- Microsoft ordered to pull 'misleading' security ad
- Posted by Billy O'Connor on February 12th, 2004
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0%2...32342%2c00.htm
"Clarke described this marketing effort as "laughable" as company's
software was "littered with vulnerabilities". "
- Posted by John on February 12th, 2004
Billy O'Connor wrote:
The more they highlight security, the more apparent their weakness in that
area becomes. Why just tout ease of use (maybe show the dog and Clippy) and
drop the security crap since they don't have a leg to stand on in that
area?
--
Never hitch your future to just one wagon because you can't tell which one
will go off a cliff.
- Posted by Linønut on February 13th, 2004
Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, Billy O'Connor mumbled this incantation:
Microsoft and SCO...
Lying birds of a feather...
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No, I won't fix your Windows computer!
- Posted by Linønut on February 13th, 2004
Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, John mumbled this incantation:
I can just hear Gates echoing his famous "they don't want bug fixes" squeal...
"The user doesn't want better security!!!! (You asshole!)
The user wants more feeeeeeeeeeechurrrrrrrrrs!"
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No, I won't fix your Windows computer!
- Posted by Erik Funkenbusch on February 13th, 2004
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:17:39 GMT, Billy O'Connor wrote:
Yet strangely, Oracle still gets to use their "Unbreakable" ad.
- Posted by Bob Hauck on February 13th, 2004
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:02:13 GMT, Erik Funkenbusch
<erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote:
And Clarke is probably laughing at them too.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
- Posted by Billy O'Connor on February 13th, 2004
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> writes:
Maybe the South Africans misread it as "Unbearable". 
- Posted by Linønut on February 13th, 2004
Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, Erik Funkenbusch mumbled this incantation:
Maybe the Oracle database is a rock compared to Windows and SQL Server.
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No, I won't fix your Windows computer!
- Posted by Erik Funkenbusch on February 13th, 2004
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:17:09 -0600, Linønut wrote:
It's had several high profile vulnerabilities, and exploits.
- Posted by Daeron on February 13th, 2004
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
What has ludicrous claims in a Microsoft advert got to do with claims in
an Oracle advert ? The one hase no logical equivalence to the other.
Hence Quod Erat Demonstrandum [NOT]
- Posted by Daeron on February 13th, 2004
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
back on track: How does that make the advert less misleading ?
- Posted by Linønut on February 13th, 2004
Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, Erik Funkenbusch mumbled this incantation:
Compared to Windows and SQL Server, it's probably still a rock.
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No, I won't fix your Windows computer!
- Posted by Mark Kent on February 13th, 2004
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Exactly - it's not strange at all.
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| Mark Kent -- Take out the ham to mail me. |
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!"
-- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Posted by Jim Richardson on February 13th, 2004
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:02:13 GMT,
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote:
What does Oracle have to do with a shagging great big hole in
MS-Windows?
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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
- Posted by GreyCloud on February 14th, 2004
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
Of course. Usually happens when it runs on M$ platforms.
- Posted by Milo T. on February 14th, 2004
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:36:14 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
It points to a certain hypocrisy in the advertising standards department if
Oracle is still allowed to use their laughable "unbreakable" claim, while
Microsoft gets jumped on for calling their system "as strong as a bank
vault".
Unbreakable being a much stronger claim - and also a much more false one.
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People in the killfile (and whose posts I won't read) as of 2/13/2004
10:53:54 PM:
Peter Kohlmann, T.Max Devlin. Matt Templeton (scored down)
- Posted by Peter Köhlmann on February 14th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
Really? How does "as strong as a bank vault" compare with the reality of "as
strong as a wet paperbag"?
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Avoid reality at all costs.
- Posted by Peter Köhlmann on February 14th, 2004
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
Really? I think you are lying again. Or is it your usual "two" being
"several"?
--
Microsoft's Guide To System Design:
Let it get in YOUR way. The problem for your problem.
- Posted by Jim Richardson on February 14th, 2004
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:53:08 GMT,
Milo T. <fantastical@malaprop.net> wrote:
Who "allowed" Oracle to do anything? I saw no responce reguarding Oracle
except Erik's whining.
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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
If the government doesn't trust us with our guns,
why should we trust them with theirs?
- Posted by John Bailo on February 14th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
Those prizes are rightfully yours.
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Kent Crazy B.V.
