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Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing
Update: 03/24 18:00 GMT by J : Another report worth reading is Writing Software Right, which requires a free but annoying registration at Technology Review. This regards automated methods of finding software errors (not security specifically). Sun's "Jackpot" is discussed, a lint that also "identifies general instances of good or bad programming."
And Microsoft's efforts in this field are explained as well -- the company "paid more than $60 million in 1999 to acquire Intrinsa, maker of a bug-finding tool called Prefix. The program, which sifts through huge swaths of code searching for patterns that match a defined list of common semantic errors, helped find thousands of mistakes in Windows and other Microsoft products." As a Microsoft QA person says, "Our challenge is to get our software to the point that people expect it to work instead of expecting it to fail."
They are also doing this at Hull Uni which is a hell of nicer place than Leeds.
Check out the knowwhere guide's view on this horrible place.
I would paste a quote, but there is too many... take a look and NEVER GO TO LEEDS!
You think you're so fucking clever huh? Tell me, how exactly would you have solved the situation? Never ending inspections? That's what the pathetic international community was driving at, so fuck you. It's time to rejoin reality. War has it's place, and Bush knows it.
# George W. Bush, "Diplomacy and Coalition Building"
I guess a coalition of 30 countries isn't good enough? Exactly how many countries were in the coalition when Clinton attacked Iraq, and Yugoslavia?
I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
So this is how they are going to make hackers obsolete by turning them into bunch of MCSEs.
We've finally found the cause of all of Microsoft's security woes. I knew they'd do it, there investigative procedures are second to none. Microsoft's security audit has found that the problem with Windows is CS students.
Carpe Daemon
It would be like the french teaching a course on how to fight a war. We know the french are the last people to throw the white flags in the air and let the German military invade. Costing countless American lives to liberate them and drive out the Nazi invaders.....
I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
...is beer shit!And it's so _fruity_! The best thing of all is knowing that my roommate is desperate to use the can after me! Hahahaha! He'll probably puke! I might leave him a floater just to make sure.
I hope on the way back from mcdonalds that your SUV blows a tire and squishes you, ya fat, violent, stupid american.
"But, hey, anything to insult MS, right?" ... Yup.
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You know... you can SUCK IT!!! You are a stupid geek who will never have a clue of how to get a girl like me off!! Fuck You!!! (Wait two minutes)...
suggesting Microsorft outsource this function.
My husband told me about what a bitch you are. Now I am here to fuck with you asswipe. My karma is in the basement now, so I don't give a crap. Go fuck yourself you pathetic wimp. No woman would ever want to touch your pathetic little earthworm. You fucking asshole.
"But, hey, anything to insult MS, right?"
Nah, no sport in it. Like hunting cows with a machine gun...
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