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• Dude, when I heard "racehorse taped to a scud" I thought of massive drag on an over-loaded projectile that has a reputation for being horribly slow and inaccurate. Since one of Droid's big audiences is the iPhone-and-iTunes-hating geek world, you'd think they'd make something of an effort to keep things like that relatively non-stupid.
  
  Then there's the has-been-copycat-get-your-own-idea factor... the thing is, it reminds me too much of Comcast's "rabbit-panther-thingie wearing turbines on ice skates" commercial, Apple's own commercials and a Budweiser commercial to have much impact. I come away feeling like I have just participated in a Wanna-Be Festival, hosted by people with an ax to grind but lacking the creativity to formulate their own advertisements.
  
  As for Droid-vs-iPhone, I'd love it if my iPhone were faster, but between the App Store, iTunes, my iPhone and my Mac Mini, I have a complete end-to-end system that really does make my life easier, which is 90% of the allure in the first place. Not to mention the fact that every Motorola phone I have ever owned sucked out loud. Google's OS/UI may improve things a bit, but I still trust Moto to make pure crap when it comes to mobile phones... they really should stick to set-top boxes and the like. In reply to: "New Droid ad: iPhone is 'digitally clueless'"

  December 4, 2009

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• c|net's declan publishes using 30-year cookies
  In today's news, Declan McCullagh's articles have been found to place J2EE cookies, the same type used by Adobe's popular ColdFusion development platform. It was also discovered that Declan's articles set cookies that have expiration dates of up to 30 years in the future. Declan's comments on the subject seem to prove his ignorance of any relevant topics and came off as ludicrous and purile.
  
  Declan even went so far as to invoke ColdFusion team members in an attempt to give his position a bit of credibility, but even that failed... leaving him high and dry as the truth came out. In the end, it was discovered that his very own articles left cookies (some of which actually DID store data) on the computer that were found to have the following expiration dates:
  
  Nov 10, 2006
  session
  Feb 8, 2006
  session
  Jan 8, 2006
  session
  Dec 10, 2037
  session
  session
  session
  April 10, 2006
  Dec 31, 2009
  Dec 31, 2009
  Dec 10, 2037
  
  Look! 31 years in the future... but when the servers in question will cease to recognize them as valid is an entirely different question.

  January 7, 2006

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• Sounds clever, but it's bogus
  Donot (is that Scandanavian?),
  
  The default setting on the CF server is to timeout sessions after 20 minutes. That means that even if the cookie sits on your hard drive for 30 years, the server will generate a new, valid one if you're off the site for 20 minutes. For that matter, if you leave the browser SITTING OPEN and untouched for the life of the timeout, your cookie will become invalid.
  
  What is to be gained by all this high-sounding pedantism when there's no real understanding of how these things work? You were wrong, and Declan is a twit. That's pretty much the end of it.

  January 7, 2006

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