As you may already know, I do not like Microsoft very much. Sure I may be using Windows 2000 to write this, but I have one very good reason for that: Games. Anyway, what I want to discuss is the recent slamming of Firefox's security and the new Internet Explorer (IE) coming sometime this year.
This is just stupid. Apparently, in the last six months, there have been more higher-risk vulnerabilities in Firefox than in IE. Big friggin' deal. How many more high-risk vulnerabilities have there been in IE over the years? The last six months doesn't count for jackshit. It only serves to point out that IE still has vulnerabilities.
Also, if you look at the IE Blog at Microsoft, you can see M$ is a little behind...So what if you can inspect your pages in IE? It doesn't matter because Firefox already had a DOM inspector. Also, do the DOM checkers for IE account for the fact that IE doesn't properly support CSS/HTML standards? And what is this "working...on CSS and platform support" mean? Well then, get back to work and stop telling us about your damned 3rd party DOM inspectors! Start building in proper support of CSS and remove those 'vendor-specific' CSS functions like the image thingies and the scrollbar color changing bullshit.
Anyway, I picked bought some books at Indigo on Friday. They are: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt, The Most Common Mistakes in English Usage and 2600 Magazine. On Bullshit is a great treatise on bullshit :) It discusses the way it's been used, and how bullshit is different from lying. It's a great difference as bullshit is a general disregard for the truth while lying acknowledges that there is a truth. Cryptonomicon is just great. In my opinion, Neal Stephenson is one of the best writers of the last few decades. This book doesn't disappoint..Everyone go get a copy now! The English Usage book is pretty useful.
And 2600 The Hacker's Quarterly is always filled with some awesome information. For example, HP Printer servers have FTP and HTTP servers running. And they run Java. Think of the fun you can have :) I was reminded about that April Fool's Day joke back during the First Gulf War about how they shut down an Iraqi computer center by putting viruses on printers being shipped there. It's amazing how 15 years later we can actually do that. Sort of.
Okay, back to work.
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