Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior; How to Develop Unmaintainable Software

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior How to Develop Unmaintainable Software Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All Why Isn't There More Outrage About NSA Revelations? Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos Hot Comment: "The reason Java is still alive and well is not because it's a good language. It's..." From the Vault: If Not America, Then Where? Watch It: Why Targeted Ads Don't Work Poll Booth: I typically visit a doctor (for medical reasons) ... Oracle Blasts Open Source as Inferior In a whitepaper for the Department of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source and that community-developed code is inferior and less secure than software from commercial companies. Sound Off>> How to Develop Unmaintainable Software Greg Jorgensen specializes in debugging, fixing, maintaining, and extending legacy software systems. His typical client has a web site or internal application that works, more or less, but the original developer isn't available. Greg lists some things you can do in your own software projects to keep him in business. Sound Off>> Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All As a followup to Linus Torvalds' opinion about people skeptical of the Linux random number generator, a new paper analyzes the robustness of /dev/urandom and /dev/random and found "several attacks proving that these PRNGs are not robust according to our definition, and do not accumulate entropy properly." Sound Off>> Why Isn't There More Outrage About NSA Revelations? We have been hit with a number of reports about the NSA's cloud surveillance in the press, yet the public seems to have greeted each new revelation with weakening outrage. In fact, the unveiling of the NSA's Great Contact-List Caper has ranked below invites for Apple's upcoming iPad event. Sound Off>> Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos Nokia's former head designer has called on Apple to work with the broader technology industry and end its policy of having proprietary connectors for its device chargers and accessories. Other experts say Apple cannot continue to go it alone with Lightning Connectors and ignore Micro USB. Sound Off>>     Java won't die. "The reason Java is still alive and well is not because it's a good language. It's not because Oracle does a good job patching security faults with it. It's not because it may be able to run most of its code on any given OS that can run its VM. The reason Java is still alive and well is because it is the OO language most schools, universities and colleges teach in their CS classes." --by sirsky Read More>>   If Not America, Then Where? Seven years ago, Wellington Grey wrote that during heated political discussions on Slashdot, several people mention their desire to leave the country and asked two questions of the restless: 1) Where would you live, if not in America and 2) What's stopping you from going? Read More>>  Why Targeted Ads Don't Work SlashTV: Conventional wisdom about online advertising is that targeted ads result in more revenue, but that's not necessarily true. A recent report found that print consumed 7 percent of people's media time in 2011, but 25% of ad budgets. Don Marti discusses the reason for the disparity and why targeted advertising is harmful. Watch the Video>> I typically visit a doctor (for medical reasons) ... Less than once a year Once a year, roughly 2-3 times a year 4-10 times a year More than 10 times a year Are you counting the vet? Cast Your Vote>>     Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.