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Vitamin Sea
Playbuoy
Cirrhosis of the River
Piece of Ship
Master Baiter
Amy’s Winehouse
Wasted Seamen
Breakin Wind
Bullship
Ship Happens
Titan Uranus
Year: 2010 (Page 2 of 3)
An interesting thing occurred early this morning. Shortly after 5 AM, there occurred 05:06:07 08-09-10.
I’m pleased to report there were no major earthquakes, no tsunamis, Yellowstone caldera didn’t blow up, no mass extinction, the methane clathrates at the bottom of the oceans didn’t turn over, the LHC did not produce a planet-eating black hole, the earth’s magnetic poles didn’t reverse, the earth didn’t shift on its axis, and the sun didn’t go nova.
We lived through yet another apocalyptic moment. Imagine that.
A serious flaw that affects all versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 2000 through Windows 7 has been discovered, publicized, and already exploited by hackers. The exploit is especially dangerous because all the user has to do is open a folder containing an infected file with a .LNK extension. The exploit then runs automatically.
Malware already exists that exploits this flaw. At present this malware is programmed to seek out industrial control systems, infrastructure, SCADA systems, and so forth, but versions that spread widely are sure to come soon.
Centers that monitor the health of the Internet are raising the threat level from green to yellow.
The danger remains until Microsoft issues a fix. An additional big problem is that there are still many systems out there running Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 and Microsoft no longer issues patches for those operating systems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/22/microsoft-windows-flaw
Microsoft has now taken to paying people to use their search engine? Is it that bad?
http://www.discoverbing.com/education/searchwithpurpose/?fbid=eU87ehBy_x8&wom=false
It looks a little less blatant framed as a donation but then Microsoft has always been expert at putting lipstick on a pig.
I never did understand why Microsoft would go after the web search market at all. Of all the things they could possibly have done, they chose the one area where they cannot possibly succeed. What were they thinking? I guess the corporate culture in Redmond breeds either blindness, or arrogance, or maybe both.
Look, because of my work I do hundreds of searches every day, often searching for very obscure and hard to find information. I tried Bing. It sucked. From time to time I try it again and it continues to come up less effective than Google. Google is a lean, mean, lightning-fast search engine that almost invariably gets me immediately or almost immediately to the information I seek. It has no unnecessary visual distractions or crap that slows the loading of the page. It’s fine tuned and user friendly. And now Google has added even more cool features that help me a lot such as the timeline search. Fabulous.
Microsoft’s only hope to compete with Google search was to completely clone Google search and re-invent all of the proprietary magic that makes Google what it is, which even as rich as Microsoft is, they cannot afford to do.
Instead I’ll donate three bucks to charity myself and not use Bing.
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