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HTML Rendering Crashes IE
SlimySlimy writes "According to this article on Secunia, a new IE exploit was found that crashes almost any version of Internet Explorer past 4.0 with just 5 lines of plain HTML code (no JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.). If you're very brave, you can test/crash your IE by going here." There's also a note on SecurityFocus.
Well, Phoenix doesn't crash. Mozilla: 1, IE: -1!!!!
This page was generated by a Barrel of Circus Midgets, and that is the way I like it!!!
Aye Carumba, that sucked!
Not only did THIS version of IE crash, but the others I had open did too!
Its times like this that I wish I had enabled my history. Maybe I'll stop loosing these great porno sites by doing that.
To enforce web standards. Just have the browser crash when the code isn't up to the standards.
Also in the news today, an employee of Microsoft, Bob Smithers, 32, farted loud enough for another employee, Carol Jensen, 36, to hear it.
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"It wasn't really loud," commented Jensen. "But it was loud enough."
Smithers, who does not have a widespread reputation for flatulence, nevertheless could not help but find humor in his faux pas.
"You know how you'll fart, and then sometimes it's just kind of funny, because of the way it happens to make a funny whhoooooeee sound, or just how stupidly long it'll be? This was like that," Smithers said.
Still, Smithers didn't see cause for the attention. "It's funny it's getting all this commentary. I used to fart when I worked for other companies, but since coming to Microsoft it's been, like, fart hysteria."
Indeed whenever someone at Microsoft farts loud enough for someone else to hear it, IT SEEMS TO GET POSTED ON SLASHDOT, along with reams of other well considered posts such as those that comment that IBM couldn't possibly have any SCO code in Linux for no other apparent reason than Linux is somehow immune to moral ambiguity and who cares about SCO anyway?
This reporter wonders, is it possible that Slashdot is getting a bit shrill lately? Posts about IE crashing on some nonsense bit of invalid HTML certainly seems to point in this direction
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I just wrote this up real quickly since we got back from the movie just now. BTW, I don't care if you believe me or not. Just bookmark the post and come back in 13 days and see how right it is. I wanted to thank Warner Bros. for the sneak preview. Also, excuse the grammer/spelling/etc. errors. I wrote this in 5 minutes so i wouldn't forget everything. Ask me if you want anything filled in. =)
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Just went to Matrix Reloaded. Good movie.
It opens with Trinity attacking a yet unknown location. All of a sudden, she jumps off the building (this is shown is the trailer) and is being pursued by an Agent. She gets shot. Neo wakes up and realizes it was a dream. He gets out of bed (Trinity is with him) and goes into the other room. They try to talk but he says nothing. Cut to next scene of Morpheous and other captains talking inside the Matrix. Interestingly, we learn that Morpheous is not really a big shot leader but rather just another peon in the world of Zion. There is a knock at the door. It is Agent Smith with something for Neo. It is his ear piece since he is no longer a part of the matrix.
Fight scene ensues with Agents.
There is an arugment and the ship pulls into Zion. Machines are boring down we learn. Learn the general's woman used to be morpheous' woman who is a captain.
Morpheous speaks to people. Big party. Trinity and Neo have sex. Counselor talks to Neo.
Cut to scene of the glowing asian guy protecting the Oracle.
Oracle talks to Neo about choices and tells him about the Keymaker.
She leaves. Agents come. Agent Smith multiplies and a huge playground fight starts (shown in trailer). Agent smith is replicating himself somehow but putting his hand inside the person and taking them over. Neo then leaves.
They go to find the keymaker at the French-wannabe information seller who is also a Matrix programmer. See Monica Beluchi.
Find Keymaker through Monica's help. They find those weird white guys. The programmer says he has handled Previous "neos" and survived. Chase ensues. Freeway scene. Ducoti chase scene.
Back to zion for counsel meeting and they send two more ships.
Keymaker tells Neo about the special building with a bridge to "the source". The plan involves three teams. One to knock out power, one to infiltrate and the third for support. One of the power plant teams dies due to an attack from the octopus machines. Trinity was told earlier to not enter the matrix because the premenatition neo got at the beginning is of Trinity being killed. But the backup systems for the power plant came on. If they open the "backdoor" into the building, neo dies. She goes into the Matrix. We learn the scene is her attacking the power plant. She "ssh"'s in and shuts the grid down right as Neo and crew is making it into the building. The keymaker is shot by agent smiths! He dies as the door shuts. Neo enters the door to "the source". He meets an old gray bearded man named "the architect". We learn that he created 5 previous matrix's. They all had flaws. The oracle is called the "mother" and he calls himself "the father". Neo is called an anomaly who previous 5 people have come and gone. Basically here the nature of the matrix is described. The choice is given that neo can walk through one of 2 doors. Through one, he'll save trinity who is falling off the power plant and about to be shot or through the other door he can take 16 men and 7 women to repopulate Zion. Either way, Zion will be destroyed by the boring machines. "the architect" says that neo is different since he has learned to love trinity. Neo picks the door to save trinity. By the way, Neo can fly in the movie. So he flies like a bullet and barely catches the falling trinity but she is shot. He pulls the bullet out and restarts her heart. "they are now even" is what trinity says. They get out of the matrix and learn that the defenses of zion are not standing up well due to the treachery of one ship. Earl
I got this story rejected on: 2003-04-24 21:46:57
Would have been nice to give people more advance notice of this!
You just know this is going to be worse than a goatse link!
Mods.... Please mark parent as troll.
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
I don't know about that... I was working on a website recently at a new media company that used lots of Macs, and used IE as their main browser. I was doing a lot of javascript for them and I found a bunch of different ways to crash ie on mac with javascript.
Our biggest stability problems were with IE on Mac.
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Never drive a car when you're dead
IE crashed whole internet!!!
"I used to consistently crash Mozilla on some Hotmail pages."
You must be lost - On Slashdot, Hotmail crashes Mozilla.
Beep beep.
Last week, I posted right here the fucking code that crashes it, and two assholes moderators moderated it into "reduntant".
IE crashed the whole internet!!!
The mods must be smoking crack today for moderating that informative instead of redundant. Article gets posted saying "HTML Rendering Crashes IE", user posts comment saying IE crashes when viewing the page. NO WAY! You must be one of those guys who needs to learn by example and spill the hot coffee on their crotch to understand ITS HOT. :-/