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Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE

Posted by timothy on from the and-while-you're-at-it-mull-over-your-OS dept.

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."

18 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. About time by eneville · · Score: 5, Funny

    The students finally get an education.

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    1. Re:About time by sketerpot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Therefore you try to be different in a different way. I suggest coming up with clever ways of making fun of other people's rebellion attempts. I saw, written on an old desk, the phrase "Your posessions own you". Right beneath it was something written by someone else who pointed out that if your posessions own you, that makes you their posession, therefore you own them, therefore DAMN RECURSIVE [stack overflow].

    2. Re:About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think your pretty arrogant

      "you're".

  2. In Other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Penn state students tell college to ditch Joe Paterno

    1. Re:In Other news... by zomper514 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wait you can't like computers and football at the same time.

    2. Re:In Other news... by Sj0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn right! You have to like a real mans man sport like beating the crap out of people!

      Why, oh why, aren't there more nerds with an appreciation for both intellectual pursuits, and the fine art of kicking the crap out of someone? WHYYYYY?!

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  3. Re:Any guesses what Microsoft's response will be? by eneville · · Score: 2, Funny

    > 1) They'll pretend it didn't happen

    2) ...

    3) Profit

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  4. Go, Lions!!! by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 3, Funny
    I say Joe Pa, you say 'terno!
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    I say M.O., you say 'zilla!
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    (pause)

    MOZILLA!!!

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  5. Re:Any guesses what Microsoft's response will be? by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Others...?

    6) They'll cut the price.

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  6. Re:Any guesses what Microsoft's response will be? by penguinoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    6) Improve Internet Explorer so that it is better and more secure than Firefox.

    Well, its possible... right?

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  7. Re:He's not all that smart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay, dumbwad, how many times do we have to explain this to you? IT IS = IT'S; IT possessive = IT'S.

    so close and yet so far...

  8. Re:Brown's been saying this and acting on it by Adam9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our IT Services Support Desk uses Firefox as one of the last steps in our browser troubleshooting.

    The interesting thing is that I have had several people call us this semester asking how to uninstall Internet Explorer. I usually give them a quick rant. Today, I told someone asking me the same question to go watch Antitrust.

  9. Re:I actually took it to the boardroom by dq5+studios · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, making students take a class to teach them something at a university is thinking outside the box? jeez, and I thought the college I went to was bad.

  10. i wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that my college would do the same, that way people would stop knocking on my door asking to fix their computer.

  11. But if they do that... by halcyon1234 · · Score: 2, Funny
    CS students won't be able to earn extra money cleaning their dorm-mates' computers! And then how will they purchase b33r?!?

    Oh what a bleak, sober, secure future it will be!

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  12. Re:Funny, I got my account disabled for using Fire by bleakcabal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where I work this is how the network admin fixes problems on his windows boxes. 1.Reboot. 2.Reboot again. 3.Wait. 4.Reboot again. 5.Fiddle around some windows clicking on various things. 6.Wait. 7.Reboot. Ask him what's the problem is : "I don't know." Anyway after X amount of time it's fixed no one knows how it was fixed, what it was or to prevent it again...

  13. Re:This is a touch off-topic, but... by some+guy+I+know · · Score: 2, Funny
    I just paid Microsoft for an operating system that I am going to wipe out as soon as I open the shipping box. [...] It's not so much about the money as who ends up with it. The company from which I purchased my new system is Gateway, BTW.
    It's your own fault for buying a major name brand.
    People should not buy Gateway, or Dell, or HP, or whatever.
    I bought my logo-chiseled-off-with-a-blunt-screwdriver laptop from Fell-Off-a-Truck, Inc. (their Back-of-a-Van-in-the-Safeway-Parking-Lot branch), and I'm pretty sure that Microsoft didn't get a penny of my money, even though the laptop came with MS-Windows XP (Ukranian version) pre-installed (along with a file containing thousands of credit card numbers, a directory named "CIA Dirty Tricks", and lots and lots of porn).
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  14. Compensation for putting up with Stark admin by MegaThawt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes but ... there are some compensating features at Stark State campus ... when I went to their website I checked the Campus Building Map and noted the cool Fire Science training tower (Fire Science apparently gets two dedicated parking lots) and a nifty Diebold Incorporated Advanced Technology Center.

    I want to find out how to incinerate paper backup copies of electronic voting.

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