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Amazingly, astoundingly, after President Clinton's Monday night kickoff speech to the Democratic National Convention, a Broadway troupe was whisked on stage to perform "76 Trombones," a number from "The Music Man."

Thus, President Clinton was followed on stage by Professor Harold Hill -- a snake-oil salesman, a con artist who charms an Iowa town into falling for his charismatic duplicity. By the musical's grand finale, Hill has so successfully wormed his way into the hearts of the good townsfolk that it didn't matter he had lied to them. Life was good, the town content and he, after all, was so darn charming.

But now comes news from BugTraq, SecurityFocus.com's computer security mailing list; gives the lie to the widely held belief that Linux is any less vulnerable than its competitors. Linux's known weaknesses turn out to be proliferating faster than its market share.

I wonder how a columnist as highly regarded as Fred Moody can overlook so many fundamentaly important subjects when making this comparison. I believe that abcnews.com has a published a persons biased opinion and has left out some of the facts.

If you still don't understand how badly you've distorted the facts, you would be just as accurate if you said that driving a Grand Cherokee is much safer than driving a car because more people were injured while driving their cars last year than were injured while driving their Grand Cherokees.

Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they fear. The real threat -- to listeners and, conceivably, democracy itself -- is the music industry's reaction to it

Shares of RealNetworks went up on the news, closing up 5.72% at $43.87. However, investors may be a little prematurely enthusiastic. It remains to be proven if consumers are ready to swallow fees on the PC; and the content may not be compelling enough to demand a $10 monthly fee. For $15 more, consumers can order basic cable and watch TV-quality transmission of a wide variety of quality content. Vice President of Media Programming Mark Hall readily admits that the business will come slowly.

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You can almost hear the brainstorm behind .NET, as Microsoft has re-christened its next generation Windows services: "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if there were something like the Internet, only we owned it?!"

I fire up a browser and start browsing and realize that with only a tiny handful of exceptions, every page I visit is just a text document with a basic logical structure, a couple of links here and there and some careful stylistic touches to make it easy on the eyes. This makes me laugh. What I find so funny is that browser makers are so hell-bent on cornering the budding, tiny, complicated "Internet Application" market when they still haven't come close to getting this "hypertext document over the Internet" thing right.

[...] Remember Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience: Users spend most of their time on other sites. So anything that's a convention and used on the majority of other sites will be burned into the users' brain and you can only deviate from it on pain of major usability problems.

Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience: Users spend most of their time on other sites. Thus, anything that is a convention and used on the majority of other sites will be burned into the users' brains and you can only deviate from it on pain of major usability problems.