If you actually want software to be secure. 1. Publish the exploit. Get it loose in the wild. 2. Publish the fix or workaround, if there is one. 3. Inform the vendor.
Brutal, but anything less becomes a mess of how long the vendor can delay doing anything about it.
Right. And they need a damned good reason to butt into it without my knowledge or consent. I'm an old fart and don't much care who knows what about me, but nobody has a right to my personal information. That right belongs to me. Only.
With a new owner, the privacy policy would probably change, but not much. They collect information for a stated purpose. The email address is probably to help weed out junk downloads which would poison the statistics. They could gather information they shouldn't, but that would tend to interfere with their purpose of getting good aggregate data. Since it requires conscious effort, and in the absence of other personal identifications, it shouldn't be a risk to anyone's privacy.
Or does your mailer auto-block anything to or from Microsoft? [Emphasis added] you do some basic fact-checking of the info you post? What does a mailer have to do with pages linked to?
But the NT boot loader is a multi-boot loader, capable of loading several operating systems from different partitions, even several operating systems from the same partition.
Also the've tended to be all caps as in NT or XP. You would expect Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition to be ME instead of Me. Looks like Microsoft went out of their way to trample on Be.
Voting booth. That's the point.
Even if everybody knows how I will vote, I close the curtain, vote, and do not tell anyone how I voted. As much to protect my neighbor's right to a secret ballot as anything.
Honest men hide things to discourage the snoops. The snoops can cause a lot of mischief for honest people.
Trust me. (Always trust me. ???) Sounds like the beginning of a con.
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More like observant in this case.
Now if he were the sysadmin referring to his charges as drones it would be patronising and arrogant. Bad style.
Watching the interplay between the drones and the administrators (from a safe distance) has got to be verrrry, verrrrry interesting.
WindowsNT has low latency? Not with Outlook running, it doesn't. Probably something has low latency under some conditions and they claim "low latency".
The real definition of realtime is fast enough response under all worst-case scenarios. One person's realtime is not not necessarity another's.
A realtime OS can work from a clock and polling, in which case there is no concept of latency.
"inside windows"
Written by people who don't know to impress people who know even less.
A few tidbits here and there, often wrong, is no substitute for complete and accurate.
The OEM vendors are caught in the position of having to make the OS recoverable but not installable.
Microsoft Windows XP. You can fly. Off the handle, that is.
I'm more worried about someone else exploiting a vulnerability I haven't discovered yet...
Actually I imagine the Ping of Death was discovered after it was exploited. Discovered because it was exploited.
But what about the customer's data?
Microsoft Window's recovery: guaranteed destruction of all customer's data.
Linux recovery: I've used it to recover 3 gig of data from my boss's hosed new XP laptop. (needs NTFS read-only module).
Windows is just getting worse and worse all the time. I think you're right.
That's why there's kernel configuration and Aunt Tillie just might want to compile her own kernel. There's options in there that are essentially guaranteed to wreck you system or crash hard.
... your high end servers? You have more than one z90?
If anyone has a trademark for DOS, it should be IBM. IBM had some sort of Disk Operating System called DOS used for transitioning from second generation to third generation mainframes. DOS ran on IBM mainframes long before anybody even thought about "Personal Computers".
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If you actually want software to be secure.
1. Publish the exploit. Get it loose in the wild.
2. Publish the fix or workaround, if there is one.
3. Inform the vendor.
Brutal, but anything less becomes a mess of how long the vendor can delay doing anything about it.
Right.
And they need a damned good reason to butt into it without my knowledge or consent.
I'm an old fart and don't much care who knows what about me, but nobody has a right to my personal information. That right belongs to me. Only.
Too much information.
Too concentrated.
Too enticing for mischief makers.
To our wives and sweethearts.
May they never meet.
With a new owner, the privacy policy would probably change, but not much.
They collect information for a stated purpose.
The email address is probably to help weed out junk downloads which would poison the statistics.
They could gather information they shouldn't, but that would tend to interfere with their purpose of getting good aggregate data.
Since it requires conscious effort, and in the absence of other personal identifications, it shouldn't be a risk to anyone's privacy.
Someday, they won't even try to disguise the fact that they're collecting "private data"
Anyone who collects "private data" and tries to disguise the fact is most certainly up to no good.
Always trust Microsoft?
Seems like it was proprietary interfaces that got IBM into anti-trust trouble way back when.
Takes out NT and 2000 nicely. So far I've been spared XP.
Or does your mailer auto-block anything to or from Microsoft? [Emphasis added]
you do some basic fact-checking of the info you post?
What does a mailer have to do with pages linked to?
It's the Microsoft version of universal.
.NET full of holes?
Another innovation.
Is is just a rumor, or is
The BIG LIE.
Opposition is left speechless.
(Sure they've always been able to (but just let them try it)).
But the NT boot loader is a multi-boot loader, capable of loading several operating systems from different partitions, even several operating systems from the same partition.
Also the've tended to be all caps as in NT or XP. You would expect Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition to be ME instead of Me. Looks like Microsoft went out of their way to trample on Be.
Hmmmm. I don't think I'd mind if he did.
Might be a way to fund such as slashdot and google.
Why do you think Bill Gates is so rich?
Not by helping his customers.
whats wrong with this logic?
Microsoft is what's wrong with this logic.
Stupid isn't it?
Voting booth. That's the point.
Even if everybody knows how I will vote, I close the curtain, vote, and do not tell anyone how I voted. As much to protect my neighbor's right to a secret ballot as anything.
Honest men hide things to discourage the snoops. The snoops can cause a lot of mischief for honest people.
Trust me. (Always trust me. ???) Sounds like the beginning of a con.
More like observant in this case.
Now if he were the sysadmin referring to his charges as drones it would be patronising and arrogant. Bad style.
Watching the interplay between the drones and the administrators (from a safe distance) has got to be verrrry, verrrrry interesting.
WindowsNT has low latency? Not with Outlook running, it doesn't. Probably something has low latency under some conditions and they claim "low latency".
The real definition of realtime is fast enough response under all worst-case scenarios. One person's realtime is not not necessarity another's.
A realtime OS can work from a clock and polling, in which case there is no concept of latency.
"inside windows"
Written by people who don't know to impress people who know even less.
A few tidbits here and there, often wrong, is no substitute for complete and accurate.
The OEM vendors are caught in the position of having to make the OS recoverable but not installable.
Microsoft Windows XP. You can fly. Off the handle, that is.
Well that kinda blows the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) argument.
... because next time, it might be your IP...
Oh the horrors of being a convicted monopolist.
I'm more worried about someone else exploiting a vulnerability I haven't discovered yet...
Actually I imagine the Ping of Death was discovered after it was exploited. Discovered because it was exploited.
But what about the customer's data?
Microsoft Window's recovery: guaranteed destruction of all customer's data.
Linux recovery: I've used it to recover 3 gig of data from my boss's hosed new XP laptop. (needs NTFS read-only module).
Windows is just getting worse and worse all the time.
I think you're right.
That's why there's kernel configuration and Aunt Tillie just might want to compile her own kernel. There's options in there that are essentially guaranteed to wreck you system or crash hard.
... your high end servers? You have more than one z90?
If anyone has a trademark for DOS, it should be IBM. IBM had some sort of Disk Operating System called DOS used for transitioning from second generation to third generation mainframes. DOS ran on IBM mainframes long before anybody even thought about "Personal Computers".