Doctor Who + Monty Python = Nerd²:

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Ah, IE7. How we love to hate you.

There was word that hacks used by CSS developers to create special style rendering for IE6 (by, for example, putting a "-" or a "_" before the rule) would no longer work in IE7. They had ostensibly removed support for that kind of hack. The truth doesn't quite match the billing.

"When the Internet Explorer team fixed the CSS parser to no longer support used hacks they did that quite literally. They hacked the parser to no longer support two used hacks."

The linked post goes on to enumerate all the other characters you can still place in front of CSS rules in the exact same manner as the old hack. Brlnt.

Too early, hence many grammar and spelling errors.

Ok you watchfiles here is a site you migh wnat to check out if you haven't already.

Tokyo flash

Wow, I missed this declaration in Hérouxville's charter:

If children are eating beef, for example, they will not seek to find out where the beef came from, who slaughtered it or where, how and when it was slaughtered. In our families, what goes into the mouth feeds the body. The soul is fed otherwise.

The behind the scenes for the special effects of Street fighter later years

Conan O'Brien and Serena Williams in Wii Tennis:

Beck, further to that Vista exploit you were describing to me yesterday, diveintomark's take on the issue. First off, the exploit itself:

An issue has been identified publicly where an attacker could use the speech recognition capability of Windows Vista to cause the system to take undesired actions. … The exploit scenario would involve the speech recognition feature picking up commands through the microphone such as “copy”, “delete”, “shutdown”, etc. and acting on them. These commands would be coming from an audio file that is being played through the speakers.

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In order for the attack to be successful, the targeted system would need to have the speech recognition feature previously activated and configured. Additionally the system would need to have speakers and a microphone installed and turned on. … There are also additional barriers that would make an attack difficult including speaker and microphone placement, microphone feedback, and the clarity of the dictation.

• Your computer must be turned on. It’s amazing how often people need to be reminded of this.


• If you are currently experiencing a Blue Screen Of Death, you are not vulnerable to this exploit. Microsoft’s patented Blue Screen Of Death, built into all recent versions of Windows, protects you from security exploits for as long as it is active. Warning: if you reboot your computer, you will no longer be protected by the Blue Screen Of Death.


• You need to be on a planet with atmosphere, and not, say, drifting in space. Sound doesn’t travel in space. Everybody knows that.