If you're a user of Schwab.com, particularly a heavy user, then you need to know about this serious security vulnerability. Why is this not listed as top news on the front page of Schwab.com? Because so many corporations continue to ignore the lesson to be learned from the 80s cyanide-in-Tylenol-caps incident; instead preferring to preserve profit over customer safety or security.
Stories like this one, which recounts a horrible moment that occurred to Don Caballero just before they broke up, combined with my recent accident, go a long way to convincing me to ask J_ and C_ to never tour during winter...
Opera 5 seems pretty good. There are features of the GUI for Opera 5 for Windows that I like. Particularly, I enjoy the browser's multiple document interface. (I believe previous versions of Opera were also MDI, can anyone verify for me?) For people who haven't explored VB programming; a multiple document interface describes a program like Photoshop where all the windows sit inside a big parent window. It's file size is small. It seems fast. Faster than Netscape 6, to my mind, but I haven't performed any sort of reliable benchmark test, it just seems faster... It conforms nicely to the W3C CSS1 standards. It has an embedded Google search area in the top bar next to the address field. You can import your IE bookmarks with ease. I like it. Things I would improve: I wish it had the "web accessories" that IE has (i.e. ability to obtain a list of all images on a page with their file sizes and dimensions, and the View Partial Source option) and I wish it didn't have to come with an ad banner, but Windows users should try it out and consider switching…