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Death of the Button? Analog vs. Digital 329

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30, 2007 @05:27PM from the long-live-the-knob dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds is sick of navigating menus to turn up the heat—while he's trying to drive. His take in the article (as well as a a no-holds-barred podcast) is that modern tech product designers should get back to analog controls before iPhone users get sick of looking down at their touchscreen everytime they dial without a dial. It may be up to you: Whither dangerous auto technology, or long live the touchscreen?"

What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? 861

Posted by Cliff on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:53PM from the unexpected-benefits dept.

Bat Country wonders: "The workflow system, at the department I develop for, was hand-coded by my predecessor in a rather short amount of time, resulting in somewhat unreadable code with a number of interesting 'features.' When I took over maintenance of the code base, I started patching bugs and cleaning up the code in preparation for a new set of features. After I was done, I got a pile of complaints about features that had disappeared, which turned out to be caused by the bugs in the code. So, that leads me to ask: what is your favorite bug that you either can't live without or makes your life easier?"

Submission + - Sony Makes Nice With Kotaku

Submitted by Trendy.Ideology on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:30PM

Trendy.Ideology writes: Sony's Dave Karraker, head of SCEA PR, personally took it upon himself to call and reason out the situation with Brian Crecente of Kotaku.

"In a nutshell: The story remains up and Sony has re-invited us to the meetings and interviews initially scheduled for the Game Developers Conference."
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-and-kotaku-make up-240922.php

Interesting how quickly an internet backlash caused Sony to change their mind.

Submission + - Script Kiddie Foils Microsoft

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: A forum user (going by the handle Computer User) over at keznews has successfully created a brute force keygen for Microsoft Windows Vista. Within hours, the news had spread like wildfire to all corners of the internet, garnering public reaction ranging from disbelief to praise. Computer User shortly thereafter posted a statement of regret for 'hacking' Microsoft's unhackable validation. Sarcasm or sincerity?

Submission + - Sex and Security

Submitted by

Bitt Faulk

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:11PM

Bitt Faulk writes: "Deborah Palfrey was arrested in October for running a prostitution service. She has since put up a web site asking for legal donations. In it, she says that she is considering selling her phone logs in order to help pay for her legal fees, and has put up an expurgated one-page sample. Ignoring the fact that implying that the phone logs contain something interesting also implies that she is guilty, the log was poorly expurgated. Opening the file in a PDF editor allows anyone to remove the scratch-outs that the log was expurgated with. What does security mean when it's improperly understood?"

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