Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that a lot of this comes from the shitty technology behind these sites. Like BroadVision at Home Depot. To do supah-1337 1-t0-1 marketing you have to use their fat-as-hell URLs and redirect the user all over the place. So another reason to ditch HTTP: URLs are foolish things to use as objects.
Most of this comes from developers who mean well; they want to put real application-like stuff on the Web, but they have to work around the miserable way that HTTP handles state. So the lazy, slapdash, way of solving the problem is to open a new browser window with all the back button controls removed, or to use redirects and stuff that makes the back button act unpredictably.
I think it's time we took another look at HTTP. With the rise of Web-enabled commerce and tools, we need to find some way of handling session persistence and state.
Or we could just lambaste all the lazy developers here on/.
This is just the US government covering its ass. They have full ability to tap Verio today, but once a non-US company, especially one as large as NTT, gets into the mix, the US won't have carte blanche control over Verio's wires.
I wish the FBI would just back off and accept the fact that business is now global, and the US can't control every company in the world. It's fear and territorialism like this that's going to hold back a lot of benefit for NTT and Verio customers.
Yet Another Raster Graphics Tool. Everyone yelps about Photoshop vs. the Gimp, but the truth is that what Linux really needs is a vector graphics tool that outputs to the Web. Most graphics on the Web (logos, icons, chrome) can be made faster and easier in a vector tool like Illustrator. But is anyone working on vector tools for Linux (like an Illustrator-killer, not CAD bullshit). Nope.
India announces rocketry plan for a moon mission, Western reaction: mmmmm, interesting, those backward people are finally getting into the space age.
India announces non-descript rocketry plan, Western reaction: Hell no, it's gotta be all about nuclear weapons. Go with sanctions and all that other fun crap. Better get Pakistan too.
So maybe the Indians are using this supposed moon mission, which is really just (score -1: redundant) to cloak their real agenda; nuke research?
Really, what are they going to learn from an unmanned mission to the moon? All the really interesting stuff these days is around Mars, or the Space Station. Wouldn't India be better off just pooling their efforts with the US-led and funded International Space Station effort, or maybe collaborate with NASA to get some working gear out to mars?
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I think it's time we took another look at HTTP. With the rise of Web-enabled commerce and tools, we need to find some way of handling session persistence and state.
Or we could just lambaste all the lazy developers here on /.
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I wish the FBI would just back off and accept the fact that business is now global, and the US can't control every company in the world. It's fear and territorialism like this that's going to hold back a lot of benefit for NTT and Verio customers.
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India announces rocketry plan for a moon mission, Western reaction: mmmmm, interesting, those backward people are finally getting into the space age.
India announces non-descript rocketry plan, Western reaction: Hell no, it's gotta be all about nuclear weapons. Go with sanctions and all that other fun crap. Better get Pakistan too.
So maybe the Indians are using this supposed moon mission, which is really just (score -1: redundant) to cloak their real agenda; nuke research?
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