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Re: More MS slopware

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____/ Homer on Friday 04 July 2008 06:21 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Peter Köhlmann spake thusly:
> 
>> Excel: Real good at computing
>> 
>> Multiplying 29513736 by 92842033 = 2740115251665290
>> 
>> Right? Riiiiight? (Correct would be 2740115251665288)
> 
> It's bad enough that banks use Microsoft software in ATMs, but pray
> that no airlines ever use it in their traffic control systems.

Well, that would prevent Gates from travelling  ('Bribery Trips') around the
world, would it not? Last week I spotted him paying a 'visit' to the UN, which
has become strongly in favour of Free software and even promoted it for
others.

For context:

PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs

,----[ Quote ]
| The alleged thieves made off with about $2 million between October 2007 until
| March of this year. Officials believe they remotely broke into the back-end
| computers that approve cash withdrawals and grabbed the PINs as they were
| being transmitted from the ATMs to the transaction processing computers,
| which increasingly use Windows, the report says.
`----

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982500-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


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