This is beside the point in this discussion, but for the record: if your ham radio emits legal signals in amateur bands (per FCC rules Part 97 subpart D) and causes interference in your neighbor's TV, you aren't required to do anything, much less to "stop using the thing". Of course you'll want to work with them and be nice, but the law pretty much says that the neighbor ought to buy a less crappy TV and/or fix his cable mess. Just wanted to clarify a common myth.
It's more like not watching a DVD while driving, I think. I can move about the Web without scripting just fine, as long as the website designers let me get at the content without making their frills a priority. Your analogy isn't very apt, sorry.
By the way, am I the only one that uses the web with JavaScript turned off for almost every site?
Rejoice, Coward - I'm the second person who keeps it turned off as much as possible.
Before I get my hat, could you tinfoil guys remind me of a single Web-based exploit (short of downloading and running an executable) which did not require scripting? Call me paranoid, but when I see a noose or a guillotine, I don't like sticking my head in it.
It looks like the project got a huge boost from/. and others.
But there was a dark side -- a few cretins who went after the number of processed pages, and submitted them without any proofing (I came across at least 10 of these today).
The only answer to this is to drown these bozos in the Good Thing(tm). So I'm appealing to all other/.'ers to stay with this project and carefully do a page or two a day, even after the original thread and article fade from the front page. Thanks a lot.
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My feelings exactly, and a very eloquent post. But I'm afraid it's just the two of us swimming against the tide :-(
This is beside the point in this discussion, but for the record: if your ham radio emits legal signals
in amateur bands (per FCC rules Part 97 subpart D) and causes interference in your neighbor's TV,
you aren't required to do anything, much less to "stop using the thing". Of course you'll want to
work with them and be nice, but the law pretty much says that the neighbor ought to buy a less
crappy TV and/or fix his cable mess. Just wanted to clarify a common myth.
It's more like not watching a DVD while driving, I think. I can move about the Web without scripting just fine, as long as the website designers let me get at the content without making their frills a priority. Your analogy isn't very apt, sorry.
Rejoice, Coward - I'm the second person who keeps it turned off as much as possible.
Before I get my hat, could you tinfoil guys remind me of a single Web-based exploit (short of downloading and running an executable) which did not require scripting? Call me paranoid, but when I see a noose or a guillotine, I don't like sticking my head in it.
It looks like the project got a huge boost from /. and others.
/.'ers to stay with this project and carefully do a page or two a day, even after the original thread and article fade from the front page. Thanks a lot.
But there was a dark side -- a few cretins who went after the number of processed pages, and submitted them without any proofing (I came across at least 10 of these today).
The only answer to this is to drown these bozos in the Good Thing(tm). So I'm appealing to all other