macbeach commented on Suicide by webcam

"I'm qite sure that big government types (and isn't everyone these days?) will use such cases to justify having IP to physical address information at the fingertips of every police officer. Under Bush this would result in an outcry of privacy concerns, under our new government of change it will be hailed as a great step forward in protecting all Americans. Congratulations on your new purchase!"

macbeach commented on Want to fix the economy? Fire your sysadmin

"Never read your blog before today."

macbeach commented on Want to fix the economy? Fire your sysadmin

"@Tim the IT Guy: That's OK."

macbeach commented on How to fix Yahoo

"@Spy: All media content has gotten much worse in terms of proof reading since spell checkers (which sometimes introduce more errors than they correct). @Paul: the Fortune article is readable for me, and run Linux!"

macbeach commented on Jerry Yang and the myth of the founder

"I could be wrong, but I don't think people with many millions of dollars in assets lose sleep over losing a job."

macbeach commented on Fox anchor makes Facebook creepier than ever

"@godospoons: And Larry King was the chain smoking gravel voiced late night host at WMAL where he interviewed authors of books about flying saucers until the wee hours. Sometimes the lunatics escape the asylum and nobody notices."

macbeach commented on 5 reasons why Jerry Yang is done at Yahoo

"The new guy's first act should be to fire Yang. Now that Yang has shown what a monumental F-up he is, he should run for congress."

macbeach commented on New Intel chip won't run the economy any faster

"One more item: 4) Users and businesses have finally figured out that their machines continually getting slower is a design flaw in their operating system of choice, not an inevitable consequence of memory/CPU hungry applications."

macbeach commented on Fox anchor makes Facebook creepier than ever

""Some days I wonder if Facebook would have been better off restricting its social network to college students, as it did when it first launched." I think we all would have been better off."

macbeach commented on Google Docs rockets to 1 percent market share in only three years

"The only thing that makes sense about using Word, or look-alikes like Open Office is that fact that so many people are habituated to their printers. It's so pathetic to watch a work-at-home business person print out a two page memo, correct it in pencil, type in the corrections and then e-mail it to a colleague."