Microsoft's Security Meeting Causes Unease 170
Tony Maclennan writes to tell us that there were many mixed feelings at this year's Microsoft Security Response and Safety Summit. Many who attended the conference felt that the presentations were sadly lacking in the technical details that were shared in previous years. With Microsoft entering the arena as a competitor to these anti-virus companies, one has to wonder about the effect on the free flow of information that ultimately benefits the consumer.
Ballmer needs a gift... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe there's nothing to report? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes! (Score:2, Funny)
I could be wrong, but ... (Score:5, Funny)
This new symbolic link technology sounds like serious stuff. I hope they hold back on the release date until they it's working correctly.
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Evet (n.)[See Eft, n.]
(Zoöl.) The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]
Terrist (n.)
A neologism referring to environmentalists who engage in actions considered by some to be terrorism, (eco-terrorism) including destruction of property as well as various types of nonviolent direct action. It is also a moniker used by individuals who concern themselves with the world (Terra) that is the home of the human species (Homo sapiens).
Re:I could be wrong, but ... (Score:3, Funny)
(*) or was it the other way around? Just confusing everybody here to make things worse ;)
(Security By Obscurity) Naw... (Score:3, Funny)
If they gave technical details they might be used by h4x0rz or evet terrists!
More like Financial or Market Security Through Obscurity. Like every other market, Microsoft wants a cut of it and to assert their will upon the rules by which it runs. It's utter madness, however, because if Microsoft did their work right the first time this market would be considerably smaller and segements wouldn't exist at all!
That Microsoft seeks to profit from protecting customers from the holes in their software is ludicrous, heinous even! Never fear, McAfee, Norton, MicroTrend, AdAware, etc., you can go on to sell products which protect consumers from the holes in Microsoft's security security!
And then they went on to prosper beyond their wildes dreams...
Re:security by obscurity (Score:3, Funny)
RFC 666: Notice of proposed definition-making
terrist - n.
1. A person who is an advocate of or expert in the planet Earth.
2. Informal. An eco-terrorist.
3. Slang. A person who does not bathe.
See also: open source developer.
:-D
Re: We Live Upon a Ship of Fools (Score:5, Funny)
Ignorami is a variant of the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. (Ignorami practitioners have been known to leave their creations on sidewalks creating serious public safety issues.)
Charlatans are a salamander-like creature that can originally be found on the Galapagos islands, but who are now becoming a problem in urban areas because of specimens escaping from zoos. (Hence society being infested with them.)
Cognoscenti just refers to employees of Cognos.
Translation to twitterese (Score:1, Funny)
Yuo are wrong good sir (Score:2, Funny)
Cognoscenti are people who smell like employees of Cognos.