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Comment Re:Being non-proft does not justify being incompet (Score 1) 188

by JDisk on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:25AM (#42516343) Attached to: Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice

FIPS 140-2 to be more specific. There are plenty of free options.

Are there? Last time I looked into FIPS 140, it was the case that only certain software versions were validated by NIST, and none of the validated incarnations were either free-beer or free-libre.

Crypto++ is free and open Source and FIPS 140-2 validated

Qt Becomes LGPL 828

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @10:31AM from the that's-just-adorable dept.

Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."

State Secrets Defense Rejected In Wiretapping Case 269

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @05:27PM from the come-out-into-the-light dept.

knifeyspooney writes in with an Ars Technica report that a federal judge has issued a strong rebuke to government lawyers attempting to invoke the "state secrets" defense to quash a lawsuit over warrantless wiretapping. This is not the high-profile case the EFF is bringing against the NSA; instead the case is being pursued by an Islamic charity that knows it had been wiretapped. "At times, a note of irritation crept into [Judge] Walker's even, judicial language. At one point, he described the government's argument as 'without merit,' and characterized another as 'circular.' He also seemed impatient with the Justice Department's refusal to provide any classified documents addressing Al Haramain's specific claims for review in chambers. 'It appears... that defendants believe they can prevent the court from taking any action under 1806(f) by simply declining to act,' wrote Walker."

Comment Re:FlexeLint / PC-lint (Score 2, Informative) 87

by JDisk on Friday March 30, 2007 @10:12AM (#18542825) Attached to: Static Code Analysis Tools?

I have to agree with this recommendation (Gimpel lint).

A few points, though:

- It is purely text-based, so if you are looking for a shiny GUI-based tool (easier to sell to the PHB), you are out of luck.

- depending on the quality of your code, running it for the first time can result in a huge (make that HUGE) amount of warnings. You might want to start small and only turn on more and more options later. Initially, you will have to invest quite a bit of time to get your code "lint-clean". In the long run, this is well worth it.

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