Good point re Ford.
>The problem is "consumers" are not as astute about this kind of thing as we are. And this action by MS will certainly slow down circulation of information on their bugs.
What happens is that the information on bugs and how to exploit them is at least as freely available as before, but the customers are even less in a position to determine vulnerability. Eventually the public wises up somewhat that the security status of Microsoft software is unknown and unknowable. A few more episodes like the Love Bug and Microsoft's credibility will be demolished.
Post exploit and any work-around if you have. Remove all content and/or references to Microsoft Security Advisories. Without a lot of effort something like this would be far superior to Microsoft's efforts.
>Why is Microsoft entitled to keep their defect information copyrighted?
Makes it MUCH easier to pretend the defects do not exist. Just like the Republicans are pretending that if they can get the shrub into the White House, the Florida ballots will never be counted.
The relevant standard is the intent of the voter. Not very objective, but with time and resources, can be determined fairly accurately. I would be very surprised if someone did not take the trouble to find out what actually did happen in Florida. Nearly a month and we still do not have accurate tallies of at least several Florida counties. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us.
Assuming they both are in the same directory on the path, FORMAT.COM will be executed in preference to FORMAT.EXE. Although one expects.COMs to be in.COM format and.EXE to be in.EXE format, most programs will work quite well if renamed to the wrong extension.
Perfect, no. But still it is reasonable to expect corporations to honor their responsibilities to their shareholders, their employees, their community, and to the public at large.
Even more ironic is that the chad on the floor and the change in machine counts from the recount indicates that the machine counts are not reliable. Actually, the accuracy of the machine counts should increase with handling. Looks like Dubya knew he didn't have Florida and hoped by suppressing an accurate count he could shut down the counting while he was ahead.
If Florida wanted to, it could do it that way, but all but two states do it as a winner takes all so that the candidates care more about who wins the state. If a slight difference in voter preference swings 15-0 vs 0-15 instead of 8-7 vs 7-8, the state is in a better position to get preferential treatment. Florida has 15 electors, BTW.
JCL is (or at least was) macro assembler. Heavy on the macro, light on the assembler, essentially a total absense of functions or functionality. Prior to PL/I, IBM seems to have been very anti-recursion.
Hmmmm. "... an unscrupulous company looking to make its applications work more smoothly with Microsoft's dominant operating systems"
Do I detect an implication that any company looking to make its applications work more smoothly with Microsoft's dominant operating systems would have to be unscrupulous?
As a rule of thumb, 90 percent of the time is spent in 10 percent of the code. Probably safe to extrapolate to 80 percent of the time in 1 percent of the code, etc. The most effective test will be how it "feels". Benchmarks will give very accurate comparisons of a lot of things that do not matter, and ignore several things that matter greatly. Good Luck;)
LOL!
There is even a Chinese translation.
RedFlag Linux 1.1 Server installation manual looks a lot like RedHat Linux 6.2 installation (except the text is in Chinese).
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The news is DB2 and Websphere for Linux on S/390.
Sorry, but NT and Windows 2000 do not run on real computers like S/390. #1 has to be MVS or whatever IBM is calling it these days.
Good point re Ford.
>The problem is "consumers" are not as astute about this kind of thing as we are. And this action by MS will certainly slow down circulation of information on their bugs.
What happens is that the information on bugs and how to exploit them is at least as freely available as before, but the customers are even less in a position to determine vulnerability. Eventually the public wises up somewhat that the security status of Microsoft software is unknown and unknowable. A few more episodes like the Love Bug and Microsoft's credibility will be demolished.
Post exploit and any work-around if you have. Remove all content and/or references to Microsoft Security Advisories. Without a lot of effort something like this would be far superior to Microsoft's efforts.
>Why is Microsoft entitled to keep their defect information copyrighted?
Makes it MUCH easier to pretend the defects do not exist. Just like the Republicans are pretending that if they can get the shrub into the White House, the Florida ballots will never be counted.
>MS had a 30% increase in productivity this year: of security patches. :-)
;-)
But it compares poorly with their 45% increase in bugs.
Or any mail marked IMPORTANT.
The relevant standard is the intent of the voter. Not very objective, but with time and resources, can be determined fairly accurately. I would be very surprised if someone did not take the trouble to find out what actually did happen in Florida. Nearly a month and we still do not have accurate tallies of at least several Florida counties. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us.
Assuming they both are in the same directory on the path, FORMAT.COM will be executed in preference to FORMAT.EXE. Although one expects .COMs to be in .COM format and .EXE to be in .EXE format, most programs will work quite well if renamed to the wrong extension.
Perfect, no. But still it is reasonable to expect corporations to honor their responsibilities to their shareholders, their employees, their community, and to the public at large.
But, will it run unsigned macro viruses?
IBM/360 JCL
Even that was better.
Even more ironic is that the chad on the floor and the change in machine counts from the recount indicates that the machine counts are not reliable. Actually, the accuracy of the machine counts should increase with handling. Looks like Dubya knew he didn't have Florida and hoped by suppressing an accurate count he could shut down the counting while he was ahead.
You're right. It's 25. Mistakes are all too easy. Bad idea to rush into "finality"
If Florida wanted to, it could do it that way, but all but two states do it as a winner takes all so that the candidates care more about who wins the state. If a slight difference in voter preference swings 15-0 vs 0-15 instead of 8-7 vs 7-8, the state is in a better position to get preferential treatment. Florida has 15 electors, BTW.
Welcome to threads. Makes all sorts of timing problems possible.
Good reason to keep the electoral college. Imagine having to recount everything instead of just Florida.
More likely the registry was trashed before you turned the machine off. You didn't turn it off fast enough.
JCL is (or at least was) macro assembler. Heavy on the macro, light on the assembler, essentially a total absense of functions or functionality. Prior to PL/I, IBM seems to have been very anti-recursion.
If the quality of the code is at all similar to the quality of the astroturfers, stay far, far away from it.
And watch the appeals process drag on and on and on and on.
Hmmmm. "... an unscrupulous company looking to make its applications work more smoothly with Microsoft's dominant operating systems"
Do I detect an implication that any company looking to make its applications work more smoothly with Microsoft's dominant operating systems would have to be unscrupulous?
As a rule of thumb, 90 percent of the time is spent in 10 percent of the code. Probably safe to extrapolate to 80 percent of the time in 1 percent of the code, etc. The most effective test will be how it "feels". Benchmarks will give very accurate comparisons of a lot of things that do not matter, and ignore several things that matter greatly. Good Luck ;)
Two or three months undetected in a "secure" setup counts as a "gaping hole" in my book.
LOL!
There is even a Chinese translation.
RedFlag Linux 1.1 Server installation manual looks a lot like RedHat Linux 6.2 installation (except the text is in Chinese).