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IE More Secure Than Mozilla?
killproc writes "Symantec has issued a report that suggests that Internet Explorer may be more secure than the open source Mozilla Foundation browsers. "According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified as high severity.
"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," the report noted." "
if you don't use it.
Microsoft found a great way to make their browser more secure than the competition. They pay their staff to contribute code to Mozilla!
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
I think it's going to be called "dupeware" :P
These are all a bunch of horrible horrible lies of course. There is no way that Mozilla is worse than IE in any aspect.
All of those bugs reported last year for IE were well founded, with serious implications that needed to be released to the public for THEIR OWN SAFETY!
Obviously these Mozilla bugs reported this year are miniscule at best, and it does the community a great disservice to release any information about them!
Gates is the devil! Impeach Bush! Katrina is a direct result of WalMart cutting lunches! And Starbucks is lacing their coffee with microscopic beta nanomachines, built to track and report our intake of caffeinated beverages!
How to respond to bad Mozilla security news on /.
1.) First, immediately dismiss the results, just like you did in the last Mozilla security story. Mozilla is flawless.
2.) Randomly reference Open Source, claiming the flaws were easier to find because of it, which has nothing to do with the report in the article and actually sounds like a criticism of Open Source, if anything.
3.) Accuse the study of bias or "shilling." ALWAYS do this when the study goes against your pre-made worldview (in this case, Mozilla being flawless). When the study gives the opposite conclusion, agree with it and praise it, often with related anecdotal stories.
4.) Reference Internet Explorer's age, which has little to do with and doesn't change Mozilla having more flaws than Internet Explorer today.
5.) Ask how quickly the Mozilla vulnerabilities were patched, ignoring that Mozilla has marked vulnerabilities "Confidential" before for them to sit for two years unfixed.
6.) Claim Internet Explorer is integral to the OS, when you argued that Internet Explorer was easily removed from Windows during the anti-trust trial.
7.) Claim matter-of-factly that, for some reason, it "goes without saying" that the study uses some sort of flawed logic, without citing the logic, giving proof, or backing the statements in any way. Simply claim it, knowing everyone will mod you up because they, too, want to believe Mozilla is flawless.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Never had any issues beyond the login guy
;-)
There is a guy doing the login? Which century do we live in already ???
Write boring code, not shiny code!
How to be a Slashdot troll like Overly Critical Guy
1.) Always make a list of bogus claims, lies, and half-truths that tries to tie a particular point of view to everyone who reads Slashdot.
2.) Be sure to have a holier-than-thou attitude, and act like you speak from authority when you don't have the slightest clue as to what you're talking about.
3.) Make sure that your list is long. Long lists == +1 Insightful!
4.) Always use the following words: groupthink, hive mind, college student, hypocritical, zealots. Make sure that you combine them in such a way as to make them perjorative terms.
5.) Did I mention that you should make sure that your list is long? This is very important, since lots of words makes you sound like you know what you're talking about.
6.) Repetition and circular arguments, straw men and other logical fallicies are key. Nobody will bother to check up on them, and most everybody else doesn't care.
7.) Mod yourself up from other accounts. Be sure that your zombie account farm has plenty of mod points so that you can mod yourself up as +Insightful or +Interesting, ensuring that other moderators who haven't bothered to read the post or do any fact checking will mod it up by assuming that the upmod is a correct one.
8.) Did I mention long lists are very important? Restating points that you already made is very important, since it makes your puny, worthless argument look like it has any meat on it.
9.) Repeat it over and over again, ad naseum, to every story that is even tangentially related to the point at hand. Repeat, then repeat again. If you're downmodded in one story, some lazy moderator will eventually toss you mod points.
googleBrowser development has temporarily stalled because they're having a bit of difficulty working out how to make it a web delivered app.
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Sung to the tune of "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke...
As far as I can tell the print preview suggests that once printed I can move the image around using the scrollbars or using the scroll wheel.... Only problem to solve now is how to plug my mouse into the paper!
You need a bluetooth mouse and bluetooth paper. It works fine for the regular mouse functions, but I couldn't get the scroll wheel to work.