So, you have breed a generation of Neck-beards who are immortal? They certainly not going to have sex anytime soon...
You're a 'tard, but I'm going to use your comment to explain how sex causes death and how this is a very sad joke. I was unnecessarily obscure with it to be artful, and the common folk should be led to the punchline so they can expand their understanding of this particular sick joke because a general understanding of this would be useful.
In biological terms for mammals, "sex" is the meeting of the sperm and the egg. Excluding cloning this is the only way mammals reproduce. Every life created in this way will end in death as all life ends. In the human case if you prevent this "sex" from occurring you will prevent births. If you continue such prevention for about 70 years you will have prevented all possible human births until the affected humans are incapable of giving birth. Since noone who was not born can die, this will also prevent deaths. In absolute terms birth causes death - each and every birth causes exactly one death. When every person who can do "sex" has passed the capable age has done so without giving birth all the people who can die will have been born, which is about 75 years hence under the absolute observance of this plan. Within 75 years thereafter (with modern science) the last human will die. And that will be the end of humans and human deaths forever (untimely or not), because there will be no more humans to die, nor any humans to make more humans to live and die. We will have conquered Death by surrendering to him. And that was the obscure joke others got without this long explanation that you didn't understand.
The end of sex ends births, which ends humans which ends death of humans. Now do you get it? Once there are no humans there are no more humans to fear death. And if we don't get off this planet, this is the end of Man.
Yes, this makes agricultural science the most destructive technology Man has ever known or will ever know, nuclear science notwithstanding.
This is your way of saying there is no hope for a thorough Hotmail security audit, even in the light of two rookie flaws making the news in a few days. Because we should just expect Hotmail to be insecure even at this level of unprofessionalism. Thanks for that. I'm really looking forward to the festival of fun that Live integration with W8 will bring.
There is a profit motive associated with securing electronic systems for the purveyors of those systems. It is simply not profitable to be seen as having shoddy security. This is a rookie mistake any decent security audit would have caught - and that implies that responsible audits are not being done. It follows straight on the heels of another one involving allowing users to have inadequate passwords. That means it's open season on Hotmail still and there's a heck of a lot of money to be made compromising it. A crash program to audit everything about Hotmail security had better already be underway because I guarantee if it's got faults this obvious it has many dozen far more obscure.
There are some here making excuses for the vendor involved and that's lame. This is a commercial enterprise that wants to be taken seriously in matters relating to confidence, security, the ability to handle money. People use email to handle important personal and business matters, to pass sensitive materials, to manage accounts for things that handle real money. This vendor is responsible for operating systems and applications that manipulate most of the world's commerce, credit, medical records and other serious matters. These failures represent simple and obvious neglect of their responsibility to practice due care. It should take them a long time to recover the respect and confidence they lost from this - and that will require that they get full control of their security situation even if it is inconvenient or expensive to do so.
"Vulnerabilities happen" is a copout. Vulnerabilities on this level of violation of best practice must not happen in an organization that hopes to maintain this level of responsibility.
I'm going to leave this one alone from now on. Coming from this viewpoint Richard's probably heard enough about Microsoft's security problems to last a lifetime.
It's a good thing they've gotten so committed to security, hired so many competent folks. Otherwise stuff like this might happen over and over. I'm glad this one security vulnerability in Hotmail is now completely repaired. I'll sleep better at night.
We all know how committed to maintaining openness and compatibility Microsoft is. For many years their support of free and open systems has been legendary.
You think that's bad? Try being the boss of Windows HPC. That guy fell of the Top500 entirely. No joke, the last Windows cluster in the Top500, ShanghaiSupercomputing Center's Dawning 5000A went SLES10 and now there is not even one. He must be so lonely.
Bing's only a Two billion dollar a year money pit. But at least that investment's making a dent on Google, right? Um, no. Wow. That is an amazing. What qualifications do you have to have to run a business like that? I think I could do that.
You think if you pick a fight with me about my tie, and go swinging about trying to kill me, I'm going to insult your shoes in response? No. I'm going to eliminate the crazy threat and retire from the scene as fast as I can. Even if that means choking your crazy ass out.
This post is now long forgotten but my point was that your post ignores certain elements of doing thing in Africa - most especially the social issues. The social issues must be overcome before your hopeful rhetoric becomes possible.
It turns out that they're more likely to find a rich asteroid headed directly for your condo, and scoop it up - not to save your ass, but because it's worth more to them.
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They're not the only one. http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-20/tech/30301299_1_microsoft-cash-home-tax-issue
Verizon got burned on the KIN. There's no way in hell they're going to push Windows Phones. They will pretend, and that's it.
Hahahaha ha snirk. Wait, you're serious? (points and laughs). Three turkeys also do not make an eagle.
So you've never used Hotmail then?
Their complaint was that it was "not evil enough".
And BTW: I don't understand why this is funny.
So, you have breed a generation of Neck-beards who are immortal? They certainly not going to have sex anytime soon...
You're a 'tard, but I'm going to use your comment to explain how sex causes death and how this is a very sad joke. I was unnecessarily obscure with it to be artful, and the common folk should be led to the punchline so they can expand their understanding of this particular sick joke because a general understanding of this would be useful.
In biological terms for mammals, "sex" is the meeting of the sperm and the egg. Excluding cloning this is the only way mammals reproduce. Every life created in this way will end in death as all life ends. In the human case if you prevent this "sex" from occurring you will prevent births. If you continue such prevention for about 70 years you will have prevented all possible human births until the affected humans are incapable of giving birth. Since noone who was not born can die, this will also prevent deaths. In absolute terms birth causes death - each and every birth causes exactly one death. When every person who can do "sex" has passed the capable age has done so without giving birth all the people who can die will have been born, which is about 75 years hence under the absolute observance of this plan. Within 75 years thereafter (with modern science) the last human will die. And that will be the end of humans and human deaths forever (untimely or not), because there will be no more humans to die, nor any humans to make more humans to live and die. We will have conquered Death by surrendering to him. And that was the obscure joke others got without this long explanation that you didn't understand.
The end of sex ends births, which ends humans which ends death of humans. Now do you get it? Once there are no humans there are no more humans to fear death. And if we don't get off this planet, this is the end of Man.
Yes, this makes agricultural science the most destructive technology Man has ever known or will ever know, nuclear science notwithstanding.
This is your way of saying there is no hope for a thorough Hotmail security audit, even in the light of two rookie flaws making the news in a few days. Because we should just expect Hotmail to be insecure even at this level of unprofessionalism. Thanks for that. I'm really looking forward to the festival of fun that Live integration with W8 will bring.
There is a profit motive associated with securing electronic systems for the purveyors of those systems. It is simply not profitable to be seen as having shoddy security. This is a rookie mistake any decent security audit would have caught - and that implies that responsible audits are not being done. It follows straight on the heels of another one involving allowing users to have inadequate passwords. That means it's open season on Hotmail still and there's a heck of a lot of money to be made compromising it. A crash program to audit everything about Hotmail security had better already be underway because I guarantee if it's got faults this obvious it has many dozen far more obscure.
There are some here making excuses for the vendor involved and that's lame. This is a commercial enterprise that wants to be taken seriously in matters relating to confidence, security, the ability to handle money. People use email to handle important personal and business matters, to pass sensitive materials, to manage accounts for things that handle real money. This vendor is responsible for operating systems and applications that manipulate most of the world's commerce, credit, medical records and other serious matters. These failures represent simple and obvious neglect of their responsibility to practice due care. It should take them a long time to recover the respect and confidence they lost from this - and that will require that they get full control of their security situation even if it is inconvenient or expensive to do so.
"Vulnerabilities happen" is a copout. Vulnerabilities on this level of violation of best practice must not happen in an organization that hopes to maintain this level of responsibility.
They've banished Windows from their network, so Google doesn't have that problem any more.
I'm going to leave this one alone from now on. Coming from this viewpoint Richard's probably heard enough about Microsoft's security problems to last a lifetime.
I probably could pull that off sometime before Microsoft manages to make Hotmail secure enough to be useful.
It's a good thing they've gotten so committed to security, hired so many competent folks. Otherwise stuff like this might happen over and over. I'm glad this one security vulnerability in Hotmail is now completely repaired. I'll sleep better at night.
We all know how committed to maintaining openness and compatibility Microsoft is. For many years their support of free and open systems has been legendary.
nonono. They have a totally cool website plan to get that ten billion dollars back. They're just keeping it a secret.
You think that's bad? Try being the boss of Windows HPC. That guy fell of the Top500 entirely. No joke, the last Windows cluster in the Top500, ShanghaiSupercomputing Center's Dawning 5000A went SLES10 and now there is not even one. He must be so lonely.
Bing's only a Two billion dollar a year money pit. But at least that investment's making a dent on Google, right? Um, no. Wow. That is an amazing. What qualifications do you have to have to run a business like that? I think I could do that.
You forgot political science, and above that - agriculture.
To be fair, sex causes death. If sex could be prevented we could wipe out the spectre of death forever.
There is also the assumption that abiogenesis occurred on Earth, which is not proven.
Old article is old.
This was metaphorical, of course.
You think if you pick a fight with me about my tie, and go swinging about trying to kill me, I'm going to insult your shoes in response? No. I'm going to eliminate the crazy threat and retire from the scene as fast as I can. Even if that means choking your crazy ass out.
This post is now long forgotten but my point was that your post ignores certain elements of doing thing in Africa - most especially the social issues. The social issues must be overcome before your hopeful rhetoric becomes possible.
It turns out that they're more likely to find a rich asteroid headed directly for your condo, and scoop it up - not to save your ass, but because it's worth more to them.