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New IE Holes Discovered

joelt49 writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that 7 new security holes for Internet Explorer have been discovered by a Chinese researcher; however, there apparantly aren't any attacks on IE yet." The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.

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  1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    omg sweetie wtf omg ftp lolz omg!#11@!1!121! ! go pats!

  2. Re: Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah you keep telling yourself that fanboy, and we all know how friendly they are to their customers and the greatness of their products egh ?
    http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

  3. Re:I've been trying my best to switch people away by Alsee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's all about using the big words when you persuade them to switch.

    Yes, I've had excellect luck with supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

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  4. pateNTdead eyecon0meter: stuff that really matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nov. 'net traffic up 4-5%, from multi-month lows.

    user search terms requested are not matching buyassed results. users search elsewhere.

    chips ARE a dime a dozen? software IS 'free'? must be the gnu millennium kicking in?

    any other 'pr' 'firm' scriptdead hypenosys notion of any other scarcity, is also total spew.

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the execrabilious perpetraitors of the life0cide against the creators' planet/population, will not be available to make reparations, as the big flash is underway.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators... you call this weather?

  5. Re:Incident response times by JohnFluxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So how do you get around if there is a problem in say the kernel? Or your bios?

  6. Re:Incident response times by Troed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The USA is only interested in building a pipeline across Afghanistan, and controlling the Iraqi oil reserves. If you really think the USA cares about stopping mass murders you really need to get out more - and maybe listen to some non-US news sources. Did you know that the USA regulary overthrow valid demotratically elected governments just because their political agenda doesn't suit the US?

    Do yourself a favour, and read this

  7. Re:Incident response times by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Who's killing thousands of people a day? Let's see the proof. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here and call in to question the belief that Saddam is killing innocent people every day. He's a butcher in wartime, but he would never have gassed the Kurds if the US didn't give him the weapons to do so.

    Terrorism is a tactic used heavily by powerful governments; Nero burnt Rome, Hitler burnt the Reichstag, etc. It is actually very seldom employed by guerilla organizations.

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  8. Re:Incident response times by Minna+Kirai · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're a bitch for thinking the USA is terrorists.

    The US, like every nation with a victorious army, uses fear and terror to get what they want. Scaring enemies into cooperation by killing some of them is considered morally superior to the alternative of shooting them all.

    stopping a bitch from killing thousands of people in a single day isn't terror its good

    Nobody has killed more people (130,000) with a single bomb than a US pilot.

  9. Re:Incident response times by toddler99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i still *think* your being self centered. To say that a collection of people just flat don't care is a hugely overly simplistic view of the world and so probably you need to get out more.

    1. you don't know me so how can you say i've never gotten out? or should get out more? For that matter I don't know you so i can't say that either.
    2. you're passing judgement on me without even knowing me. you're classifing large bodies of people without ever getting to know each. (one might so well this is the best we can) you're wrong!! you can't judge period. You only hope for the best and take action when you can. and then keep on hoping. so long as people are reasonable shit gets done and people don't get killed
    3. I really believe that usa can make a difference in iraq and its better then having shitty sadam killing thousands of people and in general being a greedy little bitch. different from the sometimes slimmy amercan businessmen.


    you realize of course we could go back and forth on this all day and that it really won't result in anything.
    i think we can agree that shit is hitting the fan in iraq and lets just hope the end result is good for both iraqies and americans, cause after all we'd all like to live in the world together so we can fuck a lot and make babies and spending many meaningless hours posting to slashdot when we should be coding and inventing

  10. Re:Incident response times by toddler99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The US, like every nation with a victorious army, uses fear and terror to get what they want. Scaring enemies into cooperation by killing some of them is considered morally superior to the alternative of shooting them all. Fact: prisonor realizes that he can use religion as a means of coercing youth into believing that dieing for their cause is worthy. his idea is simple entreched soldiers run but can have the courage to pull a trigger and kill themselves in just a single moment they will achieve that simple goal. Nobody has killed more people (130,000) with a single bomb than a US pilot. that's true so how many times did we do that again and with what frequency? were we rational when we did it? I think the point is we all want to play with our computers and fuck. so, we need to step back for a second and try to look at things in prespective.

    1. ms is evil
    2. blowing ourselves up to kill others in the name of religion is a bunch of crap.
    3. if we want to change something its typically better to work with that system then to work against it. (i.e. lobbiest not bombs get the US to do things for you) (i.e. creating GUI's similar to MS apps gets people to be comfy with'em and switch)

    i want people to be happy and live comfy with choices
    i was crying when i heard about us troops havin to leav their families.
    really sad shit It sickens me when i think of how many families are now broken in iraq. i just hope the shit will settle so they can start playing too...