Forgot your password?  Comment: Re: Bill Gates' response: (Score
1) 218  by QuoteMstr (#45021997) Attached to: Microsoft
Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman
Microsoft has an incredible amount of deadweight, mostly as a
product of the exceptionally brain-damaged review system, which
encourages managers to keep untalented people on their teams so
that can reserve the good-review-score quota for productive
people. Reforming the review system and eliminating this
deadweight would be wonderful.  Comment: Re:My guess (Score 2)
262  by QuoteMstr (#36594642) Attached to: Facebook Blocks KDE
Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics  How do you distinguish between a
user and an application he's running? How do you do it over a
network?  Any piece of information an application (here, a
client-side program) can access, a user can access too. If we
can't distinguish between users and applications, we're forced
to rely on the user as the unit of trust.  The situation is
different for a "web application" that can