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What is obvious is that "Adi Shamir" is a name of someone living in a country dominated by Islam, and further that person is known to work in cryptography, so h
by informatimago 13y ago
What is obvious is that "Adi Shamir" is a name of someone living in a country dominated by Islam, and further that person is known to work in cryptography, so he is obviously a terrorist trying to send secret orders to other terrorists. In any case, he's a PITA for the NSA and other good guys like that. What they should have done, is to give him a visa, and redirect his flight direct to Guantanamo for further interrogation.</sarcasm level=big>
A tad more seriously: it's because of all those scientists of all the ages, that they have this situation where mere peasants can travel all around the globe, and make bombs or pilot planes into buildings. In the good old time, if a peasant tried to escape, he was eaten by the wolfs in the hoods, or killed by the highwaymen, so they stayed put, and the most they could try to do was to bump the armor of the lord with their wooden forks.
So it seems only natural to try to restrict them like that (perhaps it's a little too late).
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agoTwo things, first off attributes are rarely placed on closing tags, and secondly you forgot to enclose the value in quotes as in level="big"
- sluukkonen 13y agoQuoting attributes is optional in HTML (though recommended).
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agoOnly in old depreciated versions or with the quirks mode enabled.
- jessaustin 13y agohttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#unquoted http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agohttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html#h-4.4 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html#h-4.4
- jessaustin 13y agoOh I get it. You think XHMTL is the new hotness and HTML5 is the "old depreciated version". I guess I would have suspected that if I was browsing with cutting-edge IE6 instead of this crappy old Chrome 29.
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agoSomething can be both XHTML and HTML5. They're compatible. But, yes, all websites written today should be compatible with both. Writing to the quirks in the HTML format just make people look incompetent (particularly as no quotes means certain characters cannot be used in the value, which is a nice bug waiting to happen). So by all means keep writing your low quality quirky HTML and when it breaks in the future don't come crying to me. I prefer keeping my HTML both well formed and XML valid. The fact that writing strict HTMLs makes it much easier to automatically detect errors and typographic issues is just a huge bonus.
- Stratoscope 13y agoThe comment you replied to has no DOCTYPE. Therefore it is not XHTML. It's not even HTML. It's quite obviously just an HN comment and not subject to the syntax rules of of XHTML or HTML. So, your complaints about the tag formatting are unfounded.
- UnoriginalGuy 13y agoThe comment I replied to wasn't any valid format at all. What makes you think my reply wasn't in jest? Because it obviously was. People just want to nitpick my obviously humorous reply (which is actually fine up to a point as my humour was nitpicking so getting nitpicky about the nitpicking is valid too). You are taking this far far too seriously.
- WizzleKake 13y agoWat. He's from Israel. ...
- thebooktocome 13y agoAs if border control cares.
- axyjo 13y agoHence the (incorrect) sarcasm tag.