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::: Friday, August 30 ::: |
Uhm: Microsoft Security Essays
Anyone else see the tacit humor in that title? Do we really want to go down that road? Next thing you know we'll have a site titled "P. Diddy's Originality Essays".
2:36 PM CST ::
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Whatever: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic
"A year ago, he estimated the company saw one spam for every 20 legitimate e-mail messages; today the ratio is closer to one in four."
I long for the days when my e-mail was only 25% or even 36% spam. If you disregard my Hotmail account (which gets nothing but spam - sometimes hundreds per day), I get around 60 e-mails per day. Of that, maybe 10-15 are not spam. 36% would be bliss.
9:35 AM CST ::
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Here, here: Games push for more than pretty faces
I couldn't agree more. I love a well rendered game as much as anyone else, but when the gameplay takes a backseat to the visuals there's no way that the game won't suffer for it. After all, we didn't play Zelda on the NES for days on end because of its graphics.
9:25 AM CST ::
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Ack: Spyware Trojan sends Hotmail to your boss
Some might compare eBlaster to handing someone a loaded gun. It's actually worse, however, because with the gun you have a pretty good chance that the user will shoot themselves rather than someone else. "Tools" like eBlaster ensure that the damage can only be inflicted in an outward direction.
9:19 AM CST ::
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Ah, well: MP3 codecs no longer free for GPL use
Everyone knew this was coming, it was merely a question of when. My only quibble with the whole mess is that developers really don't have any way of being completely certain they are in the clear. Uncertainty breeds distrust.
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::: Thursday, August 29 ::: |
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::: Monday, August 26 ::: |
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::: Friday, August 23 ::: |
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Good Lord: Not one, not two, but three
Quite a red letter day for the Microsoft clan. The first alert is the funniest -- if indeed anything can be funny about such a serious flaw -- in which Microsoft reveals that disabling LanMan services "may not be suitable on a file and print sharing server".
Unless I'm mistaken the LanMan service is responsible for all file and printer sharing on NT networks, so, yeah, it would be pretty pointless to disable it. I'll bet unplugging your server would prevent the attack as well.
8:41 AM CST ::
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::: Wednesday, August 21 ::: |
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::: Thursday, August 15 ::: |
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::: Monday, August 12 ::: |
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::: Friday, August 9 ::: |
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Thppt: Gnutella bandwidth bandits
Well, duh. We'd all like to have lived in the Old West if it wasn't for the killing and the lack of decent food and water... oh, and health care. It's time these guys learned that there's no such thing as "controlled chaos". When you reap the benefit you reap the blight as well.
8:53 AM CST ::
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::: Thursday, August 8 ::: |
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::: Wednesday, August 7 ::: |
No thanks: Programming tool makes bugs sing
I have enough to worry about trying to program with constant interruptions without having to listen ever so carefully for bugs. Thankyouverymuch. I am, however, somewhat amused by how closely this software resembles the "Anthem" program described by Douglas Adams in the first Dirk Gently novel.
4:26 PM CST ::
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::: Tuesday, August 6 ::: |
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Ahem: Microsoft puts security to the test
Q: I understand security was not your original calling, so to speak.
A: I'm a lawyer by training
That quote could have been offered as the answer for every question in this interview. He talks a lot, but he doesn't say much.
9:21 AM CST ::
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::: Friday, August 2 ::: |
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