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Give it a rest toadlife

You will not get your point across when you deal with people ignorant enough to blame the OS for poor third party programming practices:
Will applications work as expected when logged in as a limited user? (and almost all work just fine, thank you very much)

or that logging in as a restricted rights user somehow makes them invulnerable to malware:
Why? You will not bring down my computer just by modifying or deleting my documents or multimedia files, you have to reach the system files for that (because "bringing down the computer" is the goal of all malware... have fun recovering your personal files and take solace in the fact that at least your system files are safe even though they are the ones that are always recoverable)

or who believe that Safari is equivalent to the IE HTML rendering library while ignoring the fact that Web Core is as embedded into OSX as the IE HTML rendering library is embedded into Windows:
Microsoft placed IE browser code within the codebase for the OS and users have paid the price for it many times over (they're now breaking the code out again with IE7 and Vista). Apple never
placed Safari code within the bowels of their OS. (um, there is no IE the browser code in the bowels of the OS, compare Apples to apples merlin)

It is sad to see so much ignorance spout from the mouths of babes.

Posted by: NonZealot   Posted on: 05/08/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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