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Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000
Snake_Plisken writes "I checked Windows Update today on a lark and found that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 has been released." You can read a short CNet article discussing the media player patches as well as one more about
the fixes in SP4.
Mmmmmm...patching iceberg holes with cellophane tape. Thanks, Microsoft.
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OMG where has slashdot come to?
Instead of publishing every minor version release of linux, it also started publishing a story for every patch from microsoft.
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Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Excellent post and link.
Mod it up, Slashbots.
Do MS programmers get extra options if they release products with buffer overflows? It seems like every third security flaw is caused by buffer overflows.
TROLLING FOR SONGFIGHT!!!
this is very relevant, also topical: www.songfight.org is releasing an SP4 for YOUR ASS. please surf/listen.
tks.
Leading the partnership for a Slashdot-Free Slashdot, Son of Dog
and you have poopy smell and poopy on your dinky.
...is the one that gave Microsoft access to the system with power to add/remove software.
Bill Gates labelled this bug a "critial" security hole and asserted that its closing demostrates Microsofts commitment to secure computing.
"We want to ensure the public that we mean it when we call Windows the safest operating system in the world. And to continue to support this assertion, we began work today on Service Pack Five that will fix the security holes introduced with Service Pack Four," Gates said in an interview with the New York Times this morning.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
abortion
Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
Laws forbidding homosexual sex, once universal, now are rare. Those on the books are rarely enforced but underpin other kinds of discrimination, lawyers for two Texas men had argued to the court.
The men "are entitled to respect for their private lives," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote.
"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," he said.
Justices John Paul Stevens (news - web sites), David Souter (news - web sites), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (news - web sites) and Stephen Breyer (news - web sites) agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (news - web sites) agreed with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's rationale.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) dissented.
The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."
Although the majority opinion said the case did not "involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter," Scalia said the ruling invites laws allowing gay marriage.
"This reasoning leaves on shaky, pretty shaky grounds, state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples," Scalia wrote.
Thomas wrote separately to say that while he considers the Texas law at issue "uncommonly silly," he cannot agree to strike it down because he finds no general right to privacy in the Constitution.
Thomas calls himself a strict adherent to the actual words of the Constitution as opposed to modern-day interpretations. If he were a Texas legislator and not a judge, Thomas said, he would vote to repeal the law.
"Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult does not appear to be a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources," Thomas wrote.
The two men at the heart of the case, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner were each fined $200 and spent a night in jail for the misdemeanor sex charge in 1998.
The case began when a neighbor with a grudge faked a distress call to police, telling them that a man was "going crazy" in Lawrence's apartment. Police went to the apartment, pushed open the door and found the two men having anal sex.
"This ruling lets us get on with our lives and it opens the door for gay people all over the country," Lawrence said Thursday.
Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
"The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest mistakes and to replace that with a resounding statement," of gay civil rights, Harlow said.
"This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals."
As recently as 1960, every state had an anti-sodomy law. In 37 states, the statutes have been repealed by lawmakers or blocked by state courts.
Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four â" Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri â" prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.
The Supreme Court was widely criticized 17 years ago when it upheld an antisodomy law similar
Microsoft SP4 for WIndows 2000 ATE MY BALLS!
So, did this SP actually install without any errors?
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but i used it today for a couple hours, and had three crashes in that time.
FRA: STFU GTFO
The difference my friend is that GNU/Linux updates usually don't...
1. Require a reboot.
2. Hose your system (read: BSOD)
3. Come with EULAs.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
MS Windows 2000 and run it on a 64 bit processor?
I guess you'll have to pull your head out of your ass before you start posting comments.
Windows articles are supposed to be irrelevant on Slashdot. CmdrTaco has sunk to a new low here... we expect this B.S. from Hemos but not from Rob.
Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)
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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.
Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."
As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
Is this why you were touching your penis in
1. Please show me service pack, hotfix, o security update that does not require a reboot.
2. If you installed _every_ update (IE, rollups, patches, hot fixes, SPs) that Microsoft puts out (so that you can be 100% updated and not to blame for internet worms and viruses) you would see a lot of BSODs.
3. The GPL would never include the right to search and seize your computer equipment at will.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I think Microsoft can afford the bandwidth hit of us all downloading it individually.
/dev/null seems to be chugging along quite well.
Wow their generosity is astounding, it's not everyday you get something for free from the beast. For my part, I'm streaming it to
Thanks Microsoft, You occupy a special place in both my heart and null device.
you're a fucking moron. and not even a funny moron, at that. some morons on slashdolt are funny. but you're just a fucking ass. eat it.
Now get back to sucking my cock!
Slashdot is assimilated by Microsoft. You all MS fans...
bbbrrrrr I'm going to look for an other site
"Defect #24013: There's a post-it note icon on Internet Explorer 6 that is mileading. It looks like the notes icon in Outlook 2000." A lot of them are probably design considerations.
The GUI is confusing and misleading, but 63,000 problems? Come on, how many icons and groupings can a default win2k have wrong? I doubt they have 10,000 help pages. The rest of those errors are clearly software bugs the user does not see till a BSOD, rooting or something else squirlly happens. This is why Windoze 2000 can't run more than a few days in a row. It's riddled.
I wouldn't these types of statistics too seriously
Me neither. Trust your observations to tell you that software simply sucks. The statistic happens to agree with those observations.
63,000 is a huge number, but you have to remember that Windows runs on a very broad range of machines. Not only that, but there are tons and tons of people running it who are supplying defect reports.
Balderdash! Windows2000 runs on intel 386. Wince runs on ARM. That's it. What do you think this is, free software that's compiled to specific x86 processor families, Motorola, ARM, Alpha, Spark and just about every other modern processor? No, this is the borg one size fits all. You will not be able to apt-get nice new win32 software ever, you will always be at the mercy of the service patch that requires you to give up hope of privacy.
There'll be a day when Linux has that many defects, if it doesn't already. All it takes is complexity.
Pull your head out of your closed source place please. Free software has fewer bugs and does more than any dinky windoze distro will ever. The complextiy you are thinking of is a legacy of all the dirty tricks M$ used over the years to kill of software rivals. That does not exist in free software and never will. This is why free software PCs don't have to be turned off until the power fails.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
You are either a liar, or your machine has 96 viruses all trying to send mail out while you copy that file, in which case, you are an idiot. Which is it?