Communications companies are taking steps to actively avoid being turned into "bit-pushers", as they called it at my previous employer. They are resorting to slimy tactics such as putting intentional packet jitter on traffic in order to degrade service for applications like VOIP. Of course, if you want to avoid the jitter you can pay for that! Don't underestimate how much effort a TelCo will pursue in order to avoid having their revenues shrink.

Let's just say that I'm currently working on an application for my employer that targets mobile devices (Win CE/Mobile) and tablet pcs (XP/Vista) at the same time. Even using .NET and the Compact .NET framework we have to do a TON of refactoring for GUIs. Heck, there's even basic classes/methods that you would expect to be available on the mobile version but aren't there. It ends up being a lot of code being ifdef'd (#if...) for each version.

Replying to myself... but I did put our code up for consumption on the website linked above.

We banned death progs... for just such a reason. You could have them if the admins tested and approved them.

I remember once as a junior immortal I was building an area, and set one of my mobs to load some weapons from a different area since I hadn't built any of my own yet. I managed to send the mud into a huge death spiral the next reboot as my area was loaded before the other area. That meant that I was trying to load objects which didn't exist yet... *kaboom*

I continued to be an immortal there for a long long time, and eventually graduated to be a coder. It's been a while, but I still fire up the code at times and walk through the areas. The imagination some of our builders had was amazing! New games pale in comparison.

I'm going to turn it on right now for some fun.

http://stormgate.ca/
telnet://stormgate.ca:2345

My wife refers to Nethack as "that stupid game". I managed to get her to try it once, but she died quite quickly and then never attempted it again.

I've never actually ascended in Nethack, but I still play all the time (I've stopped for a while... it was consuming a lot of time). Even still I keep trying...

Currently you can't actually delete the list, only disable it. If you delete the list, it will come back the next time you load firefox. I have actually tried this myself and it is very obnoxious.

I was looking on the noscript forums, and I did find this:

On the other hand, I guess I'll have to work overnight to release 1.9.2.5 immediately: it prompts users beforehand (something I announced 10 minutes after 1.9.2.4's release), and also fixes the bug which allows the filterset only to be disabled, rather than removed. That's a genuine bug, but is being nonetheless singled out as a malicious behavior by Wladimir...

While I don't know if I believe this or not, it's at least the way it should have been from the start.

Where is said option. I looked in NoScript and was unable to find it. Maybe I've just had too many tonight though...

... No. No. No. If two keys resolve to the same hash it should chain the key/value pairs together. Take a look at the picture here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Collision_resolution

lolololol

Nice link. I was thinking the same thing when I read the article... and no mention of usenet, or any other cool portions of the net (such as IRC, MUDs, etc).