Richard Purcell, the post neglects to mention, handles corporate security concerns at microsoft. Hope this means a security-fixing bias; that's where the most effort is needed.
It would seem to me to be more lip service than anything else. For one thing, what is to say bug-fixing doesn't require what couild be classified as 'new code'? How about a definition of new code? Does new code mean new features? Which begs another question; where does 'bug fixed' end and 'new feature added' begin?
But hey, at least Microsoft has become aware there's issues with their software. I'm just hoping they don't begin with the port 139 thingie in the tcpip stack in the old win95 releases... Which makes me wonder what winnuke is doing in my start menu... Oh never mind.
On a random note, it occurs to me that it would have been quite amusing if it was revealed that the person who worked out this kluge was... none other than Mr. Dmitri Skylarov himself!:-) The fallout from such a revalation woiuld no doubt have been life without parole, and what's worse, Skylarov himself would live on in our memories as the lamest, erm, hacker,who ever lived. Cracked not only the formidable ROT-13, but also deleted checkforOSX! Woooohoooo!
Right. Let's settle this. I live so close to the pyramids I get a full view from the balcony. And take it from someone who lives that close that ther will never be enough wind to leverage the kind of force necessary to accomplish any pyramid building with wind power. If the pyramidiots want to persist, they will have to make a case for the ancient egyptians having invented electricity and monster fans.
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Richard Purcell, the post neglects to mention, handles corporate security concerns at microsoft. Hope this means a security-fixing bias; that's where the most effort is needed.
It would seem to me to be more lip service than anything else. For one thing, what is to say bug-fixing doesn't require what couild be classified as 'new code'? How about a definition of new code? Does new code mean new features? Which begs another question; where does 'bug fixed' end and 'new feature added' begin?
But hey, at least Microsoft has become aware there's issues with their software. I'm just hoping they don't begin with the port 139 thingie in the tcpip stack in the old win95 releases... Which makes me wonder what winnuke is doing in my start menu... Oh never mind.
On a random note, it occurs to me that it would have been quite amusing if it was revealed that the person who worked out this kluge was... none other than Mr. Dmitri Skylarov himself! :-) The fallout from such a revalation woiuld no doubt have been life without parole, and what's worse, Skylarov himself would live on in our memories as the lamest, erm, hacker ,who ever lived. Cracked not only the formidable ROT-13, but also deleted checkforOSX! Woooohoooo!
Right. Let's settle this. I live so close to the pyramids I get a full view from the balcony. And take it from someone who lives that close that ther will never be enough wind to leverage the kind of force necessary to accomplish any pyramid building with wind power. If the pyramidiots want to persist, they will have to make a case for the ancient egyptians having invented electricity and monster fans.