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Your day wouldn't be complete without Microsoft news. Ralph Nader has written an open letter to Judge Kollar-Kotelly. Seems he has a few bones to pick with the settlement. MSNBC is running a WSJ article detailing how Microsoft beat down the DOJ in settlement negotiations. Even Israel knows Microsoft is a monopoly. Microsoft reveals its keep-them-in-the-dark plan for Microsoft security vulnerabilities. Amazingly, some security firms seem to be willing to go along with it. I guess they figure setting up a sort of cartel for security flaws is in their best financial interest. SANS is keeping their list of top security vulnerabilities up to date with the latest IIS exploits. And finally, MS wishes their new disclosure rules were used for yet another huge hole in Windows. Microsoft says it's "irresponsible" to expect them to get a patch out for a critical flaw within "a few days". As usual, switch off active scripting, even though that will make essentially every webpage that's designed for IE not work.
Corvair all over again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Keeping bugs a secret.. (Score:3, Funny)
Quote (Score:4, Funny)
Are they referring to the recent release of XP?
Thanks Ralph (Score:3, Funny)
Also I like seatbelts.
Critical Flaw (Score:2, Funny)
A Microsoft spokesman was later heard saying - "We didn't fix it in the first place, what makes you think we're going to now?"
Re:You know what I find funny? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:California also says (Score:4, Funny)
My preferred solution: break Microsoft into 28 operating companies. Give one to each MLB owner. Let Bill & Steve run baseball. Benefits of this solution are that baseball still gets run like a monopoly, but by people who are good at running a monopoly, and baseball comes with a built-in anti-trust exemption. Microsoft goes down the tubes, just like baseball has been doing for years. And best of all, programmer salaries get to match those of baseball players.
Re:I can't read the details of the security flaw (Score:5, Funny)
It's the new MS security policy: "if you can't read this page, you're not vulnerable"!
Re:Legality (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux Linux Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Hint of what response you can expect: In. Your. Dreams.
Re:Quote (Score:2, Funny)
yes! the whole product is a "critical flaw"
have a look at the movies here [enemy.org]
(the "DanceMonkeyBoy" mpeg, explains it all) and you stop wondering about microsoft
(first i thougt the steve balmer movie was from an psychiatrist