There's a decent explanation on Wikipedia here and here. Like the previous posters have said, it's to prevent malicious programs impersonating the login window and stealing users' passwords - seeing the window respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del proves that it's the real one, because no other program can detect that key combination.
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RE: Control-alt-delete to log in
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RE: Forum.www wtf
Here's another infinitely-redirecting page I found once. If you go to http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0602/00166AD.PDF in Firefox, it keeps on adding /iis/misc to the middle of the URL until you end up with something like http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0602/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/iis/misc/default.asp. IE just gives a 404 straight away, though.
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RE: Javascript Date wtf
@Brendan Kidwell said:
I can't back it up right now, but I'll bet that decision was copied exactly from some other language design or API. (STL? Java?)
It looks like it's been done that way at least since the C standard library was written (see here). It does seem counter-intuitive to me, though, that <font size="2">newDate.setFullYear(2008,1,14) sets the date to 2008-02-14, when it looks like it's setting it to 2008-01-14. Java does it the same way, but at least one language - Python - numbers them 1 to 12 instead (note the sentence directly after the first table).</font>