It was to demonstrate that there were holes being actively exploited in Drupal in the past. I knew there were holes because I remembered seeing the Morfeus scanner (as I mentioned above) guessing various webapp-related URI's in my logs, but as Bozovision pointed out above I must have had Drupal confused with Joomla (both PHP, both weird names).

So eat the oxygen producing plants and leave the methane producing cows?

Drupal really has not been known for its security in the past; try Googling "drupal exploit", and I'm sure most webmasters are familiar with the "morfeus fucking scanner" user-agent that appears in logs from time to time checking for (among other things) active Drupal-related links (admin pages etc) to exploit.

Maybe is has improved since the last time I paid any attention to it, I assume is would have been given an audit before being deployed on a Government website? That would be great for open source; "Open Source Software hacked, Govt website replaced with Goatse, Microsoft says 'I told you so'" ... It would be a media-fueled nightmare of FOSS if this goes wrong.

You make robots to help the elderly so you name your company after one that built robots which destroy most of humanity and declare war on what is left ... "Clever" probably isn't the term you were looking for.

A friend had a problem with a CD burner app (Nero I think?) and asked me to take a look at it (they weren't too tech savvy). So I took a look and Googled the error and found that it was a problem with a registry key that would screw randomly. The fix was to delete it and if the error came back the fix was to change it to a specific value (which would cause nagging warnings but not make the program fail outright, so deleting it first was the better solution). So when I had fixed it I told him offhandedly, not expecting him to understand, that it was a problem with the registry and if it happens again to give me a call. So a week later he calls and says it had the same problem but I didn't need to come round because he had found a registry cleaner, for cheap, only $39.95... I never mention the word "registry" to non-tech people now.

Oh shit, you're right. "Terrific, friendly, articulate article". ;-)

Actually, it was patched on Tuesday.

Chrome Frame.

The TFA makes a reference to Mozilla's new Plugin checker. I just went there with JavaScript disabled and ...

They stole this idea from Joss Whedon.

Except web-developers you insensitive clod!

There are a number of https websites I have used/use that (for whatever reason) don't automatically redirect if you simply type the web-address. Hence you have to manually type "https://..." to get the secure site.

We'd all be reading colondot right now.

Says the guy posting on Slashd-

Oh, nevermind.

If you want your cause to be taken seriously, focus on serious issues. Complaining because people use the phrase "So simple your grandmother could do it" is liable to make people roll their eyes and ignore everything else you have to say.