I always found it amusing that the thing that makes medical care so pricey that we need insurance...is the insurance doctors need to give medical care.
A vulnerability has been identified in a Microsoft ActiveX plugin called MCIWNDX.OCX, which possibly allows malicious HTML documents to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
The problem is that a property called "Filename" isn't properly verified allowing malicious websites or HTML emails to cause a buffer overflow by supplying an overly long string. This could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the system.
unpatched since: 2003-08-14
Granted, thats only a little more than 2 years... hey...not important.
This is an excellent example of what happens when the founders of corporations die off--generally leaving their empire to their kids. I have worked for 2 large companies, that were fantastic, wonderful places to work. Until the founders kids took over, and turned them into horrible employers. power with no sense of accomplishment, or responsibility is a bad thing...
My company ran into a very similar situation. We were looking at an assortment of search engines, and ended up with 2(don't ask). One is a closed source, very powerful, but with issues, and the other is open source (htdig dontcha know). As the admin of the open source search engine, I spend far less than 10% of my week supporting it. During the last year, I have spent less than 30 hours total (and that includes testing and rolling out a couple of new versions). My poor fellow admin has spent over 300 hours in the last year doing the same thing with the closed source product. The end result, is I now have a new project on my desk to get rid of the closed source package, and replace it with HTDig. I realize that it is not the solution for everyone, but I am certain that if someone needs to devote 10 percent of their time to the support of a piece of software, than either the software is crap, or the person is a moron.
For me, it really is quite a simple choice. I work on a website that requires strict compliance with the Americans with Disabilities act. Where is the flash plugin for the blind? This alone makes flash impossible for just about any site/application that receives federal funding, government grants, or even one that just has a few blind/vision impaired users.
However, for neat little apps, where I KNOW every memeber of my audience, I actually like using it.
Edgar Rice Burroughs easily makes this list. Without a doubt. Or have we all so quickly forgotten about Tarzan? ERB published his first book in 1912(princess of mars). Go into any book store and ask for this nearly 90 year old book. They will ALL have it. What other pulp sci-fi authors can you say this about? Other than Verne (who should ALSO be on this list), who else in this genre has better stood the test of time? And how many of you were pissed that Disney's Tarzan strayed so far from the plot?
I believe that your analogy (like most slashdot analogies) is just a wee bit off. Try this minor modification. A citizen from the netherlands, while still in the Netherlands hires a prostitute. Later, that citizen travels to the US, and is arrested, because he broke a US law, while in the Netherlands.
If this analogy is correct, then can we expect to see all of the foriegn athletes arrested in china during the olympics? After all, they have probably all done SOMETHING at some point in time that violates chinese law.
It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of
patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax on the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of unknown liability lawsuits and vexatious accounting for profits made in good faith.
--U.S. Supreme Court, Atlantic Works vs. Brady, 1882
(from the article--not bad btw)
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I did--
But they were killed and eaten by Sloth Bears.
So sad.--But the bears said they tasted like chicken...
I always found it amusing that the thing that makes medical care so pricey that we need insurance...is the insurance doctors need to give medical care.
Just one?
How bout this one?
A vulnerability has been identified in a Microsoft ActiveX plugin called MCIWNDX.OCX, which possibly allows malicious HTML documents to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
The problem is that a property called "Filename" isn't properly verified allowing malicious websites or HTML emails to cause a buffer overflow by supplying an overly long string. This could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the system.
unpatched since: 2003-08-14
Granted, thats only a little more than 2 years...
hey...not important.
But there are oodles more at:
http://secunia.com/product/11/#advisories
Secret Wars anyone?...
At least it isnt the texans or californians this time...:)
This is an excellent example of what happens when the founders of corporations die off--generally leaving their empire to their kids. I have worked for 2 large companies, that were fantastic, wonderful places to work. Until the founders kids took over, and turned them into horrible employers. power with no sense of accomplishment, or responsibility is a bad thing...
I don't believe UserGoogol is referring to THE GIMP (photoshop type product), but rather, THE GIMP from Pulp fiction---Much better user interface...;)
My company ran into a very similar situation. We were looking at an assortment of search engines, and ended up with 2(don't ask). One is a closed source, very powerful, but with issues, and the other is open source (htdig dontcha know). As the admin of the open source search engine, I spend far less than 10% of my week supporting it. During the last year, I have spent less than 30 hours total (and that includes testing and rolling out a couple of new versions). My poor fellow admin has spent over 300 hours in the last year doing the same thing with the closed source product. The end result, is I now have a new project on my desk to get rid of the closed source package, and replace it with HTDig. I realize that it is not the solution for everyone, but I am certain that if someone needs to devote 10 percent of their time to the support of a piece of software, than either the software is crap, or the person is a moron.
For me, it really is quite a simple choice. I work on a website that requires strict compliance with the Americans with Disabilities act. Where is the flash plugin for the blind? This alone makes flash impossible for just about any site/application that receives federal funding, government grants, or even one that just has a few blind/vision impaired users.
However, for neat little apps, where I KNOW every memeber of my audience, I actually like using it.
Edgar Rice Burroughs easily makes this list. Without a doubt. Or have we all so quickly forgotten about Tarzan? ERB published his first book in 1912(princess of mars). Go into any book store and ask for this nearly 90 year old book. They will ALL have it. What other pulp sci-fi authors can you say this about? Other than Verne (who should ALSO be on this list), who else in this genre has better stood the test of time? And how many of you were pissed that Disney's Tarzan strayed so far from the plot?
ERB has got to be on this list. Period.
I believe that your analogy (like most slashdot analogies) is just a wee bit off. Try this minor modification. A citizen from the netherlands, while still in the Netherlands hires a prostitute. Later, that citizen travels to the US, and is arrested, because he broke a US law, while in the Netherlands. If this analogy is correct, then can we expect to see all of the foriegn athletes arrested in china during the olympics? After all, they have probably all done SOMETHING at some point in time that violates chinese law.
It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax on the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of unknown liability lawsuits and vexatious accounting for profits made in good faith.
--U.S. Supreme Court, Atlantic Works vs. Brady, 1882
(from the article--not bad btw)
Nah...Bards Tale II or was it 3...the damn destiny wand puzzles drove me nuts