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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?"
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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Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?
Oh please, when was the last time you actually bought a microsoft product?
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