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TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You

Posted by michael on from the bait-and-switch dept.

Cringely can string some words together from time to time, and this week's installment is a pretty good one. He's been reading a little too much Gibson (raw sockets have nothing to do with the spread of MSTD [?] 's), but overall, he's probably right. When the time is ripe, I think we'll see a move exactly like this.

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  1. Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This guy is a complete and utter idiot.

  2. Hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would of had first post if it wasn't for these niggers trying to steal my TV.

  3. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard sad news on the radio - Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.

  4. Re:I am the best! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You reek of spork_testicle.

  5. Re:Oh god, not another. by Agent+Green · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Raw sockets, like Code Red, have been blown entirely out of proportion. In fact, the problem lies with those "unprivledged" users without any knowledge that open up attachments from nearly anyone.

    Personally, I turn off the "hide known file extensions." I wonder how many people open up those .vbs email attachments becasue they don't see that it is a .vbs attachment.

    This isn't the first, or the last security hype that we'll see. As far as I'm concerned, it all started with the Michaelangelo virus that went around about 10 years or so ago. The world didn't end then...and it's not going to end now.

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    // Agent Green (Ian / IU7 / KB1JQO)
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  6. Re:How DID they do that? by Detritus · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Backslash instead of slash in paths... / for options instead of - (remember switchchar? ..someone took it out) CR/LF instead of NL. ^Z as EOF. blah, blah. I wonder how many of these are deliberate?

    Most of those things were inherited from CP/M, a popular operating system for 8080 and Z-80 microprocessors. MS-DOS was originally an 8086 clone of CP/M.

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