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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!
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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=-
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.
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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.
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.
At least the screenshot of the toolbar is worth a chuckle.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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
It's "CLUI" for Command-Line User Interface.
"CUI" is "Curses User Interface", fsckface.
slashdottagsshorterthanhaikunewartform
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.
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
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.
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.
Oh c'mon..this happens every year...just have fun with it. No need to be a crumugen.
Hell...I long for a repeat of the one from years back with the "OMG..PoNies!!!"
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I actually use LYNX to access my bank accounts!
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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