{"id":69,"date":"2005-02-26T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T02:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/26\/theyll-pay-us\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T02:21:59","slug":"theyll-pay-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/26\/theyll-pay-us\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll pay us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News.com has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/\">story<\/a> that Microsoft will reimburse direct damages their Anti-Spyware Beta software causes on your PC. They&#8217;ll reimburse you up to $5 (US dollars I presume). Now is this a joke or what?<br \/>\nYou have numerous Windows operating systems with more holes in them than Swiss cheese, machines that get connected to the &#8216;net and are infected 10 minutes later, millions of dollars lost due to operating systems with bugs and security holes, thousands of man-hours lost in trying to fix these problems &#8211; and M$ is reimbursing you $5! Hardly seems fair does it?<br \/>\nWhile one can applaud M$ in that they are releasing their own anti-spyware\/virus program to combat these threats &#8211; the fact of the matter is they (M$) should have designed SECURE\/STABLE systems in the first place and then the treat of spyware\/worms would be greatly diminished.<br \/>\n<strong>Prevention is BETTER than cure.<\/strong><br \/>\n$5 is a long way off what MS should be paying the users of its software for data lost and time spent fixing problems.<br \/>\n&#8212; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com has a story that Microsoft will reimburse direct damages their Anti-Spyware Beta software causes on your PC. They&#8217;ll reimburse you up to $5 (US dollars I presume). Now is this a joke or what? You have numerous Windows operating systems with more holes in them than Swiss cheese, machines that get connected to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-spyware-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}