Thursday, January 6, 2005

If Your Mommy is a Commie . . . -- 9:08 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ahh BillG, we love you! In a wide-ranging softball interview on news.com.biz.net.edu.dot he makes some interesting claims. On the subject of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, he says:

Well, no one invests more in security of their browser than what we do on IE. The key message we have for people is they should turn on auto update because if you turn on auto update, without you having to think about it and go through a bunch of user interface or know about this or that or the other thing, you can know that there are hundreds of very smart people who are constantly improving your browser and making sure that you're safe. And so with auto update and IE, you're getting the top security team and the quickest response team that there is anywhere.

Somehow, the interviewer didn't see the need for a follow-up question here. Sheesh. The doozy comes when he talks about I.P. rights and the patent system:

No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Ahh yes. If you don't have an answer, play the commie card! Way to know your "ad hominem" attacks! Of course, it has been long-standing MS policy to brand anyone who dislikes them as commies. Granted, there are more than a few in the Slashdot crowd whose politics are significantly left of center, but come on. I'm as conservative as the day is long and I think it's stupid. Oh well. During his Windows Media Center presentation, the computer both locked up and later BSODed. Yep, MS technology--as solid as the earth's crust on which it sits. Thanks Slashdot.

News for 01/06/2005

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