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Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 201

by cogitolv (#31653468) Attached to: The Economics of Perfect Software
Software bugs fall into three broad catagories, regardless how QA labels them: 1. Insignificant (font size on menu two it 1 point bigger than menu 2) 2. Average - (If you click the menu, while holding down the alt key, a wrong menu pops up), at least 85% of the bugs are here. 3. WTF - (The wrong user is updated if you keep hitting 'save'). All 2's and 3's need to be fixed - you can set priority to schedule which ones to do first, but you cannot ignore them. The error witnessed is often just one manifestation of a bug, the other results from the same coding error could be worse. We are never going to ship bug free software, but if we know about it before we ship, we needs to be fixed. The example surprised me, if I have to drill down 20 freakin levels and then the app blows - i'm going to cuss, and cuss loudly (and may stop using the software). I thought the example of the bug to ignore, was going to be an example of one NOT to ignore.

Comment Re:An easier plan (Score 5, Insightful) 555

by cogitolv (#31483952) Attached to: US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks
Take a look at the doc itself, it seem to propose just that. "This raises the possibility that the Wikileaks.org Web site could be used to post fabricated information; to post misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda; or to conduct perception management and influence operations designed to convey a negative message to those who view or retrieve information from the Web site."
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New I/O Standard Bids To Replace Mini PCI Express 31

Posted by kdawson from the lame-name dept.
DeviceGuru writes "LinuxDevices reports that a group of companies today unveiled — and demonstrated products based on — a tiny new PCI Express expansion standard. Although it's somewhat larger than the PCI Express Mini Card, the tiny new 43mm x 65mm FeaturePak card's high density 230-pin edgecard connector provides twice the number of PCI Express and USB 2.0 channels to the host computer, plus 100 lines dedicated to general purpose I/O, of which 34 signal pairs are implemented with enhanced isolation for use in applications such as gigabit Ethernet or high-precision analog I/O. While FeaturePaks will certainly be used in all sorts of embedded devices (medical instruments, test equipment, etc.), the tiny cards could also be used for developing configurable consumer devices, for example to add an embedded firewall/router or security processor to laptop or notebook computers, or for modular functionality in TV set-top-boxes and Internet edge devices." The president of Diamond Systems, which invented the new card, said "Following the FeaturePak initiative's initial launch, we intend to turn the FeaturePak specification, trademark, and logo over to a suitable standards organization so it can become an industry-wide, open-architecture, embedded standard" (but to use the logo you have to join the organization).
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Google Awarded Broad Patent For Location-Based Advertising 54

Posted by kdawson from the you-are-here-and-we-own-you dept.
Mashable has a report of a patent that just issued (6-1/2 years after filing) — apparently Google now has a lock on location-based advertising. It's not clear that the search company intends to assert the patent against any other companies (such as emerging rival Apple), but it's useful as leverage. Here is the patent. Update: 03/02 14:34 GMT by S : Reader butlerm noted that the incorrect patent was linked. It now points to the correct URL.

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