@BlueBeard: Yeah, I agree. One of the things customers do that always makes me angry is they blame the employee for company policy. A good example is the airline employee's who work the boarding booths and main desks. So many people will get angry at the staff as if it is personally their fault that their plane was…

@Java-Princess: I wasn't so much talking about raw performance, more bad coding habits that some languages encourage or at least do not discourage. Visual Basic code can get pretty unruly and really has no structure.

@BlueBeard: Yeah, there are people who are really confident and relaxed in their job that have no problem with customers referring to themselves by name, but referring to strangers by name comes off as something only superiors would do (i.e parents, teachers, professors, etc). When someone of equal authority takes the…

@Ryan Goldstein: Yeah, I'm familiar with editing comments ;). I must have just missed that 15 minute time window. Thanks for not Grammar Naziing me :)

@mrh829: I agree that there is a reason behind eBay's "no negative seller feedback" policy, but the issue it tries to fix goes both ways, here's an example situation I commonly encounter the likes of, especially when selling tech products:

@wjglenn: I agree, ab strengthening should be great for posture, and even if it isn't, who doesn't like a good healthy six-pack ;). Great tip!

One of my biggest recommendations is do not let people tell you to start with an easy programming language like Visual Basic, etc, as many of the "beginner" programming languages either teach outdated or bad programming habits (i.e the dreaded goto). The big boy's like C++ or Java are bigger and can take longer to…

Store employee's/bartenders/etc will often be nicer and go out of the way to provide the best service for friendly people, but don't ever go up to an employee, read their name tag and call them by name, it's incredibly awkward since you have just forced yourself into a more personal form of conversation than most…

@Ryan Goldstein: Thanks :), the first sentence in the 2nd paragraph was supposed to be "[etc, etc], then conveying text in a distinct font [etc, etc]", I accidentally wrote thought instead of font, in case that caused any confusion. For some reason there's no edit button, so I can't fix it.

Why is it that so many portable devices are vulnerable to TIFF/PDF shellcode? Android phones, the PSP, the iPhone, misc phones, etc were vulnerable to privilege escalation using a rigged TIFF image.

@mrjeremiahross: The pull-up bars scare me. Just thinking about them gives me the shivers, I can just see the countless fail videos on youtube of people using those.

@wjglenn: I agree, except I would recommend crunches instead, since ironically sit-ups have been known to cause back issues in long run (of course, just doing sit-ups is not going to destroy your spine, but they can contribute to lower back stress). Crunches are just as effective ab exercises and many people find that…

I wish PwnageTool supported linux/windows :(

@Hooray4Zoidberg: I agree, it's fairly easy (and common) for a programmer to make the mistake of not parsing inputs before storing them in arrays, and since the SPACE character indicates null (which is interpreted as marking the bounds of data stored in an array, everything past that NULL will be discarded).

@Ryan Goldstein: I agree, since human's primary sense is sight, images have a lasting impact on our memory. While words are in themselves images, my hypothesis is that the reader directly converts the text read into abstract thought and it is stored as such. When asking someone if they have read a book, they usually…

The term "Internal Clock" is used in the wrong context in this article. That term usually (correctly) refers to the bodies Circadian Rhythm, which is utilized to time various biological process in the body, most notably and noticeably, sleep.

@acidrain69: Oh yeah, I forgot the backup. I usually just SSH into my ipod touch and copy app's saves/config files to my pc and just completely forgo the backup. Of course this is only an option for jailbroken phones/ipods so most people are going to be forced to backup.

What people don't seem to grasp is that the internet is not entirely Neutral. Things that the US government considers illegal under the DMCA are issued take down notices which basically threaten hosts with law suits unless the offending material is removed. This ranges from obviously immoral file sharing (i.e…

"* This is not true at all—iTunes takes forever to update. You should go make yourself a sandwich while you wait."

While there are many aspects of eBay that drive me crazy (i.e only buyers can leave negative feedback :(, expensive optional features ($2 for bold text?! all it takes them is inserting b(old) tags into the generated HTML)) it has by far the largest userbase than anything other than possibly Craigslist (but Craigslist…