I'm not sure what you said, but I'm pretty sure the stock price dropping below $1 and being delisted is not a good thing. I don't think it much matters if it is the cause or the effect of the company's impending doom.
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It was a joke.. I was 8 years old, and it was much easier saying doctor than digital research! Christ!
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I used Doctor Dos for a while. Alot of software took a shit with it. Eventually I was forced to move to MS-DOS! I don't think the PC world was ready for variants of the same operating system at that point. Unfortuently for Digital Research, that spelled its impending doom!
My question still remains, if a new flaw in IIS, the kernel or any other part of the OS is found how long are we supposed to wait for a fix?
What do you feel would be a reasonable time? A day? A week? Two weeks? Determine what is acceptable for you, and have it written into your Service Agreement.
After September 11th we were calling EMC for tech support on our Symetrix and we were basically told get in line. They had richer customers to support first.
Unhappy with your service? Can you find better elsewhere? If so, make the change. If not let someone in their management know that you are unhappy. Be persistant. Yell and scream!
Other than that I suggest you look through this thread for suggestion about how to protect your expensive datacenter server with firewalls and other common network security.
for agreeing with me, but you didn't have to do it in such a hostile manner. I'm not blaming MS. I think MS gets a bum wrap. Of course if you have such a large installed user base, you are going to run into more public problems than an OS with a relativly small user base most of which are techies.
I think something that both Microsoft and the OEM's count on is the time it takes from the time a bug is found until the time the bug is exploited! In the case of Code Red and Nimda I think that time spanned months.
Is it not also true that only large OEMs offer Datacenter? I don't think you are going to have a huge problem with the likes of Compaq or Dell providing timely fixes. It may not be available the same day the Microsoft Fix is, but I would be guessing that MS provides enough info to the OEMs to get the fix applied within 3-5 days.
All in all I think the amount you need to worry shouldn't be more than the satisfaction you can get from a 99.999% guarentee
What is the best way to break into the political scene without leaving our technical roots. I've always dreamed of being a high-tech lobbiest or advisor. Do you need a law degree or degree in political science? Can starting as a volunteer allow you to work your way up the ladder? Where do I start?
I'm sorry, but I have to argue this point. Everyone on the 'net got hit by Nimda. Maybe you wern't directly compromised, but you certainly were affected to some degree by the insane amount of network traffic generated by this thing.
He may have been affected by the virus, but ditching IIS would not have solved this. That is unless everyone in the entire world stopped using IIS. And as long as Microsoft is in business -- that won't happen. So his point was that his server wasn't comprimised, and therefore his operation ran as smoothly as any other server would have been under the same circumstances.
Yeah I spent a semester implementing a simple card game we had designed in a software engineering class. There was AI involved and no graphics (although graphics could easily be dropped on top because everything was in nice little classes). It still took me an entire semester and the game sucked. Oh well!
That is a good idea. Someone should write up a very professional letter that outlines why these backdoors are a bad idea. Post it on slashdot, and make it easier for us all to intelligently talk to our representitives!
The small company that I currently work for seems to take the same stance. Our final product for each customer is very customized, but that has us adding a bunch of fields the database that only one customer will you. All of the other customers end up with either a default value or NULL in those fields. This isn't a huge problem when you only have 10 customers, but at some point we will have hundreds of customers, which will lead to a ton of unused space and greater inefficiencies in our database. Am I missing a simple solution to this problem? Or do I keep adding fields to get the job done and worry about efficiency down the road when it finally becomes a problem? Any incite?
This is not your typical Mozilla bug. It can not be found in any single release, yet when mass numbers of Mozilla users all go to Bugzilla server simotaniously, the bugzilla server seems to take a shit!
That is funny because for the most part I'm not a huge supporter of open source. But this is one case where I think it should be used. You would literally have millions of people checking out the code for the election software. I would venture to say that many of the people looking at it would be honest and report any security flaws.
I'm not usually a promoter of open source, because I believe in the right for people to make money. If they want to do it via closed source software, good for them. If they think they can do it using open source software, good for them too. I don't think that either should be pushed on anyone, yet it should be the decision of the software maker. (See, RedHat and Microsoft can live in harmony.) There is no profit to be made from elections though, so make it open and make it safe.
Disclaimer: I'm very drunk right now. If this didn't make sense.. Oh well, go fuck yourselves!:)
But in NY they atleast check your signature against the signature you provided for your drivers license. Not that they care if they look the same, but they are there side-by-side!
well.. they acknowledge people who found the bugs.
Acknowledgments
Microsoft thanks the following people for working with us to protect customers:
John Waters of Deloitte and Touche for reporting the MIME type denial of service vulnerability.
The NSFocus Security Team (http://www.nsfocus.com) for reporting the SSI privilege elevation vulnerability.
Oded Horovitz of Entercept(TM) Security Technologies (http://www.entercept.com) for reporting the system file listing privilege elevation vulnerability.
My only problem was that he tried to act as if it wasn't a political choice. I totally agree you have to pick the battles to fight. And this probably wasn't the best one for him to hold strong on. But don't tell me it was a decision you based on morals and christian values when everyone knows it was based on opinion polls and political strategy.
but I think he made the best political decision! This should appease some of the moderates that would have totally abandoned him if he had banned the research completely. The dems would have only been happy if he had given the bank away for the funding. If he had done that though, he would have lost the people on the far right, and probably much of the red map. Now nobody is too pissed off at him.
The only thing that troubles me is that he is trying to play this off as if it wasn't a political decision, but a personal one. He heard moving stories from both sides, but when it came down to it he went with the best political position he could take. If he had gone with his gut he would have kept his campaign promise!
I'm a bit of a geek myself, but wouldn't it be better if the children of the world were a little bit more well rounded. I don't want to see any meat heads run the world, but at the same time I don't want someone that only knows Quake and sendmail to be on top of the chain either.
I think it would benefit the world if children were well rounded! Technical skills, People Skills, along with things like a social life are all important!
My prediction is that.NET is going to be the end of MS--it will fail when people realize they're paying more--a lot more--for less.
Your prediction is wrong. The more I hear and see of.NET, the more brilliant I think it is. As a web application developer, I find many of the features of.NET (support for multiple languages, cross-platform, cross-browser) to be exactly what I am looking for. Microsoft will go on whether you like it or not!
I was one of the clueless ones who didn't know what the hell Audrey was. So I didn't really feel like visiting the links. But apparently it is some sort of internet appliance that 3COM made, but then discontinued. Fun Times!
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I'm not sure what you said, but I'm pretty sure the stock price dropping below $1 and being delisted is not a good thing. I don't think it much matters if it is the cause or the effect of the company's impending doom.
It was a joke.. I was 8 years old, and it was much easier saying doctor than digital research! Christ!
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I used Doctor Dos for a while. Alot of software took a shit with it. Eventually I was forced to move to MS-DOS! I don't think the PC world was ready for variants of the same operating system at that point. Unfortuently for Digital Research, that spelled its impending doom!
HUNT THE WuMPuS!
My question still remains, if a new flaw in IIS, the kernel or any other part of the OS is found how long are we supposed to wait for a fix?
What do you feel would be a reasonable time? A day? A week? Two weeks? Determine what is acceptable for you, and have it written into your Service Agreement.
After September 11th we were calling EMC for tech support on our Symetrix and we were basically told get in line. They had richer customers to support first.
Unhappy with your service? Can you find better elsewhere? If so, make the change. If not let someone in their management know that you are unhappy. Be persistant. Yell and scream!
Other than that I suggest you look through this thread for suggestion about how to protect your expensive datacenter server with firewalls and other common network security.
Imagine the screams from the slashdot community if the machines patched themselves. It would be hearlded as an invasion of privacy.
for agreeing with me, but you didn't have to do it in such a hostile manner. I'm not blaming MS. I think MS gets a bum wrap. Of course if you have such a large installed user base, you are going to run into more public problems than an OS with a relativly small user base most of which are techies.
I think something that both Microsoft and the OEM's count on is the time it takes from the time a bug is found until the time the bug is exploited! In the case of Code Red and Nimda I think that time spanned months.
Is it not also true that only large OEMs offer Datacenter? I don't think you are going to have a huge problem with the likes of Compaq or Dell providing timely fixes. It may not be available the same day the Microsoft Fix is, but I would be guessing that MS provides enough info to the OEMs to get the fix applied within 3-5 days.
All in all I think the amount you need to worry shouldn't be more than the satisfaction you can get from a 99.999% guarentee
Where are you from that you pronounce "polish", PAW-lish?
What is the best way to break into the political scene without leaving our technical roots. I've always dreamed of being a high-tech lobbiest or advisor. Do you need a law degree or degree in political science? Can starting as a volunteer allow you to work your way up the ladder? Where do I start?
I'm sorry, but I have to argue this point. Everyone on the 'net got hit by Nimda. Maybe you wern't directly compromised, but you certainly were affected to some degree by the insane amount of network traffic generated by this thing.
He may have been affected by the virus, but ditching IIS would not have solved this. That is unless everyone in the entire world stopped using IIS. And as long as Microsoft is in business -- that won't happen. So his point was that his server wasn't comprimised, and therefore his operation ran as smoothly as any other server would have been under the same circumstances.
Yeah I spent a semester implementing a simple card game we had designed in a software engineering class. There was AI involved and no graphics (although graphics could easily be dropped on top because everything was in nice little classes). It still took me an entire semester and the game sucked. Oh well!
That is a good idea. Someone should write up a very professional letter that outlines why these backdoors are a bad idea. Post it on slashdot, and make it easier for us all to intelligently talk to our representitives!
The small company that I currently work for seems to take the same stance. Our final product for each customer is very customized, but that has us adding a bunch of fields the database that only one customer will you. All of the other customers end up with either a default value or NULL in those fields. This isn't a huge problem when you only have 10 customers, but at some point we will have hundreds of customers, which will lead to a ton of unused space and greater inefficiencies in our database. Am I missing a simple solution to this problem? Or do I keep adding fields to get the job done and worry about efficiency down the road when it finally becomes a problem? Any incite?
Bug #96747
This is not your typical Mozilla bug. It can not be found in any single release, yet when mass numbers of Mozilla users all go to Bugzilla server simotaniously, the bugzilla server seems to take a shit!
I wonder why???
That is funny because for the most part I'm not a huge supporter of open source. But this is one case where I think it should be used. You would literally have millions of people checking out the code for the election software. I would venture to say that many of the people looking at it would be honest and report any security flaws.
:)
I'm not usually a promoter of open source, because I believe in the right for people to make money. If they want to do it via closed source software, good for them. If they think they can do it using open source software, good for them too. I don't think that either should be pushed on anyone, yet it should be the decision of the software maker. (See, RedHat and Microsoft can live in harmony.) There is no profit to be made from elections though, so make it open and make it safe.
Disclaimer: I'm very drunk right now. If this didn't make sense.. Oh well, go fuck yourselves!
But in NY they atleast check your signature against the signature you provided for your drivers license. Not that they care if they look the same, but they are there side-by-side!
well.. they acknowledge people who found the bugs.
Acknowledgments
Microsoft thanks the following people for working with us to protect customers:
John Waters of Deloitte and Touche for reporting the MIME type denial of service vulnerability.
The NSFocus Security Team (http://www.nsfocus.com) for reporting the SSI privilege elevation vulnerability.
Oded Horovitz of Entercept(TM) Security Technologies (http://www.entercept.com) for reporting the system file listing privilege elevation vulnerability.
But does MySQL support Sub-selects?
My only problem was that he tried to act as if it wasn't a political choice. I totally agree you have to pick the battles to fight. And this probably wasn't the best one for him to hold strong on. But don't tell me it was a decision you based on morals and christian values when everyone knows it was based on opinion polls and political strategy.
but I think he made the best political decision! This should appease some of the moderates that would have totally abandoned him if he had banned the research completely. The dems would have only been happy if he had given the bank away for the funding. If he had done that though, he would have lost the people on the far right, and probably much of the red map. Now nobody is too pissed off at him.
The only thing that troubles me is that he is trying to play this off as if it wasn't a political decision, but a personal one. He heard moving stories from both sides, but when it came down to it he went with the best political position he could take. If he had gone with his gut he would have kept his campaign promise!
I'm a bit of a geek myself, but wouldn't it be better if the children of the world were a little bit more well rounded. I don't want to see any meat heads run the world, but at the same time I don't want someone that only knows Quake and sendmail to be on top of the chain either.
I think it would benefit the world if children were well rounded! Technical skills, People Skills, along with things like a social life are all important!
My prediction is that .NET is going to be the end of MS--it will fail when people realize they're paying more--a lot more--for less.
.NET, the more brilliant I think it is. As a web application developer, I find many of the features of .NET (support for multiple languages, cross-platform, cross-browser) to be exactly what I am looking for. Microsoft will go on whether you like it or not!
Your prediction is wrong. The more I hear and see of
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I was one of the clueless ones who didn't know what the hell Audrey was. So I didn't really feel like visiting the links. But apparently it is some sort of internet appliance that 3COM made, but then discontinued. Fun Times!