No thumb drives for the US military. (found on David Bader’s page)

The last time I went to a “Supercomputing” conference, Jim Gray came by to talk to me and Cort about PowerPC Linux. That must have been in 2000 or 1999. We had gone by the AIX booth and been roundly sneered at by IBMs Operating System Gurus and were walking away, somewhat crestfallen, when Gray…

Voter Activation Network.

Thanks to Ohioans. (and Virginians, Floridians, Iowans, … ). phew.

“I was pulled aside in a room … and you have to wait your turn to finally be released,” Labbé said. “An hour, an hour and a half, two hours, whatever it is after. Once I was caught in Miami like that for six hours. “It’s always the same questions, about if I’ve lost my…

Dan Quist writes in to point at that writing software is hard and we should expect errors. No doubt. Perfect software is not on the near horizon and good programmers using good tools will make stupid mistakes. But the CWE compendium points to systemic problems in the field. Look at the problem of allowing unfiltered…