Somebody think up something that includes the term "beleaguered".

Hypothermia can kill you even if you're not at 14K feet. There's a stage where you actually feel *warm*, like you're burning up. I've felt it. And while not as pronounced as the high/low you get from hypoxia, it can also leave you impaired to make wonderfully stupid decisions that can get you killed.

Sunday night + Something vaguely criticizing Microsoft == Slashdot Front Page

... must go on... for great justice...

Which this particular patch qualifies as.

I think Yahoo has been slowly reinventing themselves in the past two years. To call them "the old web" is rather shortsighted.

Maybe they're not moving as quickly as many people would like, but that's a different institutional issue. Also, consider that Yahoo has a crapload of "old web" customers and users who in many cases are simply averse to change. You can't just one day drop them in a super slick Ajax interface that ties into nine different social sites and expect them to be thankful - because they just don't care about that sort of thing. Microsoft tried that and it didn't work.

No, and that's obviously Microsoft's fault.

Remember Blaster, which had a full 40 days or something like that before the exploit was seen in the wild. 10 days is obviously not enough lead time. I personally think we should all be given at least 6 months warning for each vulnerability. Then the attack success rate would plummet to 20% from the 70% it seems to be at these days.

One year would be even better. 365 glorious days to decide whether or not to patch! That would be great.

Yes, I can confirm this. I am currently in the process of helping Abacha's widow, Miriam, extricate the sum of $12,000,000 from Nigeria for a $1M cut. And get this - all I had to do is wire her $2,000 for legal expenses! Bwahahahah!

I am her special friend in god, I am.

Now that Microsoft are feeling the pinch of competition

Too bad a large segment of that competition is made up of their own operating systems.

The only trouble Vista ever had was that XP worked well enough for everybody and didn't offer any incentives to upgrade.

But it's not like Apple is taking over the world any time soon.

Thank you :)

when it comes to LAMP

Bwahahaha. I guess all those SQL injection vulns and all the defacements, roots and other exciting happenings in the land of open sores are not reported in your media of choice.

Oh, here's another one. Cross-platform too.

How's the sockpuppet thing going, BTW? Not the returns you imagined, I guess?

Anybody else think The 13th Warrior (based on his Eaters of The Dead) is actually a good film?

I liked it. Still do. I think it's unappreciated.

/ducks

FUD, FUD, FUD

yup, that's the exact noise those giant fan blades make.