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Microsoft Discloses Security Flaws in XP and WMPlayer
An anonymous reader writes: "Salon is running a story on Microsoft's disclosure of a number of security flaws in WinXP and Windows Media Player, versions 6.4 and 7.1. The story also states that there are 2 critical vulnerabilities in Commerce Server 2000. Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?"
Nearly 6 Months and only #ERROR# root exploits in the default install...
Banged for your MS buck? Sure, just bend over for Bill...
Why, we'll make Rock Ridge think it was a chicken that got caught in a tractor's nuts!
This is most certainly not the way to get microsoft to donate $750 million to them.
Everything will be taken away from you.
INT, STORE, NIGHT. CUSTOMER walks into a near empty store, he steps through the doors cautiously, peering around curious as to where the hell the clerks are.
Customer: Hello..? uh... hello...? I want ta get a copy of Windows XP. Is anybody here?
CLERK, unseen: Is it safe?
Customer: Is what safe?
Clerk: Is it safe?
Customer, preturbed: Yes... It's safe. It's very safe...
Clerk: Is it safe?
Customer: Lissen! Are you going to come out, or what?
Clerk: Is it safe?
Customer: THIS ISN'T FUNNY!
Clerk 2: It puts the lotion on its skin and puts it in the basket.
Clerk: Shut up man. Is it safe? Is it safe? IS IT SAFE?
Customer: STOP IT! I JUST WANT A COPY OF WINDOWS XP! (Customer breaks down to the floor, sobbing) I just want a copy of XP...
Clerk: Is it safe?
Customer screams and runs out of the store, climbs into his car, which immediatley spins out and slams into a fire hydrant. The car bursts into flame. The customer bails from the car and runs down the darkened, abandoned street. He gets a half dozen steps from the car, and then he, illogically and without reason, bursts into flame himself.
Clerk 1: Thirty seconds, You owe me five bucks.
Clerk 2: I don't have five bucks.
Clerk 1: Take it from the register.
On-topic discussion part.
THEY TOLD ME IT WAS SAFE! I TRUSTED YOU MICROSOFT! I TRUSTED YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU! YOU BLEW IT UP, YOU MANIACS YOU BLEW IT UP!
"PokeySteve, are you drunk?"
"Yes, but on love.
And whisky.
But mainly whisky."
Why is it when I hit ^R that ZSH calls me a cocksucker?
Microsoft has also anounced that this is to be the last free patch. All subsequent security patches will be available only to registered users at $14.95 per user licence. Very fair price, after all you can't have programmers working for nothing, that would be unamerican.
Not wishing to be Flamebaity at all. MS have a lot of things severely wrong with them. For once they've dealt with an issue in timely fashion. This is not the Anti-MS rhetoric you're looking for.
Perhaps that is why this is news? eg. Man bites Dog, MS Fixes Security Flaw in Time?
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Umm...I think you've just been banged for your MS buck. :)
"In mathematics, it's not enough to read the words -- you have to hear the music"
Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?
I don't know about you, but I've paid $0 in my lifetime for MS software, so you could say I've gotten at least my share of bang. But I wouldn't say that. I'd say that MS owes me for forcing their way into an OS monopoly, therefore forcing me to use their Piece of Crap in order to use lots of apps I want to use (ie, games).
Love and kisses,
Jeff
Property is theft.
Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?
Oh please, when was the last time you actually bought a microsoft product?
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?
Timothy, you do every day. What would /. be without the daily "M$ sucks! Lets all post about how horrible M$ is!" story to increase those page loads?
Why, /. might actually have to talk about things of interest to geeks!
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
Most of them being independant music videos.
Is that what they're calling Pr0n these days?
Damn, I should get myself some music videos.
"If a Linux computer falls in a valley, does Slashdot make a sound?"
:)
Heh.
"Derp de derp."