In defense of Microsoft…kinda
A Korean civic rights group may soon file a class-action suit against Microsoft because they feel Redmond did not go far enough in it’s efforts to patch the hole
in its SQL Server that was exploited by the Sapphire worm recently. In defense of the beast, the hole was
discovered and a patch made available over a year ago. It is up to sysadmins to ensure that they keep there servers patched and secured. (I’ll not mention the
fact that if you’re using MS products in the first place you’re already asking for security problems.) Now, if they want to go after Bill & Co. over Microsoft’s
failure to secure their own servers, well, then, be my guest.
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OK, I finally got around to figuring out what was wrong with the blogger file, so I hope to make posts more often now.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Bach Society concert on Sunday, or tried to come…for the second year in a
row, we had to turn people away from our December concert.
Finally, a sensical trade proposal
The Bush Administration today propoased eliminating all tariffs worldwide on industrial and consumer goods by 2015.
It’s about time. Tariffs, subsidies and other trade barriers cause price increases for consumers and distort capital flows from where they should go. The US
should set an example by repealing the steel tariffs and farm subsidies it enacted earlier this year.
God and China
In an OpEd piece in this morning’s New York Times, Nicholas Kristoff describes how in many parts of China Christians are still tortured and murdered.
I hope that if I were ever tested in the way Ms. Ma Yuqin was, I could show the same fortitude and devotion.