It's M$ E&E. HTML uses ISO8859/1 by default, which is ASCII as far as ASCII goes, with accented Latin and miscellaneous characters in 160 and above, and 128-159 empty to avoid problems with control characters on systems with parity in the eighth bit. M$ decided to fill those empties with 66-99 double quotes, ellipses, 6-9 single quotes (while ruining the real ASCII apostrophe by making it a prime mark)
Funny, Henry Ford's line is almost exactly what came to my mind... I was wandering the Dell site, though (they offer colours two), and it had a bit more frightening twist. Any colour you want so long as it runs Winduhs, aka any choice you want as long as it's not an important one.
I found the "We're thinking university logos" line kind of ironic - possibly even Freudian. I can guess the alleged university of Acadia will be one of the first to jump on that. "Any colour you want, so long as it's blue and red and Mess$oft all over." Blech... Something wrong with the Tremclad Technique?
How is it all this "today's technology" (ya right) has to rely on the tactics from the previous fin-de-siecle?
PS: Maybe we can make him implode from his own paranoia; given the trends in numbers of broken and dysfunctional families, hackers are likely to outnumber "good folks" before long...
Does he say anything the children of women whom a cop raped or attempted to rape? Hmmm? I have been impressed with the objectivity of excops in the past, and I see nothing to chnage it here. I thought there was a glimmer of hope when he "stres[sed] they are just one type of hacker"... pffah. I should have seen it coming. He started with a prejudice, and studied for years to rationalise it; collecting the anecdotes with which fit his view of the world, and discarded the rest. Seen it and seen it. It'd be laughable if it weren't in such influential hands.
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It's M$ E&E. HTML uses ISO8859/1 by default, which is ASCII as far as ASCII goes, with accented Latin and miscellaneous characters in 160 and above, and 128-159 empty to avoid problems with control characters on systems with parity in the eighth bit. M$ decided to fill those empties with 66-99 double quotes, ellipses, 6-9 single quotes (while ruining the real ASCII apostrophe by making it a prime mark)
Funny, Henry Ford's line is almost exactly what came to my mind... I was wandering the Dell site, though (they offer colours two), and it had a bit more frightening twist. Any colour you want so long as it runs Winduhs, aka any choice you want as long as it's not an important one.
I found the "We're thinking university logos" line kind of ironic - possibly even Freudian. I can guess the alleged university of Acadia will be one of the first to jump on that. "Any colour you want, so long as it's blue and red and Mess$oft all over." Blech... Something wrong with the Tremclad Technique?
How is it all this "today's technology" (ya right) has to rely on the tactics from the previous fin-de-siecle?
PS: Maybe we can make him implode from his own paranoia; given the trends in numbers of broken and dysfunctional families, hackers are likely to outnumber "good folks" before long...
Does he say anything the children of women whom a cop raped or attempted to rape? Hmmm?
I have been impressed with the objectivity of excops in the past, and I see nothing to chnage it here. I thought there was a glimmer of hope when he "stres[sed] they are just one type of hacker"... pffah. I should have seen it coming.
He started with a prejudice, and studied for years to rationalise it; collecting the anecdotes with which fit his view of the world, and discarded the rest. Seen it and seen it. It'd be laughable if it weren't in such influential hands.