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Comment Re:An old legal maxim (Score 1) 411

by vector_prime on Friday June 13, 2008 @11:56AM (#23779503) Attached to: RIAA's Throwing In the Towel Covered a Sucker Punch

If you're going to tell an old joke, at least get it right:

If you have no case in law, pound on the facts. If you have no case in fact, pound on the law. If you have no case in law or fact, pound on the table.

White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows 242

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @10:51AM from the on-the-up-and-up dept.

twitter writes "The Register is reporting on an effort to bring order to the wild world of Windows patching, at least in the US Federal Government. The White House has issued a directive to federal CIOs throughout the country, issuing a call for all new PCs to use a 'common secure configuration.' 'Registry settings and which services would be turned on or off by default [are specified and] the directive calls for suppliers (integrators and software vendors) to certify that the products they supply operate effectively using these more secure configurations. "No Vista application will be able to be sold to federal agencies if the application does not run on the secure version of Vista," explained Alan Paller, director of research at The SANS Institute.'"

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