"Oracle borrowing from the Microsoft Security-Fixing Playbook?" I'd say they stole it.
Again, to be fair to Microsoft, I don't think they wrote it, they've just updated it a bit.
Back in 1985 I was introduced to the concept of BS'ing on an expensive product from an american company. I truly wasn't expecting a company to utterly flee any responsibility. As it was out of my own time and money the expenses were coming to remedy problems I was acutely in tune with what was transpiring. Why oviously defective parts would be used, then not updated/replaced ASAP. At the same time I was a programmer on a DEC system and DEC took very, very good care of us (which probably has something to do with why they're out of business now, cared about customers and product rather than maximising profit.)
I understand that you want to try and make everything a political argument about how much America and/or Bush and/or Republicans and/or the intelligence community and/or Congress sucks, but seriously... a software patch?
You either misunderstand on purpose or not, but as you've suddenly skewed into the political arena at the 12th word of that sentence, I suggest you re-read the subject line and consider how you're under that blanket, too.
[...] Oracle is being
criticized by David Litchfield of Next-Generation Security Software for failing to rapidly
patch a known flaw in its database software. Litchfield had made Oracle aware of the flaw
last October and is now taking them to task for their slow response to the exploit.
Oracle borrowing from the Microsoft Security-Fixing Playbook?
"we'll get around to it when we get around to it and not a moment sooner"
Oracle,
in turn, has attacked Litchfield: 'We are always disappointed when researchers feel the need
to publish details of vulnerabilities before a fix is available... What David Litchfield has
done is put our customers at risk.'"
Oracle borrowing Microsoft's tactics? What next, alerting Department of Homeland Security?
Litchfield is al qaeda, you betcha!
Honestly we can't blame this tactic on Microsoft, though they have been highly visible in this regard, due to their
high volume of security flaws. It's almost as bad as a bunch of automaker executives running away from a
flaming car and blaming it on Ralph Nader.
that flaming car, ralph's fault, he's al-qaeda, too.
Small wonder people have no problem at all in buying imported products and services considering the
culture of ass-covering in the United States. Remember when american made goods were the best in the
world? Seems a distant memory now.
prepare a statement to the media which blames others for the problem, distances us from it
and doesn't harm our stock value, oh and discontinue our practice of sending out new versions/models for review, tell everyone
they just have to trust us that everything is fine and not very many people died horrible flaming death during testing of the software and/or new car model
I don't know about you... But I think that things might actually go this way, which is scarry. So do you think you can give me a winner for the Superbowl? I could use the extra money XD
I may be going out on a limb here, but I predict one of the teams will win the Superbowl, contrary to bookmakers odds which favor the Stones by a field goal.
That's your credential. To others it's a bone of contention. You might like to keep your bias in check. Just because you are atheistic doesn't mean you are well educated or vice-versa, if you get my drift. Consider people have the right to their belief, challenging them based upon education isn't very fair, because education has standards (of all sorts.)
Intel said that this development provides it with a 'considerable lead over our competitors in the 45-nanometer generation'."
Which means, what?
Predicitons for the next 18 months:
Intel announces sucessful 45nm chip test, announces planned production for late 2007
In mid-2006 AMD announces they have been quietly busy and production of 45nm chips to begin in 4th quarter.
In November AMD is shipping quad core 45nm chips.
Intel board scramble all resources to get chips out (even if at a trickle) ASAP, just get some damn thing out there, NOW!
From hardware sites AMD chips receive rave reviews, slaying all competition and making overclockers wet their pants with joy.
First Intel chips are tested and found to contain scarcely updated processors which still don't talk to each other very fast, run slow and, once again, are clocked so high you need
a big fan and heat sink.
Dell announce they are so pleased with Intel they're not going to use AMD chips (at all/any more.)
In subsequent months Intel make improvements, now that they have a market presence, but watch their market share drop to 70% or lower.
Don't kid yourself. This has nothing to do with being evil or not and
everything to do with making money. Great big piles of money.
Who's kidding themselves? Brin's excuse 'difficult decision', 'being a part of it', having a presence, etc., is what everyone else has effectively said when confronted with it. As if being there, but complying with the Imperial Court (don't fool yourself, these people are, just not in name) wishes they somehow will be positioned for when the leadership suddenly says, "aw heck, let's give the people freedom of speech, unfettered access to information and worldviews and a democracy", they'll be there and ready.
So... how long before the forces of ennui at Disney get to Steve and John, driving them out like Roy? How long before Pixar films are
littered with the dumb, ultra-hip Disney characters populate the films?
No, I don't think that applies. See, we didn't change Stewie's behaviour, that was the writers/director/producer people, not us.
He was kinda funny at first, now he's just weird.
If I've got the TV on and can waste the 30 minutes following Simpsons somehow until Family Guy comes on I watch it. The problem, as the other poster said, was we can deal with Stewie in small amounts, but there's something about the show which is just too preposterous and it ceases to be as funny as a well timed Homer Simpson quip. American Dad, on the other hand, is rubbish.
Depends upon your perspective on Stewie and/or Family Guy. At first Stewie was a megalomaniacal infant with
Peter Lorre's voice, now he's some amalgamation of sleazy teenager/adult in an infant body with some
of the imagination of a toddler (i.e. holding a phone call with Grover while Brian sits in a cubicle outside his office.)
I dunno. I don't think I can come up with any real questions other than, "Why is this a good idea?"
I find myself constantly challenged to actually turn on the TV to watch Family Guy
If science can find a fish living in acid, then the possibility of life on other planets seems more real.
Who's to determine what's normal for life? One lesson you gain from seeing a bit of grass growing up through a crack on an interstate is that nature is tenacious. On a different world, under different atmospheric pressure, light spectrum and intensity and different chemical make-up of environment you could find life. It just wouldn't do well here as neither would we there.
So it's not important that it is the world's smallest fish, but it is important that it is so small?
Small fish or small vertebrate, whichever the excitement is about, it's a Carp relative, so don't release any of these in the local resevoir or you'll have 1.0e06 of them.
And all along I'd been thinking that the whole point of a church was to convert as many people to your cause as possible because the world will be so much better once that happens.
You almost have it right. The idea of such organisations as religions and Co$ is the control of how the information is disseminated.
Education in reading was originally encouraged by churches so the followers could read the verse. Problems started when the flocks came to different interpretation or change of emphasis (i.e. this part is actually more important than that part) on the messages in the texts.
If Co$ were to open all their materials then the public would undoubtably have a field day with the wild ideas behind the "faith" Can't say I see that happening any decade soon.
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Not quite. The downside is these are a on-sided, read only participation of the material, which in my experience isn't quite as good as having it followed by a good old fashion Q & A session.
Also, the sheepskin from Stanford comes only with that Tuition deal. I don't think you'd get very far trying to set up your own school with them either, i.e. Bob University (based upon actual Stanford materials, but with our EZ-Pass exams!)
Also consider that Stanford is a private university, not public.
Meanwhile the Vatican is defending copyrighting the Pope's pronouncements. Which, IMHO, is right up there with copyright of MLK's 'I Have A Dream' and Co$'s copyrighted "Trade Secrets"
His money's guaranteed (unless someone steals all that silver),) the US's isn't. Deal. Learn the full details about the program before knocking it, please.
His money's guaranteed only so long as he's around to guarantee it. What happens if his little scam runs afowl and he loses his assets? You lose, too.
Best to buy your own silver and if the dollar loses significant value you can still barter in silver coins, which will certainly hold value and you don't have to trust some slick smitty to back it up for you.
As of today, 1 oz of silver is worth $9.02. And these SCHMUCKS pay $20 for one coin. Yeah.. that's a really good investment there, buddy.
Not only that, but his digital dollars are like Enron stock. If all hell breaks loose and we suffer a depression, where do you think you'll find Mr. NotHaus? With all those reserves in the Bahamas, I betcha. Yet, people still continue to believe they can get something for nothing.
In fact, I may have to buy some more, because the price of silver is going to jump up sometime sooner or later as the price of mining and refinery goes up.
You're daft. You need to study economics. Simply put, if you buy 1 Oz.999 fine silver for $10 it will always be 1 Oz. If you put $10 into this guy's program, and it gets you the right to 1 Oz today, what do you think you get if the dollar drops (which is what this scheme is supposed to be proof against)? You get less silver because Mr NotHaus bases his value on (tada) the dollar. It's all geared to make him money at your expense.
Want to put money into silver? Go buy a bunch of worn Walking Liberty Halves or Silver Dollars. If the dollar spirals out of control your silver coins (no matter who made them) will have value, but you'll have got a heck of a lot more of them for your money.
You won't get me to accept those over-priced silver rounds except at the current exchange rate for silver.
More like Jobs proves the Peter Principle as the wretched hive of scum and villainy, which is Disney, would place in in a position where he would be doomed to failure and then easily sidelined. Kicking ass at Apple was easy, trying to change things at Disney will prove much harder.
On another note, you can pretty much kiss the quality of Pixar story lines and character development good-bye as the worn-out 'characters with attitude' crap takes over and stories become boilerplate.
Disney doesn't suffer for it's lack of ability to produce a decent product, it suffers from the same ideas and ways of thinking which have brought it down from its hey-day, when mean old Unca Walt was in charge.
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Again, to be fair to Microsoft, I don't think they wrote it, they've just updated it a bit.
Back in 1985 I was introduced to the concept of BS'ing on an expensive product from an american company. I truly wasn't expecting a company to utterly flee any responsibility. As it was out of my own time and money the expenses were coming to remedy problems I was acutely in tune with what was transpiring. Why oviously defective parts would be used, then not updated/replaced ASAP. At the same time I was a programmer on a DEC system and DEC took very, very good care of us (which probably has something to do with why they're out of business now, cared about customers and product rather than maximising profit.)
You either misunderstand on purpose or not, but as you've suddenly skewed into the political arena at the 12th word of that sentence, I suggest you re-read the subject line and consider how you're under that blanket, too.
I see that posted after my post. Shows your bias doesn't it? Do keep up on timestamps. There's a good chap.
Oracle borrowing from the Microsoft Security-Fixing Playbook?
"we'll get around to it when we get around to it and not a moment sooner"
Oracle borrowing Microsoft's tactics? What next, alerting Department of Homeland Security?Litchfield is al qaeda, you betcha!
Honestly we can't blame this tactic on Microsoft, though they have been highly visible in this regard, due to their high volume of security flaws. It's almost as bad as a bunch of automaker executives running away from a flaming car and blaming it on Ralph Nader.
that flaming car, ralph's fault, he's al-qaeda, too.
Small wonder people have no problem at all in buying imported products and services considering the culture of ass-covering in the United States. Remember when american made goods were the best in the world? Seems a distant memory now.
prepare a statement to the media which blames others for the problem, distances us from it and doesn't harm our stock value, oh and discontinue our practice of sending out new versions/models for review, tell everyone they just have to trust us that everything is fine and not very many people died horrible flaming death during testing of the software and/or new car model
I may be going out on a limb here, but I predict one of the teams will win the Superbowl, contrary to bookmakers odds which favor the Stones by a field goal.
That's your credential. To others it's a bone of contention. You might like to keep your bias in check. Just because you are atheistic doesn't mean you are well educated or vice-versa, if you get my drift. Consider people have the right to their belief, challenging them based upon education isn't very fair, because education has standards (of all sorts.)
Intel said that this development provides it with a 'considerable lead over our competitors in the 45-nanometer generation'."
Which means, what?
Predicitons for the next 18 months:
i think it's somehow related to moore's law
Who's kidding themselves? Brin's excuse 'difficult decision', 'being a part of it', having a presence, etc., is what everyone else has effectively said when confronted with it. As if being there, but complying with the Imperial Court (don't fool yourself, these people are, just not in name) wishes they somehow will be positioned for when the leadership suddenly says, "aw heck, let's give the people freedom of speech, unfettered access to information and worldviews and a democracy", they'll be there and ready.
Hoo Hah!
NASA/JPL explain how dust was captured in Aerogel
alas, poor pixar! i knew him, horatio.
So... how long before the forces of ennui at Disney get to Steve and John, driving them out like Roy? How long before Pixar films are littered with the dumb, ultra-hip Disney characters populate the films?
I'll critique one of my favorite mediums as and as much as I see fit. You troll.
No, I don't think that applies. See, we didn't change Stewie's behaviour, that was the writers/director/producer people, not us.
He was kinda funny at first, now he's just weird.
If I've got the TV on and can waste the 30 minutes following Simpsons somehow until Family Guy comes on I watch it. The problem, as the other poster said, was we can deal with Stewie in small amounts, but there's something about the show which is just too preposterous and it ceases to be as funny as a well timed Homer Simpson quip. American Dad, on the other hand, is rubbish.
Depends upon your perspective on Stewie and/or Family Guy. At first Stewie was a megalomaniacal infant with Peter Lorre's voice, now he's some amalgamation of sleazy teenager/adult in an infant body with some of the imagination of a toddler (i.e. holding a phone call with Grover while Brian sits in a cubicle outside his office.)
I dunno. I don't think I can come up with any real questions other than, "Why is this a good idea?"
I find myself constantly challenged to actually turn on the TV to watch Family Guy
Do you use a loupe to tie and bait hooks?
finally, a use for my milligram scale!
Who's to determine what's normal for life? One lesson you gain from seeing a bit of grass growing up through a crack on an interstate is that nature is tenacious. On a different world, under different atmospheric pressure, light spectrum and intensity and different chemical make-up of environment you could find life. It just wouldn't do well here as neither would we there.
Small fish or small vertebrate, whichever the excitement is about, it's a Carp relative, so don't release any of these in the local resevoir or you'll have 1.0e06 of them.
"Yeah, it's small. But you should have seen the one that got away!"
You almost have it right. The idea of such organisations as religions and Co$ is the control of how the information is disseminated.
Education in reading was originally encouraged by churches so the followers could read the verse. Problems started when the flocks came to different interpretation or change of emphasis (i.e. this part is actually more important than that part) on the messages in the texts.
If Co$ were to open all their materials then the public would undoubtably have a field day with the wild ideas behind the "faith" Can't say I see that happening any decade soon.
99 cents per lecture, get your ONLINE degree from iTunes today
Not quite. The downside is these are a on-sided, read only participation of the material, which in my experience isn't quite as good as having it followed by a good old fashion Q & A session.
Also, the sheepskin from Stanford comes only with that Tuition deal. I don't think you'd get very far trying to set up your own school with them either, i.e. Bob University (based upon actual Stanford materials, but with our EZ-Pass exams!)
Also consider that Stanford is a private university, not public.
Meanwhile the Vatican is defending copyrighting the Pope's pronouncements. Which, IMHO, is right up there with copyright of MLK's 'I Have A Dream' and Co$'s copyrighted "Trade Secrets"
Nice move ya floppy tree :-)
His money's guaranteed only so long as he's around to guarantee it. What happens if his little scam runs afowl and he loses his assets? You lose, too.
Best to buy your own silver and if the dollar loses significant value you can still barter in silver coins, which will certainly hold value and you don't have to trust some slick smitty to back it up for you.
Not only that, but his digital dollars are like Enron stock. If all hell breaks loose and we suffer a depression, where do you think you'll find Mr. NotHaus? With all those reserves in the Bahamas, I betcha. Yet, people still continue to believe they can get something for nothing.
You're daft. You need to study economics. Simply put, if you buy 1 Oz .999 fine silver for $10 it will always be 1 Oz. If you put $10 into this guy's program, and it gets you the right to 1 Oz today, what do you think you get if the dollar drops (which is what this scheme is supposed to be proof against)? You get less silver because Mr NotHaus bases his value on (tada) the dollar. It's all geared to make him money at your expense.
Want to put money into silver? Go buy a bunch of worn Walking Liberty Halves or Silver Dollars. If the dollar spirals out of control your silver coins (no matter who made them) will have value, but you'll have got a heck of a lot more of them for your money.
You won't get me to accept those over-priced silver rounds except at the current exchange rate for silver.
Scams: Intelligent Design or Evolution?
The Liberty, $5 in silver for $20, no real collector value. Some nuts got busted over trying to pass them.
Worse will be the corrupting influence of Disney "creativity" on Pixar. Rather like watching a virgin being sacrificed to Fat Bastard.
More like Jobs proves the Peter Principle as the wretched hive of scum and villainy, which is Disney, would place in in a position where he would be doomed to failure and then easily sidelined. Kicking ass at Apple was easy, trying to change things at Disney will prove much harder.
On another note, you can pretty much kiss the quality of Pixar story lines and character development good-bye as the worn-out 'characters with attitude' crap takes over and stories become boilerplate.
Disney doesn't suffer for it's lack of ability to produce a decent product, it suffers from the same ideas and ways of thinking which have brought it down from its hey-day, when mean old Unca Walt was in charge.