Looks like the .wmf vulnerability was fixed in 2006. No widespread exploitation in the wild, either. And that's a bug, not a balance between convenience and security.

The DOS vulnerability seems odd...so if I opened a file in Word Perfect (for DOS) you're saying the kernel would try to execute it before passing the contents on to Word Perfect? Somehow that doesn't seem likely.

Ok, as you say, its a bug. Not the same thing as balancing security vs. convenience.

A quick Google makes it appear to be more of a bug (a properly malformed MIME header could result in code execution) than attempting to find the right balance between security and usability.

I'm no fan of Microsoft's security history, but when did they ever have attachments auto execute?

The only reason Oracle has this flaw is because Microsoft's DB lineup hardly forces them to compete from a security perspective.

Your strategy seems to be to make things larger, as if you were trying to cope with a minification (as in optics, not programming) problem. Have you experimented with radical adjustments to the distance of the object your eyes are focusing on? Relaxed the human eye focus is at infinity; think scanning the horizon for threats, with occasional refocusing on a near object before going back to scanning for stuff moving in the distance. Focusing on something a meter away all day long for years on end isn't what the eye does gracefully.

I didn't have your condition (in my case just plain old "eye fatigue"), but realizing focal length was the root cause and adjusting for it led to a dramatic improvement after years of experimenting with image scaling in exactly the same way you are. Image scaling helped with the symptoms (I could see what was happening easier) without any effect on the root cause.. In my case the difference was immediate and dramatic enough to notice after a weekend of playing games on a friends projector, leading to my adjusting my work environment for longer focal distances, so perhaps you could find out if focal length is or is not a factor in your condition just as quickly if you haven't already.

Well since you said "please"...

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://dyndns.org

Unfortunately since you had to ask someone for the URL with an extremely simple syntax I think you'll be required to hand in your geek card now.

amusing to see how http://dyndns.org/ has changed over the years; in 1999 complaining on the front page about the programmer leaving and taking all his code with him to a completely anonymous, plasticky "professional" look in 2011 and all the slow changes in between,

The United States regularly broadcast specific instructions for defecting pilots to follow. Defecting pilots during the cold war (bringing their planes with them) absolutely had permission to enter Japanese airspace as long as they obeyed the flight plan directly to the airfield they were told to land at.

You tell him! ;)

They're currently awaiting the final touches on Watson's t-800 style "meatspace interface/communication avatar" endoskeletons. Then the troll-pursuing begins.

Dude, you realize I was kidding about trends in overall CPU performance, right? Hence the "funny" moderation. I don't think anyone here seriously thinks we're approaching Bremermann's Limit and things just can't get faster.

Perhaps it "whooshed" you?

I like your description though...I always suspected there was something unwholesome and conspiratorial about CISC processing.

I'm with you totally...that's like well more than an order of magnitude faster than what we commonly have now, it would take huge advancements in technology to get there...heck, that would make the totally advanced and awesomely powerful computers we have these days feel like pocket calculators. Never'll happen ;)

How do you confuse mob vengeance (Tarring and Feathering) with Terrorism? Go back and read the first paragraph of the first search result you linked to. A mob cannot by definition is not a group engage in organized pre-planned behavior. No more terrorism than a couple bullies impulsively beating up another kid at school for making them angry.

...Unless your definition of "Terrorism" is "anything that scares people", which would encompass all violence and all threats of violence between people. Although there are differences of opinion on the details, there is a consensus as defining Terrorism as a type of asymmetric warfare, itself a subset of warfare, which is then a subset of violence. Your posts seem to indicate you think "Terrorism" is any type of violence.

Non-combatants targeting non-combatants alone show your examples don't understand what "Terrorism" is.

Perhaps you were shocked by the environment you grew up in, but that neither indicates that most (or even many) of the Loyalists in the colonies left due to the Patriots using terrorism as a war tactic against the British or anyone else (because its abundantly obvious they didn't). If I were a Loyalist displaced by the Revolutionary war I'd be pretty pissed too...

Anger != Evidence of Terrorism