Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever

darryl24 writes "Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry. But a bold statement can only go so far, and much of this week's conference has been spent reinforcing that point. Microsoft also acknowledges that nothing is infallible when it comes to computer security. In turn, the company has employed black hat hackers for what is called a penetration, or pen, test team."

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Re:Microsoft + Stupid Claims = ...

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Re:This is known as "the big lie"

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1 .Iraq has WMD.

Let's see... that would be the lie that Saddam's own weapons people were telling him. Or weren't you paying attention to those details? Certainly the intel agencies across the globe thought they were still there. You know, the ones that we saw giant piles of on multiple inspections, and which his regime refused to explain away, in terms of where they all went (not counting the truck caravans going into Syria, of course).

2. Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

The only people spouting that one are the people trying to say it often enough to make people believe that the US government actually said that... the better to make political points against the same. In other words, you are the one saying that, so that you can point out how not true it is. In the meantime, the people actually dealing with the problem went to Afghanistan, where the people who did it were actually being sheltered. Of course, the Taliban and A-Q did have regular contact with Saddam's intel people, but that was just on matters of routine cash, weapons, and operating territory. But getting rid of him was every bit as important as denying Taliban shelter to A-Q. Especially since he had things like "annex neighboring countries" and "lob SCUDs at Israel" on his regular to-do list. Oh, and publicly making large payments to the families of terrorist bombers, gassing whole villages, bulldozing mass graves, that sort of thing. You do actually comprehend this stuff, right? I mean, you're just pretending you don't know it, to score shallow rhetorical points, right?

3. Profit! (for big business, at least)

And which large companies, employing hundreds of thousands of people and providing services that small businesses cannot provide, would you like to see operating at a loss? How would you replace them when they fail? Would you have small mom-and-pop antibiotic manufacturers? Neighborhood hybrid car factories run by families with 10 employees? Motherboards made by hand with soldering irons? Aircraft made by the great grandchildren of the Wright brothers in the same bicycle shop? Natural gas pumped and transported a few gallons at a time in backpacks? Oh... you're the type that would rather the government did all of that. Well, just come out and say it, then. That's so much more straight forward than hoping that people will see your BS is just a callow, sarcastic charade.

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