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Slashback: Gopherectomy, Portacinema, Disunity
Throwing the gopher out with the bathwater. An Anonymous Coward writes: "As reported on News.com and discussed on Slashdot, MSIE's gopher support had a serious security vulnerability that allowed your machine to get ROOT'ed.
Well, it seems that Microsoft is unwilling or unable to make the fix, so it is removing support for the gopher protocol from IE. Not that MSIE's gopher support isn't very poorly implemented anyways."
Kept out of the U.S. by the secret conspiracy, no doubt. Buggalo writes "When I saw the article about the Pogo Flipster I thought I'd mention this too. Of course, it's not available in the US (not yet at least), but it sounds cool anyway. It plays MP4 video as well as MP3 audio. One thing that differentiates it from the Flipster is that this one includes video inputs so you don't even need a computer to get anything onto it. It also seems to have a larger screen. From what I can tell it has 64 megs of flash memory built in, and has an SD memory card slot as well. Sorry the website is in Japanese, but you can use Babelfish to translate it."
Not betting on a United front. dgb2n writes "Smart Money Magazine published an excellent article covering the business implications of the United Linux consortium. It provides some good insight into Red Hat's business model, stock price, and future prospects and names a potential winner in the Linux market."
At least this one aspect is happy. Hellkitten writes "The password for the database has been found, it was as simple as 'ladepujd', the name of the database's creator spelt backwards This previous Slashdot article explains the problem they had.
Aasentunet posted this notice, telling the password and thanking everyone that helped"
ZDNet has the story here as well."
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Now if only my employer would agree to let me fix all the security holes in W2K by UNINSTALLING. I can dream, can't I?
Next thing you know, they'll drop support for 75 baud cradle modems. Damn Microsoft! Damn them all to hell!!!!
The password for the database has been found, it was as simple as 'ladepujd', the name of the database's creator spelt backwards
thats not a very smart choice of password, using your name.
at least it wasn't 'god' or 'sex'
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
are you sure that's the name spelled backwards? spelling it 'djupedal' looks more backwards to me
"Teachers leave us kids alone
Bill Gates wearing full Viking armor and singing "Kill the GO-PHER, Kill the GO-PHER, Kill the GO-PHER!!!" to the tune of "Ride of the Valkyries." ;-)
"djupedal" has proved inspirational. I've been looking for a new Slashdot ID....
(complete reposting, for the parent is an AC)
Right, so there's a big conspiracy for Microsoft to create bloated software to force hardware upgrades. Right. And that's why IE 5.x was slimmed down and much faster than the old IE4? Hrm, looks like that right there breaks your argument. But go ahead and continue believing in the conspiracy theory, because it's apparently a lot more interesting than believing that Microsoft will add and remove features based on real criteria, like customer demand and usefulness.
"The institute now keeps copies of all its passwords locked in a safe."
And where do they keep the code or key to the safe?
Why should IE continue to support Gopher?
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"Welcome to Internet Explorer. With this you can easily go everywhere on the Internet. Except for sites which have protocols that we have problems with implementing(*). Have a nice day.
(*) This is everything except FTP and HTTP. Even if there are problems with the implementation of FTP and/or HTTP, we will not remove them(**).
(**) This will happen after we've implemented the MS-PPTP(***) into our IIS servers and have replaced TCP/IP with the MS-PITY(****).
(***) Microsoft Private Propriatary[sp] Transfer Protocol is a trademark of
(****) Microsft Protocol for Internet TechnologY is a trademark of
bash$
Fortunately for Microsoft, the Gopher implementation in IE was inextricably integrated with Windows. I guess only the HTTP part of IE can not be removed without breaking the whole operating system.
tato (and tato only)
This post is strictly opinion, including the spelling.
This reminds me of an old joke by George Carlin (or at least I think it was Carlin).
Newscaster:
A man got on to an eastbound bus and killed three people. He then took a transfer, got onto a westbound bus and killed two more people.
As a result, bus authorities say they will eliminate the transfer system.
it was as simple as 'ladepujd', the name of the database's creator spelt backwards
What an idiot. I, an 31337 hax0r, am much smarter. My password, "78sne4ml;w" is composed of random characters, which nobody would ever guess. Lam3r.
c-hack.com |
Good thing my name's not Bob.
--It's Pimptastic!--
How about "Drat, I sold those!"?
-Justin
That's enough posting for now lads, there're trolls afoot.
Wait no forget that. Let's not tell anyone I said that eh?
So it took them what, maybe an hour to figure this out? but the plea has been circulating for several days...
It's been true since I can remember: the larger the audience from which you beg a clue, the sooner you'll find it yourself, and the dumber you'll look because of it!
How much ya wanna bet the folks who panicked wish they had just asked one or two buddies to help them out? :-D
Bill Gates in no way resembles a loud, fat, big breasted nordic messenger of doom.
It had to be Balmer.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
They ought to just hire Bill Murray and be done with the problem. (Hey, it wouldn't be any worse than anything else they've done...)
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Is that what you have to do after a felching accident?