Uh! Another shabby article that paints Microsoft to be The Evil Sheriff of Nottingham on the basis that most users wouldn't bother to read their manuals or the online help file, or even use their heads once in a while. The Windows Developers haven't tried to obscure the process of file re-association, they haven't made it difficult for software vendors to code in their own file associations...All they are guilty of (in this one specific instance) is putting a seldom used function off to the side, possibly requiring a user to do a little investigation to change an association...Would you want casual users to have the easy ability to change file associations at a whim? I don't know who your users are, but I certainly wouldn't want to afford that ability to every "Joe Mouse Click" that I support.
I saw that...I am really surprised they didn't edit that better. The way the camera pans down and then cuts right away, I think they were either intending on editing that out, or making it a bit more subliminal.
....and I hate to beat a dead horse, but it must have been at least as cold in that isolation chamber as it is in the apartment on 'Friends'...unless its standard practice to put golf pencils in the bra cups of TV actresses;)
Also, I don't know if I was the only one who caught this, but when Capn' Scott's father was giving his speech, about Seeking out new life and new civilizations, he corrected Kirk's gramatical error from the orignal series...'to boldly go' is a dangling participle. It was spoken properly in the speech 'to go boldly'
The problem isn't that Microsoft didn't fix it in time, the problem is that lasy sysadmins (myself included) didn't bother to apply the patch until it was too late. Microsoft had a fix for this thing at least a month before it hit.
Well in this case I agree that maybe a total disclosure from eEye was a bit of a conflict of interests, here is an analogy to illuminate my point. Suppose that ADT (or some other home/commercial security company) had a flaw in their security systems which actually made it easier for you to break in to a home/business. It would be one thing for a news reporter who is doing an informational story warning people that a flaw exists, it is quite another thing for a 3rd party company who sells add ons for the security companies systems to give potential wrong doers step by step instructions on how to exploit this flaw. This is basically what eEye is doing, if you notice, on the same URL where one can find the free Code red detection tool there is a link to their secureIIS web product. Basically they have released damaging information to stimulate sales of a product they produce...not exactly ethical.
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Could I get a copy of that 'BritnetSpears.jpg.exe'?
As long as they don't delete any of my porno they can have my MP3's
Uh! Another shabby article that paints Microsoft to be The Evil Sheriff of Nottingham on the basis that most users wouldn't bother to read their manuals or the online help file, or even use their heads once in a while. The Windows Developers haven't tried to obscure the process of file re-association, they haven't made it difficult for software vendors to code in their own file associations...All they are guilty of (in this one specific instance) is putting a seldom used function off to the side, possibly requiring a user to do a little investigation to change an association...Would you want casual users to have the easy ability to change file associations at a whim? I don't know who your users are, but I certainly wouldn't want to afford that ability to every "Joe Mouse Click" that I support.
Yahoo! or Yahoo Serious?
oh yeah...my mistake..split infinative...thank you for the correction.
I saw that...I am really surprised they didn't edit that better. The way the camera pans down and then cuts right away, I think they were either intending on editing that out, or making it a bit more subliminal.
;)
....and I hate to beat a dead horse, but it must have been at least as cold in that isolation chamber as it is in the apartment on 'Friends'...unless its standard practice to put golf pencils in the bra cups of TV actresses
Also, I don't know if I was the only one who caught this, but when Capn' Scott's father was giving his speech, about Seeking out new life and new civilizations, he corrected Kirk's gramatical error from the orignal series...'to boldly go' is a dangling participle. It was spoken properly in the speech 'to go boldly'
The problem isn't that Microsoft didn't fix it in time, the problem is that lasy sysadmins (myself included) didn't bother to apply the patch until it was too late. Microsoft had a fix for this thing at least a month before it hit.
Well in this case I agree that maybe a total disclosure from eEye was a bit of a conflict of interests, here is an analogy to illuminate my point. Suppose that ADT (or some other home/commercial security company) had a flaw in their security systems which actually made it easier for you to break in to a home/business. It would be one thing for a news reporter who is doing an informational story warning people that a flaw exists, it is quite another thing for a 3rd party company who sells add ons for the security companies systems to give potential wrong doers step by step instructions on how to exploit this flaw. This is basically what eEye is doing, if you notice, on the same URL where one can find the free Code red detection tool there is a link to their secureIIS web product. Basically they have released damaging information to stimulate sales of a product they produce...not exactly ethical.