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10-Day Patch Guarantee Not Mozilla's Policy
narramissic writes "Mozilla has officially backpedaled from a pledge made at Black Hat by the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within 'Ten ****ing Days.' On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10-day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.' And today, the open source browser maker issued a statement retracting the pledge."
Upon hearing the news of this "flip-flopping," President Bush confidently stepped in for the Mozilla group and challenged the black hats to "bring it on."
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See, that's what happens when you drink too much Bawlz (tm!) XD
I don't get it... what's with the stars?
...we still have companies like Google that can set good examples.
My mayor ran on the promising of "fixing any pothole within 24 hours of discovery."
Dude we could do with that kind of attitude here.
Except it'd be more like "I have a pot *hole* right here. In my pipe. Please fill it in. With pot. Thanks."
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Most Geeks feel very lucky if they get laid once a month or so. Therefore ten fucking days is about ten months or so. Should be able to roll out a patch in that time, especially since we get so many days to work on software rather than having sex.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Are the censored four letters "work"?
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Yes, like Microsoft, the Mozilla security chief will resort to insulting the competition. I expect he'll make many snyde remarks about Windows.
I hate printers.
As an aside, it always seems the network and hardware geeks are the ones who smoke pot, and the database and BSD guys who like their vodka. The C/C++/Java programmers (this is my category, usually) are chain smokers - Marlboro Reds in a soft pack style, and caffeine junkies. How many of you have a Mountain Dew can that you're drinking next to an empty Mountain Dew can - and both are still cold to the touch? Yeah - all the programmers.
And the Mac guys generally seem to be clean cut replicas of Jeff Goldblum, for the most part. They're health conscience, and probably taking on a good number of sunshine units from those freakin' 45 inch MacBook Pro screens as they tend to be fans of irony. Mac guys also probably currently have a half gallon of water, in a jogging harness, on their desks right now... probably the cleanest desks on
Oh, and I think the Amiga guys are in to acid or something - that's why they've been in their garages for the last 15 years hacking away. Poor guys don't even know their wife unplugged the monitor 3 years ago.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
That's totally... like, INSIGHTFUL!
They might have a long way to go, but every journey begins with that one little step and this definitely looks like that step...
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
If Steve Jobs got blasted on Jaeger and said the next-gen iPhone would be made of cheese, dairy commodities would shoot through the roof.
"My band, they sold out MAN. What a bunch of sellouts MAN. Before I was the only cool person to like this band, and now that they haven't changed and have become people, I can't use that to make myself seem really cool MAN."
Ugh. You just liked FF because no one was using it. You'll leave anything that becomes popular, because popular things can't be cool, MAN.
He plants trees.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Close: he directs people to plant trees.