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WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?
Talkback You can be sure. I have turned off automatic updating on my XP professional. I have disabled windows messenger and *all* other MS related communications software. I have left only the most essential services running on my OS and yet it *still...
[January 18, 2006, 18:43]
WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?
Talkback Firstly, I do not believe that you own your OS. You simply have obtained a license to use an OS. This is an important distinction. If we truly owned our OS, we could trade and sell it to others. This is legally unacceptable since Microsoft owns...
[April 9, 2006, 4:22]
WMF flaw: Malice or incompetence?
News Postings are flying fast and thick in the security community over a researcher's suggestion that Microsoft hid sneaky code in Windows. The recent security problem regarding the rendering of WMF images was so bizarre that it has to be an intentional...
[January 16, 2006, 8:20]
GoldTach
Downloads GoldTach can effectively protect against hackers' intruding into your PC and filching personal data by e-mail; prevent Trojan, worm and other malice webpage code from damaging your software system.
[July 8, 2005, 8:00]
One up for SCO in Novell slander case
News Novell argues that its press release stating its ownership was made in good faith as "due to the courts prior ruling the issue of who owns Unix rights is not obvious and therefore Novell cannot have acted with malice in asserting its ownership".
[June 30, 2005, 14:45]
Only bad guys benefit from bad law
Leader Those investigators in turn decided to push ahead with the prosecution despite the transparent lack of malice and harm done. Although it is much more difficult to prosecute if malice needs to be proven, absence of malice together with absence of...
[October 7, 2005, 15:05]
PocketBo
Downloads PocketBo is a SkipBo(R) like card game for the PalmOS based on the game "Spite and Malice". Features include: 2 player or computer play modes, statistics tracking your play against the computer, undo last move, options for short or long games, easy...
[August 23, 2001, 8:00]
Plumbing Internal Security Risks: Data Leak Facts and Fixes
White Papers Whether through malice or neglect, organizational data leaks occur daily. Research demonstrates the potential for devastating corporate losses in the wake of such incidents - in terms of customers, litigation, penalties and reputation.
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback I don't think - in Laura's case, at least - that deliberate malice is involved. Anonymous Engineer: she really is that dense. Enderle and a few other fellow travellers, on the other hand.
[April 8, 2005, 2:27]
IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog Comment I think this one can more likely be attributed to inconsideration rather than malice. Amen, Rupert. While some of the things MS did in your list could be considered "minor transgressions", there are two major ones:
[August 29, 2008, 7:26]
Attackers take down SCO site again
Talkback Never blame on malice that which can be attributed to stupidity. Take a look at this link: http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph? site=www.sco.com Notice SCO just up and disappears. There's no increase in response times, nothing, just one second it...
[December 11, 2003, 20:36]
Service Pack 2: Patching the unpatchable
Talkback As you have quite rightly identified; these are no longer geeks showing off - without any real malice. At last! I was beginning to think I needed commiting to an asylum. Why is the media not addressing this for the rather serious situation it is?
[July 20, 2004, 12:17]
QuakeFinder
Downloads It adds player listings, server rule lists, reverse DNS lookups for server addresses, contextual menus (under Mac OS 8), cursor key navigation, time-outs for listed servers, filters for X-Men and Malice total conversion games, and a noticeable...
[April 19, 1998, 2:41]
Unisys adjusts to life without Compaq
News Obviously, we're disappointed, although we bear no malice toward Compaq. Unisys is beefing up its sales force by about 200 and now will be able to target Compaq customer accounts it previously would have left alone, said Peter Samson, general...
[May 2, 2001, 9:06]
Patent directive faces fishy future
News Before today it was possible for generous people to look charitably at this text [the proposed patent directive] as an example of a tragic mistake, not malice," said Creighton in a statement on the FFII Web site.
[December 13, 2004, 11:10]
Digital rights and actual wrongs
Leader The Computer Misuse Act was used to prosecute and convict Daniel Cuthbert for entering a suspicious URL with no malice at all; while in the US the Digital Millennium Copyright Act already make the acts of Mark Russinovich in discovering the Sony...
[November 7, 2005, 13:45]
Xbox losing the numbers game
News Vivendi earlier announced that "Malice," a game Microsoft touted as an exclusive at the Xbox's public unveiling, will also be available for the PS2. For the software publishing industry, video games are a numbers game.
[May 27, 2002, 14:44]
Oh please...
Talkback I think you are ascribing way too much malice and ill intent to a company that has a hard time trying to get anything at all done, let alone go on some crusade to destroy some standard.producing their own train crash of a standard"
[May 28, 2008, 11:56]
Losing the laptop blame game
Leader Data on mobile devices has to be protected from the fallibility of the user as much as from the malice of the thief, and that means having the facilities to manage that data. The downside of mobile devices is that sometimes they go mobile in ways...
[February 15, 2007, 16:46]
W3C members fail standards test
News Karppinen attributed the larger software companies' noncompliance to apathy rather than malice, and urged them to take standards more seriously. Members of the Web's leading standards consortium are leading by fiat, not example, according to a survey.
[February 26, 2003, 7:35]
