They are responsible for patching up, rebuilding, stripe-painting, putting up signs and, most winters, ploughing snow.
Sun and Google have both been acquitted of their lax patching charges, and recounting bugs showed that Microsoft had the worst record for patching flaws of all severities over the last six months.
But patching the vulnerabilities used for mass infections of sites, which often use automated tools to spread malware among thousands of targets, is very different from patching every vulnerability a hacker could possibly use for a targeted attack on a single victim site.
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Dr Hess said the treatment could be a good alternative to patching, particularly for adults because they tend not to benefit from this anyway.
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CellCrypt makes software for encrypting mobile phone conversations, patching the security flaw that Hulton and Muller's research has uncovered.
Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.
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And there's also the possibility of patching over Live to allow for more games down the road is that something that's being looked at?
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Carl Patching, transition and transformation manager for Serco, said the closure was proposed last year.
Apple is notorious for being glacially slow when it comes to patching vulnerabilities in the Java platform, taking on average an additional six months to come out with patches.
In Iraq, Clint Murray was a doctor charged with giving medical care to 6, 000 troops on the front lines, patching the injured together before they were sent for more medical care for 12 months ending in September 2004.
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