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    If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People

    Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download

    Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8

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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    I literally upgraded IE6 to IE8 a few days ago (though I've been using Firefox the whole time), but I didn't know about this. Sorry starving people!
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    "If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People"

    Hell yeah we're stealing their food. They sure as hell don't have anything else to steal!
     Reply
    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment Bigbadbikernerd was starred Bigbadbikernerd was unstarred
    Image of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    I wrote this crappy python script the last time this was announced if anyone wants to download a lot of copies. Tab spacing is important, it's python...

    Oh, and the download link might not work anymore so test before you run it.

    import os
    import sys
    while 1:
    (tab)try:
    (tab)(tab)os.system('wget [download.microsoft.com]')
    (tab)(tab)os.system('rm IE8-*')
    (tab)except KeyboardInterrupt:
    (tab)(tab)print "Ctrl+c, exiting"
    (tab)(tab)sys.exit(0)

    edit: replace [download.microsoft.com] with the static link.
     Reply
    Edited by ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD at 08/31/09 9:02 PM ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD was starred ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD was unstarred
    Image of mricyfire mricyfire
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    "Even if you switch to Firefox immediately, help give Microsoft's money away" why so much hate for Microsoft?
     Reply
    Lite: killed Dumbledore promoted this comment mricyfire was starred mricyfire was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/31/09

    @mricyfire: You mean other than they maliciously tried (and effectively succeeded) to drive competing web browsers completely out of the market, and while they were at it they were complete and utter dicks about the whole thing?

    Nothing.

    You mean other than thumb their nose at international html, xml, and browser display standards after pledging to follow them so that web designers have to develop 2 versions of every web page. One that looks OK in IE, and one that looks OK for the rest of the browsers that ARE standards compliant?

    Nothing.

    Where exactly would you want me to start?
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    Image of mricyfire mricyfire
    08/31/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore:

    I meant more the money thing comment, I don't use IE firefox and chrome and safari on the iphone.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/31/09

    @mricyfire: Well because they are moving folks away from one of the largest problems to internet security to a more secure version. And as in incentive there giving food to poor folk (maybe not in the country where it will be most appreciated but still) This is of course clearly an Evil act.
    A much more philanthropic act would be to fudge a hardrives accounting dept.
     Reply
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    09/01/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore: Web browsers? Um... Netscape = 1 and the last time I checked "1" doesn't make browser"s".
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    09/01/09

    @UnderLoK: Netscape was one of them. Just because you didn't use other browsers during that time doesn't mean they didn't exist or weren't affected.
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    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    09/01/09

    @Lite: killed Dumbledore: What other ones? Mosaic? Mosaic was killed by Netscape not to mention MS PAID them to use their engine (yes IE ran on Mosaic's engine).

    Netscape killed all browsers that ran off of Mosaic (and there were plenty) when it was created. The two browsers were IE and Netscape. Just because some guy made a browser out of his basement that only loaded 1/4 of the sites out there doesn't mean MS squished it. Opera is the only other one in that time frame that could have been affected, but it wasn't because no one used it. This had nothing to do with MS, it had to do with the fact that it didn't work and was beyond buggy.

    The time frame that MS was big and bad was the mid-late 90's and in that time frame (over 10 years ago I might add) they flexed every muscle they had against Netscape and they paid for it.

    It's also worth mention that we all gained from them killing Netscape as well. It a bizzaro way they are responsible for Firefox's existence. They made their own bed sorta speak which is rather ironic.
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 09/01/09 2:48 PM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Threepwood Yossarian Threepwood
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    Sod it, that's worth a bit of my bandwidth. Now, does anyone know of a way I can download this directly into my trash can?
     Reply
    OCEntertainment promoted this comment Yossarian Threepwood was starred Yossarian Threepwood was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/01/09

    @Yossarian Threepwood: I know a way to do it....in Firefox.
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    Image of The Red Comet The Red Comet
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    I read somewhere that a good 50% of IE users are still on 6, especially at businesses where it's troublesome to upgrade the browsers. That's a lotta donated money! They should get to it.
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    Image of Dancing Milkcarton Dancing Milkcarton
    08/31/09

    @The Red Comet: it varies, but it's nowhere near 50%. I'd say ~10-15%.
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    GlenTen promoted this comment Dancing Milkcarton was starred Dancing Milkcarton was unstarred
    Image of GlenTen GlenTen
    08/31/09

    @Dancing Milkcarton: For my websites, its ~52% IE in general, of which 36% is using IE6. Google Analytics tells me that in the past week, at least 2 people viewed my site with IE 5 for Mac.

    Whoever those two people are, they need to be banned from computers for eternity.
     Reply
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    Image of Dancing Milkcarton Dancing Milkcarton
    08/31/09

    @GlenTen: 'of which 36% is using IE6'

    You need a hipper audience.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/31/09

    @The Red Comet: That's a whole lot of man-hours, and a whole lot of regression testing.
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    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/31/09

    @Dancing Milkcarton: Uhm, I manage websites and currently 60% of our traffic comes from IE6...
     Reply
    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of sp00nix sp00nix
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    IE8 has been nothing but trouble at work, submitting corrupted data in forms, causing ATT connect to crash. APOX!
     Reply
    Edited by sp00nix at 08/31/09 8:08 PM sp00nix was starred sp00nix was unstarred
    Image of Dafrety Dafrety
    08/31/09

    @OMG! SP00N: Compatibility mode?
     Reply
    Lite: killed Dumbledore promoted this comment Dafrety was starred Dafrety was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/31/09

    @Dafrety: Yes. IE 8 is so bad that it requires a compatibility mode button.
     Reply
    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/31/09

    In reply to If You're Still Using Internet Explorer 6, You're Stealing Food from Starving People
    Yeah. Well my office uses IE6. So take it up with the IT Guy.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    08/31/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Same here. They block any attempts to download IE7/8 so I switched to my USB portable version of firefox along time ago.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/31/09

    @Bertone77: They blocked us from using USB drives where I work.
     Reply
    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment Bigbadbikernerd was starred Bigbadbikernerd was unstarred
    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    08/31/09

    @Bertone77: Heh. Where I work, not only are we staying on IE6, we're disallowed from installing any other browsers and they just closed down everyone's USB ports. You want to talk frustration, I'm your guy.
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    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    08/31/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: Are you allowed to download and extract zip files? cause a quick fix would be...

    1. download portablefirefox.zip
    2. extract to the desktop
    3. enjoy!
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment ploopsy was starred ploopsy was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/31/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: I nominate tomorrow as "Heave A Brick At Your IT Guy's Head Day"
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    09/01/09

    @ploopsy: Yes, but IT does routine scans and remotely deletes unsupported browsers (Firefox, IE8, Chrome) and other unapproved software.
     Reply
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/14/09

    In reply to Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download
    Sorry hungry folks, as Microsoft no longer develops IE for Mac, Microsoft is forcing me to make you starve. Isn't that a kick in the teeth?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Hmmm, guess I WILL download it, since Microsoft's good for it, but don't turn around and say I wanted your shitty browser MS, just feed the hungry and never mention this again.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/14/09

    In reply to Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download
    So now I get to feel like a douchebag if I don't want it?


    Thanks a lot Microsoft. Thanks. A. Lot.

     Reply
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    06/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Donation is not an obligation... Well, depending on your religion.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    06/14/09

    In reply to Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download
    So basically people are going to starve?
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    Image of sneakypoo sneakypoo
    06/14/09

    @d-_-b: With people like you around, maybe. Instead of making snarky comments perhaps you should go ahead and download a copy?
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    06/14/09

    @d-_-b: fail troll fails. all it would take is people to upgrade: checkit. thats 56% of the internet. that is a shitload of food.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    06/14/09

    @sneakypoo: I am being serious. Just download but not install?
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    06/14/09

    @d★nger the pirate: If you think i'm trolling you got it wrong. I forgot about downloading but not installing.
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    Image of Ron Schott Ron Schott
    06/09/09

    In reply to Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8
    Try this link out instead, it should work:
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    06/09/09

    @Ron Schott: I certainly appreciate that sir. I was afraid I was actually going to have to use youtube search.
     Reply
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    06/09/09

    In reply to Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8
    Like I constantly tell my wife IE is the short bus for the internet. I really don't care what the have in in the new IE8 I will not get on the short bus.
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    Image of Twisk Twisk
    06/09/09

    @sir_pantsalot: LOL, as a Web developer who constantly runs into ridiculous road blocks with IE and IE only... I'm going to definitely be telling that to my clients from now on (whether they change browsers or not). :)
     Reply
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    06/09/09

    @Twisk: I wish there were more people like you. There are numerous work related sites I have to use that only work with IE.
     Reply
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/09/09

    In reply to Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8
    Even if it did make up for Lois and Clark, he still has to stand trial for Firetrap/Out of Time.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/09/09

    In reply to Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8
    So this is actually a PSA stating: no, I don't want to get those F@@#$%ing emails, stop sending them to me. And your "lawyer friend who checked it out, so it has to be true" is the only one with seven years bad luck.
     Reply
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