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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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  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 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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    2. 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

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

    :(){ :|:& };:

  4. 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?

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

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

  6. 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.