On the other hand, a crashed system is very secure
The latest batch of Microsoft security updates seems to have failed the all important "first, do no harm" dictum of the healing arts. On Monday, the company acknowledged that its KB908531 security patch, which closed a critical security hole in Windows Explorer, was wreaking all sorts of havoc on some consumer desktops. Crashing applications, system hangs and loss of access to special folders were among the difficulties caused by the patch, which is proving such an annoyance that Microsoft is not only offering free phone support (866/727-7233), but new Windows software as well.
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"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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