24. November, 2002 - A Microsoft Alarm Clock?!?
- Bill Gates spots the next big thing, and it's a smarter alarm clock. But what about when the alarm clock gives me a blue screen of death instead of waking me up? [scripting]
- Microsoft flaw could let hackers control PCs. Yawn. Nothing new there. Except maybe the alarm clock could get hacked, so it'd wake me up at the wrong time.
- There's a Cone of silence over the alternative computer choice (the Macintosh).
- W3Schools CSS Tutorial looks like it might be a handy learning tool. Except that it starts with the fonts in "unreadably small", so I don't exactly trust their advice.
- Search Engine Showdown says they're the
Users' Guide to Web Searching
. There's some interesting news there.
- Efforts to stop music piracy 'pointless' say four researchers from Microsoft. See, you really need their DRM operating system, and the special hardware. [some guy]
- GetContentSize tells you what percentage of a web page is text, vs. HTML cruft. It says the front page of Dave's Picks is only 40% content. [boing boing]
- Recommended Reading if you like Dave's Picks (or put in some other URL). It's another of Mark Pilgrim's toys, and it's pretty cool. [flutterby]
- Make a fight with Googlefight. See who's really more popular on the web. [boing boing]
- The Penny SPAM Solution? Would you be willing to pay 1¢ to send an email if you could be confident it wouldn't be blocked by an over-zealous spam filter? As proposed, it would be completely optional where the fees would fund the servers and (cleverly enough) automatically provide a credit for the recipient. Nice idea, but there's a risk. Consider the amount direct marketers spend to load your real mailbox (that funny looking thing in your front yard full of utility bills). They get a return on that investment. If they send spam via these penny-servers with guaranteed delivery they might make enough to justify the cost of transmission. You might have to raise the cost to a nickle or a dime per email to deter them. [Reed]
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Last updated on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:15:52.