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Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler?
On Jan 29, 9:04*am, Sebastian Kaliszewski
wrote: IE6 is not mission critical for Google for one damn simple reason that there are many other browsers google apps run on (and run even better, or even run at all). Even a total and permanent meltdown of IE6 (very, very improbable event, due to large set of obvious facts you apparently can't grasp) is not an end to a google, yahoo, even microsoft.com and all the other high profile web pages/portals. For a simple reason that there are things like IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, and lots of others. As I said to Prof. Redelmeier, there is little point in continuing a discussion if there is no common basis for understanding, and your comments on this issue adequately illustrate the chasm between us. So far as I know, the only thing about IE6 that matters to Google is that its applications have to run correctly on it, because many enterprise users still use IE6. So long as important users are employing IE6, it doesn't matter what other browsers are available, because Google has to test its applications on IE6. The damage to Google was that user accounts were compromised, so that users know that someone who wants to badly enough can get to user data... meaning that companies and individuals will have to worry about what kind of data will be entrusted to Google. That's a killer. The Google example shows why it doesn't matter whether an application itself is used in a way that you would identify as mission-critical. Applications unwittingly provide pathways for attack. Even applications that are not connected to the internet can become useful once a system has been penetrated, which could happen through an application so banal as Adobe Reader. That the Internet could be thrown into unfixable chaos by a malicious attack seems not at all improbable to me. I'm not going to pursue this discussion further with you, as there is no point. Robert. |
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Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler?
Robert Myers wrote:
IE6 is not mission critical for Google for one damn simple reason that there are many other browsers google apps run on (and run even better, or even run at all). Even a total and permanent meltdown of IE6 (very, very improbable event, due to large set of obvious facts you apparently can't grasp) is not an end to a google, yahoo, even microsoft.com and all the other high profile web pages/portals. For a simple reason that there are things like IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, and lots of others. As I said to Prof. Redelmeier, there is little point in continuing a discussion if there is no common basis for understanding, and your comments on this issue adequately illustrate the chasm between us. They demonstrate the chasm between you and reality. [...] The Google example shows why it doesn't matter whether an application itself is used in a way that you would identify as mission-critical. You even do not uderstand what mission-critcal means. Nope, IE6 is not mission critical for Google in any generally accepted meaning of the "mission critical". That the Internet could be thrown into unfixable chaos by a malicious attack seems not at all improbable to me. Im affaraid you have completely skewed meaining behind the name Internet. I'm not going to pursue this discussion further with you, as there is no point. Oh, yet you start two more compelety off-topic threads to continue that discussion. \SK -- "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" -- L. Lang -- http://www.tajga.org -- (some photos from my travels) |
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