http://www.cocomment.com/comments/ChrisW Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-24T02:39:34.985+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=ChrisW&conv=555132&comment_id=10506266 Chris Wuestefeld Your point is well taken, but I think you're being a bit TOO harsh. There really are plenty of instances where the user's machine, or something else in the environment, causes obscure differences that couldn't be legitimately foreseen. It seems like every month or so around my work, we get a customer that can't use our website properly because some non-standard router along the way is illegally breaking up packets or something. The lengths we have to go to account for oddities that are outside of the pale is remarkable. Which isn't to say that this can't be used as a copout. 2007-03-16T13:43:30.295+01:00 2007-03-16T13:43:30.295+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=ChrisW&conv=378142&comment_id=5418251 Chris Wuestefeld I know it's the cliche, but how much bullying actually entails the stealing of lunch money? AFAIK, this *never* happened in my school. Bullying certainly did occur (as I can attest first hand), but it was entirely a matter of harassment, not theft. So in my case, this effort would certainly not have solved the problem. But as noted above, it creates an opportunity for a denial of service attack, a new means of harassing other students. 2007-01-04T17:44:07.660+01:00 2007-01-04T17:44:07.660+01:00