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Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE
Hoyceman writes "About 80,000 students and staff are being told to use an alternate browser. The Penn State ITS department sent the alert 'because the threats are real and alternatives exist to mitigate Web browser vulnerabilities.' InformationWeek is carrying the story."
especially if they run proxies.
So what if they do?
What would running a Proxy have to do with what browser they use? If anything, having web pages (or parts there of) thrown at the machine at 100mBits/sec would be damn fast no matter what browser the client is using.
Oh, "proxy". Right. You probably have no idea what you're talking about... sorry...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
the university where im at, the lecturer on our web authoring course encourages us to " get a life " if we like windows, or internet explorer.
Problem is, hes a mac fan and encourages us to get one of those instead.
cant have it all i suppose
So now that they hold your opinion, they are no longer inept? Maybe it's your opinion that changed to inept, did you ever think of that? Since you clearly have such a high degree of regard for your intellect (which is interesting since you apparently attended Penn State), you much have a good job? Tell me sir, what is it that you do?
In a word, yes.
IE on the Mac is a horrid, horrid abomination of a browser. The only worse browser features-wise is Opera.
IE for the Mac has several outstanding security issues (sorry, but I don't have current links) that will never be resolved because Microsoft has terminated development of IE. Good riddance, I say. It wasn't EVER a competitive browser on OS X, and it's hardly competitive on OS 9.
To answer your other question, well, yeah, Mac IE is less dangerous that Win IE because of its lower level of OS integration, but they're both still pretty crappy browsers compared to what else is out there.
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In Korea, long hair is for old people!
What the hell sort of pussy college are YOU going to?
All I can see is a soul crushing workload, at least the same amount of homework as you have class; probably more if you're not 100% effective, and saying to your buddies "sorry, I can't go out drinking tonight, I have to finish these EE questions".
Rebellion? Who has the time?
It's been a long time.
He probably got into college thanks to social promotion and the "befriend a stupid kid" day.
More gems from his journal include:
Okay, dumbwad, how many times do we have to explain this to you? IT IS = IT'S; IT possessive = IT'S. This isn't one of your Calc 101 classes where you can snooze through and turn in most of the homework just to "earn" your C-. The reason why Profs have to dumb down classes is because punks like you never learned how to think, and holding students like you to actual standards would cut off the university's cash flow.
This isn't that friggin hard, but then again, you're an EE major, right? Hahahahaha.