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Comment Security record (Score 1) 372

One thing that does stand out in Oracle's favor is the security record.

Oracle has real good internal processes for secure software design, implementation review, and emergency response. (I know this from people who have actually worked there and were subject to these processes– it's not just marketing fluff).

Postgres developers, on the other hand, willfully ignore security issues in their code on flimsy grounds.

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Frustrated Reporter Quits After Slow News Day 178

Norwegian radio journalist Pia Beathe Pedersen quit on the air complaining that her bosses were making her read news on a day when "nothing important has happened." Pedersen claimed that broadcaster NRK put too much pressure on the staff and that she "wanted to be able to eat properly again and be able to breathe," during her nearly two-minute on-air resignation.
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Puretracks Music Store Drops DRM 236

khendron writes "The Canadian online music store Puretracks (a store I have generally avoided because of their Microsoft-specific solutions) has announced that it will immediately start selling part of its catalog as DRM-free MP3 files. The site's unprotected catalog, which includes artists such as The Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan, will initially feature only 50,000 of its 1.3 million tracks, but their number will grow weekly. The Globe and Mail says the move will likely profit Puretracks because its DRM-free-music will be playable on iPods. It quotes one industry watcher saying 'We're seeing the death of DRM.'" Essentially Puretracks is relaxing the major-label mandated DRM rules that it had initially applied to all labels, even the indies that wanted no part of DRM.

Comment There has been progress... (Score 2, Interesting) 731

... Only people are not adopting the new ideas.

For example, I used to work with a tool called BugTrapper from MuTek Solutions (it's now called AppSuite, and the company is now called Identify Software). It can record an application's runtime trace, replay it, rewind it and provide many more helpful debugging tools. Unfortunately it never caught on (maybe because of its price), and nobody has copied the idea to open-source tools :-(

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