New IE 8 Zero Day Discovered 134
Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "Researchers have disclosed a new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines via drive-by downloads or malicious attachments in email messages. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed to Microsoft in October, but the company has yet to produce a patch, so HP's Zero Day Initiative, which is handling the bug, published its advisory Wednesday. The ZDI has a policy of disclosing vulnerability details after 180 days if the vendor hasn't produced a patch. The use-after-free flaw lies in the way that IE handles CMarkup objects, and ZDI's advisory says that an attacker can take advantage of it to run arbitrary code."
American Date Format (Score:5, Insightful)
American Date Format :DIE Already!!!!!!!!!!! .....[shhh the nsa is listening]
American Imperial Units: DIE Already!!!!!!!!!!
American Imperialism :
Re:American Date Format (Score:1, Insightful)
American Date Format :DIE Already!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but as a non-American I have to admit I find that date format the most comfortable. Things are likely different globally, but here people tend to say "May 10th, 2014" much more often than "the 10th of May, 2014". Adding two bonus words so you can satisfy some "most granular to least granular" fetish doesn't fit.
For instance, the catastrophe that happened in the US over a decade ago is called "September 11th", not "the 11th of September".
Frankly I'd be okay with a compromise... 10(5)14 is May 10th, 2014 or the 10th of May, 2014. But as long as everyone insists on using commas, DMY will never have my vote.
Re:American Date Format (Score:5, Insightful)
Remember, Remember, November 5th.
This day, July 4th, is our Independence Day.
Hm, no, just don't have the same ring to them that way. Consistency is certainly not one of the strong points of how dates are enunciated in English.
But at least when dealing with the written form and not as part of prose, yyyy-MM-dd will always have my vote.
Re:why are they taking so long? (Score:2, Insightful)
Microsoft was still heavily pushing Windows XP for netbooks in 2009.
So make that not even 5 years.