This is old news, obviously. It's worth pointing out that as good as the code appeared to these reviewers in 2004, between then and now, Microsoft underwent a sea change in code-level quality control. Windows is now likely to be the best reviewed, most rigidly compliant code shipping on the market:

* Virtually every Microsoft senior developer has been trained on software security

* All shipping code is checked in-house, including some homegrown static analysis tools

* Most shipping products have had line-by-line source code reviews done by at least two different firms (we did some of this work for Vista).

During the Summer of Worms in '03, when Microsoft security lapses were front-page material on CNN, Bill Gates told the press that Microsoft was going to totally overhaul security and code quality. They weren't kidding. Microsoft now outspends everybody on that.

Note: I'm a Mac person.

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It's not a well-worded sentence, but what he means is that if you have to call out an ugly hack, the REST of the code is probably pretty decent. If the code is full of ugly hacks, they wouldn't be worth mentioning.

That would encourage them to try to generate spam comments in the slim hope that they'd get upvoted.... which would lead to a much worse spam situation.

For instance, they'd employ Markov Chains to re-hash comments in a post, or from older posts, or from the text of the article.

One thing I've learned: spammers don't give up. If you give them an easy way to submit that's even easier for you to clean up, that's better than starting an all-out war that'll just increase the spam content and make it more difficult to filter out.

So people would be more productive if they worked during every waking hour? Amazing. I enjoy watching a good movie or ball game. Life isn't just about working. You have to spend some of the time you have here enjoying yourself.