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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>> > I thought you were joking about IE.  I fired up IE to check it out and 
>> > after dealing with all the parasitic apps that placed a toolbar into IE 
>> > the browser was pretty quiet.  Using IE means I'd have to chase windows  
>> > software updates.  I only update my windows boxes about once a year -- 
>> 
>> wrong. it's automatic. there's nothing to chase. windows is easy, it 
>> really is. Once in a while when you shut down it installs some updates. 
>> Big deal. Windows defender or security essentials or whatever it's called 
>> just updates all the time itself. 
> 
> Automatic is even worse.  You never want to interrupt a software upgrade 
> and if I don't know when it happens I don't know when to be careful.  
> Plus, a lot of upgrades break things and are basically useless.  
> Microsoft needs you to keep sucking its tit so the company remains 
> relevant.

really?

can you list three updates that fucked you over? Either the patch number 
or KB will work for me.

> The old axiom that if it ain't broke don't fix it still holds true.
> 
>> you sure waste alot of time screwing around with shit browers when 
> your 
>> computer already has one that actually works, doesn't spy on you and 
>> doesn't suck. You're just making stuff hard for no reason.
> 
> If it weren't for people like you who cling to IE the economy of the web 
> couldn't possibly sustain itself.  The web needs eyeballs on its ads.  
> Personally, I don't like seeing ads and I rarely ever see one.  Why?  
> Adblock Plus.  

People like me are why there is an economy in the web. Half the time 
something is "broken" during internal testing here it's yet another 
firefox bug. The thing is flakey. It's ok to browse some crap "funny" 
websites, but I'll be damned if I do online banking on the thing or have 
to use a some webapp that will waste 10 minutes of my time to relogin to 
if the browser freezes up, crashes or renders stuff wrong.

firefox is a load of shit, sort of like the netscape browers. they've come 
full circle already.

> It is my philosophy on PC security that you must diversify.  I don't not 
> use IE because it sucks, I use Firefox because it's not Microsoft.  I 
> don't avoid Outlook because it sucks.  You shouldn't run email from the 
> same company that makes your OS -- especially when there are plenty of 
> alternatives.

your philosophy is bullshit.

> You can put all your eggs in one basket.  Whatever floats your boat.  
> 
> BTW: As for Firefox "spying," I got rid of all its chatter but kept the 
> google safebrowsing because it only does that every half hour.

while you were spending 18 hours configuring a browser, I was doing actual 
work and not reinventing the wheel, getting lost in philosophical day 
dreams, or blogging about how it's imperative to not run outlook, because 
it comes from microsoft. Just too out the part where you might want to 
connect to an exchange server, if you're employed.

you're insane.