Used both extensively. All those features in teams that aren't pure chat-link (wiki, files, onenote, etc) are a real pain to use collaboratively, and every time you use one, you'll use your current scroll position in a chat if you aren't at the bottom already. The UX issues are astoundingly bad in teams. Trying to get info for a teammate or direct them to info from another group/team is maddening because of such things. It feels like every single non-chat feature, including search, was bolted on afterwards with no plan to integrate it or make sure it behaved properly within the context of what you were talking about. It's trash imo.

These roles/policies are generally only formed at a company after a legal risk/threat is realized I think. I know as a lead dev, my priority is often given to me from above in terms like "We need to do this quickly, as this is a great opportunity for us, and it should work well with our existing tech. How long would this take you to get something meeting these requirements out the door?" Saying something longer than what they want to hear is usually a great way to get a response like "why would that take so long if we already have X and Y working" at best, a poor performance review is more likely. Note that the requirements almost never state any sort of open source compliance or other important details details. Given an open source library or framework is nearly always the quickest and cheapest route to get there, that's what ends up used, with the hope that it will be properly analysed in detail and the situation improved down the road. The problem is management, and the pressure on dev/engrs to do things "quickly by whatever means necessary" far far too often.

Mod parent up!

If you can't write a database-backed app that always uses prepared statements for every single insert, update and where clauses, in this day and age, you have no business releasing it, even internally. This is basic DB-related knowledge. It is trivial to prevent, with any effort at all.

If they had hashed, or even encrypted the passwords in the db, then at least they'd not be plain text in the source if they did a "SELECT *...". But no, this was likely shoddy at the very base levels, all the way up into the front end. I shudder to think about it. The full stack was garbage for this to happen.

I have a dell laptop with 8.1 on it I bought some months ago for work. I have all the latest drivers and windows is up to date. However, the WiFi randomly decides to disconnect, and then will reconnect only after clicking on the network icon in the task bar. It's not the access point, its only this laptop in windows. Also, the reported remaining time on battery is always higher by a factor of 8. Not making this up. Nothing I have found has fixed this. In Ubuntu 14.04 though, I have zero issues like this, and it is a stock install. No hackery at all. None. Also, using the exact same applications that I use for work in windows my laptop is more responsive and has 2gb more free ram, and it doesn't hit my HD as much. I'd work in Ubuntu but MS Lync is required for me to work with my team, and doesn't run in linux.

Firstly, being completely honest, I'm not satisfied with any OS I've ever run, but I dual boot win7 on my computers for games, and use Ubuntu the rest of the time. I'm a web developer/programmer, and I prefer working in the same environment (LAMP) my code is deployed on. It makes sense for me.
I love both windows and linux for different reasons, but I hate both of them for certain reasons too.

Windows 7, is by far the best windows ever. I've used them all, it's good. That said, I have had just as many stability issues as I had with XP...it's not perfect yet. On my laptop, for example, it decided to completely kill itself after an update, and nothing short of a re-install fixed it. This actually happened 2x...within 3 months. I still don't know why...but now that laptop only runs Ubuntu, cause it's too crappy for games anyway, and it's been rock solid for a year now.

On my desktop, win7 has been nothing short of a nightmare for me. I know I'm pretty much alone in this, but it's true. I would not trust win7 to important work on this machine. About 6 months after first installing win7 on it (64 bit from msdn), I got a new video card. Genuine advantage decided it was a different computer and tried locking me out. No biggie right? Just activate it. Well, that didn't work, I forget why. I re-installed. Later I got an ssd. I decided to clone my C: partition onto the ssd, as that was always easy in the past on hdds. Wrong. No matter the method I used to clone the partition onto the ssd, windows would not boot off of it (this is a fully supported intel ssd, it should have worked). Even the repair mode on the win7 disk couldn't properly find a windows installation, despite it being perfectly readable and everything (I've done this tons of times on regular hdds, with no problems). So, I ended up doing a clean install on the ssd. Everything was fine for a while. One day, win7 decided it couldn't update anymore. The error code was related to proxy settings, and trusted sites. I went through every single step in the supposed solutions to the error, but it would not be fixed. Nobody could help me out with it either. Stumped everyone that came across it. Since I only use it for gaming, it was not updated for 6 months, but then I decided enough was enough. Re-install. Currently it's working just fine...no issues. We'll see how long that lasts.

Overall, windows maintenance is the #1 reason I prefer linux for my default. On top of the hassles I've had with my desktop, I hate the way windows update works. It couldn't take any longer, and I hate that it tries to force you to reboot...it's stupid. I miss how easy it is to back up a list of software you have installed, and re-install it like in linux with repos. It takes so long to re-install software after a windows install. It's ridiculous. It takes me about 1/10th the time in linux to get everything I want installed...and I always have a LOT more installed in linux. I hate how windows handles drivers, they still, in win7 tend to mess up way too often. Viruses, I don't have problems with anymore, so I can't list that.

Linux though, I have problems with too. Every time linux's graphics stack starts getting good, fast, and stable, either xorg devs decide to break everything, or new desktop tech (compiz, kwin, gnome3, etc) breaks things with my catalyst driver. And there's the rub. Graphics in linux, across the board, is crap. You cannot find a high end card right now with a proprietary or opensource driver that is near as good as in windows. All have some missing functionality, and the opensource ones which everyone tries to recommend, perform like crap. If I were a games dev, I wouldn't make games for linux either...it's that bad. I get by just fine, cause I don't game that much, and my 4850 works fine for my uses. Applications. I wish linux had the application and game support windows had. It would sure be nice. Ubuntu in particular is terrible with regressions. I've never had an update to a new version of the distro go perfect. Not ever. Lately bugs I've personally experienced have been pretty minor, however. Wireless support could still be better. Zealots of all kinds need to go die in a fire. There's a place for proprietary, and there's a place for opensource and free...the fighting needs to stop. There's more stuff, I'm forgetting some.

So, why do I stick with linux on my desktop at all, if there is more software, better video drivers, games? Because day to day it's less of a hassle than windows is, it keeps working unless I mess with it (unlike windows in my experience), and I develop code (web stuff) that runs on linux...so it makes sense. Also, besides that, I like LVM, couldn't live without it. It makes keeping my multimedia collection organized simple as pie, because I don't have to have tons of partitions, or raid (I'll only do hardware raid, so, that's less cost not needing it). Also, I tend to find linux's desktop environments more pleasant than win7, pretty much across the board. I know I'm mostly alone on this.

Why Windows? Just games for me, don't trust it for much else, honestly...but I understand why lots of other people prefer it, and that is perfectly fine too.

No, see, YOU missed MY point. I was ONLY saying I didn't buy that broadcom cards are still causing your problems these days, since I've not known one to not work since after 8.04. I'm only saying LATELY they do seem to work great, if not even better than the supposed open source ones like atheros. I never told you you should use linux. I never said it wasn't hell sometimes (it is), and I haven't had to compile anything to get ANYTHING working in 3 years. That's why I said I don't believe you, because I haven't heard of a problem with a broadcom card by someone who had seriously just clicked the damn hardware applet and told it to use the broadcom driver. you could be having trouble...that's very possible, I just don't believe you cause everyone I know has a broadcom card and hasn't has issues in years. And I'm not a dev, I don't have to care. Do you care that my touchpad won't scroll in windows 7 on my dell laptop? No, and that's fine.

I gotta say, I don't believe you. I have a dell, with a broadcom card, and I also have a different broadcom card from a compaq/hp laptop that died on me just outside of warranty. BOTH of these cards work nearly out of the box in ubuntu, and have since 8.04, which is what I was running on the laptop that fried on me. The ONLY setup required, is to activate the driver for broadcom wireless cards on the restricted-drivers-manager thing that pops up when you first run ubuntu. I have never had an issue with this since 8.04 (I'm currently running 10.04, and have used every version in between). Previous to 8.04, yes, it was an issue, and I remember compiling ndiswrapper from source to get it working, which was hell, as I was new-ish to linux back then. Interestingly, I also have a atheros 5006 card, which supposedly works great in ubuntu, and did for a while, but since 9.04, when they went to the hal-less driver, it won't come up from resume, drops my signal all the time, and sometimes I have to cold boot my laptop to fix it, after removing all power...ONLY in linux though, not in windows, doesn't happen in windows. Broadcom cards for me have never had any of these issues, so I am using it. Go figure. Can't speak for realtek, never owned anything of theirs.

People that prefer linux will like to believe that windows will not ever be reliable, and people who prefer windows tend to believe that linux won't be.

I've seen this time and time again, both through myself, and my friends/acquaintances.

Just two recent examples of this:

A friend of mine bought a really nice Asus i5 gaming laptop with win7 home premium preloaded on Thur last week. I envy his laptop. It's awesome. Anyway, on Friday, after only running the laptop 2 times, he turned it on, only to find that win7 wouldn't boot. Luckily Asus provided a recovery disk (some OEMS require you to burn your own, he wouldn't have done that that soon). My very first reaction (as I do prefer linux, and I myself happen to have many issues just like this one with any and all windows oses, my friends will confirm that I do for some reason, whereas they do not usually...) was to start laughing, and I remember saying "When will MS get their ^(&# straight?". Now, we all know that it's possible it was his fault, not win7, but it wasn't my first reaction.

Likewise, a different friend of mine has a win7/ubuntu dual boot setup on his desktop, and at one time had xp and ubuntu via wubi on his laptop. He very very rarely uses ubuntu, and I honestly don't even know why he insists on having it installed. His antivirus program thought the wubi virtual disk of ubuntu was a virus, and deleted/broke it. He instantly blamed ubuntu for being unstable (who wouldn't). It was only later, after it happened again and we caught his antivirus in the act that we figured out what was happening. This same friend had a sata cable fail on his desktop which was hooked up to the drive with ubuntu on it. Because of this, his computer wouldn't boot, although oddly enough the drive did show up in bios. He blamed ubuntu instantly for the grub error that appeared when grub couldn't find that drive, and had me come over and help him "fix ubuntu". Well, we figured out pretty quick that he just had a bad sata cable, and after replacing it, everything was perfect.

In both cases, the operating system might not have been at fault. (ok, so ubuntu wasn't in these cases, but I've seen it become unbootable on a netbook after a regular "apt-get upgrade" too..., and the win7 issue might have been my friends fault too, I don't know.) However, it just goes to show how our personal feelings about our favorite operating systems get in the way of factual information about them, and many times people say things and bash them before they think about it. The same goes for both windows and linux.

If the Ipad is going to revolutionize anything, it's going to be big media. Itunes pretty much did it a while ago with the hurting music industry, and I believe the Ipad is another venture to keep big media happy and make apple a fortune. I personally don't think the ipad is that appealing, and I will probably never own one, but I DO think it's an attractive platform for big media, and maybe that is why it is being hyped so much. Big media sees it as a possible answer to some of it's problems, so if it can make this thing popular enough, then it has a way to prolong it's survival.

What I think is interesting about this though, is that if advertising via big media still works, then obviously big media is doing just fine. If newspaper is failing, fine, just move it to a more current medium. I don't see an issue here. There is plenty of room to expand to digital mediums instead of printing everything. If you don't want it to be a (mostly) open technology like the internet, fine...pretty sure there is enough similarly-minded money out there to back whatever your silly idea is. I believe this is exactly what the ipad was created for.

you sir, you just made my day!

Shouldn't slashdot be using html5 instead of flash for this? Some people can't use flash at work and doing it in html5 would make it possible because every browser is compatible with the html5 devices tag that enables webcams in html5.

Also, there should be a mute button, or volume controls. I'm too stupid to mute only the player, and I want to be able to listen to my own music and watch at the same time.

And finally, I love today. (My new i9 super gaming desktop from dell came in the mail today!)

Also, lets not forget that (at least a year ago) something like 80% of Firefox's funding was from google. You could argue that it's only because firefox defaults to google for search...but funding 80% of their expenses is a pretty large stake in a company (firefox/mozilla) that doesn't really have to exist for google to still turn a huge profit. Especially now that chrome exists and is doing pretty well for itself. Yeah, they might stop funding firefox now that they have a competing product...but who cares...chrome is open too...and recently I'm actually really starting to like it more anyway.

I see another scenario... Google stops supporting IE, Microsoft is justified in forcing bing as the default search on ANY IE install, all the people who just use IE cause it's installed (quite a few I believe) will use bing, and see how pretty bing is, and be seduced into thinking google is crap. (bing does look good, I prefer google though, for many reasons) So if anything, I believe a move like that would hurt them.