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Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones

From Slimer <.m@nsn.s>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones
Date 2016-01-20 15:56 -0500
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On 2016-01-20 2:10 PM, owl wrote:
> Slimer <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
>> On 2016-01-20 10:48 AM, owl wrote:
>>> Slimer <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-01-20 10:01 AM, owl wrote:
>>>>> Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 19/01/2016 21:21, owl wrote:
>>>>>>> Slimer <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
>>>>>>>> ROFL! It's in the kernel too. "The flaw, which was introduced into the
>>>>>>>> Linux kernel in version 3.8 released in early 2013, resides in the OS
>>>>>>>> keyring." Looks like your toiletware is ONCE MORE the source of security
>>>>>>>> problems.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/linux-bug-imperils-tens-of-millions-of-pcs-servers-and-android-phones/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shit happens.  Good thing I don't have to wait until "Patch Tuesday" and
>>>>>>> then fight a hostile upgrade attempt just to patch a security vuln.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And in the real world of managed IT services, patches are pre-vetted and 
>>>>>> rolled out to different customers on different days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Non-problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I would guess that the vast majority of Microsoft's customers -- consumer
>>>>> and small business -- don't make use of managed IT services and are left
>>>>> to fend for themselves.  Also didn't I read that MS is going to start
>>>>> pushing W10 upgrades onto the corporate scene also?  I have to laugh
>>>>> these days (since W8 introduction) at the idea of Windows in the business
>>>>> world.  What business wants a cell phone interface on their desktop
>>>>> computers?  What exactly is the purpose of that?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder how Windows 10's interface resembles that of a cell phone.
>>>> Windows 8 sure, but 8.1 and 10 no longer have such a thing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The live tiles are in the menu now.  And that ridiculous alphbetically
>>> sorted menu list is nearly useless.
>>
>> In the Start Menu, they're essentially out of the way and they are
>> easily removed even from there. A person looking to have a
>> traditional-looking Start Menu can have one with very little effort.
>>
> 
> With that then, what is the advantage of 10 vs 7 other than MS data mining
> your private information.

Access to the unified applications if and when they are released.

> I've never been much of a Microsoft basher.
> Hell, I'm even an MCSE.  But they have really lost their bearings in the
> last few years.

For products, they seem to be a lot more focused than they've ever been.

> First they destroyed Technet.  Then there's the misguided
> goal of merging the Desktop/Cell phone experience.  Now they're doing their
> best to trick people into upgrading to an OS that they obviously don't want
> or else they would not have to be tricked or forced to install it.  They've
> said that Windows 10 is the "last Windows."  Let's hope so. 

The desktop/cell phone experience merging is an idea I am strongly in
favour of personally. If they do it correctly, it will only strengthen
its mobile offering.

-- 
Slimer
EFF & OpenMedia member / IFAW, Mozilla & PETA supporter
"Everything seems to work fine, except that occasionally everything
freezes." - Another one of GNU/Linux's many victims
"Sound wasn't even a gauranteed thing on a PC in the 90s." - Linux
apologist JEDIDIAH explaining why sound never worked/works right in Linux

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Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-19 15:35 -0500
  Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-19 21:21 +0000
    Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-19 16:59 -0500
      Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 00:10 +0000
        Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-01-19 16:53 -0800
        Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-19 20:02 -0500
          Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 01:37 +0000
            Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-19 20:56 -0500
            Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-19 23:49 -0500
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 14:54 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-20 16:24 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 22:08 +0000
            Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-19 23:49 -0500
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-20 09:33 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-20 16:40 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-01-20 22:45 +0100
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-21 18:27 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-01-22 00:58 +0100
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-21 19:56 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-22 06:46 -0600
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-22 08:42 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2016-01-22 15:36 -0700
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 14:55 +0000
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-01-20 15:04 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-21 18:28 -0500
    Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-01-20 09:43 +0000
      Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 15:01 +0000
        Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-20 10:32 -0500
          Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 15:48 +0000
            Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-20 13:05 -0500
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 19:10 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-20 15:56 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 21:20 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-20 17:45 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-21 08:51 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-21 09:42 -0500
            Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-20 16:24 -0500
              Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-20 22:00 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-21 00:46 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-21 00:57 +0000
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-01-21 12:16 -0500
                Re: Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-01-21 18:56 +0000

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