Microsoft Internet Explorer's Extremely Critical Vulnerability. This vulnerability, which remains unpatched, has been discovered about six months ago. (And remains unpatched). It compromises the security of an otherwise fully-patched windows xp with sp2 system. (meaning, even if you have a fully patched system, you are still vulnerable)
On the other hand, Firefox 1.5 is here, and Opera has also upgraded.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
Windows vs. GNU/Linux
(from slashdot.org. I'm quoting this because it's priceless. you should all read it. now.)
Let's assume, that by some miracle, some subcontractor, ShitSoft (MS) manages to break a deal to sell shit (Windows) for food (OS) for McDonalds (IBM) customers for their fastfood restaurants (PC) sometime in the late 80ies so ShitSoft gains monopoly on fastfood restaurants and thus the food market.
There are 12'000 people involved in devising the best methods to fling shit at the customers, to feed them with shit, to serve shit in the most appetizing way.
Because people don't know anything better, people buy ShitSoft's "product". ShitSoft must be producing a huge market many hungry people rely on, right?
ShitSoft is a nice friendly company, so it donates less than 1% of its profits to help combat diseases, so this is why we should keep eating shit.
Also, ShitSoft also has around 12'000 employees, whom are contractually obliged to eat shit.
ShitSoft has been on the top for a while, they clearly created a product that everyone LIKES, because they don't know any better. That product has created jobs for millions of food specialists, contractors and plastic cutlery producers. (Because they would be totally out of their jobs if people would eat something different, right?)
But as in every fairy tale the bad, ugly guy appeared: community owned greenhouses started producing quality vegetables. They gave it away the plans of building such greenhouses and the seeds for the vegetables, only asking to share them with everyone who wants those plans and seeds.
ShitSoft had to do something: they started their "Get the feces" campaign, where they involved several independent researchers, with only a few million shares from ShitSoft or being a board member at ShitSoft. Those researchers claimed that everyone who uses community owned greenhouses must be a communist for not supporting Real hard working American produced quality branded shit wrapped in nice shiny package, but preferred vegetables. They explained that shit has a much lower Total Caloric Overall, than vegetables and that ShitSoft's shit is produced by a trustable american corporation while the vegetables are clearly on the way to ruin the american economy.
The campaign is still undecided to be effective or not, but let's not forget another issue: ShitSoft's product created a huge industry to modify some of the product's erm, "features". Some customers wanted to decrease the value of the quality shit (no idea why would they want to do that), by buying products from third party companies to make shit lose it's smell and taste, and to drive away the flies. Can you not see how ShitSoft helps the economy?
There have been certain allegations before, that ShitSoft's product is not adequate for human consumption. Such a nonsense! It is a shame that we can't disprove that since ShitSoft's End User Shit Agreement specifically forbids the analysis of their latest, "eXPerience the Shit" product and all former versions. Some people slandered ShitSoft before by claiming that shit causes diarrhea and infections and that generally everyone just should refrain from eating shit, but ShitSoft dismissed such scandalous claims.
Be patriotic, support ShitSoft, down with vegetables!
(Link here)
Let's assume, that by some miracle, some subcontractor, ShitSoft (MS) manages to break a deal to sell shit (Windows) for food (OS) for McDonalds (IBM) customers for their fastfood restaurants (PC) sometime in the late 80ies so ShitSoft gains monopoly on fastfood restaurants and thus the food market.
There are 12'000 people involved in devising the best methods to fling shit at the customers, to feed them with shit, to serve shit in the most appetizing way.
Because people don't know anything better, people buy ShitSoft's "product". ShitSoft must be producing a huge market many hungry people rely on, right?
ShitSoft is a nice friendly company, so it donates less than 1% of its profits to help combat diseases, so this is why we should keep eating shit.
Also, ShitSoft also has around 12'000 employees, whom are contractually obliged to eat shit.
ShitSoft has been on the top for a while, they clearly created a product that everyone LIKES, because they don't know any better. That product has created jobs for millions of food specialists, contractors and plastic cutlery producers. (Because they would be totally out of their jobs if people would eat something different, right?)
But as in every fairy tale the bad, ugly guy appeared: community owned greenhouses started producing quality vegetables. They gave it away the plans of building such greenhouses and the seeds for the vegetables, only asking to share them with everyone who wants those plans and seeds.
ShitSoft had to do something: they started their "Get the feces" campaign, where they involved several independent researchers, with only a few million shares from ShitSoft or being a board member at ShitSoft. Those researchers claimed that everyone who uses community owned greenhouses must be a communist for not supporting Real hard working American produced quality branded shit wrapped in nice shiny package, but preferred vegetables. They explained that shit has a much lower Total Caloric Overall, than vegetables and that ShitSoft's shit is produced by a trustable american corporation while the vegetables are clearly on the way to ruin the american economy.
The campaign is still undecided to be effective or not, but let's not forget another issue: ShitSoft's product created a huge industry to modify some of the product's erm, "features". Some customers wanted to decrease the value of the quality shit (no idea why would they want to do that), by buying products from third party companies to make shit lose it's smell and taste, and to drive away the flies. Can you not see how ShitSoft helps the economy?
There have been certain allegations before, that ShitSoft's product is not adequate for human consumption. Such a nonsense! It is a shame that we can't disprove that since ShitSoft's End User Shit Agreement specifically forbids the analysis of their latest, "eXPerience the Shit" product and all former versions. Some people slandered ShitSoft before by claiming that shit causes diarrhea and infections and that generally everyone just should refrain from eating shit, but ShitSoft dismissed such scandalous claims.
Be patriotic, support ShitSoft, down with vegetables!
(Link here)
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Internet Explorer's serious vulnerability
"A remote IE exploit with implementations is currently in the wild. From the article: 'Exploit code for a critical flaw in fully patched versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser has been released on the Internet, putting millions of Web surfers at risk of computer hijack attacks.' Aparently all you have to do is browse the page to be affected. There is no patch, but since it is a JavaScript exploit, you can work around it by disabling JavaScript."
source: slashdot.org
"But... Michelle! I only surf the net and check e-mail! That is not going to happen to me!"
Yeah, yeah, sure. These people also thought it couldn't happen to them.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Sony has a rootkit
I have been absent recently due to personal reasons.
I want to thank everyone who has sent me words of courage and support. I will not discuss my personal life here, though, since that is not the purpose of this blog. Nonetheless, I wish to thank everyone who has sent their condolences.
In other news, by now I guess you might have already read this. Last week (before I randomly crashed aKregator) it was the "talk of the week" on Ars Technica and other tech-related sites.
To be honest, I am not surprised. $ony and Micro$oft are the two toughest DRM pushing companies (not to say that other companies are not "into" DRM. I know Apple likes the idea too) I think (and this is my personal opinion) the reason why Micro$oft is rather pissed at $ony, aside from the fact that their rootkit exposes just how easy it is to breach Windows security and easily turn any Windows computer into a zombie (well... in case someone was absent-minded enough not to know it yet), is because $ony implemented this rootkit BEFORE M$ did it themselves and established a way "to do" DRM and tried to file even more patents on protocols et al and forced every media-related company to pay them for those patents, etc. You know how this story goes.
Loosely quoting the Simpsons, "(Bill Gates) didn't get rich by signing checks."
Additionally, about the AIM bots. I've deleted them the moment AOL took the liberty of adding them to my buddy list for me.
I am not surprised Microsoft intends to buy AOL, because this sounds like domino effect:
Yahoo! and Google are on frank and open war. Microsoft and Google are on frank and open war. (I used to have a prettier link than the that one, but I can't find it) Yahoo! wants AOL's userbase (which they couldn't get). Microsoft and Yahoo! are getting friendly with each other. Well... grab your bag of popcorn and watch how they either tear each other's eyes out or team up and dominate the world and make us all their slaves. =/
Here it is! Hehehe.
I want to thank everyone who has sent me words of courage and support. I will not discuss my personal life here, though, since that is not the purpose of this blog. Nonetheless, I wish to thank everyone who has sent their condolences.
In other news, by now I guess you might have already read this. Last week (before I randomly crashed aKregator) it was the "talk of the week" on Ars Technica and other tech-related sites.
To be honest, I am not surprised. $ony and Micro$oft are the two toughest DRM pushing companies (not to say that other companies are not "into" DRM. I know Apple likes the idea too) I think (and this is my personal opinion) the reason why Micro$oft is rather pissed at $ony, aside from the fact that their rootkit exposes just how easy it is to breach Windows security and easily turn any Windows computer into a zombie (well... in case someone was absent-minded enough not to know it yet), is because $ony implemented this rootkit BEFORE M$ did it themselves and established a way "to do" DRM and tried to file even more patents on protocols et al and forced every media-related company to pay them for those patents, etc. You know how this story goes.
Loosely quoting the Simpsons, "(Bill Gates) didn't get rich by signing checks."
Additionally, about the AIM bots. I've deleted them the moment AOL took the liberty of adding them to my buddy list for me.
I am not surprised Microsoft intends to buy AOL, because this sounds like domino effect:
Yahoo! and Google are on frank and open war. Microsoft and Google are on frank and open war. (I used to have a prettier link than the that one, but I can't find it) Yahoo! wants AOL's userbase (which they couldn't get). Microsoft and Yahoo! are getting friendly with each other. Well... grab your bag of popcorn and watch how they either tear each other's eyes out or team up and dominate the world and make us all their slaves. =/
Here it is! Hehehe.
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