Why do people continue to link to Slashdot discussion threads about an article instead of just linking to the farking article?! And what's wrong with the mods that greenlight them?!

I can see three that could fit that description

BurnShrike: Why do people continue to link to Slashdot discussion threads about an article instead of just linking to the farking article?! And what's wrong with the mods that greenlight them?!

Because this way, they not only gen discussion on the topic, but also on why it's bad etiquette to link to secondary sources, and how Reddit covered the story first anyway and all us Farkers and Slashers are just copycats and how can we possibly live withourselvesbeingsolameasweare?

So it's a three for one.

Is it have?

"Risk" is the extraneous word... :)

/go reread it and omit the word "risk" LOL!

As long as my workplace continues to use crappy Sharepoint for its intranet, I'll be forced to use crappy internet explorer to access it.

/uses chrome for everything else.

I saw that earlier today and thought: "A Fark-ready headline"

It's Intelligence, no?

"Explorer"

I use IE, but I only do so ironically.

flaminio: I use IE, but I only do so ironically.

You are overconfident and stupid! And your mother is grossly overweight.

Colin O'Scopy: "Risk" is the extraneous word... :)

/go reread it and omit the word "risk" LOL!

Biased. Most people are exposed to IE and continue to use it. So the odds of finding dumb peple using IE are greatly increased. Using IE doesn't mean your dumb, the results of his test was that dumb people use IE.

/uses Opera

Fabric_Man: BROWSER SNOB THREAD!!

Firefox has a very full bodied engine, but I find Opera's rendering quite piquant

I am continually amazed at Google and Mozilla's abilities to ignore critical bugs (or rather, not bother fixing them because laziness) for years on end.

Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence


Hmmm is it Explorer?

Colin O'Scopy: "Risk" is the extraneous word... :)

/go reread it and omit the word "risk" LOL!

OMG that's like totally way funny! ROFLMFAO

/It's "Internet", dumbass.

Stabone33: Colin O'Scopy: "Risk" is the extraneous word... :)

/go reread it and omit the word "risk" LOL!

OMG that's like totally way funny! ROFLMFAO

/It's "Internet", dumbass.

It's "Slashdot," genius.

Hugh_Janus: Biased. Most people are exposed to IE and continue to use it. So the odds of finding dumb peple using IE are greatly increased. Using IE doesn't mean your dumb, the results of his test was that dumb people use IE.

/uses Opera

Truth. Start the average computer user out with any of those other browsers and the numbers will plummet for them as well.

People that install Chrome while trying to download and install Avast, CCleaner, or Foxit are retards? When Apple tried to shove Safari up your arse with itunes people got pissed.
/Yes I know all you have to is uncheck the boxes

"Extranus"?

Mr_Fabulous: Stabone33: Colin O'Scopy: "Risk" is the extraneous word... :)

/go reread it and omit the word "risk" LOL!

OMG that's like totally way funny! ROFLMFAO

/It's "Internet", dumbass.

It's "Slashdot," genius.

THAT'S THE JOKE

drjekel_mrhyde: People that install Chrome while trying to download and install Avast, CCleaner, or Foxit are retards? When Apple tried to shove Safari up your arse with itunes people got pissed.
/Yes I know all you have to is uncheck the boxes

One extra unnecessary action. It's an unsavory route taken by Ask with their shiatty spyware, and that of loads of other virus, spamware, malware and spyware distributors.

It's abhorrent, really. If I want your god damned browser, I'll get it myself.
Of course, the whole point is to install it on the desktops of those who are hurrying through an install, or those of the ignorant, which is just underhanded.

improvius: "Explorer"
Genius!

So this could be more of socio-economic result more than anything else. People of lower socioeconomic status and lower IQ scores have a correlation (Herrnstein, R.J., & Murray, C. (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and class structure in American life. New York: Free Press.) Not saying it is causative, and it doesn't need to be for our discussion here (correlation will suffice).

So it seems that the lower cost computers are primarily Windows PC's from major "big box" retailers. I don't mean that you can't build one yourself for less, rather as a whole, the lower cost fully complete systems are are Windows PC's. Obviously, Windows PC's have IE installed by default, and have IE as the default web browser. (These PCs also have a bunch of junk software installed, but that isn't necessarily relevant here) Thse are the PCs that those with limited means (but means nonetheless) to purchase a computer will do so.

So it comes down to this:
Lower socioeconomic status correlates with lower IQ
Lower socioeconomic status correlates with limited means for attaining a PC
Limited means for PC purchase and lower IQ correlate to purchasing, rather than building, a PC.
Such PCs have IE installed and enabled by default.

Now the question is this: if these lower IQ users started using Firefox or Chrome en masse, would we start seeing problems with those browsers as well?

Saiga410: Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence


Hmmm is it Explorer?

God dammit.

At best, this can only really be said about those who have yet to upgrade. With IE9, Microsoft finally managed to produce a truly decent browser, and I can't say I feel right holding IE use against those who stay current in this day and age.

Still needs WebGL, though.

Fabric_Man: BROWSER SNOB THREAD!!

Firefox has a very full bodied engine, but I find Opera's rendering quite piquant

I find your comment to be shallow and pedantic.

Millennium: Still needs WebGL, though.

OpenGL anything? Microsoft? lol.
Though they do have legitimate concerns about security that must be addressed.

What does 'extraneous' mean?

drjekel_mrhyde: People that install Chrome while trying to download and install Avast, CCleaner, or Foxit are retards? When Apple tried to shove Safari up your arse with itunes people got pissed.
/Yes I know all you have to is uncheck the boxes

A week ago my girlfriend's mom complained to me that her laptop was running excruciatingly slow. Knowing that I'm taking electrical engineering and thus must know how to fix computers (sigh...) she asked me to take a look at it. Being the nice guy, I said I would.

When I got it, the thing was indeed running incredibly slow. I notice that there is a bunch of "speed up my pc" type crapware installed. Whenever you turn on the laptop, they all try to load at once. I just walked away and came back in an hour after things had settled down, and then backed up everything important.

Since the hard drive on the laptop crashed a year ago, I made a disk image of the computer all set up just in case I were to have it fall in my lap in rough shape in the future. Thus, cleaning up the computer took no time at all.

Anyways, I gave the laptop back. It was running like a top. I mentioned to the household how programs like that do jack shiat, and to be careful when installing some software since sometimes other stuff is bundled in and should be deselected to avoid installing.

Fast forward to last night when I was over there for dinner. She mentioned that it was again running slow. In the 4 or 5 days it had been out of my hands, there were three new "speed up my pc" type programs installed already.

I believe their son installed them accidentally when installing some of his shiat programs (such as a program that downloads music off youtube, just torrent that shiat if you can't live without it!) but I was still amazed at how fast things went to shiat.

/csb
//felt like charging them for the cleanup but since it was done completely during Skyrim loading screens it wasn't like it really took up any of my time...

/shopped but almost humorous

Hugh_Janus: Biased. Most people are exposed to IE and continue to use it. So the odds of finding dumb peple using IE are greatly increased. Using IE doesn't mean your dumb, the results of his test was that dumb people use IE.

/uses Opera

And using a hipster browser apparently does not increase one's chances of USING A FARKING CONTRACTION CORRECTLY.

/you're

If I copy/F4/paste random shiat, does it really matter which browser I use?

/uses IE in a grossly overconfident fashion

Is this 'Internet Explorer' anything like 'Netscape'?

/Well at least some of the default security settings on Internet exploder are more secure than 10 years ago.... Barely...
//FireFox and 'user agent switcher' is da bomb.
///Java Script is the new ActiveX.

Ouch, I scored way lower than IE users. I guess I should switch from firefox to WebTv or something.

Are the missing words "Internet" "Explorer" and "Risk"?

/jaded by the helpdesk days

BurnShrike: Why do people continue to link to Slashdot discussion threads about an article instead of just linking to the farking article?! And what's wrong with the mods that greenlight them?!

Often it is someone submitted the article with a crappy headline forcing the person with the good headline to submit it via a secondary source.

My guess would be that it's because people with lower RQ scores are more likely to stay with Internet Explorer, which comes with every Windows system, than to want to bother with installing a different browser.