Why the heck is the backbone even an issue? I used to work for a (now-defunct) company that made fiber optic equipment and I know first hand how much dark fiber is out there and how much optic equipment going for pennies on the dollar. This is just the owners of the buried fiber trying to work up the case against net-neutrality and squeeze as much mon.....987(^&^ [connection lost]

Wish I could tell these 2 what I think of their company's purchase of Omniture (2o7.net) but I want to keep it office safe.

Ya but I think its a dam shame that I have to keep a database, 5 figures in length of sites for which I want my browser to say "SHOVE YOUR COOKIES WHERE ONLY YOUR PROCTOLOGIST WILL FIND IT", because of idiotic corporate jar heads like the poster of this story.

I don't think the EU proposal goes far enough.

Oh ya wasn't too hard to make this decision when auto manufacturers already slop their vehicles over with Onstar, Sinc, what-have-you, tech that is already lousy with GPS.

I use UltraEdit instead of Notepad++. UltraEdit has a much cleaner column mode and actually does a regular expression "end of line" replacement (with no other characters) correctly. Notepad++ has a really clunky and unusable column mode and just will not perform something like "s/$/end/" in its replacement correctly, and it has been that way for a very long time.

I use RealVNC instead of TightVNC. TighVNC just has way too many bugs when using its video driver. If running Excel through TightVNCs video driver, you constantly get a "Not enough system resources" popup. And, if you edit anything with high ascii characters in it, the rest of the text goes invisible. The RealVNC video driver just works correctly immediately after you install it.

Now before you all call me a trator ;P note that I have TRIED the above packages, and tried to live with them for quite sometime, but I just could not live with the bugs.

The reason I have not updated my very old version of Flash is because I heard about Omniture and 2o7.net and no they have not sufficiently explained themselves to their user base.

How about implementing a true repeat one/all sceme instead of that annoying A->B function.
How about cleaning up the numerous bugs in the shoutcast browser.
Oh of course we cant have changes where they really count, can we?

I quite seriously would not mind shelling out 299 for the full professional if it weren't for that pesky little thing in my head called morals.

It is morally reprehensible that INTEL was literally crucified when they came up with the idea of a processor ID and yet Microsoft gets away, fairly unscathed when they implement a hash of hardware data as part of WPA. To me, there is zero difference.

After the Omniture debacle I would very much like to see Adobe go the way of SCO.

I never have been a big fan of VLC because I think its interface is clunky at best.

I'm going to list out what I don't like and who knows, maybe some ./ers can tell me the solutions and I'll become a fan.

1.) Repeating. VLC uses the clunky "A to B" strategy and one can not just check a "repeat all" check-box.

2.) Shoutcast radio lists. Right-click + Open-Folder on a folder, does not work and if you double-click on a folder, it opens the first station in the list and starts playing it. (ug) Also, you have to click "Title" twice if you want the channels in alphabetical order after opening up a folder. (ug)

Once you do, make sure you take a snapshot image so verizon doesn't have any wiggle room. I have that picture saved now.

I always do this in my perl scripts because I never know the format that Im going to get from our clients.

sub betterchomp { $_[0] =~ s/[\n\r]//g; }