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In 15+ years of building and maintaining SWIFT-connected systems that run SWIFT-provided software, I’ve never encountered a situation where a SWIFT message has “just disappeared”.

SWIFT charges pennies (well, eurocents) per message. The fees you’re referring to are imposed by the institutions on either end of the transaction.

CD ripping. Initial audio pass in an older version of EAC, which hands off to the scripts. Those validate the audio against the AccurateRip + CUETools databases and file the rip ap…

There are already a lot of completed "presale" sales on eBay for $125-$189.

Oh, the havoc you could wreak with control of the .corn TLD!

The pro-open-plan side is armed with hard numbers; cost-per-employee for one buildout vs. another is easy to measure up front. The anti-open-plan side has no way of generating the …

Uh, no. Bit-perfect ripping is trivial and routine, and tools like the AccurateRip DB (which has checksums for around three million different titles you can use to verify the check…

I saw this implemented at (I think) Times Square Tower a few years back. It had you enter your floor at a podium in the main lobby on the way to the elevators, and it worked beauti…

EFF is a 501 (c) (3). If EFF can advocate, so can Wikipedia.

Amazon is already working with 7-11 to provide this service.

You can't? What's this screenshot showing, then? http://i.imgur.com/acOje.png (That's a serious question, BTW. I would check it myself but I can't upgrade to iOS5 until I figure ou…

The search bar is ridiculously large, especially given how rarely I suspect most folks actually run searches against their calendar. I'm sure some people are doing it constantly bu…

Zork was an adaptation of DUNGEON, not Adventure. (Or DUNGEO, as it was called on our PDP-11/34a in high school. Still have my maps!)

Agreed re: community size and Usenet's inability to scale to it (see: http://www.studio-nibble.com/lazlo/images/wiredquote.jpg ). My lament is strictly about the tools used to inte…

Unless you've actually used a decent newsreader like trn, It's difficult to appreciate just how much we've given up by moving most online discussions to the web. Loss of threaded d…

That's a huge assumption that I doubt very much will survive the EULA you'd need to agree to in order to use iTunes Match. It seems unlikely that the labels have licensed Apple to …

Instapaper also works from any browser on any platform. I don't see that happening with Reading list anytime soon.

The vast majority of the articles I add to Instapaper, I add from Firefox on my desktop at work. And virtually all the articles I read in Instapaper, I read when I'm off-network co…

People have actually paid me to do editing (the fools!), and I know the standard proofreading marks backwards and forwards, but I still didn't read the graphic on the key as "delet…

Is the name Hype not admission enough?

and, as I understand the overall issue to be, the concern is that DropBox may at some point "hand over your files" to (I assume) The Feds -- should they come knocking? No, the conc…

There aren't many better ways to ID people who've downloaded music illegally than to have them upload copies of those music files to a central location where they can be easily ana…

If companies can have cultures then they can also have ethics, as the two are closely related.

I would look at it this way: say you've started a new job. You've been told that you're expected to behave "professionally", but not given any specific guidance as to what that mea…

There are very few professional settings where expressions of sexuality are seen as normal and fun. That's what "unprofessional" means.