...is trying to get information from someone while they're on the phone. You know how annoying it is at my part-time waiting gig trying to take an order from someone who won't put down the phone for the 10 seconds it takes to order ?

Making Debian look better with every release!

Pretty sure I got the flu. Between the high fever making me delirious and the chills making me shake, I'm pretty sure I'm at McMurdo right now.

That would take forever to actually read through... I guess if you understand most of these functions you don't have to worry about a wife or girlfriend anyway...

Almost everyone can admit to speeding at times. Not many can say the same thing about being in the country illegally.

That line really bothers me. How many times before have ways been found around things like SQL sanitization procedures? Why not block ALL javascript unless it's explicitly enabled? I can't believe that they would let that go.

I'm almost done a "Database Design and Development" course at college. Turns out the course entirely relies on MS Access (not exactly what I had in mind when signing up). Anyway, in the later part of the course macros/VBA was embedded in the example files, and one of the first instructions in the book was always "Enable the contents" - but the book never bothered mentioning why the warning was there and what the purpose was. I'm sure at least half of my computer science major peers would click OK without thought.

Is this really a "feature" that should be celebrated? This should have been implemented since the beginning. If you're making a PDF reader, and the PDF spec has an "execute" functionality, shouldn't everyone developing these programs have seen the spec and realized what this could do?

This seems rather odd as the firmware is just a binary blob anyway, right? I'm not sure what they achieve by doing this other than alienating their customers. However, does the firmware just happen to fall under an umbrella of things that non-customers should not have access to? That would better explain their position. Or they could just be trying to squeeze an extra dime out of people...

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZenCoding ...and here it is for emacs. I've only seen this mentioned once or twice before, but it does make things quite a bit quicker. Work a lot better than my highlight/middle click copy/paste method ;p

Instead of privacy controls, how about not entering information you want to keep to yourself or a select few from ever getting on the site in the first place ? It's already been proven that what is private now will not necessarily be kept private, and there's always leaks and whatnot. Is it really that hard to just NOT put certain stuff on these sites to begin with ?

It's cute that you still think that really matters ;p

This is pretty nifty. I'll be on the lookout for a story here tomorrow about how the guy who made this was sued into oblivion. Really, this dude has to know that trouble is brewing.

Come on now - you know that getting around the protection to a legally purchased product is illegal. Not only illegal - but it encourages terrorists and heroin addicts. Think of the children, please ?

I really hope they're using GIT.