Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft runs early April Fools ad

From: Steve Poirot (poirotsj@gci.net)
Date: 03/25/03

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    From: Steve Poirot <poirotsj@gci.net>
To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:17:13 -0900

    Good point. My safe came with a warranty and insurance of up to $10K
    for any
    loss due to the safe being broken into or damage to anything in it due
    to fire or water.
    If M$ claims that, "a customer's data couldn't be safer even if it was
    kept in a safe",
    then perhaps they could provide a similar warranty and insurance policy.

    Georgi Guninski wrote:

    > hehehe, m$ claims are funny and far away from reality.
    > If they are so sure, why don't they take responsibility for damages
    > caused by their products? Any warranty for m$ products? How much money
    > does it make every time a windoze crash?
    >
    > /me thinks that Kurt Vonnegut has explained it in this quote:
    >
    > the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to
    > believe there is such a thing as being smart. -- Kurt Vonnegut
    >
    > Georgi
    >
    > Gerardo Richarte wrote:
    >
    >> "Richard M. Smith" wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>> The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) has ordered that a
    >>> Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction
    >>> of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and
    >>> misleading".
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Heh, it's a funny phrase, and beside how capable Microsoft is of
    >> fixing their bugs (which I'm not talking about at all), the phrase hides
    >> some other sutff in it:
    >>
    >> On one side, by "Hackers", independently of what "Hacker" means,
    >> they are
    >> putting a name on a group of people, and saying that they are going
    >> to extint this group
    >> of people, which not a really happy idea...
    >>
    >> On the other side, either they will fix the bugs in every
    >> software out there, or they are
    >> recognizing that they are planning that the only software which will
    >> be running any computer
    >> out there will be Microsoft's, or at least based or using some
    >> Microsoft technology (the
    >> technology to extinct hackers).
    >>
    >> heh, I just thought it was funny
    >>
    >> gera
    >>
    >>
    >> --- for a personal reply use: gera@corest.com
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