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Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx
Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Which one is THE April Fools story?
And I've actually used Lynx on eComstation! OS/2 is the true 3l33t h4x0r OS!
Mod me up!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Yet another april fool? If that is the case, this one, like most others, is terrible.
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Cruise TT
Take that you GUI loving pansies!
What? poniez too?
Freakin' awesome. Must be my lucky day.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
Now they just need to replace their backup systems with paper tape and punch cards for security reasons. After all, it's so much harder to steal a few cubic miles of solidified wood pulp than a cargo container.
--- Mr. DOS
That's really funny guys.
I am always amazed by the amount of wonderful news items, each of which seem to stretch credulity, that appear every year around this time. I wonder if researchers have ever looked into a cause for this...
-=Bang Bang=-
Yet another failed troll, today's stories are far from humorous.
Why not make a story about the churches of Scientology and Pastafarianism merging? That would be much more interesting.
Fun.
Actually, I don't think they did it last year.
And by the way, it actually is funny. Dilute the loc-tite gripping your butthole shut and enjoy yourself WITHOUT the use of alcohol for once!
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For a text-based browser, you have to know how to read, for God's sake.
Lighten up Francis....it's just one day a year that we get crap like this. Enjoy the creativity until the Evil Bit comes for you!
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I have long awaited the return of fixed width fonts.
You laugh, but I tried to access my accounts using elinks. Alas, the asshats who code for my bank can barely code a site that works with Opera.
Caveat Utilitor
...is getting past the captcha.
Makes me want to delete my web browser.
Netcraft also confirmed today that Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, AmigaOS, vi, emacs, and that super-secret OS no one's ever heard of outside the NSA are all dying.
Not flamebait, you retarded sea cow, TROLL.
Sheesh, what the hell is wrong with you!?!? :p
(Let's do it, +5 flamebait!)
Sent from your iPad.
If you want to make a good, truly funny April's Fool joke, you should have a very minimum of talent/inspiration, which the Slashdot editors don't.
You will notice that on Slashdot, on the 1st of April, there isn't one hidden joke-story submission, but that they are all or almost all such. This makes ALL of them un-funny. There's not "ha, you got me!" or "OK, that was actually a creative one." - there's nothing. It only really makes Slashdot look utterly, pitifully pathetic.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Hey, *I* am a retarded sea cow, you insensitive clod!
Lynx went out a long time ago. Links/ELinks and friends are much better text browsers.
Maybe now we'll see "Intertext Explorer", Microsoft's response to the resurgence in text-based browsers. Of course, it still won't render PNGs correctly.
And I *am* an insensitive clod! You retarded sea cow!
Nothing beats old school! Zero problems whatsoever, system has a failsafe - it simply chokes and kicks out GuruMeditation error screen any time any script of Flash tries to run. Been virus free since the SCA virus in 1987!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Yeah! I thought it was pretty damn funny too. I think it's kind of cool being 'blase' here in /.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Is it possible, a post worse than this article?
It's not funny, and it's not a good April Fool; they're supposed to be at least part-way believable. If no-one falls for it, where is the fooling?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Really... I have a VT100 terminal emulation program (MS-Kermit) running on a laptop which I use to connect up to the serial console on my VAX running OpenBSD. Yes, I use Lynx to surf the web.
I'll be really upset if this is an April Fools story.
Karma: Excellent. 15 moderator points expire sometime.
So far this is my fav today.
Side question, does lynx or some other text web browser render images as ascii?
0- Eamonman Proud member of DNRC
Just wait until they hear that there's a browser with the security and speed of Lynx, and the install base of IE! (but without the speed and security of lynx)
Microsoft bought Google today. Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "yo face son!" while manipulating his hands into what appeared be an "M". No comment yet from Google regarding this hostile takeover.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
In related news, Microsoft has announced that they will begin retroactively replacing Outlook Express with Pine. Expect some temporal distortion in your area.
I don't know about you, but my servers run on the power of cotton candy and happy thoughts. -Anonymous Coward
"at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox"
See, that's where it really went off the plausibility deep end. A good April Fool's joke can't be so obvious. It requires a touch of subtlety.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
But this one is one of the more believable ones over the past few years. The instant I realized that it was a hoax, I was saddened, because it actually would be be a decent idea if fleshed out a bit.
Mom?
I miss the old days when the web was all text, and if you wanted to see an image you downloaded it and opened it in a separate image viewing app. At least then you knew that web authors (for such they were in those days) were at least trying to focus on content. But alas, the days of content are long gone.
Death looks every man in the face. All any man can do is look back and smile. - Marcus Aurelius
Didn't some guy get arrested by the FBI after using Lynx to make a charitable donation online a couple years ago? They figured he must have been hacking their site after reviewing the server logs and seeing something other than a Microsoft browser.
Well, if it was links and not lynx, I'd be first to switch!
ok fine, you caught me. still tho, lynx really isn't a bad browser, why you have to make-a the fun?
Doesn't everyone use lynx to do banking? I know, you think it's bloated with all the fancy-schmancy text rendering it does, but really it is quite the sensible choice. I am waiting for the multi-touch version for the iPhone.
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
I wish they were all text based browers. All those damn pics are clogging the interweb tubes. And never mind the movies, that just makes all the magic gnomes backs hurt carrying those to all corners of the world in the tiny tubes.
I like April fools stories, but this one is so bad its not even plausible.
PS Subject line was made up to increase the level of flamability. Did it work? Thats what I thought.
This entire thread is simply freakin' brilliant! Mod ALL these guys up!
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Netcraft is dead, BSD confirms it.
It's "CLUI" for Command-Line User Interface.
"CUI" is "Curses User Interface", fsckface.
slashdottagsshorterthanhaikunewartform
Real web users use netcat. Suck it.
Get free bitcoins: http://freebitco.in
Unfortunately I just tried to log in to my bank account via lynx, and it just silently brings me back to the top of the page whenever I try to put in my username.
Ah well.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
I mean what "competition" excludes the most secure browser (Opera), and then proclaims Google Chrome the winner.
Retards...
I tried it in the past with my credit union (Navy Federal Credit union) and it worked. I just tried again now and it still works. It is not as easy as a gui browser but it does work and I can view and manipulate my accounts and balances with no problems. I did not try the checkfree bill paying section or to apply for a loan though.
You must be new here.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Khan, or Ming-g-g-g, teh merciless?
I votes Ming, way cool 'stache and no phony plastic chest muscles
But has Netcraft confirmed it? ...oh, wait, nevermind.
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I've been seeing this pattern for years now! I use lynx for everything! Even youtube!
The game.
An excellent idea. And here's an idea to expand on that: Make them all +5, Off-topic. I just wanna see that kind of mod happen. :)
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
Hello! :)
I've got to take a shit. I'll brb, k?
I hope that Chase doesn't change that on me.
Though I normally, just use it on my phone, it's quite nice having access to my accounts from any browser.
Daniel
it's a real shame my bank only downloads account info to Quicken or MS Excel
I especially can't trust these two companies, based on their unethical behavior
I just tried it with my Chase account on lynx and it doesn't work. How am I supposed to do my banking and be cool at the same time? Somebody help!
The power of Jesus compels you! The power of Jesus compels you! The power of Jesus compels you!
Pretty please?
The power of Xenu compels you! The power of Xenu compels you! The power of Xenu compels you!
Okay, maybe not?
Impersonating Tycho from Penny Arcade since before there was a PA.
I think he's shooting for an achievement for -5 troll... just a guess, you know with the title and all.
In a vaguely related manner, does it still count as a april fools story if it's a story linking to a april fools story on another site? We're at one level of indirection here.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
I have actually found some uses for text based web browsing.
By far the best thing I have found is with my iPhone. I setup rtorrent to watch a directory in my home folder. Then I can use my iPhone to ssh into my home server, browse to btjunkie or piratebay, save the .torrent into the watch directory and away it goes. I usually do it on my way home on the bus, so I can have those "linux distros" downloaded by the time I get home.
Please reply if you have tricks like this of your own! I've just switched to linux full time a few months ago and am always looking for new stuff to try.
This is from last week.
We have a bunch of linux boxes in the lab, for automated testing stuff. One of my coworkers, with a masters' degree in electrical engineering, was setting up a test system and I being the resident expert on writing the ATE programs, went back to help him. All we had was a crummy old 13" monitor, but that's fine: it'll save space. Unfortunately that resolution isn't handled gracefully by the system, so xwindows wouldn't start. That's fine: I do all my work from the shell anyway. It's all scripting. So I'm trying to get this monster HP power supply to turn on, and it won't do a thing; it must have a different GPIB command. So I fired up lynx and went to google to find out what.
My coworker is all "what's *that*?"
I blinked and said "lynx."
"You can look at google text-only?"
"Well, yeah..."
"WHY? Why would anyone make a text-only browser? What's the point of THAT?"
I pointed at the screen, where a kindly webpage had a nice text summary of GPIB commands that showed me how to set the power supply output voltage and turn it on.
He said something like "yeah, but..." and then shut up.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
something deep down is telling me that this is an april fool's joke.
anyone?
rm -rf
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You can't handle the truth.
Speak for yourself. I'm just a regular sea cow.
I've been waiting all summer fer Round 2.
I actually use LYNX to access my bank accounts!
I'm reminded of of all the posts I see on antispam mailing lists about how email should only allow plain text, and should block HTML mail and attachments because they make it too easy for exploits/social engineering/bypassing filters/etc.
Why is this +5 funny and the other -1 troll? If Xenu is funny Jesus should be as funny. Or do mods here actually believe in God and Jesus? I'm probably headed for offtopic/troll/flamebait but I would still like a discussion on this.
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YAY! got it;)
"DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it's a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."-C.Doctorow
The plausibility ended when they mentioned lynx.
This is less believable than Google's internet-over-toilet April Fools joke... I want 5 minutes of my life back please.
Bow before me, for I am root.
...with a double bravo to Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx, which cause a genuine choking-on-my-Mountain-Dew fit of giggles.
Some of you already have those cute little shirts on that say disco sucks, right? That's not all that sucks.-Frank Zappa
Now we can wait for all of the similar trolls to be rewritten according to this story.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
One look at the pie chart and it's obvious (as if it wasn't already) that this is an April Fool's joke. 51% market share? LOL.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Even if this is not the case, long lasting extant belief-systems are generally not treated the same as new belief-systems, perhaps in part based in the idea that spiritual truth should have been discerned some time ago if it were ever going to be.
Right? Right?
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
just wait for the firefox add-on.
I don't think loctite can be used in such a fashion.
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Oh my god! the screenshot of the toobar shows lynx inside a freakin PuTTY session on WINDOWS VISTA! I'm getting sick...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
First this story about "The Guardian publishing on Twitter",
then this story about a new secure "write-only memory card",
the story about the IP protocol header bit HBT ("Has Been Trapped") and
its windows helper program "nbtstat.exe" (check which IP packed has Not Been Trapped).
And now this story about customers using telnet to manage their debt... WTF?!?
That sentense made my day.
Rethinking email
I started using Lynx at school in early NCSA Mosaic days when it was painfully slow to load a graphical browser in our "shared computing environment", and the graphical web wasn't that pretty anyway. When you're used to it, it's just so much simpler to do some quick browsing in Lynx so I've never stopped using it. I use Firefox about 90% of the time and Lynx 10% now. At times I've used Lynx when I didn't want it to be obvious I was using the web.
It's been done before. More than once.
It is much more difficult than getting a +5 First Post.
My next sig will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush
> Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits,
Sounds like Firefux needs another set of eyes (at least) looking at their code.
So much for the "innate superiority" claimed by Teh FOSSies.
Wouldn't banks, which have to comply with the ADA act for website accessibility for the blind and disabled, actually be in essence forced to be Lynx/Elinks compatible by design?
The power of Jesus compels you! The power of Jesus compels you! The power of Jesus compels you!
Pretty please?
Not flamebait, you retarded sea cow, TROLL.
Sheesh, what the hell is wrong with you!?!? :p
(Let's do it, +5 flamebait!)
samefag
I work in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) business and I know a lot of people who use it to test webpages - if Lynx can view the site properly, so can Googlebot. Also, it is very good tool in improving website's accessibility for visually impaired.
It is the only way to be sure!
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
Hey, *I* am a retarded sea cow, you insensitive clod!
"Die, Rusty Venture! Die!!! GAHHHHHH!"
And that was the end of Doctor Dugong, at the hands of The Monarch!
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Lynx rules! I recently discovered it and decided to swtich from FF (FF is so bloated these days).
I also hear that they'll be porting V8 to Lynx soon.. I can't wait!
banking?
Too bad this is unlikely.
Regards,
Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies