Anonymous Cowherd? Is that you?

And 8 of the 10 Windows vulnerabilities were related to the Adobe Type Manager Font Driver (ATMFD.DLL). I don't know how much of ATMFD was written by whom, but according to Wikipedia, "Adobe licensed to Microsoft the core code." That makes Adobe responsible for 13 of the 15 vulnerabilities, including all 9 of the most dangerous.

Not Dice's fault (this time); the summary just quotes The Register's opening hook.

It would have been nice if The Register's somewhat hysterical FA (much less the Slashdot summary) had made clear up front that Microsoft patched most of the Windows vulnerabilities all the way back in March (MS15-021), and the last one in May (MS15-044). According to j00ru's blog post, Adobe patched their holes in May as well.

j00ru was clear enough in his blog post, but El Reg decided to stick in one line: "Microsoft and Adobe issued patches in three updates."—six paragraphs down, looking more like an image caption than part of the article. Sheesh.

Who ever did? I went to school in the 1960s and 1970s, consistently scored high on standardized tests, got the highest score in my state on one year's PSAT, but was never offered an IQ test by any school or doctor or organization. Informal tests have consistently put me somewhere in the 150-160 range, but in over half a century I've never had the opportunity to take a formal test (unless I wanted to pay someone to administer the test to me). IQ tests have always been something someone else took somewhere I wasn't.

Man, I miss Northernlight. That was a search engine from the late 90s that actually tried to categorize results by topic, and returned a tree structure that you could navigate through. If you entered "Paris Hilton" you got a tree with separate branches for French hotels and for sluts.

But they went subscription-only after a few years, then they went away. Too bad.

You recently blogged ("Malware Evolution Calls for Actor Attribution") criticizing security companies that don't make the effort to identify the creators of malware. Do you think there are times when a company—such as Kaspersky in their recent attack—could be acting responsibly by deliberately suppressing (temporarily, one would hope) information they might have about the source of an attack?

It's wonderfully ironic that, with your signature, you're the first poster to actually comment on the story instead of the 95-meter needle.

Steve? Is that you?

Yes, except that significant digits are irrelevant when you speak of exact values. These days, 1" is defined as exactly 2.54cm (or 25.4mm or maybe even .0254m; I'm not sure of the actual definition), so 1" = 2.54cm is in fact exactly correct. Blame the fact that the common English numbering system has no way of distinguishing exact values from values lacking additional significant digits. That's why my old CRC Standard Math Tables used bold text for exact values.

"'E could 'a drawed me off a pint," grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. "A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price."

1984, George Orwell. [Doggone lousy Slashdot Unicode support.]

Amen to this. I hate listening to videos on my work computer. Furthermore, I can read a transcript a lot faster than the people in the video can talk—and I absorb the meaning better as well.

Actually, he's also being ordered to pay $183 million in restitution.