Comments for hackbash

Comment on Spotify; fixed and more broken in the same update by Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:03:07 +0000

Spotify’s queueing logic is demented. I think it’s because people either jump about like skittish kittens, compulsively listening to the first half a minute of each song then finding something new and exciting to stuff into their ears… Or they only listen to entire albums, like me. (I, somewhat anally retentively, create a playlist for each album I like, then listen from the playlist to stop the infuriating auto progression to the next song for that artist’s search results… Even if the next song it then plays is chronologically in the wrong order.)

Re the FLAC situation: it’s purely bandwidth saving. Having been a signatory to one, the licence agreement labels sign with Spotify doesn’t mandate Spotify to use any one lossy format; I think they just chose to go with Vorbis themselves as it’s pretty bloody good SQ without using exabytes of diskspace. Oh, and unencumbered with licensing fees! Also given the platform’s former P2P nature with chunked encrypted songs sitting on supernode listeners’ hard drives, it was a nonstarter to use FLAC.

I still think they’ll never use FLAC as there’s no business case for it. The HQ streams are, IIRC, 224 or 256 kbps Vorbis…

Comment on How to turn off smart quotes and dashes in Word 2007 by J.R. Habermann

J.R. Habermann — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:15:05 +0000

Great, accurate instructions! Love the commentary.

Comment on Captcha fail two by Dr. A Goog

Dr. A Goog — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:55:04 +0000

Grammar Nazi?

Comment on (My) Last.FM hacked? by Brainstrain

Brainstrain — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:39:48 +0000

My last fm page was hacked and I have been locked out of it. I have repeatedly emailed the staff to retrieve my page login and password info to no avail. I am now looking for any way possible to regain control of my page…it is a band page with all of my personal info on it that other people have been controlling for years now.
I am a white hat, not malicious in any way. But I am considering it now.

Comment on Spotify; fixed and more broken in the same update by Danny Suls

Danny Suls — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:23:08 +0000

Glad to see that I’m not the only one who is terribly irritated by this queuing “method”.

Comment on Napkin fail by Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:13:24 +0000

Couldn’t care fewer.

Comment on How to turn off smart quotes and dashes in Word 2007 by Emily

Emily — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:49:23 +0000

whoa thanks for the hilarious instructions. problem fixed!

Comment on Hackedbash by handolio

handolio — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:40:46 +0000

I think I get it now, but I had to make a Venn diagram

Comment on Hackedbash by SamuelWise

SamuelWise — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:37:50 +0000

“If you hate Islam, We hate anyone who does not hate you!” is one of the most confusing sentences I’ve ever read. And I’m on Facebook.

Comment on Simon Burke by janice elizondo

janice elizondo — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:24:03 +0000

I am so happy to see Simon get of the plane. Did. He get back to British. Well my heart goes out to him. Iwould like to help if he is not home.what I mean is can or what can I do.I knew he wasn’t. Guilty I hope his mom a d dad are ok. I have thought of this since the fist time I seen it. You have always been on my mind I am hoping to hear from. _someone on my email. I hope he has a good life