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Comment Dump Harper... (Score 1) 148

by eerok on Saturday March 17, 2012 @09:39AM (#39388609) Attached to: Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories

...and repeal all laws passed by the Republican, er, PC party since they came to power, and forbid them from acting in any capacity in Canadian government for the next 20 years as punishment for their gross malfeasance and betrayal of trust.

This will never happen, but one can dream.

40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug 158

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:59PM from the and-the-other-ones-are-worse dept.

CWmike writes "About 40 different Windows applications contain a critical flaw that can be used by attackers to hijack PCs and infect them with malware, says HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 and creator of the open-source Metasploit penetration-testing toolkit. Gregg Keizer reports that the bug was patched by Apple in its iTunes software for Windows four months ago, but remains in more than three dozen other Windows programs. Moore did not reveal the names of the vulnerable applications or their makers, however. Each affected program will have to be patched separately. Moore first hinted at the widespread bug in a message on Twitter on Wednesday. 'The cat is out of the bag, this issue affects about 40 different apps, including the Windows shell,' he tweeted, then linked to an advisory published by Acros, a Slovenian security firm."

Comment Re:Basically, what they just did (Score 4, Interesting) 435

by eerok on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @07:53PM (#22936456) Attached to: ISO Approves OOXML

"All MS-OOXML really is is a forwards-compatible XML serialization of the Microsoft Office 2003 formats."

In other words it's not an open document format due to all the legacy proprietary crap it embodies. Thanks, but we knew that already.

Actually, all MS did was make a joke out of the process of establishing standards. That's okay, the world can take a joke. But it holds grudges.

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