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To: Swordmaker

What kind of idiot just blindly gives administrator permission to install any and all software downloaded from the ‘net, even that which you did not request or intentionally download?


3 posted on 05/02/2011 11:36:39 AM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: TheBattman
What kind of idiot just blindly gives administrator permission to install any and all software downloaded from the ‘net, even that which you did not request or intentionally download?

PC users which have been doing it for years. But now they have switched to Mac because "Macs don't get viruses".

Now all of the PC problem children who click, download and install without reading or thinking are now Mac users who click, download and install without reading or thinking.

Welcome to the party, pal!

6 posted on 05/02/2011 11:49:36 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: TheBattman
What kind of idiot just blindly gives administrator permission to install any and all software downloaded from the ‘net, even that which you did not request or intentionally download?

PC bigots are those kind of idiots. Among other titles I held, I was a senior Windows admin over servers and desktops, directing other techs. There were a few workers who insisted on downloading crappy freeware from the net, even though it corrupted their machines. So we blocked their ability to do so. And they would work around the blocks, and re-infect their PCs, then call us for help. We were an IT shop, and these were for the most part high-up managers and supervisors who felt they were entitled to put anything on their desktop PCs. Idiots all.

7 posted on 05/02/2011 11:49:49 AM PDT by roadcat
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Most of them. The general non-technical public thinks computers are smart so what the computer asks to do must be good. It’s that whole “sufficient level of technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing, non-tech people pretty much think computers are magic, they don’t understand them, they think they can’t understand them, they’re not going to try to understand them, and so they click “yes” a lot.


26 posted on 05/02/2011 2:14:02 PM PDT by discostu (Come on Punky, get Funky)
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