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Or even "I want to access the client's printer using Visual Basic" which I've seen a couple of times. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 that's event worst!
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: that's event worst!
Well, VB is event-driven.
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You're lucky they were so specific, I've had, "I want to access the local network from a script."
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Always makes me laugh when they use a MessageBox and wonder why the user can't read it. "It worked fine on my machine" ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm with you on this one.. if your customer(s) wants the latest and greatest visual features, they're really going to need JS switched on.
Otherwise they're back in the world of server generated pages with postbacks, or even static pages - but there are still cases when either of these solutions are the most suitable, but I'd say they're in the minority these days.
I've never, ever switched javascript off in any browser except to test customer's sites with javascript switched off (because it's been in the requirements).
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Every site I visit I have Javascript disabled by default. If I decide I trust the site, then I click on "NoScript" and allow Javascript to run.
Honestly I thought that was typical of most internet users.
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There's a couple of points here - for web APPLICATIONS (think LOB), then I think it's legitimate to request JS being switched on. HOWEVER, I also tend to subscribe to the "make it work then add the jazz with JS" school of thought. i.e. don't use JS for core functionality, always provide a fallback.
For public web SITES however, I really do think JS should be kept to a minimum. I have it switched off for most of my browsers, and have no intention of switching it back on any time soon. For those sites that don't function correctly / at all without JS, I have the opinion that there are plenty of other places to look for the info I need ....
Blame the ad industry / malware / bad JS coding.
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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Vunic wrote: I'm not even sure if we have an option to turn off JS in today's browsers like Chrome?
What they should have is a "Turned off by javascript?" checkbox.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's also the issue of clients (business users) running their browser with script debugging enabled...then calling and asking the stupid question 'What should I do?' when prompted whether or not they want to debug the webpage. I have (on more than one occasion) sarcastically replied that they should click 'Yes' to debug the webpage.  Of course, the goal being to avoid such calls to begin with, I now make sure that such messages never appear in my web apps. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It's not a new language - it's a set of extensions for Java that adds pointers.
This space for rent
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Yes, it got renamed C#...
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As Nagy pointed out in his comments below, things got a little bit wet this weekend, especially this afternoon.
The first of the winter rain was forecast this weekend and on Friday, it teased with a sprinkling, Saturday was a downpour and today it was a mental short sharp downpour, the worst I have seen since moving here. Some parts of the city were under several feet of water, and for a country that is not geared up for rain, the lack of street drainage is very noticeable.
The kids thought this was ace with "I'm so glad we don't have drains!".....until I reminded them how much cat pee and poop is probably in the water. 
Anyway, I put some pics from around the compound and its new canals and some videos on my blog:
Qatar is Calling: And so the rains came![^]
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In other news, Qatar has joined OWEC (the Organisation of Water Exporting Countries). 
I hope you and your house came through OK.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hi, Dave,
I have a burning desire to know how camels act in heavy rain: do they dance in ecstasy, run amoc from terror, attack automobiles, people, and.or, other camels, fall asleep, make strange sounds, get horny ... or, is it just "ho hum ... weather ?"
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I imagine they absorb so much water that they bloat up and become so heavy they can't stand.
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I'm not sure about camels, but would suspect they move to higher ground or swim. The tortoise in our garden that came with the villa moved to higher ground then dug a hole which seems a bit counter intuitive.
The people on the other hand go into a mad frenzy. Normal cars tend to slow to a crawl, the big 4x4s driven by those in white don't appear to change, but a majority become obsessed with putting on their hazard lights so you now have no idea of their intentions, not that we had much before anyway!
Then we have the wtf crowd, those that clearly don't appear to possess any grey matter and end up being rescued from underpasses on cranes.
Sadly one of the rescue centres for animals, was particularly hit bad, with water several feet deep flooding the facility drowning animals and wiping out all their supplies and facilities.
I suppose when you get so little rain throughout the year, and spend most of the time being baked, the relief it brings comes with side effects!
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BillWoodruff wrote: attack automobiles, people, and.or, other camels,
This is, for a camel, normal behaviour. As a species their base state of being is outright malicious bastard with a side order of vindictive malcontent. They understand only two things - a pointed stick and two bricks.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: two bricks
ouch (Garth winces) - I actually know that joke
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My esteemed Magyar colleague, Nagy,
Please say more about you, or your ancestors, experiences with camels. [^], [^]
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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F-secure blocked suspicious site. 
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Did I see a post somewhere about some new security something or other on CP?
Been using JSOPs CPAM for years and since I returned from the woods this week it won't get past "validating user ID". WTF?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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If he's using the WebClient class I've had this with other apps doing site scraping.
It seems some newer certificates need to be "notified" to the system. Just add:
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072; Before you construct the WebClient instance:
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072;
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string html = wc.DownloadString(url); If you are configured for .NET 4.5 or above, you can use
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
If you don't specify it, you will get an exception:
The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel
[edit]Minor typos[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 27-Nov-16 12:03pm.
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Thanks OG! Thought I had seen some buzz about security but nothing specific...that I can remember. (That CRS thing)
Haven't had to do anything to it in a long time so I don't remember what he uses to scrape. In the past it's typically been a layout problem and fairly straight forward.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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