And by questioning you mean bullets?

(I totally don't condone killing this guy. I am, however, baffled as to why he would admit to being the one who committed this bug, as it wouldn't surprise me if *someone* from some large corporation decided to call up their secret hitman line and get even for the billions of dollars the guy lost them.)

I use no-ip. Actually, they were having a sale a few months ago, so I threw them some money for a year. I don't use any of the fancy features, though it is pretty nice not getting the monthly nag email. Still, their free offering is fine, you just get a monthly nag email (which I'm sure dyn.com gave you something similar too).

Why is your oscilloscope on the internet? Killing support for WinXP certainly doesn't mean every computer running XP is now a brick (side-note: that's why I would never trust cloud-only services, because I'm sure Microsoft would *love* if they *could* remote-brick every computer running XP). Just means they won't be updating it anymore. If people can't log in remotely to your oscilloscope, how exactly is it going to get hacked or have viruses installed on it?

No, they were all over. I remember them with fondness - though I don't remember what they were *selling*, namely dialup service, with fondness. I assume they all died because dialup is crap compared to cable or dsl, and it's way harder to resell dsl or cable than it was to resell dialup service, for one reason or another.

Alternatively, they could say, "frack this, this whole running water, modern medicine and color tvs thing looks far too enticing". I know that's what *I'd* do, if I were part of such an isolated tribe and then civilization caught up to it.

My understanding is that that would be counted as "dying" too - there's no longer an isolated tribe, it's been assimilated. (Terrible for anthropological and linguistics research; not necessarily so terrible for the people actually involved.)

Comcast totally deserves to be up near the top - I was just sad because for a while, the race was shaping up to be "banks vs. telecoms", which would have been a way more hilarious semifinals to watch. (More specifically, I was really hoping the *final* would come down to Comcast vs. Time Warner: Whoever Wins, We Lose!)

In what way exactly has rss been "thwarted"? I've used it since forever. I still use it. The vast majority of the sites I care about support it. Google Reader's demise was pretty lame, but there are more better rss readers now than there were a year ago, for obvious reasons.

Win7 on the backend was definitely superior in just about every way to XP (other than the way where it requires more RAM and a ton more disk space). On the other hand, Win7 out of the box proffers a distinctly inferior user experience. Whereas, you mention Win2K - it was trivial to get XP Pro to look and feel almost like Win2K just with a few tweaks, without having to install anything. Whereas I spent a lot of time prodding Win7 and installing things to get it to feel more like XP (by which I really mean more like 2K).

Though I will say one thing - I'm glad Win7's native explorer sucked enough to make me look for a replacement, because while XP's was Good Enough, now that I've gotten used to having a file manager that supports tabs, I couldn't possibly go back.

"People with more money, on average buy things that are more expensive. News at 11."

They really freaking wouldn't be. There will *never* be a shortage of products that really freaking actually need proper UX experts, to fix actual UI issues, sometimes really freaking glaring ones. They do not have to resort to fixing not-broken things until they're broken to have job security. The world is *full* of crap UIs. The problem isn't job security, it's people who don't realize that their job as a UX expert is to actually make things more useable, not just "prettier".

But they happen *way* the crap earlier than with people trying to get jobs. You want to fix things? Fix things at like the elementary school level. People living in poverty will have kids that will also be living in poverty. Kids living in poverty are not nearly so likely to a. value getting a good education, or b. be able to get a good education even if they do value it. People who don't get a good education are less likely to get good jobs. People who don't value a good education are less likely to even *want* to aspire to have a good job, or even know where to look.

So, there are totally still racial inequalities... but it isn't really fair to blame Silicon Valley companies, who I can't imagine for the most part would really care what color your skin is, as long as you're the best at whatever job they're hiring for, and can at least like speak English more fluently than not.

In this case, I'd much rather steal the film, then send the appropriate amount of money directly to the content creators. Would be nice if there was a way to do that. (I didn't get in on the kickstarter; only started watching Veronica Mars a few months ago. Looking forward to watching the movie in a couple more months, when I've finished watching the show as much as exists.)

Biggest lie: I'm only reading slashdot because my code's still compiling.

Glad I wasn't the only one who clicked on this article expecting to make fun of a mispelling in the title.

It's the big corporation's fault for not making it clear that that would happen, and in fact making it really look quite a lot like it wouldn't. Why would you make each app developers add an option to their app, when the obvious place for that option would be global?

That would not be a CYA, it would completely make sense.