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...and yet OpenBSD has managed to boldly claim "Only 2 remote holes in the default install in a heck of a long time" for a heck of a long time.
It takes a proactive approach to security to get there, but it is possible. It always baffles me why OpenBSD is not more popular for servers and applications where security really matters.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: It always baffles me why OpenBSD is not more popular for servers and applications where security really matters.
The article itself covers that:
Quote: "Here's the problem," explains John Dickson, a Principal at the Denim Group. "You have to be as good as the other, less secure tool and you have to be secure. That's a bridge too far for many products."
Linux has had a major advantage in terms of easy buttonsconsoles  over the BSDs that make it easier to put to use for a long time.
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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I believe that developers should measure once, quickly, for a rough estimate, and then cut. Save even more time: don't bother measuring
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Measure schmeasure; we have undo, version control, and future releases.
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Just because software is malleable, doesn't mean there is zero cost to maintenance.
I believe we could learn a lot from industrial design, where a series of prototypes are frequently made and refined, but the final cut is designed to be durable and maintainable (depending on the project's constraints).
There are many types of software projects. Some require the entire thing to be correct on delivery (consider control systems for nuclear reactors, or cars). Others require continual changes (many web applications). The key is to choose an approach that matches the application.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Just because software is malleable, doesn't mean there is zero cost to maintenance.
Yep. The one app I maintain's 3 biggest pain points for me are all things that were done due to severe time pressure (partly our underestimating complexity, partly the customer pushing a lot more scope creep/churn before the PM finally drew a line in the sand) that are too complex to fix short of a major update whose budget continues receding into the future. The biggest user painpoint is something that looks like it would be a simple change in the code; but involves breaking a major invariant in the existing platform that no one involved (I wasn't) remembers if was done because the CM lover wanted to Lock Down All The Things, or because it was the quickest way to mitigate a problem found in early testing. That makes its potential unintended consequences broad enough that unlike the dozens of minor hotfixes and tweaks that've been done since release, an update of an full rerun of the manual test plan to mitigate risks. 
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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I had to read a lot of this article twice, to ensure that it was as full of bollocks as it seemed on the first read.
The writer obviously knows absolutely bugger-all about building, absolutely bugger-all about the meanings/origins/usage of English expressions, nothing about agile/waterfall, and probably bupkiss about program design, although it looks like he/she/it may have done a two-week course on it.
Back when I used to do editorial work, I'd have shredded this; I wouldn't have even sent it back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I prefer to cut half way. Then look again to see if the measurement is needed.
Hold my drink and watch this.
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Measure twice cut once is nothing whatsoever to do with estimation - indeed I cannot think of anyone worse at estimation than builders.
It is more about preparation and verification before you make an irreversible change. This is why surgeons, pilots and deep sea salvage operatives have checklists - and perhaps that's the bit that software people should seek to emulate.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as well as Airbus A350 and A380 aircraft, have Wi-Fi passenger networks that use the same network as the avionics systems of the planes. Flight Simulator: 787 Edition
Really. It's not even a bad idea. People should feel pain to come up with thoughts like that.
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What is WRONG with people!
Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway? >
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Ron Anders wrote: Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway?
Automatic updates 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ron Anders wrote: Why are the @#$%^-in avionics wifi anyway? >
With the sort of headlines this soems to've been designed to generate; my first question would be:
"**ARE** any current control systems using wifi and/or otherwise connected to the inflight wifi network; or did they hide that they were looking at a hypothetical what if all the engineers at Boeing/Airbus/etc were morons case in a footnote that their css 'accidentally' hid underneath the footer of their press release."
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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Scary. Means that someone from outside could do Ctrl-C Ctrl-V of what happened recently over the Alps.
Disable passenger WiFi. Why do passengers need WiFi on-board? IMHO, flight is a good time to stay away from all electronic gadgets.
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"Smart dust," long heralded in research papers
and sci-fi, is now a reality. Just don’t sneeze. Where do I plug in the monitor?
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The slogan it's not using yet: One repo, one module. "Everything is cool when you're part of a team"
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Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process that seeks the consent of all participants. "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried"
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Yeah, good luck with that. 
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I totally disagree with you on that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We agree to disagree.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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90% of security incidents are still caused by PEBKAC and ID10T errors, according to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report. There you go: get rid of these two problems and we're set
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Oh! No! We've been discovered!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Only 90% ? 
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The company released patches from 98 security issues in its products, 14 in Java. "You can get what you want if you've got some do re me"
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Microsoft has devised a system to automatically keep devices germ-free. Obsessive-compulsives rejoice!
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