LOL - I was about to post that exact same thing! ClearQuest is one of the worst systems for tracking bugs I have ever seen. Though I suspect that part of the problem is the lousy way my company customized it to setup the forms, it's still pretty bad that it on average takes 7-8 seconds to "checkout" a form for writing, 1-2 seconds to set a field on the form (for each field you want to set) and another 7-8 seconds to validate and check the form back in. That's in addition to the about 8 seconds it takes to log into ClearQuest (at least through the perl interface).
But management (who, coincidently don't have to use it) seem to love ClearQuest. Probably has to do with excessive buzzword solutions:)
As far as searching, I had to write my own script ('cqquery') that allows me to easily search for different bugs in the database. At least that is done fairly fast (.5-1 seconds on average).
Thanks for the reply. It was that my mplayer was built without the proper support. Gentoo has apparently added a bunch of USE flags since I last looked at it, and adding "network", "live", and "real" made everything work (along with installing the live package). Thanks again for your help!
While I agree that the gconf registry thing can be troubling, the idea of the Windows registry isn't all that bad. It's an incedibly easy way for Windows applications to store configuration information. Its biggest problem, IMO, is that it's one (actually two, but who's counting) big binary file that is hard to read and even harder (impossible?) to fix.
Gnome's gconf has more flexible and supports different types of backends. The default (I think) is a XML file based backend. So, in essence, gconf is a nice wrapper around the same old text configuration files we've been using for years (though the format is XML, which isn't as common in most configuration files). Just go look in ~/.gconf if you don't believe me. Hopefully, it will be what the Windows registry should have been.
As an American, I actually think it's better that people are forced to see the sales tax as something that's added onto the cost of goods. If the tax was made a part of the base price of the item, then the government would be free to raise it with little reprocussion because most people wouldn't realize that the price went up because of a change in taxes. But in the U.S., everyone sees the cost of sales tax on their purchases. Maybe that's why the VAT is 10-20% and most (if not all) sales tax rates in the U.S. are less than 10% (mine is 6%).
The same could be said of income tax withholding (where your employer takes part of your paycheck and sends it to the government every pay period). If every April, everyone in the U.S. had to write multi-thousand (or more likely, multi-ten-thousand) dollar check, taxes would be much lower. It would be even better if that bill was somehow able to be due right in the middle of tax season. But that will never happen, since the Federal government is much too addicted to our money to ever change.
So, from my point of view, the least amount of taxes (without sacrificing essential government services) is the most fair and consumer-friendly. And hiding taxes from people only leads to higher taxes (and government bloat), so I much prefer the American system.
Playing rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net/real.npr.n a-central/fa/20040316_fa_01.rm. Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part. File not found: 'real.npr.na-central/fa/20040316_fa_01.rm' Failed to open rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net/real.npr.n a-central/fa/20040316_fa_01.rm
Exiting... (End of file)
(of course, with no space in the "real.npr.na-central" part)
Is there some magic you have to get mplayer to download rtsp streams?
A year ago, I was in the same boat as the poster, with about 5-10 spams a week. Now, I'm getting closer to that many a day. It's annoying, but not unmanageable. For my part, I'm grateful that my spam load is much lower than some people have reported. The key benefit (besides less spam, of course:) is that all the anti-spam tools that have been developed to handle more spam easily take care of the compartatively little spam amount I get. In any case, I don't doubt that the huge numbers given for spam loads are at least close to accurate (unless those numbers come from AOL, which classifies way too much non-spam mail as spam).
However, I do wish the anti-spam leaders would finally start encouraging people to PGP sign their emails. While perhaps not perfect, it has all the benefits of systems like hashcash and allows for much easier verification of senders.
But what do I know -- I'm not an anti-spam leader. And I run my own mail server, so in their eyes, I *am* a spammer (just ask the more radical of them).
I got one recently from someone who proported to be my phone company telling me that my bill was due in a few days and that I should go pay it online. It actually seemed legit because it had my phone number in it and it was to an email account I had given the phone company. However, the bill due date was wrong, and I had already paid the bill for the month. So I put it in the "deal with later" pile.
It wasn't until later that I realized that it might be a phishing scam. Further research indicated that it probably was, but I didn't get anything conclusive. I tried going to the website given (but not the random URL in the mail -- I didn't want to tip them off), but that just redirected to the phone company's site.
I did try to report the scam to the phone company, but I never heard back. They probably don't care.
What's scary, though, is that I didn't even think it might be a scam until much later. And I should know better. What chance to people who don't think about these things have?
I live in Brevard county, which is just south of the county in question. The machine that failed optically scans the ballots just like a scan-tron machine does (we have the same type in Brevard county). Voters fill in bubbles for the candidates they want, and the machine scans and counts the votes. The ballots are saved for just such a problem. Honestly, I don't know why all the electronic voting isn't like this. It's incredibly simple and efficient.
As to whether more problems like this will occur that will actually lose votes, I hope it does. I hope thousands of votes are lost and that the outcome is affected. That's the only way we'll be able to get rid of the paperless voting machines once and for all.
AOL (and their properties) is the single worst email provider on the planet. They routinely drop email and often bounce legitimate email. They may claim they prevent 10 million quadrillion spams or something, but I'd guess that a good percentage (though not a majority or anything) are legitmate emails falling victim to their "policies".
They use their large size to bully people around, like they did to you. If some small ISP was bouncing your mails for the same reason, would you have begged to get off their bounce list? AOL blocks mail from large swaths of IP space because they "might" be sending spam. Heck, I have RoadRunner (which is an AOL property), and I can't even send mail to other RoadRunner users because as a RoadRunner user I'm probably sending spam!
I've had AOL bounce emails because I PGP signed them, which IMO is the best form of "sender-ID" there is (and anyone serious about getting rid of spam would support this, but very few actually do, probably because it would mean taking responsibility for the problem). But according to AOL, it's probably spam, so it got bounced! (in this case, it was a user setting to bounce mail with attachments, but shame on AOL for not realizing what a PGP signature was and allowing/endorsing it)
AOL's policies are not conducive to a good Internet neighbor. AOL and their arrogant policies have always been bad for the Internet. Anything that AOL endorses automatically raises my suspicion. Nevermind the fact that as the OP stated, AOL popularized the idea of spam with their mass mailings and selling of email addresses (way back in the day before they realized what a bad idea that was).
If you really want your personal email account to be like AOL, just setup a procmail filter that deletes/bounces half your mail.
It sounds like you're really pleased with GForge. My company has looked at getting a SourceForge installation setup for our internal projects. While the response was gernally positive, SourceForge is an expensive product -- its price is per user and not this is a fairly large company where not even all the software people would necessarily use it. It also seemed like it was a PITA to get setup.
Do you have any thoughts on how GForge compares to SourceForge? Mostly in terms of features and ease of use by both users and admins. How difficult is it to get setup? How much admin support to project members need? What sort of permissions are there? Do most/all of the developers at your company like GForge? How difficult was it to get developer "buy-in"? What about management "buy-in"?
That must be some sort of truism -- surely only the uneducated and misinformed will blindly vote for Bush. How many educated and informed people do you think would blindly vote for anyone?
But quite frankly, I find your attitude all to common among liberals. This relative of yours basically said that he doesn't agree with your choice, but respects the fact that you made it intelligently. And you came back with your oh so insightful retort insinuating that only idiots would vote for Bush. Since he was probably planning on voting for Bush, I'm sure he didn't appreciate your insult. Are you really so surprised the conversation ended quickly after that? Couldn't you at least try to be pleasant with your relatives?
Personally, I find myself more on the Republican side of things quite often (though I'm not voting for Bush this November), so maybe it's just my perspective, but it seems like conservatives are more likely to respect other people's opinions while liberals tend to insult and denigrate people who don't agree with them. Now I'm sure there are probably large groups of counter-examples to this generalization, but I'm also sure your relative is now another conservative with another example of a condescending liberal.
I agree that the second one is a bug, but I'm hard pressed to call it a vulnerability. It could be my platform (Moz on Solaris), but whenever I tried it, it prevented me from typing in any of the fields because it stole the focus. Now, perhaps someone might type something short before realizing that nothing was going in the field, but I can't imagine they'd type lots of sensitive data before figuring out something was wrong.
Annoying? Yes. Bug? Sure. Vulnerability? Unlikely to pull in any useful data.
Definitely bugs to be fixed, but I'm not worried about these causing security problems, at least not before I get around to upgrading normally.
Not quite 'rm -rf *', but I once tried to delete all the "dot" files in a directory. I learned very quickly that 'rm -rf.*' was NOT the right way to do that.
For the uninitiated, both '.' and '..' match '.*', so I deleted all the files in the current directory and below, and all the files and directories in the parent directory. Fortunately, I stopped it before too much damage was done (it's always bad when an 'rm' command seems to take longer than it should) and there wasn't really important in what was deleted, but that's a mistake I won't do twice:)
Actually, while you may be free to write your own one-click shopping system, the moment you start using it, you would be in violation of the patent. Patents prevent people from even using the patented device without approval. That's why they're so damaging to Free Software, and why COTS software users aren't really protected any more than FOSS software users (other than the inherent obscurity of the COTS algorithms).
Last I heard (I live just south of NASA, and I miss watching the shuttles go up), the return to space launch has been pushed out 2-3 months to May or June of 2005. It may even be pushed out to July depending on lanuch conditions.
Keeping in mind that IANAL, I think you are wrong. This isn't very "legal speak", but the general idea is that if you "need" a GPL'd library in order to build your app, then your app is a derivative work, and must also be licensed under the GPL (if you give it to anyone). In C/C++, "need" means you're including the header files and linking with the library. In Java, I guess "need" would mean the library's.jar or.class files must be present for the compiler to get method signatures.
Your idea of a buffer library isn't going to work because the GPL is viral (I'm not saying that's good or bad, just that it is). Because your buffer library needs the GPL library, it becomes GPL'd itself. Since your app links with it, it would be GPL as well. At least I think that's how it works. What I'm not entirely sure about is the idea that you could relicense your buffer library to yourself under a license that doesn't require your app be GPL'd. I don't know if that would be technically violating the terms of the GPL, but it would be violating the spirit of the terms.
The authors of a GPL'd library made a choice to restrict their library to only other GPL applications. Other library others choose less restrictive licenses like the LGPL. It may be unfortunate you can't use a GPL library in your non-GPL app, but you do have to respect the author's choices (and the authors have to accept that their library might not gain as wide acceptance because of their library). The only way to "get around" the GPL would be to contact the authors and see if they would license the application (possibly for a fee) under terms you could accept.
Why should the length of the copyright have anything to do with the length of the creator's life? That implies that something made by a 20 year old is more valuable than something made by an 80 year old! I'm all for reform of copyright law, but anything that ties the length of the copyright to the length of the creators life (including current copyright law) doesn't make any sense to me.
IMO, copyright should be a fixed length such as 10 or 20 years for all works (though, perhaps some classes of works, such as books, which might take longer to recoup their investment could have longer fixed lengths). Though quite frankly, something needs to be done soon because the very idea of public domain is passing out of the public's conciousness.
As a resident of Florida (who's so far been pretty lucky with respect to the hurricanes), I've taken a keen interest in these models. The best place I've found to see them is at Weather Underground. Each listed storm has a "Computer Models" link at the end. See
Since the pages auto-refresh, I've just been leaving them up in a tab in Mozilla and checking them every once and a while. Though the models aren't always accurate and tend to change a lot, they kind of give you a feel for where the storm is probably going to go.
That reminds me of the time I decided to upgrade DirectX one evening. Imagine my surprise when I rebooted and stared at a black screen because something in the new DirectX wasn't compatible with my video card. And then, I got that sinking feeling knowing that there isn't any console mode to fall back on when the GUI breaks so bad. Fortunately, the next reboot caused it to come up in VGA mode (a safety feature?), and I could try to fix it.
Did you know there's no (or at least there wasn't, this was a couple years ago) an official way to uninstall DirectX? Installing the older version doesn't work (it's older, so nothing installs, even though it says it's installing). I only recovered by using some ghetto DirectX remover I found online and then installing the working DirectX version. Though I was incredibly close to admitting defeat and just reinstalling.
So yes, there are some updates that could really piss people off. It's a nice idea, but you can't guarentee that updating won't cause more harm than good, especially if the Windows box is (more or less) protected behind a hardware firewall.
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LOL - I was about to post that exact same thing! ClearQuest is one of the worst systems for tracking bugs I have ever seen. Though I suspect that part of the problem is the lousy way my company customized it to setup the forms, it's still pretty bad that it on average takes 7-8 seconds to "checkout" a form for writing, 1-2 seconds to set a field on the form (for each field you want to set) and another 7-8 seconds to validate and check the form back in. That's in addition to the about 8 seconds it takes to log into ClearQuest (at least through the perl interface).
:)
But management (who, coincidently don't have to use it) seem to love ClearQuest. Probably has to do with excessive buzzword solutions
As far as searching, I had to write my own script ('cqquery') that allows me to easily search for different bugs in the database. At least that is done fairly fast (.5-1 seconds on average).
Thanks for the reply. It was that my mplayer was built without the proper support. Gentoo has apparently added a bunch of USE flags since I last looked at it, and adding "network", "live", and "real" made everything work (along with installing the live package). Thanks again for your help!
Where have you been for the last decade?
(yes it's disturbing, but it's certainly not new)
While I agree that the gconf registry thing can be troubling, the idea of the Windows registry isn't all that bad. It's an incedibly easy way for Windows applications to store configuration information. Its biggest problem, IMO, is that it's one (actually two, but who's counting) big binary file that is hard to read and even harder (impossible?) to fix.
Gnome's gconf has more flexible and supports different types of backends. The default (I think) is a XML file based backend. So, in essence, gconf is a nice wrapper around the same old text configuration files we've been using for years (though the format is XML, which isn't as common in most configuration files). Just go look in ~/.gconf if you don't believe me. Hopefully, it will be what the Windows registry should have been.
As an American, I actually think it's better that people are forced to see the sales tax as something that's added onto the cost of goods. If the tax was made a part of the base price of the item, then the government would be free to raise it with little reprocussion because most people wouldn't realize that the price went up because of a change in taxes. But in the U.S., everyone sees the cost of sales tax on their purchases. Maybe that's why the VAT is 10-20% and most (if not all) sales tax rates in the U.S. are less than 10% (mine is 6%).
The same could be said of income tax withholding (where your employer takes part of your paycheck and sends it to the government every pay period). If every April, everyone in the U.S. had to write multi-thousand (or more likely, multi-ten-thousand) dollar check, taxes would be much lower. It would be even better if that bill was somehow able to be due right in the middle of tax season. But that will never happen, since the Federal government is much too addicted to our money to ever change.
So, from my point of view, the least amount of taxes (without sacrificing essential government services) is the most fair and consumer-friendly. And hiding taxes from people only leads to higher taxes (and government bloat), so I much prefer the American system.
Is there some magic you have to get mplayer to download rtsp streams?
A year ago, I was in the same boat as the poster, with about 5-10 spams a week. Now, I'm getting closer to that many a day. It's annoying, but not unmanageable. For my part, I'm grateful that my spam load is much lower than some people have reported. The key benefit (besides less spam, of course :) is that all the anti-spam tools that have been developed to handle more spam easily take care of the compartatively little spam amount I get. In any case, I don't doubt that the huge numbers given for spam loads are at least close to accurate (unless those numbers come from AOL, which classifies way too much non-spam mail as spam).
However, I do wish the anti-spam leaders would finally start encouraging people to PGP sign their emails. While perhaps not perfect, it has all the benefits of systems like hashcash and allows for much easier verification of senders.
But what do I know -- I'm not an anti-spam leader. And I run my own mail server, so in their eyes, I *am* a spammer (just ask the more radical of them).
Mistook the installation of Flash as the adware. Stupid.
:)
I don't know... maybe it just had the wrong name?
I got one recently from someone who proported to be my phone company telling me that my bill was due in a few days and that I should go pay it online. It actually seemed legit because it had my phone number in it and it was to an email account I had given the phone company. However, the bill due date was wrong, and I had already paid the bill for the month. So I put it in the "deal with later" pile.
It wasn't until later that I realized that it might be a phishing scam. Further research indicated that it probably was, but I didn't get anything conclusive. I tried going to the website given (but not the random URL in the mail -- I didn't want to tip them off), but that just redirected to the phone company's site.
I did try to report the scam to the phone company, but I never heard back. They probably don't care.
What's scary, though, is that I didn't even think it might be a scam until much later. And I should know better. What chance to people who don't think about these things have?
I live in Brevard county, which is just south of the county in question. The machine that failed optically scans the ballots just like a scan-tron machine does (we have the same type in Brevard county). Voters fill in bubbles for the candidates they want, and the machine scans and counts the votes. The ballots are saved for just such a problem. Honestly, I don't know why all the electronic voting isn't like this. It's incredibly simple and efficient.
As to whether more problems like this will occur that will actually lose votes, I hope it does. I hope thousands of votes are lost and that the outcome is affected. That's the only way we'll be able to get rid of the paperless voting machines once and for all.
Does that mean we won't get to hunt them anymore? Damn meddling government...
"Friendly mailer"? That's a laugh.
AOL (and their properties) is the single worst email provider on the planet. They routinely drop email and often bounce legitimate email. They may claim they prevent 10 million quadrillion spams or something, but I'd guess that a good percentage (though not a majority or anything) are legitmate emails falling victim to their "policies".
They use their large size to bully people around, like they did to you. If some small ISP was bouncing your mails for the same reason, would you have begged to get off their bounce list? AOL blocks mail from large swaths of IP space because they "might" be sending spam. Heck, I have RoadRunner (which is an AOL property), and I can't even send mail to other RoadRunner users because as a RoadRunner user I'm probably sending spam!
I've had AOL bounce emails because I PGP signed them, which IMO is the best form of "sender-ID" there is (and anyone serious about getting rid of spam would support this, but very few actually do, probably because it would mean taking responsibility for the problem). But according to AOL, it's probably spam, so it got bounced! (in this case, it was a user setting to bounce mail with attachments, but shame on AOL for not realizing what a PGP signature was and allowing/endorsing it)
AOL's policies are not conducive to a good Internet neighbor. AOL and their arrogant policies have always been bad for the Internet. Anything that AOL endorses automatically raises my suspicion. Nevermind the fact that as the OP stated, AOL popularized the idea of spam with their mass mailings and selling of email addresses (way back in the day before they realized what a bad idea that was).
If you really want your personal email account to be like AOL, just setup a procmail filter that deletes/bounces half your mail.
It sounds like you're really pleased with GForge. My company has looked at getting a SourceForge installation setup for our internal projects. While the response was gernally positive, SourceForge is an expensive product -- its price is per user and not this is a fairly large company where not even all the software people would necessarily use it. It also seemed like it was a PITA to get setup.
Do you have any thoughts on how GForge compares to SourceForge? Mostly in terms of features and ease of use by both users and admins. How difficult is it to get setup? How much admin support to project members need? What sort of permissions are there? Do most/all of the developers at your company like GForge? How difficult was it to get developer "buy-in"? What about management "buy-in"?
Thanks in advance!
That must be some sort of truism -- surely only the uneducated and misinformed will blindly vote for Bush. How many educated and informed people do you think would blindly vote for anyone?
But quite frankly, I find your attitude all to common among liberals. This relative of yours basically said that he doesn't agree with your choice, but respects the fact that you made it intelligently. And you came back with your oh so insightful retort insinuating that only idiots would vote for Bush. Since he was probably planning on voting for Bush, I'm sure he didn't appreciate your insult. Are you really so surprised the conversation ended quickly after that? Couldn't you at least try to be pleasant with your relatives?
Personally, I find myself more on the Republican side of things quite often (though I'm not voting for Bush this November), so maybe it's just my perspective, but it seems like conservatives are more likely to respect other people's opinions while liberals tend to insult and denigrate people who don't agree with them. Now I'm sure there are probably large groups of counter-examples to this generalization, but I'm also sure your relative is now another conservative with another example of a condescending liberal.
I agree that the second one is a bug, but I'm hard pressed to call it a vulnerability. It could be my platform (Moz on Solaris), but whenever I tried it, it prevented me from typing in any of the fields because it stole the focus. Now, perhaps someone might type something short before realizing that nothing was going in the field, but I can't imagine they'd type lots of sensitive data before figuring out something was wrong.
Annoying? Yes. Bug? Sure. Vulnerability? Unlikely to pull in any useful data.
Definitely bugs to be fixed, but I'm not worried about these causing security problems, at least not before I get around to upgrading normally.
Yes, but this is about sensorship that didn't work!
Not quite 'rm -rf *', but I once tried to delete all the "dot" files in a directory. I learned very quickly that 'rm -rf .*' was NOT the right way to do that.
:)
For the uninitiated, both '.' and '..' match '.*', so I deleted all the files in the current directory and below, and all the files and directories in the parent directory. Fortunately, I stopped it before too much damage was done (it's always bad when an 'rm' command seems to take longer than it should) and there wasn't really important in what was deleted, but that's a mistake I won't do twice
Actually, while you may be free to write your own one-click shopping system, the moment you start using it, you would be in violation of the patent. Patents prevent people from even using the patented device without approval. That's why they're so damaging to Free Software, and why COTS software users aren't really protected any more than FOSS software users (other than the inherent obscurity of the COTS algorithms).
Of course, IANAL, YMMV, etc.
Maybe it doesn't work anymore, or my ISP blocks it, but I'm not getting any site-finder like results in the .cc TLD:
$ host an-unregistered-name.cc
Host an-unregistered-name.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc
Host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Last I heard (I live just south of NASA, and I miss watching the shuttles go up), the return to space launch has been pushed out 2-3 months to May or June of 2005. It may even be pushed out to July depending on lanuch conditions.
Source (caution: may have popups, so use protection).
Keeping in mind that IANAL, I think you are wrong. This isn't very "legal speak", but the general idea is that if you "need" a GPL'd library in order to build your app, then your app is a derivative work, and must also be licensed under the GPL (if you give it to anyone). In C/C++, "need" means you're including the header files and linking with the library. In Java, I guess "need" would mean the library's .jar or .class files must be present for the compiler to get method signatures.
Your idea of a buffer library isn't going to work because the GPL is viral (I'm not saying that's good or bad, just that it is). Because your buffer library needs the GPL library, it becomes GPL'd itself. Since your app links with it, it would be GPL as well. At least I think that's how it works. What I'm not entirely sure about is the idea that you could relicense your buffer library to yourself under a license that doesn't require your app be GPL'd. I don't know if that would be technically violating the terms of the GPL, but it would be violating the spirit of the terms.
The authors of a GPL'd library made a choice to restrict their library to only other GPL applications. Other library others choose less restrictive licenses like the LGPL. It may be unfortunate you can't use a GPL library in your non-GPL app, but you do have to respect the author's choices (and the authors have to accept that their library might not gain as wide acceptance because of their library). The only way to "get around" the GPL would be to contact the authors and see if they would license the application (possibly for a fee) under terms you could accept.
Why should the length of the copyright have anything to do with the length of the creator's life? That implies that something made by a 20 year old is more valuable than something made by an 80 year old! I'm all for reform of copyright law, but anything that ties the length of the copyright to the length of the creators life (including current copyright law) doesn't make any sense to me.
IMO, copyright should be a fixed length such as 10 or 20 years for all works (though, perhaps some classes of works, such as books, which might take longer to recoup their investment could have longer fixed lengths). Though quite frankly, something needs to be done soon because the very idea of public domain is passing out of the public's conciousness.
As a resident of Florida (who's so far been pretty lucky with respect to the hurricanes), I've taken a keen interest in these models. The best place I've found to see them is at Weather Underground. Each listed storm has a "Computer Models" link at the end. See
Ivan
Jeanne.
Since the pages auto-refresh, I've just been leaving them up in a tab in Mozilla and checking them every once and a while. Though the models aren't always accurate and tend to change a lot, they kind of give you a feel for where the storm is probably going to go.
That reminds me of the time I decided to upgrade DirectX one evening. Imagine my surprise when I rebooted and stared at a black screen because something in the new DirectX wasn't compatible with my video card. And then, I got that sinking feeling knowing that there isn't any console mode to fall back on when the GUI breaks so bad. Fortunately, the next reboot caused it to come up in VGA mode (a safety feature?), and I could try to fix it.
Did you know there's no (or at least there wasn't, this was a couple years ago) an official way to uninstall DirectX? Installing the older version doesn't work (it's older, so nothing installs, even though it says it's installing). I only recovered by using some ghetto DirectX remover I found online and then installing the working DirectX version. Though I was incredibly close to admitting defeat and just reinstalling.
So yes, there are some updates that could really piss people off. It's a nice idea, but you can't guarentee that updating won't cause more harm than good, especially if the Windows box is (more or less) protected behind a hardware firewall.