I remember logins being introduced. It's pure chance that I posted a comment early enough to get in the four digit range. And yes, mine is prime :-)

Happy birthday! God, has it really been that long? No wonder I'm old :-/

And you say this on the site "Slashdot: News for Nerds"?

Paper tape had its uses: it came in a variety of colours. When I was 14 I decorated my bedroom with streamers for Christmas using nothing more than early versions of my programs for matrix multiplication and plotting ASCII graphs on a Teletype :-)

The first computer I used was a PDP 8/e. As a result, I think that if you don't know enough about computers to enter the bootstrap in binary using the toggle switches on the front, set the program counter to the start, and hit the RUN switch to start the computer loading the language interpreter from the high-speed punched tape reader, you probably don't know enough about computers to learn how to code.

What's surprising is that so many people think their secrets are worth protecting. Seriously, folks, you are almost certainly not interesting to anybody but your mother, and possibly not that much to her.

I refer you to my comment in reply to a post expressing similar thoughts further up in the thread. No point repeating myself, not even on /. ;-)

If you knew anything about this story, which has been running since 2006, you'd know that it isn't about the actions of one individual; it's about a culture of using illegal techniques to obtain access to private information that has been rife at the News of the World (NotW) for years.

Rebekah Brooks, editor of the NotW at the time Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked, accidentally admitted to a House of Commons committee a few years ago that the paper bribed police officers for information, though she later claimed that she didn't know the details of specific instances. As knowing the specifics would have left her open to prosecution, we can form an opinion of the merits of her claims of ignorance of what those she employed and directly supervised were doing on a regular basis.

Two people, one a NotW editor and the other a private investigator employed by the NotW, have served prison sentences for hacking the voicemail messages of members of the royal household.

The voicemail messages of senior politicians, including the former Deputy Prime Minister, and of senior military officers have been hacked, and this has been admitted by News International.

So far, News International has paid out more than £2million in out-of-court settlements, and it is believed they may have to pay as much as £40million to deal with all the claims against them by individuals whose privacy has been invaded.

This isn't the actions of one individual: it is a corporate policy of deliberate illegality for the sake of profit.

At least we have the guts to put our names to it when we say: Fuck you, troll.

The chunked transfer encoding referred to in the book is not the same as progressive browser rendering, which is what you are referring to. Nor is either one dependent on the other.

Unfortunately, IE sends an Accept header which doesn't include text/html but does include */*, thereby ruling out content negotiation in the case of text/html versus application/xhtml+xml.

The IE click effect on TFA is a side-effect of the demo, not of the fundamental technique. If the original page markup includes a hidden iframe containing all the links of interest there will be no reloading and no click. It would look as if the page is taking a long time to finish loading because of the size of the iframe contents for any usefully large set of links, but a lot of sites seem to get that effect just by using Google Analytics, so the average user wouldn't notice any difference ;-)

What about archive.org?

Ah, apparently not... :-D