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Comment The real problem (Score 4, Funny) 83

I live in Washington state, and I think we're to blame - at least in part. All those Oregon programmers kept coming north to smoke weed here. I was a bit surprised Oregon didn't have plenty of its own already, given its reputation; but no, you'd see those guys all over the place asking "where can I find the good stuff, man. The GOOD stuff! I need a hookup, man!"

Our own health insurance exchange did well after the first week - that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.

Comment Re:Excellent (Score 4, Funny) 322

I think if your a company that relies on XP (not the POS edition) and you haven't isolated them on a special - no internet vlan - you have bigger issues than making sure your XP machine has security updates.

I thought all editions of Windows XP deserved the monicker POS?

(Note to the humor-impaired: Chill out, dude. At least I'm not making jokes about your pretend girlfriend, right?)

Comment Re:Boo hoo hoo (Score 1) 108

If your business relies largely or entirely on another business completely out of your control in order to stay afloat, then it's your fault for not diversifying your business.

Adapt, or get left behind.

Isn't this why Firefox decided they were going to start showing ads in new tabs?

Comment Re:And I foresee using less Google (Score 1) 355

I started moving away from Google about a year ago for this very reason.

My work email is still a Google Apps for Education based, since our university basically wants everyone either there or on Microsoft's cloud (which UW has managed to muck up, so it's not a great option). But my personal email is not. I do miss Google's spam filtering, which is darn good; but using an email client again has made me realize just how mediocre Gmail's interface is overall.

Comment Re:From whence the headline? (Score 1) 116

Dude.. chill, it is an actual apple, as in a fruit -- it is a saying. I didn't read the headline your way at all.

Actually, you are wrong. If you read the article, you'll see its main focus is on the "goto fail" bug and what the author perceives as the development shortcomings that allowed it to happen in the first place. The focus is pretty Apple-centric, mainly because he's using the "goto fail" bug as the primary evidence to support his central tenet. However I did not get the impression the author was anti-Apple.

Heartbleed is only mentioned as an afterthought because (as the article mentions) it became public knowledge some time after the author wrote the first draft of the article.

The "finding more than one worm" phrase doesn't appear to refer to Heartbleed at all - it's about (in the author's opinion) changing practices so more bugs can be caught and/or prevented.

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