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E-tailers learn a lesson -- the hard way
News Merchants who use a single coupon code that can be accessed by as many consumers who want to -- will see a bloodbath," said May. In October, a code that guaranteed a $20 (£12) discount at office supply store Staples got posted on the Internet.
[December 15, 1999, 9:01]
Microsoft at The Mall
Blog They scan in the bar code, you swipe your credit card and sign on screen, they print the receipt and put your new Zune HD in a nifty vinyl bag with comfortable handles and a popper that you can re-use for grocery shopping.
[December 4, 2009, 9:46]
Legal umbrella offered to Linux users
News To do so, the company will maintain a certified repository of certain open-source software and will indemnify companies using that code, up to a predetermined limit. There's no one company to stand behind the code base and protect users in case...
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
GPLv3 draft a week away
News However, if someone makes changes to a program and distributes those changes, the GPL requires that the modified source code be made available. At its foundation, the GPL requires several freedoms: A program's underlying source code may be seen...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
HP iPAQ H4150 review
Reviews There's a built-in sniffer program that displays what networks are available and which ones require a WEP key code to access. Using the integrated Wi-Fi and HP's iPAQ Wireless connection application, we had no trouble connecting to both a secure...
[November 3, 2003, 10:55]
Opt-in cookie rule proposed for Britain
News If organisations are going to put lots of computer code on a machine that tracks a person's movements online, individuals should be told about it," said Iain Bourne, strategic policy officer to the information commissioner.
[January 17, 2002, 16:34]
More than competitions at TopCoder these days
News When you compete in a match, you're awarded points based on how quickly you complete a solution to each problem and submit compilable code to TopCoder, but it's not over there. If a flaw is reported in your code, the coder who located it will be...
[November 28, 2002, 11:53]
Anti-spyware 'deceiving consumers'
News According to the complaint, code contained in those ads warned of spyware attacks signalled by unusual activity such as the opening and shutting of computer CD-ROM drives. CDT investigators said they downloaded source code from Spy Wiper ads...
[February 12, 2004, 11:20]
I can't help it if my code's read, says researcher
News Last week he said in an email to the Bugtraq security mailing list that he was reconsidering the practice of releasing such code to the public. David Litchfield of NGS Software has acknowledged that "proof of concept" code he wrote to demonstrate a...
[February 5, 2003, 15:45]
Solaris code due today
News Although the operating system will be available by the end of January, those wanting to see the full source code under the OpenSolaris plan will have to wait until the second quarter of 2005, a Sun representative said on Monday.
[January 25, 2005, 8:00]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment The fact that a person can read un-commented code months down the track in no way invalidates good programming practice and design. Of the thousands of lines of code written, syntax comprised about 20% of the model; yep, you guessed it, the rest...
[November 27, 2009, 7:19]
Patent injustice for small software companies
Talkback Ignoring the tricksy "per se", that the UKPO/EPO use to pretend (absurdly) that they were talking either about written source code or about whole applications or about some phantom "non-technical" kind of software, when they are forced into a...
[June 29, 2005, 23:44]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback There are huge problems with this idea: a) developers are only one part of the TEAM that produces the code; what about those that were involved in the code inspections? Basically, in practice, the code always ships when the companies says, and the...
[October 12, 2005, 16:46]
Microsoft readies new Exchange
News Microsoft has said the new version of Exchange, code-named Titanium, will be called Exchange Server 2003. Microsoft plans to release Exchange Server 2003 and the next version of its Outlook email software, code-named Outlook 11, around midyear.
[January 6, 2003, 16:05]
What kills software creativity?
Blog So, employing reusable code snippets and perhaps more fully blown widgets (into web-based applications) makes a lot of sense. So what kills software creativity and will robots be writing our code in the future?
[June 16, 2008, 12:47]
Another day, another exploit - and this time it’s not Conficker!
Talkback The vulnerability allows arbitrary code to be executed at the users’ current level of privilege. A recent study by BeyondTrust found that 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities could have been stopped or mitigated by simply eliminating the...
[April 6, 2009, 10:03]
Windows Server 2003 goes gold
News Release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2003 code clears the way for next month's product launch event in San Francisco. Microsoft is expected to announce on Friday that Windows Server 2003 has completed testing and has been certified as...
[March 28, 2003, 9:45]
Code leak reveals old IE flaw
News Security researchers' perusal of Windows 2000 and NT 4 software code has uncovered a vulnerability in an older version of Internet Explorer. It does look like it was one of the things that was found during the code review.
[February 18, 2004, 7:35]
Perforce upgrades cross-platform code-change GUI
News Given the multiplicity of these cross-platform challenges, being able to visualise and examine changes to the source code with clarity is fundamental to good programming practice," said Dave Robertson, Perforce's director of European operations...
[March 11, 2008, 15:12]
E-voting source code posted online
News VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes.
[April 7, 2004, 10:55]
