Here is the actual report: http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf

Yes, the whole thing is a PR stunt. So what. It made me smile ;)

The summary is a summary of a summary. Figure 2 in the original report is much more informative. The majority of the highest scoring people use Firefox (35%) or Chrome (20%). The majority of the lowest scoring people use IE7 (35%) or IE9 (20%). Opera and ChromeFrame are not used by people scoring lower than average.

As for correlations I would guess the following:

IE7 -> low score.
Firefox -> average to high score.
Opera and ChromeFrame and Camino -> high score.
Safari -> not much correlation at all.
Other IEs -> not much correlation, tendency to lower scores.

Anyways, it's nothing but a joke.

Yea, did it and clicked the sponsored link.
I wonder how much $$ flows from MS to Google per click.

I guess I'll have to repeat ;)

Yea, it runs on top of Debian, Mac OS X, Solaris and, no joke, Windows. ;)

I don't quite understand the euphoria. Tumors always grow from your own cells.
Note that foreign cells would be attacked by your immune system while these cells aren't. The cancer risk might well be higher.

that's no troll just joke ... have a nice day :)

Hey I didn't call them a thread per se! But in the special case of underground opposition in a totalitarian state (which is a valid use scenario for freenet et al.) it might be wise to *not* directly disclose your buddies by means of a simple text file. It would be sufficient, though, to share a list of trusted foreign peers.

The only point I want to make is that you should be aware of your tool's inherent limits. Or blatnly said: False anonymity is worse then no anonymity.

freenet (there is a dark net mode since version 7).

I remember people arguing dark mode being an anonymity thread itself. I case you computer is seized you and your 'friends' are immediately identified as part the of same conspirative group (based on client's friend list). Might rather be a problem in totalitarian systems where being suspicious is enough to face personal detriment (no pun intended).

Well!, Could! be! worse! like! SharePoint? :)

Yea, I know, s/hate/hates/

Who else hate the embedded exclamation mark ?

Thumbs up! Yea I was deflowerd by debian as well :) must have been around 1995, still in high school.
Well I checked the facts. Gentoo was released 2002 so I must have switched a bit later...

That also got me thinking. On Gentoo it seems to be possible to cross-re-compile the whole system and finally switch gcc to 64 bit. We'll see. Until now I didn't feel the need for 4 gigs of ram ;) No idea about debian, sorry.

You say it, in 2000 I set up a Gentoo system on one of those early Pentium III Notebooks. Yes, sure, it took me a couple of hours. But guess what, I still use it every day, exclusively. Just copied it from box to box over the years. So I'd say that time was quite a good investment ;)

In Germany we have a government payed open source site since 2000. They provide good service for free, to anybody and without commercial annoyances. I especially like the choice between CVS/SVN/Mercurial/GIT.

:-P

Not that I were affected personally, but how much will people pay to be allowed to up/down/evengrade from their just purchased Vista to Seven?