It would appear that some brave MS programmer pined for those days of remote BSODs, and thus has reintroduced this beloved feature in the SMB2 protocol driver in Vista and Windows 7.

Kudos!

In essence, it’s an explanation of the US tax system, explained in the setting of “beer for 10 people” by a professor in economics.

While one may (rightfully) question the quality of a great many slashdot comments, I find this one rather profound.

I’d say it could be adapted to many other countries’ tax schemes with an equivalent conclusion – perhaps because politicians worldwide seem to be more eager to please the readers of daily newspapers, than to listen to sensible science…

Update 11:12 – link fixed. Thank you Thode :-$

Jeg har netop modtaget et tilbud om at købe Danmarks sidste polarmønt, hvilket fører til to modsatrettede spørgsmål:

1) Kan jeg, såfremt jeg køber denne mønt, være sikker på, at I opsporer og destruerer alle andre eksemplarer?

og

2) Hvis ikke, vil I så venligst undlade at sende uopfordrede og løgnagtige “tilbud” til min adresse?

Med venlig hilsen,

Sune Mølgaard
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All is not lost, however, since there was a constructive comment to one article by my good friend Therese, who happens to have a more informative post than my usual ramblings on her blog, so if you can read Danish, do yourself a favour and sample her blog at http://www.version2.dk/blogs/theresehansen

In that case, I am willing to buy a round of beer for every sensation- and conflict-worshipping pseudoscience journalist out there. If it doesn’t, however, I shall expect such an apologetical beer from every sorry one of them.

Request the address of my favourite bar in the comments section of this article guys!

Also, instead of just changing back to the default theme, I’d like to try out the one you are seeing now. It’s called Mystefied, and it’s brought to you by the nice guys at http://www.xhtmlvalid.com. I think it looks nice, but if you disagree, please let me know

Edit: Incidentally, I like to provide Atom feeds as well as RSS, so I tweaked the theme a bit with a new image and link for that, which however left no space for the search form in it’s previous position. Thus, it has been moved to the sidebar, and it has been equipped with a submit-button. Most browsers do fine without them, but I’m unsure as to how it would work for a mobile browser without one…

I hope all this is fine with xhtmlvalid and Mr. Chaudhuri, both of whom I have notified.

Trying to extend this copyright to cover the services and products of Engadget.com seems like a long shot at best, and to show support, I have chosen to go with the html equivalent (#bf1773, found here) of the RAL4010 colour “Telemagenta”, which Engadget has identified as the one covered by Deutsche Telekom’s copyright in this previous post.

Oh, and in case anyone wants to place a phone call from my mobile, please mail me, and we’ll work out a small fee. How’s that for similar products and services?

In other words, this is why you should either sell your AT&T shares or, alternatively, contact all the fellow shareholders you can reach, and get them to side with you in demanding that the mastermind behind this proposition be tarred and feathered. I’d go for the money…

#EDIT: as a commenter pointed out, the link was botched, but should now work. Thanks for the heads up!

Luckily, however, CircleID pretty much sums it up…

Hope to see you,

Fjodor

EDIT (20071005:11:45:00GMT+1): There will be free t-shirts and thinkgeek.com gift certificates for people signing up no later than Oct. 13th (provided they don’t run out, which I doubt).