Re: Still no competition for film, then?

Not in my lifetime, especially given the film used by this little camera:

http://www.gigapxl.org/faqs.htm

"The Gigapxl™ camera captures single exposures on film with enough resolvable detail to support scanning at resolutions up to four billion pixels."

Rude, huh?

It's business, not personal. D'Oh!

I can't recall ever getting a job through a recruiter. However, I did spend over 30 years renting nice little houses to people. Best thing that happened was being able to get quick, comprehensive credit reports.

A glance told me everything that a person left out of their written and verbal interviews, including how good they were at organizing their life, and what I might expect to see if/when something went wrong with the situation (and even how likely it was that something would go wrong).

I seriously hope that you aren't. . .

putting your age on your CVs, since you are apparently over 1,800 years old! (Maybe you could post a pic of the phone that you used back then :)

only one problem with that. . .

aren't FB lusers supposed to include employment details in their profile?

Or is that "Linked-in" . . . dunno, 'cause I don't use either one.

Well, yeah, but. . .

"The problem is... there isn't a better solution"

Yeah, but like he said:

"Nothing worse than having to fill in a WHOLE page of data again because of a mistyped captcha."

How effing easy is it to create a web form that can REMEMBER what you just typed? And how effing stupid is it to abuse your customers by not doing that simple nicety? One of my pet peeves also. Sheesh!

Unfortunately. . .

you are still browsing from the same IP address. I would expect that correlating different data based on IP is a big part of this game. Or are you using an anonymizer?

Freedom from responsibility

Completely understandable. There is another type of freedom that many don't like: freedom of choice.

Most people don't want a lot of options--it's an effort just to get through a day without hurting themselves. Thinking abstractly to arrive at reasonable conclusions is usually not possible. Ergo, follow the herd. Be a fanboi. Ahhhh, now isn't that easier?

Perhaps Mr. Stallman doesn't fully appreciate that the second you attempt to argue with idiots you become one.

Re concert

Woz started work on an event for the "second homeless," but had to exclude E after the WSJ article.

Re: Mark I

Aren't we Mark II ? Or are you starting from zero? Besides, easier than starting a task force is to just call in another asteroid strike and let things sort themselves out. . .

Funny, that. . .

. . .but I read it as praising with faint damns.

Anti-FUD?

"i have absolutely no idea why you've been downvoted for that. Nothing more than the bare truth, in my view..."

It's likely an anti-FUD maneuver by Adobe employees tired of being bashed for distributing such shoddy products.

say what?

"But this, of course, is correct: 'They should require an actual office visit for setting or changing the phone number used for verification.' "

Easy for you, but rather more difficult for those of us living abroad. You suggest it's appropriate that expats and workers overseas be required to spend time and money traveling simply to register the change of a phone number?

As the Web, like email before it, was never designed to be a secure environment, it's time for the banking industry to step up and take an honest look for ways to rectify the problems. Either that or banks should become liable for the "unusual transactions" to money mules which are at the heart of the fraud involving commercial accounts.