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WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently

Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a memo to employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's number-one priority. Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the news that Microsoft.com went down last night. And now, the company has "extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight. Related news: Windows Update says you're protected, but maybe you're not; WU.com briefly ran Linux, heh; worm variant with clever "anatomical term."

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  1. moron liars touts & shills 0 my by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's all phonIE fauxking georgewellian fuddite payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup FraUD execrable.

    the lights are coming up now (no pun intended).

    the stars were quite visible for folks who almost never see them, last night.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.

    cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.

    no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.

    the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.

    pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.

    each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.

    pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.

    good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.

  2. Re:Power outage related to Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who modded this Insightful????

    What is this? Slash-clueless?

  3. Re:really... by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    or it shows you are a troll, which is it?

    Translation: "I can't articulate an intelligent response to the point you made, so I'll just call you a 'troll' and see if it sticks with the mods."

  4. placeholder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wtf?

  5. OT: is PGP secure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, is PGP secure? Can the NSA read your mail?

  6. Re:really... by PeteyG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Translation: "I can't articulate an intelligent response to the point you made, so I'll just call you a 'troll' and see if it sticks with the mods."

    A classic troll response, if I've ever heard one! Ha!

    Just kidding.

    --
    no thanks
  7. Re:really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT. YBL. HAND.