Say I use Linux and say I don't care to know how every part of the kernel works. Canonical tells me that there are no security bugs of which they are aware, and when one surfaces they fix it in a timely fashion.
Okay, now let's say that (hypothetically, of course) that they knew of an exploit that was being used in the wild but when they allowed me to download their ISO they kept quiet about this because they didn't want to hurt their reputation as a secure platform and figured they could just fix it quietly in the next release.
In this situation I could generally recover any damages stemming from the exploit because its existence was fraudulently concealed from me. Just like if a car is known to blow up in certain conditions it is the manufacturer's duty to inform their consumers, if software has potentially dangerous flaws in it.
This deal assumes that people will use anything other than Google. There is no difference between zero dollars times 93 percent and zero dollars times 83 percent.
Together they will have 30% of the market share. How is that zero dollars?
Remember when Chevrolet announced that they were going to release the Volt, a similar all-electric car?
Of course, the climate (chuckle chuckle) has changed in the industry so we'll see. But still, I'll believe it when I see it actually go into manufacturing.
Slashdot Mirror
Grammar fail on the last sentence. But you know what I mean.
Say I use Linux and say I don't care to know how every part of the kernel works. Canonical tells me that there are no security bugs of which they are aware, and when one surfaces they fix it in a timely fashion.
Okay, now let's say that (hypothetically, of course) that they knew of an exploit that was being used in the wild but when they allowed me to download their ISO they kept quiet about this because they didn't want to hurt their reputation as a secure platform and figured they could just fix it quietly in the next release.
In this situation I could generally recover any damages stemming from the exploit because its existence was fraudulently concealed from me. Just like if a car is known to blow up in certain conditions it is the manufacturer's duty to inform their consumers, if software has potentially dangerous flaws in it.
Of course not. The article was terrible.
If you read the report from a better news source you'll learn that this only applies to fraudulent concealment of bugs, not simply their existence.
I don't understand why Microsoft forces their customers to update to Internet Explorer 7, I'm sure a lot of people like Internet Explorer 6 just fine.
My install completed a few minutes ago, and it's definitely much snappier!
What are the units on that measurement? ;-)
Sigh, until the IEEE approves "snaps per second" we're all just going to have to rely on subjective values..
Well, you're not supposed to use the "final" update with the "tinfoil hat" update.
Indeed, I am installing that now. 165 MB is pretty good as far as Mac updates are concerned. Maybe they stole Google's new updating technology?
Too bad these developers don't know how to write good unit tests... This could have been avoided..
That's unfair. I'm all about unit tests and they do help find bugs, but a unit test isn't going to find a precisely-crafted piece of malicious input.
We've reduced 300m-year-old life to the graphics of an 80s video game.
Thanks, science.
Yo dawg, I herd you like search, so I put this search engine in a search engine.
This deal assumes that people will use anything other than Google. There is no difference between zero dollars times 93 percent and zero dollars times 83 percent.
Together they will have 30% of the market share. How is that zero dollars?
Yeah, but it'll come back to bite them when 2010 is the year of the Linux desktop.
I have proof of this! Just check out the magnets they are using for the LHC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LHC_quadrupole_magnets.jpg
They should open the code
Oh, please don't tell me you've managed to turn a drug-testing device into a FOSS debate.
And by "fixed the patch" I mean "I'm retarded".
English is hard.
appears to coincide with a patch from Mozilla
If some guy waited until Microsoft fixed a vulnerability to release a patch, but not before Mozilla fixed the patch, then we would all be crying foul.
Since it's the other way around, nobody will have a problem I'm sure.
I'd advise Ms. Thompson
Yeah, I'm sure she reads Slashdot ;-)
I think the real problem is the pseudo-monopolies on broadband services
Maybe - but we already have anti-trust laws on the books. Codifying net-neutrality is definitely a step in the right direction.
This is just a simple way for geeks to get back their lunch money.
No, this is a way for Korea to become the economic powerhouse of the world.
Remember when Chevrolet announced that they were going to release the Volt, a similar all-electric car?
Of course, the climate (chuckle chuckle) has changed in the industry so we'll see. But still, I'll believe it when I see it actually go into manufacturing.
Spice
Smithers, there's a rocket in my pocket!
You don't have to tell me, sir.
Did I do it right?
Actors have the academy awards.
Physicists have the Nobel Prize.
Computer programmers have furry conventions.
Why not give sys admins the same respect?
Yeah. I mean, it'd be easier if they weren't all green from monitor glow.
I grew up in a conservative rural area, maybe it's different elsewhere.
This was the kind of place where the parents got mad when teachers had grade schoolers read Harry Potter.