My Favorite Actual Hong Kong Film English Subtitles
One of my favorite sites, Big White Guy, recently updated his collection of actual subtitles for Chinese (mostly Cantonese) films shown in Hong Kong. These are my personal favorites, with my very favorite one first...

Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some ass of the giant lizard person.

A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries.

Beat him out of recognizable shape!

Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.

How dare you contempt the court?

I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.

I have been scared shitless too much lately.

If he is...he'll just be a stupid melon!

If we don't have a dream in life, we look like salt fish.

Let me touch your nibbles.

Remember, don't forget.

Take my advice, or I'll spank you without pants.

The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?

This will be of fine service for you, you bag of the scum. I am sure you will not mind that I remove your manhoods and leave them out on the dessert floor for your aunts to eat.

Who's the lame?

Why you have to throw all my clothes away? Making me dressing like a clown now.

Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your gynecologist for a thorough extermination.

You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken.

You are such a woodshed.

Your dad is an iron worker, your mom sells beans!

Trade Industry Association Slams Microsoft's Security & Monopoly Position
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has released a report entitled Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly and subtitled How the Dominance of Microsoft’s Products Poses a Risk to Security. The chief author of the report, Daniel Geer, Sc.D was the Chief Technical Officer of a firm named @Stake. It seems that @Stake, and information security firm, has close ties to Microsoft and felt that the "values and opinions of the report are not in line" with the company's views. Dr. Geer's page on @Stake's site has already been taken down but you can still see the Google cache of it.
The report should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned with IT security, and I think the folks at @Stake should not have been surprised that a Past President of USENIX might reach the conclusions found in this report!

Update: Dr. Geer "contends that the motivation of his report, despite its title, wasn't to discredit Microsoft..." [dc.internet.com]

Why I Like Windows CE Better Than Windows XP
I have a Dell Axim Pocket PC. And not the top of the line, either, but the basic 32MB RAM / 32MB ROM system. I will admit, I have added expansions to the max--a 128MB Secure Digital (SD) card and a 128MB Compact Flash card, but I don't yet have a wireless card nor a modem or network card. I've also been using Windows XP on several of my machines for a while now, and I really do like it--I think it's the best version of PC Windows Microsoft has ever done. It's more robust, more stable, and more user-friendly. But to be honest, I think Windows CE is the best version of windows MS has ever created, and I like it much better than XP. Here's why:

1) Instant On. You turn CE on, it's ON. Yes, I know Windows on the PC has to boot. Anybody ever hear of EPROMs? Couldn't we cram at lease the kernel into an EPROM? I always use suspend with XP (at least, until Windows memory usage becomes so bogged down that I have to reboot...) because it's the closest to "Instant On" the PC offers--but it's still not good enough.

2) Statefulness. Anything I run on CE is just the way I left it. (Another reason I use XP suspend)

3) Far more power per MB. Let's face it--CE is a pretty robust operating system to run in 32MB. The limited memory also makes code bloat pretty much impossible.

4) Stability. One system crash in 4 months.

5) Genuine Portability. The form factor actually works, I use this thing constantly. To get my Pocket PC from me you'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

I'm sure there are more but I can't wring them out of my brain at the moment. Why can Windows CE do so many things better? A key element is the lack of legacy code. Windows XP is still burdened with thousands and thousands of lines of legacy code dating back to DOS. Sure, Windows CE has file format compatibility, but file format compatibility certainly does not require legacy code--Star Office/OpenOffice.org is proof of that. Windows without legacy code could be every bit as good as Windows CE--that's the promise (allegedly) of Windows Longhorn. In the case of Longhorn, the price may be too high (that's a subject for a later entry), but it sure works great for Windows CE.