In my experience the most valuable thing you get from implementing a bug bounty is: 1) Creating a procedure for responding properly to external incidents. (Can be really hard with complex supply chains!) 2) Motivating external people who are already doing the research to tell you about it. 3) After slowly cranking up the rewards, you might motivate people to start researching specifically to find bugs in your products. It's not always a good idea to start aiming for 3 if you don't have 1 yet.

It is clearly advised by the published guidelines that an organisation should define for themselves what they consider acceptable and what's not acceptable. An organisation might, for example, rule out social engineering attacks or DDoS.

A published responsible disclosure policy is a legaly binding document. If a organisation states that it find's certain behavior acceptable and even clearly states that it won't take legal action against people holding themselves to that document they have to follow that promise. As for the public prosecutor there are two parts that will protect responsible hackers. The first is the fact that the crime of hacking (computervredebreuk in Dutch law) requires the access gained by the hacker to be unlawful (wederrechtelijk). When a company states that certain behavior is acceptable, the legal test for wederrechtelijkheid will fail and the public prosecutor will have no case for the crime of computervredebreuk. Further more, the Dutch minister Opstelten has promised to talk to the public prosecutor about how they will handle responsible disclosure cases. Given the well thought-out contents of the released documents and the clear intentions of the gouvernment I have no reason to doubt the results of these talks.

Just install from snapshots every few weeks.

Try Tahoe-LAFS.

http://floorter.blogspot.com/2011/05/protecting-your-privacy-with-adsuck.html

As far as I can tell the system has a rather uncommon and interesting booting method. Will there be technical documentation available for developers of other operating systems who want to write a port for the Raspberry Pi? You can't fully learn how to program a system if you don't know how to boot.

I absolutely hate Flash for several reasons, but do you mean these specifications are not open? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html

Ah! The economics of fun!
If a free game can entertain me for 10 minutes, how long should a $0.99 game entertain me?

While I really like this development, there's one thing I'd like to see resolved: eye contact with the driver. When passing in front of a car I always try to make eye contact with the driver. For me this is the best way judge if the driver has spotted me and if I can cross safely. A robot driver should have some really simple visual way of saying: Hey, I've spotted you and I will break for you.

I'm not cursing at my computer. I'm writing perl code!

To train security people.

Is an electron (a "point particle") a blackhole or not? /me ducks

I have spend an hour or two on lisp. It basically ruined Python for me. Almost all my Python code is filled with nested map(), reduce(), filter(), lambda's and list comprehensions. It's great when programming, but when reading it's terrible.

The OpenBSD installer can auto-partition your disk for you. No calculations needed if you don't want to.

Suspend/resume support has been improved enormously. I have been using it without problems on my Asus Eee PC 1000H for a while now.