Oh, thanks for making a reasoned reply to my rant, instead of flaming back :)
And no. I do not have any better alternative to offer.

Well, to be honest, I was considering if it should be there or not. Jquery-ui actually makes writing "teh web, second edition"-pages a lot more tolerable than without. However, I'd rather not have them at all.
I guess that was a misjudgement, but going into detail about why I think javascript itself is bad would be too involved, because there's a lot _good_ than can be done with it.
In fact, JavaScript is kinda neat because it is so abstract that in itself it is pretty much useless without 3rd party libraries :P

It seems that in the last two years, the brainless masses that started studying IT in hopes of big moaneyz have graduated and unleashed their clueless wits upon the industry.
I think that anyone who didn't disassemble and (succesfully?) reassemble their toys when they were 5 should stay the fuck out of IT.

Fellow engineers, please.
When you see stupid shit like this going, please allocate couple of hours of your time to research and address WHY this shit is stupid.
We intuitively know that it is ridiculous to first use sockets to deliver another stateless protocol, on top of which you implement another stateful protocol, etc... But if you just shrug and say "well, that's retarded" and figure it will never catch up because you know it is a bad idea; just look at Spring, Hibernate and other Java EE bullshit. Then Query, JQuery-ui, etc. Todays "technical" managers will buy any bullshit they do not understand. Just like they did when you were 20 and wanted to wow them. And thus, this shit becomes defacto-standard in the industry.

It is like first semester materials engineer discovering that carbon steel has awesome properties: "We should build all the fucking bridges out of 3mx20m hunks of carbon steel!" without realizing there might be a more elegant way to use the resources in your possession.

Well, at least I feel good that "I was right" when they find out in 120 years that all that bullshit with 102342-layers of indirection to accomplish a simple state parser was useless.
No, wait. No I don't because I will be dead.

This...
Mod up parent etc...

I bought LG GT540 because that was the only android phone I could afford. Do I complain that there is no flashing support? Do I complain that it is only 1.6 Android? Do I complain that it sometimes defaults to Russian character set?
No! Because I made the decision to buy this piece of shit.
Yes, if I could afford it, I would have bought a dev phone from Google. Then I would have top-spec phone with all the freedoms. But whining that my 200€ phone does not give the features and freedoms as the €600 phone is just retarded.
Oh, hmm.. Just realized my phone is unlocked and is fully paid for. Anyway, parents point stands.

Same history here. I actually got hooked on a MUD once again. BatMUD rocks. Chip off the old rock...

At least on chrome, there's just a checkbox but no explanation next to it.
Dunno what it does... Post without karma bonus? Post anonymously? Post humously?

And you just have to post a link to the useless blog post instead of the actual list at the more respected source, 2600.

You mean salted?

Umm... Never ran out yet in normal use. I think I once ran out after watching youtube videos straight for 7 hours or so.

"3G is draining your battery" is a bogus myth. It used to be true with the old experimental devices and sparse network. Now that the network is so dense, the phone never really has to work to get a good signal.

Or if it actually IS draining your phone, the phone is poorly designed or you have crap network.

Try it some time. Leave it in 3G only, always on and let it idle until you run out of battery. Now try it with GSM only, connect only when needed. The latter should give you SOME extra battery life, but should be of no consequence in normal day to day life.

Magnetic stripe huh?
I think I haven't used that part of my card ever. This was issued in ...2008.
It's secure chips and online verification all the way in scnadinavia now. Helpfully, it is hard to overrun your bank account with a debit card this way. I wonder if this was deployed for my or the banks safety?

ohlawl....

Good thing about that, is that you can afford every fucking device that uses it, and you can test all of those in an hour.

Well, hmm... I have no experience of what you are talking about.
I run my phone in 3G exclusive mode (aka. "just GSM?, huh? Drop me out of the network please.") and I pretty much always have some sockets open. Be it tethering with my laptop or just android checking my gmail or other mailboxes.
I consider my connection "always open" and I cannot think of a single situation where I would have had to wait several seconds unless the network was out of reach. ...And then I would protest loudly at sonera, querying why I cannot get full speed 3G near the main roads