Don't forget an annual surcharge for having good genes!

As an additional point, certain forms of meat are fantastic; specific types of fat in general tend to be higher in nutrients and less likely to clog arteries. Chorizo, for example, is stuff most people would never want in a steak and very rich in some of the best kinds of fats. That doesn't mean it isn't one of the best things you can be eating (especially after a night of drinking). McDonald's isn't lousy for you because there's meat in it; it's lousy because of all the meat that isn't in it.

Google Docs does not support Flash content. That's kind of the point.

Let's have a look at the simplest. How exactly is not dragging suspicious emails out of your spam folder and opening their attachments an impossible option?

I don't recall any indication of or basis for a reasonable inference that the Excel file was posed as an internal document. All the article said was that it was intriguing enough for someone to pull it out of the spam folder. General practice in internal IT and network administration is to whitelist internal emails and toss anything suspicious into spam, if not blacklist it entirely.

Again, I'm not a fan of using Google Docs, but I'd much rather let their servers clobber a zero-day than let it in through the front door. I see emails I occasionally think are intriguing, too; that doesn't mean they're from Bob in marketing or that I should open their attachments using the very applications they are designed to target.

I'm just waiting for someone to build a slingshot that chucks crowbars.

Jerry! Jerry!

Don't open anything flagged as spam until you've read the full headers?
Don't use Excel as your first option when reading e-mail attachments?
Run off of a read-only file system?
Convert every excel file to CSV before opening?
View using Google Docs or one of its clones? (Not that I advocate using Google's tools in general...)
Open nonessentials on a different computer with restrictive security settings? Don't use Windows?

The possibilities are endless.

Realistically, it's not possible to stop an attacker who's willing to invest serious time and approach in a smart manner. It is, however, possible to avoid being the person in the organization who lets them in. Someone will fall for it, given enough time and a large enough company, and once they have access they won't be interested in tricking you anymore.

Quick, everyone mod up the above poster as anything but insightful. =P

It would work again, but in order to pull that off Slashdot would have to make it pink for, say, 10 percent of users.

Re: "WOOO YEAH PONIES!"
Re: "What the hell are you talking about? I don't see any ponies"

Because it isn't at all possible that they managed to reach a support person using the standard "whatever it is, it's a feature that somehow helps you" misdirect to try to end the phone conversation in record time. Sure, the article was poorly researched to begin with, but that part wasn't necessarily bogus. It's fallacious to assume that because some of the story was factually inaccurate, the entirety of the story is factually inaccurate. Not that I put any kind of stock in such a citation; however, it is increasingly common even among more reputable news outlets to make generic citations rather than relaying more useful details.

Good sir, are you implying that one or more people actually uses Bing rather than going straight to the middleman?

I don't know that I'd equate popular with interesting. I mean, I don't pay attention to what Sarah Palin says because I think she's got a really intriguing perspective.

I jumped from the new AT&T to T-Mobile precisely because it stifled innovation and was more interested in locking down systems than providing any kind of useful service. They're seriously the only telco I've ever come across that couldn't reverse their own admitted mistake on an account.

...and now my only reasonable option for a much-needed upgrade is the G2X, because if AT&T is allowed to eat T-Mobile, not only will I be stuck having to opt out of what was a great contract, I'll have to use the only phone in the lineup that would actually function on the network once they've dismantled it.

Hell, AT&T can't even figure out how to get Amazon's Appstore to function on their network due to their policy of locking everything until forced to do otherwise. It's Ma Bell all over again, but without the benefits. Blocking the merger shouldn't even be a question of "if". As it is, AT&T is essentially a re-assembled zombie under more obnoxious management. Does anyone actually believe they would wield newfound and wholly unfettered power with any measure of responsibility?

Get with the times. Everyone should be using masking tape for when you have to use an optical reader.