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Openness by itself does not yield more secure code, but a new dependence on open source by major software players could ensure more rigorous scrutiny. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." (except when they aren't)
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Bugs also become shallow when you race down the interstate at 90mph (145km/h)
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Quote: Credit Zemlin with jumping on Heartbleed fast. In the wake of the disaster, he quickly formed the Core Infrastructure Initiative and signed up Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, NEC, Qualcomm, Rackspace, Salesforce, and VMware -- all of which pledged to contribute $100,000 annually for a minimum of three years.
With those funds Zemlin has been able to "employ the Steves full time" (actually Dr. Henson and Andy Polyakov) to work on OpenSSL.
$2 million/year in guaranteed funding and they're only able to hire two full time developers. And I thought my employer's overhead rates stank. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Instead, blame developer laziness. But this can be fixed. "She's come undone"
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...do blame ads though. And trackers. And analytics.
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We've given her all we can. She canna hold it together any longer.
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The most popular language of 2014 was JavaScript, says the language index TIOBE. Meanwhile Java’s popularity hasn’t been this low since the dramatic arrival of Python in 2004. VB selected as "Miss Congeniality"
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PERL more than doubled in popularity according to TIOBE.
That is all. Nothing more needs to be said.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, PERL 6 is coming out real soon now (tm) 
TTFN - Kent
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Today, GitHub and Microsoft are making Visual Studio Community 2013 available as part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Free tools, now free
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GitHub is the home of a strong open source community, including hundreds of Microsoft projects
Hmm, there's over 1.1 million GitHub projects (reference[^]) and only several hundred Microsoft projects.
Should give Soma pause.
Marc
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True. I think 'the pause' is one of the main reasons they seem to be bolting everything they can to GitHub, trying to get more attention.
TTFN - Kent
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The Future of Life Institute wants humanity to tread lightly while on the road to really smart, and not so cuddly, robots. That's good. If the AI actually reads the letter.
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I asked Cortana - she says there's nothing to worry about so that's good enough for me.
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Well, that's a load off my mind. 
I wonder about Siri though.
TTFN - Kent
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: I asked Cortana
Who? 
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Recently, an exploit has been uncovered in Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) - which covers roughly 60% of Android's install base, according to the Android Developer dashboard - and Google is saying that they will not patch the flaw. Security for thee, but not for me
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There is mounting evidence to suggest that developers get lazy… a lot. But is it fair to accuse developers of laziness when they’re only trying to streamline processes? Nothing strategic about me
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Well... If lazy is to try to find the easiest way to do something... then yes, I am lazy. 
On the other hand... seeing the % of "urgent gimme codez, plzz" 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"Don't put off for tomorrow what can be put off for the day after tomorrow."
Many tasks will just go away, so don't waste time hurrying to perform them.
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The world's most popular OS exits 'mainstream' support Jan. 13, marks midpoint of 10-year support lifetime. Windows 7 middle-aged? Guess it will be getting a sports car soon.
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Next week thus marks the halfway point of Windows 7's decade-long support stretch, which ends Jan. 14, 2020.
Woohoo, another 5 years before I even have to start thinking about switch OS's. Maybe by then, Microsoft will have gotten the fiasco of W8 fixed (is that supposed to be W10?) or the Linux world will have finally developed a usable desktop and .NET will be fully available on it with a decent IDE (but that's the more improbable path, IMO.)
Marc
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Energous is one of a handful of companies hoping to change that. It claims its technology can charge your phone and wearable from up to 15 feet away, no wires required. Side effects may include whole body burns, appearance of second heads, and glowing children.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Side effects may include whole body burns, appearance of second heads, and glowing children.
But it charges wirelessly. Reminds me of this commercial[^].
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Microsoft might be close to releasing the preview version of Windows 10 for phones as the Insider app is now available in the Windows Phone store. Sure, run your phone on an alpha version of the OS. What's the worst that will happen?
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