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Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 180

by Leomania (#30584066) Attached to: Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010

I'm much more of a hardware (chip) guy than I'll ever be a software guy. I'd like to ask (honestly), how can Flash remain such a security nightmare? After all this time, all of the preceding versions of flash, how can vulnerabilities continue to be found in light of more scrutiny by the developers (code audits, bounds checkers, etc.)? I realize no complex piece of software is bug-free, but Flash (and of course, Acrobat Reader) have continuous vulnerability discoveries... must it be so forevermore?
Bug

How To Track the Bug-Trackers? 174

Posted by timothy from the and-what-if-they-have-a-bug dept.
schneecrash writes "Submitting bug reports — and waiting for responses etc. — seems to be SOP for developers and users alike, these days. Every project has some sort of bug-tracker — bugzilla, trac, mailing list, etc. E.g., we currently track 200+ external bugs across ~40 OSS projects. Half the bugs depend on something else getting fixed, first. Every bug has its own email thread, etc. Management asks 'How we doin' overall?,' and suddenly everyone involved gets to work removing dried gum from the bottom of their shoe. What do Slashdotters use/recommend for centrally keeping track of all the bugs you track across all those different bugtrackers? In particular, managing communications and dependencies across bugs? So far, the best method I've managed to use is bunches of PostIt-notes stuck to the screen of an out-of-commission 32" TV (glossy, non-matte screen, of course!)."

Comment Re:Sorry, it's insoluble. (Score 1) 669

by Leomania (#26103297) Attached to: Long-Term Personal Data Storage?

Twenty years from now, your USB thumb drives and CD-R's may have their data physically intact, but only museums will have equipment that can read them.

Nah... according to my wife, I'll almost certainly still have hardware "archived" that can read those formats. She's of course delighted that I feel the need to save humanity from a potential digital Armageddon... she didn't want to park the car in the garage, anyway.
The Internet

Submission + - Screencast: How to use OpenID

Submitted by
Simon Willison
Simon Willison writes: "The OpenID standard for decentralised authentication is the online community's best chance at achieving single sign-on for web applications without conceding control to a single vendor. I've put together a five minute screencast demonstrating OpenID in action, released under a Creative Commons license. If you own your own domain name you can turn it in to an OpenID using just a couple of lines of HTML; no server-side component required."
User Journal

Journal Journal: [faith] Twas the Night Before Christmas 2

Journal by GeckoFood

I received this in an email, and I think it sums up how I feel about the Christmas rush perfectly.

Twas the Night Nefore Christmas
(By Rev. Jon Prain)

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town
Not a sign of Baby Jesus was anywhere to be found.
The people were all busy with Christmas time chores -
Like decorating, and baking, and shopping in stores.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft applies to patent RSS

Submitted by
Cyvros
Cyvros writes: "Microsoft has decided that it wants to patent RSS. The full patent application can be viewed here. Wired's Monkey Bites blog has also covered it.

From the Wired article:
Public outcry quickly followed since Microsoft had little if anything to do with the development of RSS. Dave Winer, the self-described inventor of RSS, lashed out via his blog claiming, "presumably they're eventually going to charge us to use it."

As an aside, it'll be interesting to watch just how Apple and the Linux/BSD crowd will react to this, especially if the patent is granted."

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