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  1. Re:AOL Using Mozilla/Netscape on Mozilla Poised for Revival? · · Score: 1
    IE can't even handle cookies correctly, which is much more detrimental for a Web site than Netscape's popular repainting problems and such.

    I can personally vouch for this as a software developer on the cutting edge of DHTML / Javascript / cookies stuff.

    All versions of MSIE are basically broken if a web site / app needs to use more than a few KB of space for cookies.

    I've personally spoken with top MSIE engineers about this matter and they basically said, yup, it's broken. Before that point we got into a arguement over the meaning of individual words and context in the cookie RFC. It was pathetic.

  2. Re:"Smaller number of available applications" on A New Low for Web Advertisers: Pop-Up Downloads · · Score: 1

    I send you this message in order to have your advice.

  3. Re:So? on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 1

    That's the funny thing. If you look at actual primary sources (writings of the people at the time,) most of what went on was pretty much rape. Oh of course, there were isolated incidents of kindness and friendship between native peoples and colonizing Europeans, but by and large you can accurately call the colonization process "rape."

  4. Re:Mod parent up on What is .NET? · · Score: 1

    If only you knew what you were talking about.

    "Java" is a language.

    The "Java Virtual Machine" is a language-independent runtime environment.

    A "Java compiler" happens to turn "Java language" code into bytecode that happens to run on the JVM platform.

    You could write a "JVM compiler" for any language, say, Python, or Perl, or really any other language, that turns your source into the bytecode format required by the JVM. In fact people have done exactly that with several languages.

    Please tell me how the .NET CLR is any different in this respect?

  5. Re:Lisp on What Makes a Powerful Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You said Emacs and intuitive in the same sentance. die.

  6. Re:Whenever . . . CmdrVile need to DIE. on When is it Legal to Reverse Engineer Software? · · Score: 1

    But c'mon, tell us what you really think.

  7. Re:Monopoly on bugs on Oracle 9i Isn't Quite Unbreakable · · Score: 1

    Because Linus is not charging $200/seat/year.

  8. Re:Slight mistake in the article on The Internet Shifts East · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that it is a fiction that applies only to those too poor to pay bribes to their local "comrade."

  9. Re:Truth about CHERNOBYL on Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship · · Score: 1

    Hooo hoo hoo, boy, that's an amazing story there. Quite remarkable. Because we all know that the Chernobyl reactors were the height of Ukranian safety engineering, indeed it was virtually impossible for anything to ever go wrong at that plant. Therefore, it must have been the CIA. Or possible the Mossad. With the assitance of the Kerryton, Ohio Kiwanis Club. Either way, it's crystal clear that Walt Disney and his evil henchmen were definitely behind it. It had nothing to do with Homerski Simpsonski, Soviet Safety Commisar at Ukranian Nuclear Works.

  10. Sssshhhh!!!! on EQ 'Shadow of Luclin' -- Pretty Graphics, Ugly Release · · Score: 1

    Shhh!!!!!

  11. Re:DUMP JON KATZ. on Beyond Contact: a Guide to SETI · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This isn't a Katz article, idiot.

    Yes. You. Idiot.

  12. Re:Uh, the answer is simple... on Symantec Will Not Detect Magic Lantern · · Score: 1

    The trick is knowing that it's been tampered with. What, do you think they'll leave their cig butts laying around for you to find?

  13. Re:good morning on Computer Desks and UPS's? · · Score: 1

    Fine, thank you, and you?

  14. Re:Sfotware Bugs on CIOs Band Together Against Paying For Software Bugs · · Score: 1
    Have you been involved in writing any complex software yourself?

    I know you asked this rhetorically, but obviously, the answer is no, the original poster has quite obviously never written any software of significance, or would not be talking out of his ass like he is.

  15. Re:Why people go to arcades on Sega To Take X-Box To Arcades · · Score: 1

    I think he means the kind of friends made out of meat. Yes, meat.

  16. Re:BBC News coverage on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1
    You mean all I had to do was cut & paste a couple of URLs and I could have had a +5 post?

    Yes.

    You mean you hadn't noticed that before?

  17. Re:Drinkable? (tangent) on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem with that is that there is no way for Them to put the mind-controlling flouride into the exhaust water of the fuel cell.

  18. Re:Somebody has to say it, but... on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Check your laws. In many areas, mere possession of (never mind "manufacturing") more than a certain (relatively large) amount of ganga can bring a life sentance, in many cases a "mandatory minimum." Never mind the "3 strikes" laws some states have. If you already have two offences, and you shoplift a donut, you can be put away for life.

  19. Re:Was crypto used? on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 1
    It doesn't matter.


    +---+
    |bag| ==> cat
    +---+

    strong crypto is already out there. Nothing can stop it.

  20. Re:Security of the master key on How Would Crypto Back Doors Work? · · Score: 1

    and heart-breakers and love-makers from what I've heard.

  21. Re:Terrorists are the perfect enemy on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 1

    God help us all. They win. It's over. I love BB.

  22. Re:Any evidence? on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 1

    Of course not. What, are you a terrorist supporter or something? Fucking terrorist baby killer.

    Well, that's the attitude anyway.

  23. Re:off topic warning on Robot Family in Every Home? · · Score: 1
    Have you really not figured it out yet? It's Slashdot that's adding that, so people can see if a link seems to be what it claims to be.

    For instance: Here is a link to some happy little bunnies playing. Now click on it.

  24. Re:vi - was: Re:look out people who use ISV answer on Best "Visual Studio" Alternative On Linux · · Score: 1

    Because vi was invented as Berkeley, where people did a lot of drugs. That pretty much explains everything. Also, Bill Joy is a crackhead. Emacs all the way.

  25. Re:It's in the works on 3D First-Person Games, So Far · · Score: 1

    Origin is a wholy-owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA.) Another EA division is making the Snow Crash game. They just happen to be located in the same building as the Origin folks. All that Origin is responsible for these days (AFAIK) is Ultima Online.