Use a can opener.

One of my clients attempted to use Good for secure email on iOS last year. They were entirely unresponsive to even the slightest technical queries and their stuff was incompatible with other apps. Also, parent comment sounds like spam.

So what are VanRoekel and Park looking for? 'Bad a** innovators â" the baddest a** of the bad a**es out there,' Park explained (video), 'to design, create, and kick a** for America.'

They sound like teenagers.

Also, good job fucking up Unicode yet again, Slashdot. It's been how many years?

I'm waiting for things to calm down before ordering. Though i do believe they will change the world.

You don't know the exact dialogue between the journalist and the rep. I've been quoted in print in similarly stupid ways when what I said made absolute sense in context to what was asked. "Pressed if disks are accepted" could have been something like the rep telling them about a new CSV import tool they had built, the journalist saying "So if I mailed you a 5TB database on a disk, could you import that?", and the rep replying "Sure, but you'd need to export the data first...".

I have to chime in here. I think there's a lot of money to be made with outsourcing. I've seen a staggering amount of money spent on contractors who come in to rescue projects that have been outsourced.

It's okay, when they add the 101st station, the whole thing will spontaneously evolve to match the structure they describe.

Some of it probably went towards building Facebook apps. I've seen a lot of big brands build pointless Facebook apps to promote things via games, competitions, etc. They've got big advertising budgets and not much imagination, so they throw a tonne of it at digital agencies to come up with this crap. The agencies are more than happy to keep quiet and take their money instead of telling them they shouldn't be doing that.

I can't think of any company that has blown a lead as huge as Microsoft's in as short a time, or has missed so thoroughly a major trend (mobile computing) in the consumer portion of it's market.

I can think of a company that's done a lot worse than Microsoft missing the boat on mobile. Microsoft missing the boat on the Internet. They thought they could compete by providing their own network instead. Except it wasn't Ballmer in charge back then, it was Bill Gates. Was he a terrible CEO too?

The very last DVD I bought, years ago, had unstoppable trailers. I haven't bought a DVD since, on principle.

Good job, movie execs. You've made your products even less palatable compared to your black market competitors. Not only do the people downloading illegally not have to pay, they also get a better product that doesn't force them to sit through this crap. I'm sure this plan won't backfire at all.