Happy Patch Tuesday

heezsafe

Perhaps to commemorate Vets Day, MS has decided to have a super patch day (for vets and non-vets alike). Sweet!

"The software giant released Advance Notification for 16 security bulletins, the most in more than three years, which will be addressed as of tomorrow, 11 November, 2014. Five of the bulletins have been marked as "critical", nine are "important" in severity, while two were labeled "moderate." Five critical vulnerabilities affect specific versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server. One of them also affects Internet Explorer versions 7 through 11 as well. Four of the five critical bugs are said to allow remote code execution..."

http://thehackernews.com/2014/11/microsoft-to-issue-16-security-patches_9.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheHackersNews+(The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog)&_m=3n.009a.757.qp0ao05ps1.ftf

David_Snowball

Silly me ... given the celebration of Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth Nations and the former Armistice Day here, I imagined a celebration of Harry Patch, who was the longest-surviving soldier who'd fought in the trenches in WW1. He died in 2009 at age 111. He was, by all accounts, famously cranky about the decision of politicians and others to artificially elevate him merely because he was the only Tommy who hadn't yet passed away. He preferred that people remember the lives, in their faceless millions, lost on both sides and the obligation of those in power not to spill their blood simply because they can't find anything more productive to do.

In a world awash in celebrity whores, Harry stood apart - he had no interest in attention but he locked himself away for a few days each year for nearly a century, remembering the three friends killed beside him at Ypres. It wasn't until his 100th birthday that he consented to speak publicly about, and on behalf, of those who died.

6000 young men a day, from July 1914 until the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918, perished in that mad attempt "to end all war."

With respect to all,

David

Ted

May Ye rest in peace !
Regards,
Ted
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heezsafe

heezsafe

But things have changed since Harry's time. A grateful nation takes care of its veterans now, because nothing says "Thank you for your service" like a 24/7 automated hotline service that a vet in need can call when he needs help:

http://pubrecord.org/nation/11290/clinic-discovered-veterans-havent/

And the hits just keeeep on comin'.
Semper fi? Oh, please...........