

So.... I have to give out my personal data to a site that I don't know is legitimate because they won't show me the security image because they don't know that I'm legitimate?? Who's going to blink first?

Commerce has proven time and time again, that not only can't they adequately plan for problems that they anticipate happening, i.e. their disaster contingency plans fail when used, e.g. Monsanto's GMO wheat crop destruction plan obviously failed. But they also fail to identify all the actual problems in advance, and therefore they weren't planned for.

Some of these problems are blindingly obvious and yet completely ignored. For example, a class of flame retardants is determined to be too toxic and is banned, and is replaced with another chemical without testing it for toxicity. Said chemical is later determined to be even more hazardous than the chemical it replaced. Who'd have thought that two chemicals with similar desirable properties might also have similar undesirable properties, right?

I'm not keeping track of as much by letting the damned browser keep track of it for me.

History is useless until they keep it absolutely ordered.
By date has the site alphabetical by date.
By last visited only keeps track of the most recent visitation.

Bookmarks are for long term persistence or recent context that needs to be indefinitely parked (and I don't like needing to do that).

Tabs are for all my "recent" context. I just ran X searches, researched and culled down to the useful results.. why would I throw that away? When I don't need those search results anymore, then I'll close that batch of tabs.

Sports is also their weakness.
Cable companies pay a fortune for sports content, a fortune that they then ask their customers to pay. Which is one of the reasons I'm a non-sports consuming *former* customer.
At some point you get tired of paying more for less watchable content.

Your problem is that you suggested spending money to save money. Sometimes there's NO MONEY.

What you needed to do was show that they could FIRE an employee, and use the savings to upgrade the computer and get the same amount of work done with the remaining employees. Save money, then spend money.

Yes, not enough of the commenters seem to understand that most of the things that people want progress bars involve not only guessing how long each task will require, but ALSO having no idea what specific set of tasks are required.

"Primitive" tasks might be easy (e.g. copy File A), but as you build up a sequence of these tasks in becomes impossible. (e.g. Copy Disk A; Copy All Media on PC X; Copy All Media on the LAN)

Throw in a few tasks that are really slow, but are difficult to predict if they will need to occur or not...

I'm sorry, perhaps you didn't know about this feature called 'toolbars' ? I could have half a dozen toolbars up in the space that the ribbon takes up and it was easier to control the set of tools I like to work with together.

Comcast's outgoing spam filtering is crap.

I send little email, and when I do it often gets rejected by comcast because it is something like a "todo" list or a list of URLs for future reading that I am sending from my home email to my office email.

Inevitably, to get the email to send I have to make it look MORE like spam by inserting some useless text like: "Hi me, this is that information you were sending to yourself, hope you like it!"

and here I thought it was because most PCs that ship with Windows X barely can (or is that can't?) run Windows X + 1