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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
In this case it's more like: In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the trolls, the memes and the forces of Microsoft. She is root.
Mod me down! (Flamebait/Troll, just like last time.)
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago
Uh 99% of the time those dudes are just looking for some publicity. It is usually one of two things 'look at MS bug and oh btw I have software/services xyz that protects against it.' Or 'hey look at me I am leet I found a bug.'
I have over the years reported dozens of bugs to MS. I never make a stink about it afterwords. If they fix it fine. If not oh well. I think there has only been once (out of 15 years of doing this) that it *HAD* to be fixed for me to go on. I paid the fee and they fixed it right away. They eventually do fix things.
Honestly, bugs happen. I have enough in my own code to worry if someone else in some other project fixes theirs.
Why does C crt have so many traps where you can create bad code? OH thats right the BSD dudes defined it back in the 70/80s. You know one of *THE* first mega open source projects? Look to your own glass house before throwing bricks. We are both standing in glass houses holding bricks...
As for the original article. Looks like a publicity stunt to me. IE6 will die the death it deserves. Win7 will managed that.
I wish I could mod you up for that
It's ok... My Karma already goes to 11. I get 15 mod points every 3 to 5 days which is rather sad since half of my posts are trolls or add nothing of value to this site...