The problem is that a lot of this stuff is installed voluntarily. If P2PFreeMovies.exe and BritaneySperesNaked!!!.exe say they need admin access to install, people will just type the password in.
Why do you need a password to install stuff on windows?
I though everyone was an admin by default...
Seriously, the people that went to the lengths of not surfing with an admin user, will most likely not be the ones affected by what you described above.
Me, too... I guess I'll not get Funny points for that;)
I just got a fresh hdd and had to reinstall Firefox. And when I was just installing all the extensions I need and half of them didn't yet work with the new version along came the news about Opera being free now and my decision to stick with Opera for a while.
I was a registered Opera user before Firefox came and I never regretted that money (even now Opera is free). For some reasons I had switched to Firefox and kept adding extensions so it would behave like Opera...
But we have one particularly big distribution list at our company. Every Monday an urgent mail is sent out to the entire list, reminding people not to hitting reply all and not to include attachments - still every day these simple rules get broken. (I know it is crappy, that we can't enforce these rules technically, but that's another topic)
My point is: Humans have habbits and to do something differing from those can be pretty hard. Usually you have to reply all (I hate people who reply only to me, when I thought carefully about who needs to know about this).
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You can't really compare the Amazon movie selection with the Netflix freebies...
But I can totally see how get paged because of an emergency problem with your website and your computer says: "I don't know you, calm down first".
On the other hand, I'm sure there will still be a fallback password login, like most fingerprint systems have nowadays.
Hey, I get 2.5 SPF on my linux box! OK, without any graphics acceleration...
:)
On my mediocre P4 XP laptop I get 38 FPS
Seriously, the people that went to the lengths of not surfing with an admin user, will most likely not be the ones affected by what you described above.
I just got a fresh hdd and had to reinstall Firefox. And when I was just installing all the extensions I need and half of them didn't yet work with the new version along came the news about Opera being free now and my decision to stick with Opera for a while.
I was a registered Opera user before Firefox came and I never regretted that money (even now Opera is free). For some reasons I had switched to Firefox and kept adding extensions so it would behave like Opera...
Oh... you're right. It happened on early Firefox and Mozilla versions, too - allthough not on Opera and Firefox 1.1. Sorry.
How do you want to crash IE today?
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I get pretty nervous, too.
But we have one particularly big distribution list at our company. Every Monday an urgent mail is sent out to the entire list, reminding people not to hitting reply all and not to include attachments - still every day these simple rules get broken.
(I know it is crappy, that we can't enforce these rules technically, but that's another topic)
My point is:
Humans have habbits and to do something differing from those can be pretty hard. Usually you have to reply all (I hate people who reply only to me, when I thought carefully about who needs to know about this).
Best, Istrebitjel