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That if he had tried a few eyars later he wouldn't have been able to Blazing Saddles.
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i'm pretty sure you will still be able to buy un-modified editions.
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That is true, but these "new" editions are targeted towards schools (education) - which I am not thrilled about because it means our kids are being "protected" by rewritting the past. The article correctly points that out and the proper way to present the material along with open dialog about "then" and "now".
Steve
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such are the times we live in
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The remake to The Dam Busters was held up for ages whilst they tried to work out what to call the dog.
As someone said up above, you can't censor history.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I didn't click on the link yet but I would be interested to know exactly who started all of this...I have my ideas.
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Huck Finn was first banned in 1885.
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This is no different from how some of the early Walt Disney cartoons can never be played on any mainstream TV network today because of the explicit racism on display.
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Context is everything.
And why is Nigger offensive?
If two black men meet and one says "Wassup Nigger" then the word is acceptable.
If the complaint is that it is wrong for a white man to use it then that is racist.
Odd innit!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I like it. Now when people read the books they will think Jim is Irish or Chinese.
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...but I just saw it and I think it was terrible 
Gawker Hack Release Notes
Per the little sister rule I can't describe how I think they left these guys website...just remeber an image of some episode of L&O: SVU
Problem is, god knows how many sites store passwords as plain text, and IIRC, DES encryption was used for some things (not user authentification at least) at my last employer systems...
Dear hamsters, you don't do this type of storage do you?
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Rosendo Lopez wrote: Dear hamsters, you don't do this type of storage do you?
Well, CP offers an "email your password if you forget it" option, so the actual password, not just a hash, must be stored somewhere. Encrypted we hope, but still stored in a retrievable form.
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It's encrypted. I know Maunder talked about making retrieval a user togglable setting at one point (if no only a hash would be stored); but don't know if it was implemented.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Exactly where I got it!
BTW, the xkcd cartoon is just too good 
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Rosendo Lopez wrote: Exactly where I got it!
Yeah, I saw that your URL was from Coding Horror... just decided to post the link to the main article for everybody else. 
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We're about to release an update to an asp.net web application. We always wait to release until all the 3rd party control library vendors have published their final update releases of the year. This way we get the most stable versions of the controls.
Telerik and DevExpress are big ones that we use, Telerik heavily and DevExpress not so much but oddly neither has full support for IE9 yet, in fact it could be said they have very little support for IE9 and are both evasive about it and when it's coming. This is contrary to how both of them normally operate, normally, they are all over any new technology and out of the gate have support as early as possible.
I suspect this has something to do with the poor economy right now, both are waiting as late as possible to provide support so that people are forced to buy their latest version rather than getting the benefit in the previous version. It's a new window of opportunity for them because they know everyone will need ie9 support and if they just wait a few months they get to put IE9 support in the first major update of the new year and charge a full upgrade to people who have no subscription or have let it lapse.
Microsoft should be kicking their asses any way they can to have early support as possible, it's in their best interest.
Timing sucks for us, we're subscribers so we have the new updates anyway but we're loath to install a new major release of components because they're are inevitably dozens of bugs in the initial release and we can't subject our customers to that, on the other hand we've had to force ie8 compatibility mode using a meta tag in all our pages to work with ie9 fully. Kind of a rock and a hard place.
No one will probably notice anyway.
There is no failure only feedback
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I can sort of understand the control manufactures reluctance. IE9 is a big change, and it's still in beta. Releasing official support for a beta product can lead to a lot of support problems, since when the beta changes, and then breaks your released product, you now have a lot of customer shouting at you, since your product now doesn't work.
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Except they have a long history of supporting new beta technology with a disclaimer that everyone accepts. It's their job to be on the cutting edge because they have to lead the end user developer by months in order for the system to all work.
There is no failure only feedback
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What exactly do you mean by supporting IE9? Make use of HTML5 features or just run on IE9?
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Just run on IE9, stuff that works in IE8 doesn't work in IE9, basic stuff.
There is no failure only feedback
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Then I think, it is a pretty premature to do that as IE9 has lot of bugs/issues. There are lot of things which are broken in IE9 right now which probably will be resolved by the time of RC. In the ideal case, what is already done to support FireFox and Chrome should work in IE9. But of course, it is not as simple as that.
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Huh, I had no idea, I thought it was getting pretty much to the done stage lately. Quite a number of people are using it as their main daily browser without issue.
If it's that buggy then I can understand completely.
There is no failure only feedback
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They had one beta, and have since gone back and done two platform previews. Early last year they were talking about releasing at the end of 2010, early 2011. I think it will still be a while as this is a major re-write.
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Latest rumour is a release candidate by the end of January.
There is no failure only feedback
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