“Oracle wouldn’t be my first choice but it sounds like they put it up for a bidding process and when everyone saw how complicated the project was, Oracle’s the only one that hung in there.”
“It’s hard to judge the quality from the outside, but if you look at their front end website, there are a lot of things they didn’t do. When you look at their technology practices, even the ones we can see from the outside, it’s obvious they didn’t put their ‘A’ team on this. So, yeah, I do think that Oracle didn’t do a good job and they probably shouldn’t have taken it in the first place, because they’ve taken on something it would be impossible to do a good job on.” ref
"Click on the update and you should see a 'More Information' link on the right. Click it and your browser should open to a MS knowledge base page that explains what the patch does".
"To view this vulnerability as a standard entry in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, seeCVE-2014-0318." ref
'win32k.sys.. does not properly control access to thread-owned objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."'
It's understandable why you would post anonymously..
"When free software comes with a sea of bugs without often no one taking responsibility of fixing them, I can understand those people's arguments. If we look at Linux desktop, usually the GUI does not stay in one piece, and is full of little glitches here and there. Compared to that, these Microsoft patches are a very minor worry."
@NotDrWho: "That part where he got all political out of nowhere was UNCALLED FOR! Keep your wackjob politics to yourself, buddy!"
Whoa, whao?.. what are you on about, please provide a citation to the specific quote you are referring to, and expand on why, in your opinion, this is 'wackjob politics', else you could be erroneously miscast as a wintroll.
"When you first launch Firefox, a message on the new tab page informs you of the following.. It's quite a lot to take in all at once"
It seems fairly straight forward to me: a) a promise that the feature abides by the Mozilla Privacy Policy, b) a reminder that you can turn tiles off completely..
This proposition from the mind of Matt Asay has me puzzled. Since when is any one company expected to produce everything. Red Hat does best what Red Hat does, which is produce a world-class industrial strength platform - good enough for Oracle to steal outright. To try and cover all these other solutions would be to spread their effort a little too thinly. There may be as yet, a business oppertunity for some down-stream company to do just as Asay suggests.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Delivered and supported by Red Hat. CIOs like that story", Matt Asay March 2009
"IDG News Service's Martyn Williams set out to learn why the data.. was so valuable. The answer is depressingly simple: people without health insurance can potentially get treatment by using medical data of one of the hacking victims."
And the people seeking such medical treatment wouldn't be aware that their medical history would be totally different than the real patent. And the medical establishment wouldn't be able to detect then the same people applied for medical treatment in two seperate medical facalities. This whole story is just so much cyber bullshit, an excuse to insert a free advert for some American medical insurance company.
"Munich city council has migrated 15,000 workers from Windows to Linux.. We visited the city and talked to Peter Hofmann, the man behind the migration"..
'Working with a computer security company, it determined the attack was carried out by a group based in China that used 'highly sophisticated malware' to attack its systems.'
That would be a msOffice document sent as an email attachment..
"When California’s.. carbon market took effect in 2013.. A few months later.. [Edison] sold its interest in the coal plant to an Arizona utility.. The coal plant will keep emitting pollution just as before—only now it serves customers in Arizona, not California." ref
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“Oracle wouldn’t be my first choice but it sounds like they put it up for a bidding process and when everyone saw how complicated the project was, Oracle’s the only one that hung in there.”
“It’s hard to judge the quality from the outside, but if you look at their front end website, there are a lot of things they didn’t do. When you look at their technology practices, even the ones we can see from the outside, it’s obvious they didn’t put their ‘A’ team on this. So, yeah, I do think that Oracle didn’t do a good job and they probably shouldn’t have taken it in the first place, because they’ve taken on something it would be impossible to do a good job on.” ref
And where does Microsoft Windows come into the equation?
How about not putting Microsoft Windows anywhere on your computer infrastructure ..
"One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions some how Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do the work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this." Bill Gates, Jan 1999
Excuse, me while I reply anon and mod you down :)
Do you really expect us to believe this crap? PROTHERO: "Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: "It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people" --
PROTHERO: '"Exactly what they tell us." I Know but do you think that people will believe it?'
DASCOMBE: They will if it's you that's telling it to them. Now let's try it again." ref
"Click on the update and you should see a 'More Information' link on the right. Click it and your browser should open to a MS knowledge base page that explains what the patch does".
.. does not properly control access to thread-owned objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability ."'
"To view this vulnerability as a standard entry in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, see CVE-2014-0318." ref
'win32k.sys
It's understandable why you would post anonymously ..
"When free software comes with a sea of bugs without often no one taking responsibility of fixing them, I can understand those people's arguments. If we look at Linux desktop, usually the GUI does not stay in one piece, and is full of little glitches here and there. Compared to that, these Microsoft patches are a very minor worry."
@NotDrWho: "That part where he got all political out of nowhere was UNCALLED FOR! Keep your wackjob politics to yourself, buddy!"
.. what are you on about, please provide a citation to the specific quote you are referring to, and expand on why, in your opinion, this is ' wackjob politics ', else you could be erroneously miscast as a wintroll.
Whoa, whao?
"When you first launch Firefox, a message on the new tab page informs you of the following .. It's quite a lot to take in all at once"
..
It seems fairly straight forward to me: a) a promise that the feature abides by the Mozilla Privacy Policy, b) a reminder that you can turn tiles off completely
Richard Dawkins invented meme specifically in relation to religion, in his book The Selfish Gene.
Do you mean someone opened a ms Word document from an email attachment in ms Outlook under Microsoft Windows ?
"$33 dollars doesn't sound like much to people in the USA, but that is 2.2% of the average Indian person's annual salary"
Well somebody can afford them. In 2013: 4.14 million tablets sold, nine million iPads sold and 80.57 million smart phones by year end.
This proposition from the mind of Matt Asay has me puzzled. Since when is any one company expected to produce everything. Red Hat does best what Red Hat does, which is produce a world-class industrial strength platform - good enough for Oracle to steal outright. To try and cover all these other solutions would be to spread their effort a little too thinly. There may be as yet, a business oppertunity for some down-stream company to do just as Asay suggests.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Delivered and supported by Red Hat. CIOs like that story", Matt Asay March 2009
... "which starts to balance the 99.99% of articles where comments take the opportunity to bash MS
..
Only a wintroll could see criticism of Microsoft in an article marking the release of Linux rev 3.17-rc2
Is this what slashdot is reduced to, providing a platform for a bunch of wintrolls ..
Corrected Title ..
"IDG News Service's Martyn Williams set out to learn why the data .. was so valuable. The answer is depressingly simple: people without health insurance can potentially get treatment by using medical data of one of the hacking victims."
And the people seeking such medical treatment wouldn't be aware that their medical history would be totally different than the real patent. And the medical establishment wouldn't be able to detect then the same people applied for medical treatment in two seperate medical facalities. This whole story is just so much cyber bullshit, an excuse to insert a free advert for some American medical insurance company.
"Microsoft has teamed up with HP to make an affordable Windows laptop to beat Google Chromebooks at their own game"
How would you go about replacing Windows 8.1 with a Linux distro?
Why not phone up Peter Hofmann and ask him ..
.. We visited the city and talked to Peter Hofmann, the man behind the migration" ..
"Munich city council has migrated 15,000 workers from Windows to Linux
'Working with a computer security company, it determined the attack was carried out by a group based in China that used 'highly sophisticated malware' to attack its systems.'
..
That would be a msOffice document sent as an email attachment
Psychiatric Diagnosis such as ADHD are pseudo-science thought up by the pharmaceutical industry to sell more drugs.
"The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis"
"When California’s .. carbon market took effect in 2013 .. A few months later .. [Edison] sold its interest in the coal plant to an Arizona utility .. The coal plant will keep emitting pollution just as before—only now it serves customers in Arizona, not California." ref
Will this targeted exploitation technique work if the target isn't Microsoft Windows ©
"This technique is largely designed for targeted attacks, so it's likely most of us will be safe for now — but just one more reminder to use https."
Except if the local proxy is designed to intercept https traffic and replace the senders digital signature with its own. ref