Go Kerala Go! Go Kerala Go!

The Indian State of Kerala gets a negative 10 for hubris in technology, or in other words - they are an anti-hubris.

They are playing fair, Microsoft isn't banned, but they are actively encouraging their 12k + schools to use Linux, and free open-source alternatives to Microsoft.

There was a guy or group in Moldova who used his / their own server and scripts to generate billions of sub-domains and pages on the fly, whenever Google's indexing bot visited, and convinced the Google index that a few billion new sites were live on the net.

Spamming millions of websites and generating 3 - 5 billion pages for Google to index takes a huge hunk of hubris, and is not ok. The violence done to Google and the internet as a whole is inexcusable. Spammers, click-fraud artists, phisher's pharmers, identity thieves, etc., need to be caught quicker, faster, and with better technology. Their terror reigns globally, so why aren't they included in the war on terror? We'd at least get better technology to stop these villains who are, again, terrorists, and should be treated as such.

but, the "Pepsi Challenge" mentioned in the last post is not as potent: We were running very graphic intensively, thus people w/ broadband had difficulty rendering their entry page in a timely manner & so we did a quick re-design to streamline the site & in the process of eliminating all the cool effects & graphics, most (but not all) of the CSS that IE refuses to render was altered / deleted. Still, there are many features of this site alone that Internet Explorer just simply cannot handle. It is such a pile of virus ridden S!@T!

Microsoft continues to waste its talents on this godforsaken albatross.

Woe is IE!

If you're looking at this page, or using this site with Internet Explorer 6, take the "pepsi challenge": download a standards compliant browser like Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, or Netscape, and look at this site side by side in the new browser with IE6 - the difference should be obvious, and here it is only an aesthetic issue, think of what you're missing with the rest of the web!

Internet Explorer is clunky, has massive security issues, and IE6 and below is way out of date with current web standards (by the time IE7 is out of public beta in the second half of this year and offering Window's IE users a browser that recognizes standards like CSS 2.1, the rest of the web will have moved to CSS 7.1.

IE7 is a better browser, it is more standards compliant than prior versions, and offers higher levels of security. However, as some long time Super Hard-core Pro-Windows fanatics have recently said, to summarize: the Netscape war is over & Microsoft should drop the clumsy, slow, slapped together browser of Internet Explorer and bundle Windows with Firefox or Opera. Microsoft could easily make MSN Search the bundled search engine, and Windows users would experience the web as its supposed to be experienced. Whether pro or anti Microsoft - Internet Explorer is a throwback from Microsoft taking a jocular comment by the Netscape / Mozilla folk, i.e. "Netscape will be the most used browser in the world" way too seriously.

Choosing a browser other than IE will greatly increase your safety on the web and you'll have a much better experience with the web using a standard compliant browser. Microsoft should stop trying to throw its weight into the web. The web is supposed to be a medium that is cross platform, and developed independent of any particular browser. My biggest beef with the company is that they do try and force the open medium of the web into their image.

Microsoft doesn't generate much revenue from Internet Explorer. They should leave the net alone and focus their creative energies with projects they are good at, and keeping their operating system compatible with the continually evolving and emerging technologies, and let innovation flow.

Woe is IE!

Internet Explorer's Antihubris: Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, The Mozilla Suite, Opera, Netscape, Camino, Lynx, Konqueror, Amaya, Links, w3m, Elinks, well, pretty much most of the non-IE browsers that you can find. Wikipedia has a very extensive list.

There are hardly any words to describe the degree of hubris of these programs and people. How malign must you be to exploit the intrinsic loopholes of the digital age? How malign must you be to actually steel someone else's identity? Is there a greater technology crime than stealing someone ELSE'S identity, than stealing their life!!? There are other horrors in our virtual world, but this one takes the cake (horrors like the exploitation of children are not tech reliant - thus do not fall into this category).

The antihubris: the pen - hard jail time for spammers etc.; educate yourself about the ways to protect yourself. For this reason we have put together the Antihubris.com Internet, E-Commerce, & E-mail Safety Resource Center.