It was (is?) a common setting in older Linux window managers so a person with a two button mouse could paste into a window by 'chording' the left and right mouse button, as if they had a three button mouse. Chording may have worked for Englebart, whose mouse was a sturdy mechanical thing. With a plastic mouse it works about as well as you think.

As above, you can't just remove the top layer plus a little more and be safe. By the time you've spotted the mold, the toxin (Botulinum) has already spread throughout the sauce. And then there's the spores, which you can't see and which can travel a considerable distance from the initial colony.

So after an almost exhaustive list (which I mostly agree with btw) you left out the "improvement" to Faramir's character and the hobbits little side trip to Osgiliath?

Annoyingly, it's even lampshaded: "We shouldn't even be here!". Indeed.

John Katz is back! And who says /. ain't what it it used to be?

Has anyone checked what variety of wine he drinks with his fish?

I think there's three things happening here:

1. There's no market for bullet proof software;
2. Liability for bugs in non life critical situations has never been with the vendors;
3. Engineering - given the above wearing the cost to make bug free software doesn't yield a good enough benefit, especially when you see what your competitors can get away with.

It would be nice if software engineering were practiced as a real engineering discipline. I suspect that the cost of bugs is not being quantified correctly or else people would demand and pay for quality. A similar situation exists in security. People aren't willing to take proper measures because the consequences of failure aren't immediate.

I bet it was a real blast, too.

Interviewer: Tell me an example of when X happened and how handled it?

AC: Sorry, that information is unavailable.

So you've got cars like the Subaru Forester/Outback which are labeled as All-Wheel Drive, and then you've got cars like Land Rover/Range Rover which seem to be Four Wheel Drive. What's the actual difference? I'm guessing it has something to do with the differential?

Maybe I should have used "cheap" instead. By quick I was referring to the pace of development and deployment. So you can make things portable and reliable, it just takes time. The time that the AC above doesn't want to spend making custom versions and installers. Which is fine; it's just that whichever way you go, there's always something to trade off.

Quick; portable; reliable. Pick any two.

It's not pure nostalgia for pre "web 2.0". We're moving further away from the ideal of separating content and presentation. This whole story is a consequence of turning the web from documents to application delivery, except that the applications aren't quite as good as their desktop equivalents. That would be fine if the applications were truly cross platform, but you still encounter sites that don't work properly on all browsers. Pages that go "oh sorry some unrecoverable error occurred: Please reload".

You can develop some nifty things with AJAX, but all it boils down to is a cool hack, because the restrictions are largely artificial, incurred as a consequence of deciding on a web application. We/re slowly moving towards a stable platform by adding layers to hide the complexity and browser differences. But all we're really doing is plugging holes in a leaky abstraction.

It's spelled "cache" but pronounced "cash" or "cayche".

ASIC declining to regulate HFT shouldn't be considered an endorsement of the practice. As it is, they are flat out trying to root out insider trading and abuses of Corporations Law. (e.g. Trading while insolvent; embezzlement etc etc). It doesn't have a great reputation on either front. There's the odd successful case now and then, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

Having said that, I'd rather have it than not, but it would be nice if it could be made a little more effective.

Unfortunately following our Great and Powerful friends into whatever folly they get themselves into has been Australia's foreign policy since federation.