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Slow Down the Security Patch Cycle?

Ant writes "Computerworld has an editorial article about slowing down, not speeding up, patch releases."

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  1. I HEAR THERE'S THIS NEW FANGLED MACHINE CALLED... by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..a computer! And man is it supposed to do wonders fer security. It's much more flexible than machines made before it because it isn't fixed in what it does. With the appropriate instructions this consarned machine might even make coffee for you one day folks! I hear tell that this machine can do millions of things a second. One of them millions of things is monitoring your network for break-ins and infections. Hehehehe... well I'll tell ya, what good is a machine that can do a million things a seconds or more when I've only got two hands and a gun! But, these here innovators at some new place that just set up a shingle in town are trying to get folks interested in something called Winders. They say it's more secure than Fort Knox on a Orange Alert day in June! I guess in some way, it kind of gives you millions of hands to control all the levers and pulleys in this here computer but you only have to use one or two hands. Them smart alecks might just have something there. But then again what do I know? I'm just a simple farmboy from Columbus Ohio. (That's A-hya to you furiners!) Bee-sides... what the heck am I supposed to do with my gun rack when these odd little boxes ain't big enough to stick one on 'em? Oh yeah, I also heard there's also some commie idiots who's got designs on the machine as well. Some guys named Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. I'm tellin' ya, I just don't like the sound a them two boy's names. What kinda names are Torvalds and Stallman anyways? I don't think they're good christian Americans. We gotta keep this country safe from them there terrorists and if'n security is gonna be a big deal, then we can't be havin' none o them un-christian gypsie makin' these machines! It just wouldn't be secure! Something's rotten in Denmark if'n ya ask me. So we have to be careful and make sure no dirty commie or devil worshipper gets their hands on one of these here computers. After all if the devil will find work for idle hands, imagine what satan would do with millions of idle hands in a computer!

    [Pop tongue out of cheek now]

  2. OT Columbus OH LOL by dmaxwell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They don't call it a cowtown for nothing. Where else outside of Texas can you drive through major shopping districts and see cows and horses out pasturing?