While this may be a "neat" solution, if a spammer has your facebook credentials, then they have access to this new system as well.

I must admit I am not familiar with the nature of "facebook spam", but I assume that it is possible that the user may not know his or her account has been compromised. He or she may have no inclination to be constantly monitoring the list of logged on devices.

The spammer most certainly would be, and I'd imagine that they would just block the legitimate user's devices as they appeared.

I'm sure getting back access to your account at that point would be a really fun experience.

Still hoping for a true successor to BG. A great story is crucial, however what BG offered to me that NWN never did was the ability to greatly increase the challenge and tactical elements of encounters in the game through the use of tactics and AI improving mods.

Although NWN featured an editor for creating new modules, I don't believe it offered people the kind of access to the mechanics of the game that the mods created by the reverse-engineered Infinity Engine editors had. I make that assumption because I could never find any mod that increased the AI and the tactical elements of encounters significantly for NWN.

On the same note, Dragon Age was too easy. You shouldn't be able to beat the last boss on your first or second try, or any significant encounter for that matter when the difficulty is turned up. At that point you are no longer playing a game, you're watching a movie that requires subtle hand movements and simple thought processing for playback.

Damn straight, I loved that game. I remember the first (and only the first) game in that series (actually, it was a remake of the first) was available for the Macintosh, which was all I was using back then. The rest of the series was only available for Windows.

I'm not sure why that was the case, but that pretty much caused me to dump the Mac for Windows 95 as soon as I could.

After discovering a local ISP wasn't able to service my apartment appropriately, I ended up getting Comcast Business class. You get a lot for a pittance of additional cost (~$20 / month more than residential around here).

One thing that's very different is the support. The support is phenomenally better. You call the phone number, and in seconds a knowledgeable person who is able to speak English well will get on the line (never had to be transferred to someone useful) 24/7. Other than better support, I get two static IP's with the package, and I believe that the business service has no monthly cap. Additionally, and unlike the residential service (where your monthly bill can get jacked up for no good reason) the rates I pay are contractually locked.

So (at least in my area) if you get residential, you're pretty much a sucker.

It is also valuable simply to see where the writers of the articles got their information from,

A problem I have been noticing lately is that many of the references in older articles are dead links. I am unsure what the rate of articles with dead references is across Wikipedia as a whole; however, it seems to be quite high across the small subset of articles I have read.

While this isn't really any concern for references that originate from a printed source, a number of them appear to originate from, and exist solely on, the Internet.

Respectfully, I don't agree. The photos show a truth: a truth about what happens when we speed at 100mph on cocaine and fly off the road. They show a truth about how incredibly fragile we are. That we are mortal.

Unfortunately, driving 100mph on cocaine and flying off the road doesn't particularly scream "WE ARE FRAGILE".

Rather, a better example of that is perhaps dying in a collision while going to work on a neighborhood road at 25mph. The only thing that dying from a collision caused by driving 100mph on cocaine tells us is that there is no such thing as God Mode.

The message store in Exchange can be simplified by viewing it as being a bunch of MAPI tables.

A read-only view of a table is provided by the IMAPITable : IUnknown interface.

If you have an initialized IMAPIContainer, then you can get a MAPITable by calling either its contents or hierarchy table retrieval methods.

Regardless of how you get the table, you have something you can work with in terms of querying, but as far as I know there is no outright support for straight up SQL query syntax with MAPI and Exchange. I'd recommend instead using the ExecSQL method found on the MAPITable object exposed by Redemption.

Agreed.

I tend to view Silverlight as the black sheep of the family of WPF UI-programming technologies; an approach that is useful for desktop application development, but an utterly inappropriate choice for web content.

I'm not aware of any instant messaging client that integrates nicely with Active Directory other than Office Communicator (hell, it extends the schema), which definitely fails in the "FOSS" department.

I believe Jabber has LDAP support, however I'm not sure if there is any sort of "corporate address book" functionality built in.

Because Microsoft does not have a proper installer interface that installs programs for you.. instead each program has it's own installer/updater Windows has no control over the process and does not know if the user has been asked or not ...

Perhaps you meant to say that Microsoft doesn't have a package management system, because Windows definitely has a transactional installer interface that installs programs for you. Yes, it does require developers/publishers to learn how to use it, but many don't, which there is no excuse for.

If Microsoft offered a package management system like our favorite Linux distros do, would you really trust it?

First of all, no one is forced to install the .NET framework. Most of the larger commercial applications, if not all of them, have no .NET dependencies, including Office.

Second of all, why is this so horrible when installing Adobe Reader (post-Firefox install) does the same thing?

Firefox certainly doesn't rely on .NET, but that's the whole point of a "plugin". You see, you can extend a product to support additional technologies if it has a pluggable framework. There is .NET content for the web, and the same update we're talking about (which addresses ClickOnce) also adds functionality for XBAP's.

However, I do think that the Firefox extension should be a separate feature in the .NET 3.5 setup; one that we can switch off either during install time or afterward, like any MSI feature.