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Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-you-think-she-looks-tired dept.

Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

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  1. If you don't speak Japanese.... by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...then here's a word perfect translation of that article (courtesy of Babelfish).

    Erm... then again, maybe not.

    (If you liked that translation, you might enjoy Babelfish's attempt at Slashdot.jp.)

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    1. Re:If you don't speak Japanese.... by arkhan_jg · · Score: 4, Funny
      From slashdot.jp:

      When the policeman of the tie, rule you violate, hello punishment of the kitty?

      Heh. I can just imagine a 'tie-inspector' walking round making sure your business attire is up to standard, or else he unleashes an angry cat on you. Or maybe he tortures a cute kitten in front of you, not sure on that point.
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    2. Re:If you don't speak Japanese.... by Gregory+Cox · · Score: 3, Funny
      Obviously it should read:

      When Thai police violate a rule, they get the Hello Kitty punishment.
      See? Makes perfect sense.
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    3. Re:If you don't speak Japanese.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
      I'm for replacing the current Slashdot moderation options with hilarious Engrish ones:

      • It becomes +1, References
      • It is +1, Interesting
      • +1, It is strange funny
      • +1, Splendid discernment
  2. Bring Down A Website In Six Words by millwall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Post
    A
    Crappy
    Article
    On
    Slashdot

    1. Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Pacaos? That's an interesting acrostic. What does it mean?

    2. Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pacaos? That's an interesting acrostic. What does it mean?

      PacaOS is the operating system for Pacas - its a fork of rodentOS. HTH.

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    3. Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

      I discovered a weird IE bug... there are six words that, when included on a webpage, stop IE ever being used on that computer again:

      get
      firefox
      from
      mozilla
      dot
      com

    4. Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 1, Funny

      Anyone else have Weird Al in their head singing "This exploit's just six words long..."?

  3. I Install ViSta! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I is AC. I install MS VISta. It got IE. It good for look at porn. Problem PORN got Not god virus On it and IE not work. Jhow can you help me? I here this thing called linox solve? How virus not get hit? HATIGN@! computer STD. Me loves MSN +.

  4. Bring down my system in 13 chars. by BlackPignouf · · Score: 5, Funny

    :(){ :|:& };:

  5. Dr.Who by gpmidi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dr.Who: I can bring down your administration in one word. Prime Minister: One word. Even you aren't capable of that. Dr.Who: Okay, six words. Dr.Who (wispers to aid): Don't you think she looks tired?

  6. Evil Plans Thwarted by PinkyDead · · Score: 2, Funny

    DAMN YOU SLASHDOT!

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  7. Why go to all that trouble? by annamadrigal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Alt-F4 gets rid of it much more quickly, and doesn't rely on a Japanese website not having been /.ed.

  8. Re:How is this fucking useful ?? by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Funny

    200 HP? Is your shit a 20th level Barbarian or something?

  9. Re:Tear in my eye by Dogtanian · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyway, the article is more of note for the doctor who reference at the start. An amusing piece of nostalgia You're nostalgic for something that happened in the 2005 Christmas Special?

    Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...
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  10. *Six* words? Amateurs. by cbrichar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Six words? Please.

    As any pimply-faced 14 year old surfing the web alone in his bedroom could've told you, all it takes is your Mom unexpectedly calling your name from right outside your door to cause IE to be shut down immediately.

  11. Re:Uh huh by nschubach · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...one hack to find them, one hack to show them all, and in the code lines fry them?

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  12. Re:Hmm.. by GIL_Dude · · Score: 3, Funny

    IE 7 on Vista here did have the crash just as documented. Open a new tab and start typing a URL and it crashed it.

  13. Re:Is it crashed or not? by mopower70 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pre-tell then, what is a crash? If I could pre-tell what caused a crash, I'd avoid doing it in the first place. But I don't think the precogs come online until 2053 or something like that.
  14. Re:Is it crashed or not? by Cigarra · · Score: 2, Funny

    My usage conforms completely to the usage in my office.

    Bill?!? is that you??
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