A
Adam Albright
I keep saying Vista is garbage, yet the doubting Thomas crowd pretends
no, no it can't be true. So I decided to give the naysayers a real
world simple example of how brain dead Windows truly is.
These days I spend the lion's share of my time monitoring my
investments. To that end I have an E-Trade account. I use the optional
Market Trader platform which is Java based and allows a lot of real
time data to be displayed.
To make a long story short because of useless "security" the idiots of
Redmond included in Microsoft's cheesy browser in order to get the
E-Trade software to work correctly I needed to setup the links to my
E-Trade account as a "trusted" web site or it will hang trying to run
the Java software. On the surface setting up a "trusted" site is a
simple enough task that you can find in Explorer's options.
What's wrong, as is so common with all Microsoft crap is it simply
doesn't work as advertised, in other words after setting up a trusted
site the browser STILL won't trust it, resulting in endless nagging of
do you WANT to trust it bullshit.
So simply entering http://www.etrade.com after setting it up as a
"trusted" site following E-Trade's instructions,I get the following
nag screen EVERY time I try to go to E-Trade's main web page:
"The current web page is trying to open a web site in your trusted
sites list. Do you want to allow this?"
To get the Java features to work correctly I should get redirected
automatically to https://usetrade.com but no I don't, not without
first saying "yes" to the above nag screen which of course totally
defeats the purpose of setting up a "trusted" site. If I try to go to
the "trusted" URL directly I get DNS errors.
My point? Well Microsoft, you blithering morons, if I jumped through a
bunch of hoops to set up a TRUSTED WEB SITE under YOUR browser
settings and you idiots acknowledge E-Trade is on my "approved" list
of web sites I told it to TRUST the browser should damn it, "trust"
whatever is listed in the trusted web site list and simply go to such
a site without any further nagging about or phony bullshit "security"
crap. Why are you forcing me to say yes to something that is already
set up to be trusted? I know why, just more Microsoft stupidity,
arrogance and useless nag screens that do nothing but annoy.
After clicking yes I'm only at the default E-Trade web site page
ANYONE can get to, I do not yet have nor do I expect to gain access to
my account at this stage, I need to enter a user ID and password at
this page as you would expect. So setting up a "trusted" site in
Microsoft's cheesy browser is totally useless as far as being a
trusted site is concerned since the browser doesn't really "trust"
what you set up and still nags are you sure you want to do something
you told it to always trust. MINDLESS!
Using another browser, like Apple's Safari, I immediately get to the
gateway E-Trade page, no nagging, it simply works.
My point is simply this. Microsoft simply does NOT know how to write
good software. This is but one example of sloppy useless code that in
the end does nothing. Setting up a "trusted" web site doesn't in any
way TRUST it, it only generates a useless nag screen asking do you
want to trust something you already TOLD IT to always trust.
Surprise is how UAC works. It only pops up nag screens. There is no
real security with that either.
Only the idiots software engineers at Microsoft are this stupid and
arrogant.
no, no it can't be true. So I decided to give the naysayers a real
world simple example of how brain dead Windows truly is.
These days I spend the lion's share of my time monitoring my
investments. To that end I have an E-Trade account. I use the optional
Market Trader platform which is Java based and allows a lot of real
time data to be displayed.
To make a long story short because of useless "security" the idiots of
Redmond included in Microsoft's cheesy browser in order to get the
E-Trade software to work correctly I needed to setup the links to my
E-Trade account as a "trusted" web site or it will hang trying to run
the Java software. On the surface setting up a "trusted" site is a
simple enough task that you can find in Explorer's options.
What's wrong, as is so common with all Microsoft crap is it simply
doesn't work as advertised, in other words after setting up a trusted
site the browser STILL won't trust it, resulting in endless nagging of
do you WANT to trust it bullshit.
So simply entering http://www.etrade.com after setting it up as a
"trusted" site following E-Trade's instructions,I get the following
nag screen EVERY time I try to go to E-Trade's main web page:
"The current web page is trying to open a web site in your trusted
sites list. Do you want to allow this?"
To get the Java features to work correctly I should get redirected
automatically to https://usetrade.com but no I don't, not without
first saying "yes" to the above nag screen which of course totally
defeats the purpose of setting up a "trusted" site. If I try to go to
the "trusted" URL directly I get DNS errors.
My point? Well Microsoft, you blithering morons, if I jumped through a
bunch of hoops to set up a TRUSTED WEB SITE under YOUR browser
settings and you idiots acknowledge E-Trade is on my "approved" list
of web sites I told it to TRUST the browser should damn it, "trust"
whatever is listed in the trusted web site list and simply go to such
a site without any further nagging about or phony bullshit "security"
crap. Why are you forcing me to say yes to something that is already
set up to be trusted? I know why, just more Microsoft stupidity,
arrogance and useless nag screens that do nothing but annoy.
After clicking yes I'm only at the default E-Trade web site page
ANYONE can get to, I do not yet have nor do I expect to gain access to
my account at this stage, I need to enter a user ID and password at
this page as you would expect. So setting up a "trusted" site in
Microsoft's cheesy browser is totally useless as far as being a
trusted site is concerned since the browser doesn't really "trust"
what you set up and still nags are you sure you want to do something
you told it to always trust. MINDLESS!
Using another browser, like Apple's Safari, I immediately get to the
gateway E-Trade page, no nagging, it simply works.
My point is simply this. Microsoft simply does NOT know how to write
good software. This is but one example of sloppy useless code that in
the end does nothing. Setting up a "trusted" web site doesn't in any
way TRUST it, it only generates a useless nag screen asking do you
want to trust something you already TOLD IT to always trust.
Surprise is how UAC works. It only pops up nag screens. There is no
real security with that either.
Only the idiots software engineers at Microsoft are this stupid and
arrogant.