That makes some sense, but it's becoming increasingly easy to automatically download ahemmed TV shows using RSS feeds so that users like me can watch them on our set-top boxes soon after they air (usually within hours, and definitely by the next day). With no commercials. Or for that matter use a Tivo and still skip all the commercials. They'd be a lot better off letting me use Hulu.

Why? I mean, if you're not watching the ads anyway, what's their incentive?

I would watch the ads with Hulu. I don't think you can get around it, and the ones on the web site are minimally intrusive anyway. I only watch the pirated versions because I don't have a better, easier, more legal choice. I could spring for an Apple TV and watch iTunes shows on it, I guess, but it's kind of an expensive proposition just to watch a few TV shows at my leisure when I already have good equipment.

What I really think they should do is work out some sort of subscription system for Hulu. I'm paying $15+ a month for my Netflix subscription, which is great for back titles. I would pay $15 a month for Hulu, too, or $2-$4 a month for individual channels (eps + extra features, like on the Glee channel). Do they get more than that much advertising revenue per viewer? I've never really examined the numbers, but I have a hard time believing my one eye is worth more than $1 an episode.

Do they get more than that much advertising revenue per viewer?

Considering the number of PSAs that pop up, it looks like Hulu is vastly undersold.

it's becoming increasingly easy to automatically download ahemmed TV shows

Well, with the impending doom of Mininova, a wrench may be thrown into the works.

A clever place to hide your passwords (if you have to write them down): Passwords on floppy disk

The picture explains it all. You put your password on a tiny piece of paper that you stick on the floppy's magnetic disk. So to find the password you'd have to have the right floppy, have the floppy's disk rotated to the correct place and then slide the floppy's protective metal cover out of the way....

Doesn't having floppy disks stand out these days? I've never used the floppy drive on either of my desktops, and my laptop doesn't have one.

Doesn't having floppy disks stand out these days?

Well yeah, there is that.

Yesterday I had to install some 13-year old software that came on two floppies. Had to hunt around for a computer with a floppy drive (I ended up using our database server's floppy drive).

I actually have some floppies in my office. That sounds like an actual use for them.

I like my software password vault on my phone. I'm not going to carry floppies around with me to keep my passwords handy, but my phone goes where I go.