"Use what you want and leave the "I win"/"you win" dogma aside."

That's great advise for users. Not much use if you don't happen to be in the IT/Mobile industries, and need to know what direction those industries are taking.

What killed it was a) (lack of) marketing; b) that the OS wasn't abstracting those resources enough to make them upgradeable, and they fell behind PCs, Megadrives, etc. They should have bought the RTG APIs/Cards and moved to them ASAP. A 3D Graphics API would have been good too, even if it was very basic. Just getting midi built-in would have been a big step in winning the pro Atari ST market.

And remember you're not a good citizen if you don't validate the broken system by voting like a good sheep.

Exactly. I'd like to know where this Comp Sci professor got his qualifications, and whether he's old enough to have been around when computers had a res below 800x600.

"Reading the font is also made easier by virtue of it being a text many of us would recognize."

Personally, I recognise it because this looks like any other sans serif ~8 pixel-high font from any low-res game of the early 90s or so. Nothing special AT ALL here.

Was I the only one thinking about Amigas and Alphastations?

Nice try, but you need to think that through some more.

"Perfect timing...bout 99% of the time it would take to brute force it."

Exactly so. The point of changing passwords is NOT to keep people from having access for too long -- that would be stupid beyond belief. The point is to change the password REGULARLY, based on the password complexity, and how long it would take to brute-force a password of that complexity.

"Does anybody know how AOL still makes money?"

They're mass production consultants, running various training classes and expert one-on-one sessions, around both the US and Europe. Specialism: mass production of CDs. Sideline: coasters.

The best thing that can happen is for microsoft not to get all of Yahoo's accounts.

"Broken Windows create jobs."

I'm a window cleaner, you insensitive clod.

Good point :) The way GGP wrote it though, it seemed like he was talking about general web bugs rather than security. It's pretty unfathomable that you'd take "it would be too much work" as an excuse for not securing a site against providing public access to its database.

they've used the Anti-Terrorism legislation to detain a pensioner who shouted "nonsense" at the labour party conference

To be fair, they mistook "nonsense" for a request.

"it would take them too much time to change the code...unless you choose to value their extra work and pay them for it, instead of expecting to piggy-back it onto the previous job."

Fixed that for you.

Great Scott! Why would you want to fire him?!