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  1. Re:Just disable Javascript by transporter_ii · · Score: 1 · on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts

    I telnet to port 80 and assemble the HTML in my mind, matrix style.

    All hail the best Viewed with telnet to port 80 initiative

  2. Re:NoScript by IpalindromeI · · Score: 1 · on JavaScript Malware Open The Door to the Intranet

    You forgot to list the best web browser.

  3. Best Viewed with telnet to port 80 by sleepingsquirrel · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support
    Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
    Bah, you kids and your fancy-schmancy graphics. All my web pages are Best Viewed with telnet to port 80
  4. Re:Lets help by AeroIllini · · Score: 2, Informative · on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned

    What about Best Viewed with Telnet to Port 80? Seems to me that philosophy would fit neatly with current server-script-generated (php,cgi,etc) pages using the div/span/css model for layout. Keep the HTML as barebones and standards compliant as possible, and add the flair, like layout and colors, with CSS.

    I remember A List Apart had an article on cleaning up the HTML generated by Slashcode. (It was posted here, too.) Such a model would even save bandwidth on high traffic sites, since the CSS files all get cached. It's standards compliant, too.

  5. That won't solve the problem, merely move it by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 4, Insightful · on BBC says "Avoid Explorer"

    Let's say everyone stops using IE and starts using another browser. What do you think the bad guys are going to do, find another hobby? No, they'll target that browser. Just as nobody burglarizes an empty house, no one targets a browser with miniscule market share. Increasing the market share of another browser will just turn attention to that browser.

    The other question is this: is IE inherently insecure? More than Lynx, yes. But users want features (yes, it's true...not all the bells and whistles in a "modern" browser are forced upon us) and features add complexity which increases the potential for holes.

    For true security, just telnet to port 80.

  6. Re:No client-saide participation: scripting by Darth+Paul · · Score: 2, Funny · on Browser Spyware: Watching Where You Linger
    Lynx? Never heard of it, my fave browser is telnet to port 80!

    But you never know, some marketroid can probably read meaning into how fast you can type GET / HTTP/1.0

  7. Hardly the first step by brg · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Big Brother To Watch Judges?

    As other people have noted here, this is hardly the first step toward online monitoring of employees. People like me who work in the national labs have to deal with this sort of thing constantly, even if we don't have access to any classified data and even if we don't have a security clearance (i.e., even when it's not worth while to monitor us). This is what it says when I log in at work. When I first saw it, I thought it was someone's bad idea of a joke.

  8. Re:Keep it Simple by jweatherley · · Score: 1 · on Stopping The 56K Hate

    Of course for ultimate simplicity you should support the 'Best Viewed with Telnet Port 80 Campaign'