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The downside to copy and paste

As much time as I spend on computers, it's really hard to imagine life without the Clipboard. Copy/Cut/Paste is such a handy feature I couldn't begin to calculate how much time and effort it's saved me. However, it's definitely caused me some problems. Mainly in cases where I've been...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Thu, Dec 27 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology
The Bill of Rights in 2007

So often when I hear talking heads pontificate about constitutional issues, I hear two basic sides. The first is the strict constructionist interpretation where they claim the constitution is clear as day hence end of discussion. On the other side you have the 'living constitution' side that...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Tue, Dec 18 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology, Security
Another major data breach

Although this time the incompetence and sloppiness wasn't the Veteran's Administration . In each of the stories of this sort that I remember, the data turns up a few weeks later, is blamed on some small and innocent mistake and all kinds of assurances are given that no one actually saw the data...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Thu, Nov 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology
The coolest campaign ad ever

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Mon, Mar 5 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Gets Cracked

Took'em 1 year to crack PGP? My a55. It took them about an hour to have some dude at the NSA crack it, then they spent the rest of the year waiting to make the announcement

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Tue, Jul 4 2006
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Misc Technology
Why Technical People shouldn't design interfaces...

Not too long ago , I discussed the fact that programmers are pretty much the last people that should be developing interfaces. My point wasn't that developers are incapable of understanding good UI design concepts, it's just that for some reason or another, we tend not to be very good at implementation...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Thu, Jun 8 2006
Filed under: Filed under: News, Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology
Disabling the CAPTCHA for a while.

Many of my homies and Scott in particular (as well as myself) have been annoyed by the Captcha ( C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part). It definitely does it's job, but it also has a lot of false negatives and it's pretty much a treat to get a reply to actually...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Sat, Jul 30 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Me
How not to post in a newsgroup...

I was just watchign CNN and it appears that KC's brilliant CAPTCHA article edged out the Iraqi elections in terms of interest. If I can just put something in perspective: From microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp: << I would like to know how to write a spyware program.>> One every count...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Mon, Jan 31 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Humor, Life in General
Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters darker than the background, and some lighter...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Mon, Jan 31 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling
Open Source Sanity

LazyCoder nails it right on the head. For reasons you'll see when you click there - I can't post the image he used although i'm in love with it. As a matter of fact - It would be a great picture to post in general but you'll have to check it out yourself.

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Tue, Jan 4 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General
Are we breeding falsely skilled developers?

This post could have been so good - he just stopped to soon - But yes, he's dead on. Being able to drag a button onto a form and type in MsgBox(”I sure am a good developer”) doesn't make it so.

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Mon, Jan 3 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General
Yeeeehaaaw - NG Cowboys are alive and well in 2005

Many of you made some comments to my Newsgroup Cowboy post and I really appreciate them. I just wanted to highlight a perfect example of NG Cowboy syndrome: The original post was pretty long but here's the last two paragraphs: The way things are going, the office junior will be able to do all the stuff...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Sat, Jan 1 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General
Intelligent Blog Spam

Just saw Sahil's from Sahil. Well, I've uncovered something really interesting. It seems that the Spammers are using other posts, for instance on ADO.NET 2.0 - posting stuff that's related enough that it doesn't set off the stink detector - but posting BuyPhentramineNow in their names. I noticed that...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Thu, Dec 30 2004
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, .NET General
Newsgroup Cowboys

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here are some great examples: Q: I'm getting connection...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Thu, Dec 30 2004
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques
$10.00 is Chump Change

Today, I spent more than $10.00 about 6 different times: 1) Video Rental Returns + Late Fees: 10.39 2) Lunch + Tip: $12.50 3) Food for the stray cats, two bottles of diet coke, 1 bottle of ephedrine: $11.38 4) XMRadio Online Subscription + Opie and Anthony Premium (3 months): $16.95 5) Phil Hendrie Show...

Posted to /bill's House O Insomnia by William on Wed, Nov 10 2004
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General

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