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Uber-patch for Internet Explorer

Posted by michael on from the repatch-and-sin-no-more dept.

malevolence writes: "According to The Register, Microsoft has released an Uber-Patch for Internet Explorer that fixes all known security problems, as well as 3 new ones, including the content-type issue that was reported on slashdot a few days ago."

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  1. who cares? by mosch · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I hate to bitch that slashdot sucks, because everybody knows that, but who cares about this patch? This isn't a fix to Mozilla, Konqueror, Lynx, Opera or any of the other pieces of software that slashdotters actually use.

    Why does a fix to a program that nobody here uses, written by a company that everybody here hates matter?

  2. M$ is a string variable by yerricde · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe "M$" is childish name calling.

    M$ is a name for a string variable in a language that Bill Gates and Microsoft popularized on early 8-bit home computers. This language was Basic. This code works on Applesoft Basic (the Basic interpreter included with Apple II) and QBasic (the Basic interpreter included with MS-DOS until about 7.1). I haven't tried it on Visual Basic.

    10 M$ = "HELLO WORLD"
    20 PRINT M$
    --
    Will I retire or break 10K?