El Reg claims to have received email from Mr Taylor, asking that people (CentOS users) stop emailing him. To echo the story, "So stop, now. Please."
This guy is currently being humiliated, and will likely experience national coverage when the print media get ahold of the story. Don't spam him, too. It's adding injury to insult, or something like that.
(at best) you could only hope to control a fraction
I'm presuming you mean a small fraction;-).
I would think that there would be more prestige involved in releasing an exploit for FF or Opera, simply because everyone says they are more secure. Security does not appear to have been a large concern for MS IE 6.x, though this was a larger priority for ME IS 7. If IE 7.x has been hardened sufficiently, will this force the poorer exploiters towards alternative browsers? We'll have to see...
Ballmer says this like three or four times. Geez Steve, save me some time and say it once. Oh, and if that is your first reason, you can't use it as your second reason, too.
"people value [...] the compatibility our stuff has with itself"
Okay, but it's not compatible with anything else. And that's a problem.
What does "da-deet" mean? Pick a real language and use that, Steve!
Thank you, I had forgotten that. I sit corrected.;-)
What do you think the spammers use on their zombie boxes? Code they wrote themselves?
No, but I didn't think they actually used SMTP for anything. Isn't it all IRC traffic? I've never actually seen a zombie computer, sorry.
Sendmail is a mail transfer agent that would run on mail relays or servers, not typically on a desktop, particularly not in a network server configuration, which as far as I could see was the vulnerable configuration.
That the Windows version is or isn't vulnerable doesn't enter into it. I doubt that 1 in 10000 windows boxes would run an email server. (Okay somebody do the sales of Exchange divided by total Windows boxes and show me to be wrong.;-)
Well, let's use one of my pet beefs then. Adobe Acrobat reader. When a link is clicked on, it spawns a new instance of a browser to open the URL, not embedded within the document reader itself. I don't see anything special about the use of this browser by the launching program.
Is it not reasonable for it to take a peek into the registry and find out what handler is set for the http protocol, and use that?
While I am willing to accept that embedded web access may be greatly simplified (e.g. opening a webpage in OpenOffice) by using the standard API and thereby MSIE, I don't see this applying in most of the situations.
A lot of third party programs use IE to display html
Yes, they do, and it's complete and utter BS. These third party programmers are too [censored] lazy to use the browser that I have set up as default. MS IE is buried behind a firewall and filtering software so it doesn't run, and I have to manually copy the URL to the good browser from the horrible one. Not a big problem, I guess, but still, I paid for the third party s/w (well, unless it was free), it's running on my machine, it should respect my wishes and defaults.
They're law students. This is part of the preparation for their careers. They should immediately complain, whine, etc. about anything and everything, then litigate (write letters to the Dean, whatever) profusely.
The faculty member is simply going out of her way to help them out in their future profession.
this malapropism was cribbed from the CBS article. Seems like no one gives a shit these days. Well send them a letter, then. You have to confront these people in the language they use.
Deer See B.S.;
Eye half red yore web sight on globe all warming and wood like too way inn on the topic. If you're imminent scientist is write, the precedent must be immanently in-preached.
Than queue.
(The preceding article passed a spell chequer test.)
Firefly cancelled after one season (okay before the end of the first season)
Babylon 5 struggled each and every season to get renewed
Farscape killed off before its time
Enterprise got killed off as it started getting reasonable (the last episodes were shot when they knew they were dead, and it showed)
And don't get me started on Birds of Prey
Why would this series run that long?! (Yes, I know - it's the hype that surrounds a new series and all, but really - 100 episodes. Maybe they expect that Jar-Jar will be a big draw. Tune in next week to Meesa Binks get incinerated... )
Preparing to be slaughtered by the Sith/Jedi moderators, I don my blindfold and light my cigarette;-)
Are you prognosticating the aerial deployment of...
I think the original post was about dropping leaflets printed in Ariel font. That'll mess up whoever tries to read them.
Insurgent Open Source Translation team:
Is that a "1"?
No - it is an "I"! You idiot!
Oh no no no my friends - it is an "l".
It could be the "pipe symbol", yes?
Nobody knows what is going on...
This would require the elimination of "informed consent" and I think would be a major step backward. However, the use of placebo for the control group is also something I am very much against.
I applaud his suggestion that negative results be reported.
The way things are now, I predict that placebo will be the most prescribed medication in 50 years. (I like predicting things N decades in the future. If anyone can actually remember this to call me on it, I can claim I don't recall it.... and reach for my placebo memory enhancer.)
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And yet, we will accept the same from MicroSoft without the assurance of source ;-)
There are only 168 hours (total, even for sleep) per week. Oh, you're a consultant and those are billable hours!
I'm looking forward to the next few days and this story's development.
This guy is currently being humiliated, and will likely experience national coverage when the print media get ahold of the story. Don't spam him, too. It's adding injury to insult, or something like that.
I'm presuming you mean a small fraction ;-).
I would think that there would be more prestige involved in releasing an exploit for FF or Opera, simply because everyone says they are more secure. Security does not appear to have been a large concern for MS IE 6.x, though this was a larger priority for ME IS 7. If IE 7.x has been hardened sufficiently, will this force the poorer exploiters towards alternative browsers? We'll have to see ...
Not a good week for MS IE, eh?
"people value [...] the compatibility our stuff has with itself"
Okay, but it's not compatible with anything else. And that's a problem.
What does "da-deet" mean? Pick a real language and use that, Steve!
I'm glad that MicroSoft acts responsibly, stands behind its products, and patches its products in a timely fashion.
Not like some free software, eh? Look at that - sendmail has an unpatched bug where it does not log some mail!
"You mention intellectual", but I do not think it means what you think it means.
On a lot of these interviews, I think they could really use a better spokesperson than Ballmer. This guy might do better. Rant over for the moment.
Well, something's happened. Taylor has removed his email address from his web page.
My name is Joe ... oops
WTF is it with all these movie references?
What do you think the spammers use on their zombie boxes? Code they wrote themselves?
No, but I didn't think they actually used SMTP for anything. Isn't it all IRC traffic? I've never actually seen a zombie computer, sorry.
That the Windows version is or isn't vulnerable doesn't enter into it. I doubt that 1 in 10000 windows boxes would run an email server. (Okay somebody do the sales of Exchange divided by total Windows boxes and show me to be wrong. ;-)
Is it not reasonable for it to take a peek into the registry and find out what handler is set for the http protocol, and use that?
While I am willing to accept that embedded web access may be greatly simplified (e.g. opening a webpage in OpenOffice) by using the standard API and thereby MSIE, I don't see this applying in most of the situations.
Yes, they do, and it's complete and utter BS. These third party programmers are too [censored] lazy to use the browser that I have set up as default. MS IE is buried behind a firewall and filtering software so it doesn't run, and I have to manually copy the URL to the good browser from the horrible one. Not a big problem, I guess, but still, I paid for the third party s/w (well, unless it was free), it's running on my machine, it should respect my wishes and defaults.
I'd've stopped after "organize your books", but anyway ...
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Slow down cowboy - it's been 12 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes and 4 seconds since your last post.
The faculty member is simply going out of her way to help them out in their future profession.
Good on her.
"RIAA Wants You DEAD!"
"Recording industry kills off clientele"
or "DRM Fatal" (or at least "DRM harmful to health")?
Well send them a letter, then. You have to confront these people in the language they use.
Deer See B.S.;
Eye half red yore web sight on globe all warming and wood like too way inn on the topic. If you're imminent scientist is write, the precedent must be immanently in-preached.
Than queue.
(The preceding article passed a spell chequer test.)
Firefly cancelled after one season (okay before the end of the first season)
Babylon 5 struggled each and every season to get renewed
Farscape killed off before its time
Enterprise got killed off as it started getting reasonable (the last episodes were shot when they knew they were dead, and it showed)
And don't get me started on Birds of Prey
Why would this series run that long?! (Yes, I know - it's the hype that surrounds a new series and all, but really - 100 episodes. Maybe they expect that Jar-Jar will be a big draw. Tune in next week to Meesa Binks get incinerated ... )
Preparing to be slaughtered by the Sith/Jedi moderators, I don my blindfold and light my cigarette ;-)
Of course, really it should be:
"Weleathe Pwometheuth"
Depends, is she cute?
Will my other imaginary girlfriends find out about her if they google me?
I think the original post was about dropping leaflets printed in Ariel font. That'll mess up whoever tries to read them.
Insurgent Open Source Translation team:
Is that a "1"?
No - it is an "I"! You idiot!
Oh no no no my friends - it is an "l".
It could be the "pipe symbol", yes?
Why not?
Because a significant number of us will have to be thought police.
And you're going away for a looong time for even thinking otherwise.
A. Bester
This would require the elimination of "informed consent" and I think would be a major step backward. However, the use of placebo for the control group is also something I am very much against.
I applaud his suggestion that negative results be reported.
The way things are now, I predict that placebo will be the most prescribed medication in 50 years. (I like predicting things N decades in the future. If anyone can actually remember this to call me on it, I can claim I don't recall it. ... and reach for my placebo memory enhancer.)
You've bben reading too much of this. Or did you just see a rerun of Babylon 5, when Londo is caught cheating? (At cards.)