Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots

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Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots

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I don't even have words except that it's people like this that keep me employed.

Via Slashdot
"Testing students at a University, psychologists made many of them click on a dialog box that in effect said: 'You are about to install some malware. Malware is bad. By clicking yes you are failing the Windows Darwin Test.' Nearly half of them said all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs."
Full story at Ars Technica
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:picard:

didn't get to read the article. service unavailable. but I certainly understand what it will say.
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the computer who popped-up wolf? :wiggle:
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