politicians, even. :/

If you click through a few links around this story, you'll find a guy who made a smaller font without subpixel rendering, for a MUD client, and other people talking about how old games used 4x3 fonts in some cases -- I forgot that 8 pixel fonts where NORMAL, not the small ones, on old systems. There's NOTHING new here. Even the subpixel rendering stuff was obvious at the time subpixel rendering was invented. One of the first things people discussed was how subpixel rendering would reduce the need for font greeking.

Advice, even. :/

Government officials: same as for any other job.

Career politicans: such things should not exist.

"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.