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[ See also: Image gallery: Ubuntu's Unity interface ]

which links to an image gallery containing...screenshots

Presumably the article has been updated, either way in the article there is (now) a prominent link to an image gallery.

The images are rather low-res however, which perhaps contributed to my immediately recalling some of the earliest netbooks that booted into a natty toy-like screen much like this.

While that incarnation is (IMHO) fugly and toy-like, putting key icons on the desktop and avoiding menus is a good idea. I have two computer-illiterate flatmates using Ubuntu and one of the (very few) difficulties they had is they found it hard to find "My Documents". Looking in menus isn't a strong point, thinking about it they are just lists of lists of lists...

That said, they may be overestimating the difficulty for novices with the UI. I have two computer-illiterate flatmates using Ubuntu and the only issues I can recall are needing me to put "My Documents" on the desktop, iTunes and that they were used to Windows automatically saving after rotating their pictures.

Presumably the article has been updated, either way in the article there is (now) a prominent link to an image gallery.

The images are rather low-res however, which perhaps contributed to my immediately recalling some of the earliest netbooks that booted into a natty toy-like screen much like this.

While that incarnation is (IMHO) fugly and toy-like, putting key icons on the desktop and avoiding menus is a good idea. I have two computer-illiterate flatmates using Ubuntu and one of the (very few) difficulties they had is they found it hard to find "My Documents". Looking in menus isn't a strong point, thinking about it they are just lists of lists of lists...

That said, they may be overestimating the difficulty for novices with the UI. I have two computer-illiterate flatmates using Ubuntu and the only issues I can recall are needing me to put "My Documents" on the desktop, iTunes and that they were used to Windows automatically saving after rotating their pictures.

The image gallery is linked right after the first paragraph of the article.

YOu can buyu your own tld to rule the world for about $185.000 according to this article which is really a doable amount for the internet monopolists.

issue a blanket software license to nonprofit groups and journalist groups outside the U.S.

Now maybe they meant only Russia but it doesn't take much to read that statement as applying globally. An ambiguity I'm sure they didn't mind.

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/123194/sunday-marks-release-ubuntu-1010-no-towels-required

to the article in a single page here

'We don't need 200 fart apps in App World. Those are apps you'll use three or four times then never open again.

Considering that only 20% of iPhone App installs get used more than once, I'd say that the BlackBerry fart apps are doing pretty well, in comparison.

Can articles please link to these by default already?

Android has its own VM called Dalvik. You use Java tools to compile to JVM bytecode and then there's a translater to Dalvik bytecode.

Maybe Oracle believe Dalvik implements their patented techniques.

Most are saying that they are going after google's jme which is quite interesting since google built (Dalvik) themselves to get around these licensing issues, although if they did use ip from Sun for Dalvik then maybe they have a case, although only the code will tell. Here are also some interesting reads on the matter besides those in the summary:

http://www.itworld.com/071116googlesun

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

You are arguing that it is OK to steal software and break licenses but to download a movie is a crime?
Or do you actually use one of those mythical licensed DVD players for Linux?

You also shouldn't be able to watch the streaming version on your Linux PC.
Are you doing some more "law and license breaking" to achieve that?

Also similar services exist in other nations.

1 - we were talking about Netflix/Blockbuster.
2 - such services, WHERE THEY EXIST, usually have the movies artificially delayed by the movie industry. Also... IP-based crippling works for those too.
3 - ALL of those have the requirement of the user being a credit-card holding adult. While most people do get to be adults eventually, billions of people are not eligible for a credit-card.

Facebook has fixed the flaw: http://www.itworld.com/security/108711/facebook-fixes-bug-allowed-friend-deletion

....so, yeah: http://www.itworld.com/print/105778

The portrayal of the VPN information suggested that Childs should not have had this documentation, even though he was the city's lead network admin and apparently had to maintain these lists as part of his job. But entering the VPN information into the court records made them public -- the San Francisco district attorney's office committed a significant security breach, opening up VPN access to anyone who cared to look at the document. Although the passwords alone were not enough to provide complete access to the city networks, they did constitute one part of the VPN's two-phase authentication configuration.

(link) I wonder if the someone from the DA's office will stand trial for whatever laws cover such a broad and incompetent breach of security. Seems fair, after all, considering what they're doing to him. And before anyone says "Hey, they're lawyers, not IT guys, you can't expect them to have the same level of password security sensitivity that IT folks do, yada yada yada", I'd say that any lawyer that ignorant of IT security has no business involved with this case to begin with.

I have some doubts about Child's story, but stupid stuff like this on the part of the city certainly lends support to his alleged fear of turning over passwords to incompetent city employees.

The important point is that he was asked to give up that information after he was fired.

Incorrect. Please read the case history before repeating misinformation.

starting to collect my favorite public demos here

Yeah, unicode will definitely save us all.

It's not like he had an obligation to ever divulge passwords

[disclaimer] I'll admit, I'm picking on you because yours if the first post I found relating this point (many others seem to hold this same idea).

Why is it that everyone seems to think that Mr. Childs had no obligation to provide these passwords to anyone? According to this timeline, he had not been fired when the demand for passwords was made, rather he was employed, asked for the passwords, and he refused which resulted in his suspension. Some others have gone on to claim that the terms of Mr. Childs' contract stated that he was only required to provide the passwords to the mayor. I have yet to find a copy of Mr. Childs' contract stating this fact, and it seems fairly incredulous that this would be the case (I am not claiming this as fact, merely pointing out that other assertions to this end have thus far failed to point to any documentation).

I fail to see how this man didn't create this whole situation for himself. His egocentric and territorial nature clearly affected his ability to perform his job in the sense that he had deluded himself into a position of ownership in which he believed that he could determine who he answered to. If someone can point us to credible proof that there was specific, written language which allowed Mr. Childs to withhold this information from his superiors (save the mayor), perhaps this would clear up some controversy. Perhaps I fail at 'googling', but I've not been able to come up with it yet.

"One size does not fit all."

I agree with that, but I think there is a fundamental problem. It seems to me that a lot of project estimation is done to serve a hidden purpose. The manager wants to get a commitment from programmers without actually knowing what they are doing or understanding the day-to-day challenges.

Usually the manager is hoping to intimidate the programmers into working more than a 40-hour week. Long weeks create the appearance of diligence, but tired programmers make mistakes that cost time; time isn't saved.

Usually the manager is technically challenged, but doesn't want to admit it.

Estimating programming time is often estimating how long it will take to do something that has never been done before. There may be political pressure to pretend that an accurate estimate can be given, but with many projects that's just a socially acceptable lie.

Here is an example. Someone was 100 million dollars in error: Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation.

A small error may be just an error in estimation. A huge error indicates a social problem.

The referenced to article doesn't actually state he included a back door. It was a proof of concept demo apparently: Suppose we wish to alter the C compiler

"one the creators of Unix, admitted that he had included a backdoor in early Unix versions. Thompson's backdoor gave him access to every Unix system then in existence"

I agree - opinion at best, flamebait at worst. It probably made the front page because it praises OS X and the Iphone, whilst criticising Vista and Windows Mobile...

I agree about no research, he even thinks that "Symbian" (which he seems to think is a company) was "stopped in their tracks" by the Iphone, which he thinks is the winner(!)

As someone else points out, this isn't even an actual columnist - it's just a random blog, and by the looks of it anyone can sign up. Check out his not-very-active profile: http://www.itworld.com/tomhenderson .

What next? Are opinion pieces on Slashdot journal entries going to start appearing on the front page?

China did block Wikipedia before. I can see them doing it again, and maybe this time permanently. Unless Wikipedia makes a China-friendly version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Wikipedia_by_the_People's_Republic_of_China
http://shanghaiist.com/archives/2005/10/20/you_bastards_wi.php
http://www.itworld.com/040614wikipedia
http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/china_blocks_wikipedia_again.htm

Fortunately their is a comment on the blog that has some interesting insight...

http://www.itworld.com/tictacns

Not enough Women in Tech

I believe this may be the article that MSNBC was referring to:

http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=54341

"It was brought to my attention in an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) newsletter.

My opinion is that Tech is a tool, a means to get from point A to point B, like a car. I think women want to be the travelers, using Tech to achieve their goals and using the auto industry analogy, they generally do not want to be the mechanics. When we hear about tech, we usually hear about the techies/mechanics, we do not hear about the many other skills that the tech industry requires to thrive and people tend to not pursue things they are not aware of."

That.

Prior to the tech inovations of computers and the internet, we had cars and trains as the feets of an earlier generation where the people who were most into building and working on hotrods were men, but many mechanics have ladies who loved their vets and mustangs. People who have fascination with trains have mostly seemed to come from men as well, though many woman use them as a means of transportation and wouldn't think twice about hopping on a trolly, light rail or subway, though they don't care about how it works, just that it does. To some degree this affects many sciences...

Perhaps this says somethign more about differences between men and women...

There's a lot of handwaving about how Chrome is not Windows, how it won't let you use photoshop on the netbook, as if you would. Here's a hint: if you're trying to run Photoshop on a 10" screen, you're doing it wrong.

Look for disastrous reports from Gartner, Forrester and of course the Rob Enderle / Maureen O'Gara flackalyst duet on how Chrome is the worst thing since smallpox. These are your clues that this is the real thing. They said the same things about the When Google says they released the source, people build it and publish virtual machines the same day.

Netbooks are stepping up in performance, as this four-threaded model shows, and will soon be able to do many more things. Yes, VDI is starting to ramp. There is still a place for Chrome. It's the dead-simple desktop interface that many of the technology impaired need. It's a point on the graph twice the distance on the line from Debian to Ubuntu.

A bunch of people are going to whine it doesn't support disk. It's a next-generation operating system and solid state is the storage of the next generation. It has local storage - just not the slow kind you're used to. There is no more reason to support the legacy spinning disk on this platform than there is to support tape storage or floppy disk. Moving parts are so 2008.

> not only to the domain name that exactly matches their trademark, but also ... nearly every possible misspelling or other variation of that trademark

Right now Larry Page and Sergey Brin are yelling at each other over their diamond-encrusted platinum iPhones. On the bright side this guy claims that Google earns $32M-50M on typosquatting. That's the sort of cash they could easily walk away:
http://www.itworld.com/internet/56426/professor-google-earns-32-50m-typosquatting-sites

I think most hiring managers will read past the first page... assuming that they didn't get 100 resumes in response to a single job ad. But in a lot of companies, HR people exist to eliminate candidates more than they work to find the right ones. So they perform a kind of triage, looking for the reasons to dump your resume immediately (which I wrote about at Javaworld in How to Make HR Dump A Programmer's Resume and they are attracted by some strangely shiny things like keywords What HR Professionals Look For in a Programmer's Resume).

Mostly, the idea is to get past the HR department and get to the hiring manager -- the person to whom you'd report, ideally. But if she has a stack of 100 resumes to fill an open position, you need to capture her attention immediately and shout I have the background you need. That's among the reasons that it's a good idea to include FOSS experience, which is what I wrote in the first part of that blog post.

and when the people and the government work together (yes it can happen) this is what happens

http://www.itworld.com/business/66863/time-warner-cable-wants-legislation-eliminate-competition

read it through..

Apple is advertising the strength of their App store, showing off the apps available, and then contrasting that to the usefulness of a netbook.

I think Apple's wrong here, a netbook is way more useful, but, they're certainly doing nothing that's immoral or worse than what TI's doing.

http://www.itworld.com/hardware/56567/jobs-iphone-apples-netbook

The reason it's worse than TI is that Apple has positioned the iPhone as a small computer for the general public, and is selling millions. But how many of the millions know that political apps are banned?

http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2008/09/freedomtime-rejected-by-apple-for-app-store/

http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2008/09/steve-jobs-writes-back/

Wow, although I’m not happy with Apple right now, I have to give Apple’s CEO some serious credit for answering the email I wrote yesterday:
Dear Steve,

A quick note to let you know what kinds of apps are being rejected for the App Store.

This app is not defamatory, harmful or speaking untruth. It is lighthearted and humorous. Does it imply critique? Of course it does, but not without crossing any lines of decency or the boundaries agreement.

For a quick screen shot:
http://www.juggleware.com/iphone/freedomtime/

Sincerely,
Alec Vance
juggleware llc

Mr. Jobs replied :

Even though my personal political leanings are democratic, I think this app will be offensive to roughly half our customers. What’s the point?
Steve

So we have an entire computing platform that is politically censored by Jobs' diktat because it could be offensive to some people, forget about all the apps that are arbitrarily rejected for duplicating functionality and other BS and people don't care. Podcaster had good features but was rejected for duplicating functionality.

Certainly, the Europeans dominate the winners of Noble Prizes in science.

Germans invented the jet aircraft, the guided missile, the computer, calculus, etc. The English invented calculus. The French developed the metric system. Also, the Japanese have done quite well. They invented the blue light-emitting diode, hybrid engines for cars, process technologies for cost effectively producing large LCD screens, etc.

The one group that is missing from this arena of technical accomplishments is Africans and African-Americans. Why are they absent?

We know that African IQ is small than Japanese/European IQ by about 20 points. Can this large difference in IQ explain the gross failure of all societies dominated by Africans?

Certainly, the Europeans dominate the winners of Noble Prizes in science.

Germans invented the jet aircraft, the guided missile, the computer, calculus, etc. The English invented calculus. The French developed the metric system. Also, the Japanese have done quite well. They invented the blue light-emitting diode, hybrid engines for cars, process technologies for cost effectively producing large LCD screens, etc.

The one group that is missing from this arena of technical accomplishments is Africans and African-Americans. Why are they absent?

We know that African IQ is small than Japanese/European IQ by about 20 points. Can this large difference in IQ explain the gross failure of all societies dominated by Africans?

"let's argue that there are secure ways antivirus protectors could learn about all installations of software -- good and bad -- that any of their end-users perform. Let's also assume that they could easily collect other data from these machines and users: geographic location, social networking information, type of operating system, installed programs and configurations"

What's going to protect us from defects in these security systems? Wouldn't giving these malware monitoring systems access to computer networks lessen security rather than enhance it? And isn't this the case that in order to be protected from spyware, I have to let this security system spy on me ? And didn't someone once argue against enumerating badness as in it's a bad idea. Because .. 'the amount of Badness in the Internet began to vastly outweigh the amount of Goodness'.

"open source tools were too slow and required "too much fooling around to administer"

Is this true, is there no 'Open Source revision control system' with functionality equivilent to Perforce?
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"The newsletter system we had often lead us reboot Apache, this way we opted by purchasing a paid webware instead, and since we have paid for the licence, we got faster support and they managed to keep us running without Apache issues anymore,"

Wha, Apache can't even run a newsletter ??? No prizes for guessing which webware they switched to ...

Maybe you'd like proprietary software more if, like the author of TFA, you were paid to sell it. Read on page two where the author promotes DropBox over a free alternative, providing a referral link as she does so. If you look on the DropBox website, you will find an affiliate program paying out up to US$50 for each referred subscription.

http://www.itworld.com/print/77409

There are also cases where this just isn't true. See malloc.

...Consider the project contributors may all be volunteers contributing coding time as a hobby. If the project is still worth writing something about, that isn't changed by the situation where none of the programmers have decided the limited time they contribute will also include PR tasks.

But sometimes it's not the project that's the focus of the article. I don't need to know everything about your software; but I expect that you do.

The article may be about something closely related to open source, such as my article, How to sponsor an open source sprint). In that case, I didn't particularly care which projects I quoted; I just wanted to represent several. People from Plone and Drupal stepped forward, when I asked (broadly) for input. Your project didn't. They got the visibility; yours didn't.

I like to think that (assuming your project has sprints and works with corporate sponsors) you might have had useful advice to share, too. We both missed out, because you were too busy.

And sometimes the article isn't about open source at all. Developer Tools You Don't Use, and Why You Don't Use Them was about programming tools in general. But one of the people who responded (via Help a Reporter Out) was a woman who had several worthwhile points to offer regarding her use of FOSS developer tools. (A few of the comments landed on the cutting room floor, because that feature was already twice as long as I promised, but I appreciated her input.) Her project is mentioned, in passing, because that was the relevant affiliation.

In other words: It's not always about whether I'm technically savvy enough to understand everything in your release notes. Often, I don't care what's in your release notes. But I might care what the community is doing and how it's participating in the larger universe.

If you (the reporter) has decided the open source project is news worthy, you should have a basic idea on what it is about and why it matters already. Include questions don't have the answer to in your initial email. Make your own screenshots while you're playing around with the software. To put it bluntly, quoting from a press page and including screenshots from the site hardly seems like the methods of a competent tech reporter.

If I can't figure out what the project is, then it won't be worthy.

That applies to users and developers just as much as it does to the press. Whether or not you care about press attention (and really, it's fine with me if you don't), please do take a step back and look at your site as though you've never seen it before. If you didn't know what this software did, how long would it take for you to learn?

And frankly -- yes, I need you to send me a screen shot of the app doing something that demonstrates its capabilities (or at least looks pretty). If all I'm going to do is give you two paragraphs of attention (which is what I did in that Computerworld article about upcoming apps), I am not necessarily going to download, install, and configure each one, as well as any underlying software they rely on. All to take a screen shot? You have it working; you know it; you, its proud momma and poppa, can give me something that'll show it off.

Again: sample screen shots that demonstrate functionality are useful to users and developers, too. Not everyone has the time to download and install everything that looks like it might be interesting. A quick glance can let me (as a user) determine if this is worth further inquiry.

...Consider the project contributors may all be volunteers contributing coding time as a hobby. If the project is still worth writing something about, that isn't changed by the situation where none of the programmers have decided the limited time they contribute will also include PR tasks.

But sometimes it's not the project that's the focus of the article. I don't need to know everything about your software; but I expect that you do.

The article may be about something closely related to open source, such as my article, How to sponsor an open source sprint). In that case, I didn't particularly care which projects I quoted; I just wanted to represent several. People from Plone and Drupal stepped forward, when I asked (broadly) for input. Your project didn't. They got the visibility; yours didn't.

I like to think that (assuming your project has sprints and works with corporate sponsors) you might have had useful advice to share, too. We both missed out, because you were too busy.

And sometimes the article isn't about open source at all. Developer Tools You Don't Use, and Why You Don't Use Them was about programming tools in general. But one of the people who responded (via Help a Reporter Out) was a woman who had several worthwhile points to offer regarding her use of FOSS developer tools. (A few of the comments landed on the cutting room floor, because that feature was already twice as long as I promised, but I appreciated her input.) Her project is mentioned, in passing, because that was the relevant affiliation.

In other words: It's not always about whether I'm technically savvy enough to understand everything in your release notes. Often, I don't care what's in your release notes. But I might care what the community is doing and how it's participating in the larger universe.

If you (the reporter) has decided the open source project is news worthy, you should have a basic idea on what it is about and why it matters already. Include questions don't have the answer to in your initial email. Make your own screenshots while you're playing around with the software. To put it bluntly, quoting from a press page and including screenshots from the site hardly seems like the methods of a competent tech reporter.

If I can't figure out what the project is, then it won't be worthy.

That applies to users and developers just as much as it does to the press. Whether or not you care about press attention (and really, it's fine with me if you don't), please do take a step back and look at your site as though you've never seen it before. If you didn't know what this software did, how long would it take for you to learn?

And frankly -- yes, I need you to send me a screen shot of the app doing something that demonstrates its capabilities (or at least looks pretty). If all I'm going to do is give you two paragraphs of attention (which is what I did in that Computerworld article about upcoming apps), I am not necessarily going to download, install, and configure each one, as well as any underlying software they rely on. All to take a screen shot? You have it working; you know it; you, its proud momma and poppa, can give me something that'll show it off.

Again: sample screen shots that demonstrate functionality are useful to users and developers, too. Not everyone has the time to download and install everything that looks like it might be interesting. A quick glance can let me (as a user) determine if this is worth further inquiry.

Here's a single page link for the article since it's spread across a bunch of pages.

Actually, no1 really cares about the desktop anymore, an example:

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/72634/whats-linux-desktop-mean-when-we-dont-know-what-desktop-anymore

So maybe it'll never happen, you could also say, it has already happend for many, which is true.

That parents have to deceive their kids. Then, it's a social ill that some of these games actually replace other outlets.

I first read about this last week, on the 9th (no, i never bothered submitting, because nothing i ever suggested for submission gets posted by /.)

http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy

Personally, though, i think some form of boot camp needs to be here in the US, but not just for gaming. LOTS of anti-social behaviors could be addressed. At least for those who are averse to getting away from long-session gaming. I personally broke my addictions to Half-Life, Counterstrike, Soldier of Fortune, and Longbow Apache in 2004 when i donated my joysticks, media, and pedals to Goodwill before taking my trip to Japan. I also gave away the supporting hardware. It's been QUITE a relief to not be sitting like a zombie in my chair from Friday 22200 thru Sunday 2100...

Or a news article where a gps unit tries to kill people?

Sure, being the RTFA troll, I read the article. But that still doesn't convince me. The keyboard press is a brief instant on a device which is easy to place more or less out of line of sight. A visible password on a screen is present for a long time and there are a number of interesting ways to capture this. Whilst keyboards are not perfect I think that some protection is worthwhile. One thing is for sure. Nobody is going to remember to turn this on when they are in public and your password only needs to be captured once.

One thing that might be a possible compromise is the system the mail client on my Nokia phone uses. The most recent character entered in the password is displayed for a short time. I can see each individual character, but the entire password is not exposed. I worry on the subway, but since it's a personal device it's easier to make this difficult to see.

Looking over the actual Google blog announcement, this looks more like a case of the F article getting it all wrong. The "dimensionality" stuff is clearly not intended to be the innovation or selling point of Google's service; much less a differentiator relative to database vendors, who've had OLAP for ages.

The real selling points seem to be an easy UI, a lot of predefined public data sets available to combine and correlate with your own data, and the collaboration features.

Actually they do. They just came out with their own 12 Prohibited Application Types for Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store. You just haven't been paying attention.

MS has rules about what kind of applications they'll put in their own store. The difference is that Apple's store is the only way to get apps without jailbreaking your iPhone, and that they're usually not very forthcoming with information about why an app was rejected.

There was a big discussion about the difference on an article here, but I can't seem to find it. But /. actually more or less agreed with MS's stance in this case - they're controlling the store, not locking down the product.

I don't think you've been paying attention.

At least Microsoft (so frequent target on this site) does not tell me what to run.

Actually they do. They just came out with their own 12 Prohibited Application Types for Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store. You just haven't been paying attention.

I think it's very interesting that if you go RTFA (yeah, I'm new here), you can read the related headline[1]:

"Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance"

I think the dear AST is up to no good...

[1]: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/67022/desktop-linux-why-it-may-have-lost-its-chance

Yes, and no.

http://www.itworld.com/windows/63333/xp-windows-7-upgrade-path

SO you can save a few bucks, but it's a clean install. I would argue you should do that anyways with any OS upgrade that jumps 2 full version.

...the top 10 bestsellers under the 'Multiformat' category...

The list he's talking about can be found at Fictionwise eBooks: Multiformat eBooks. That's the same link used in the original blog post Salacious content driving the adoption of ebooks? Under multiformat, 6 of the 10 listed are Erotica/Romance, 3 others are listed as Erotica, Erotica/Fantasy and Erotica/Dark Fantasy and #2 is Dark Fantasy/Fantasy.

I can see where the person who posted on this page mistakenly referred to

top 10 Fictionwise bestsellers

which is where the water got muddied. I just wanted to try to "un-muddy" it because the author quoted in Smith's original post has been a close friend for over 20 years and I've read and enjoyed all of her stuff.

Interestingly, they really didn't meet any of the conditions you stated!

A couple of bits from the first link:

The passage in the Defcon show guide describing their talk begins, "Want free subway rides for life?" That line was removed from the description of the talk posted at the Defcon Web site.

Can't see that as not causing trouble (at least from the MBTA's perspective...)

The researchers refused to give the transit authority information about security flaws in its system ahead of the talk, the filings state.

Which is not particularly polite - and in fact definitely takes them out of any resonable definition of "White Hat"...

And while hacking around on a smartcard they bought shouldn't be illegal (as long as they don't actually use it for free rides), this bit:

[snip]

From another FA

The students said they tried to contact the MBTA around July 20 through their professor Ron Rivest, who teaches in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, but did not actually connect with the agency until around July 30.

It's been a crazy week for Anderson, who looked haggard -- he said it took him 18 hours to travel by air to Defcon and he had not slept since Thursday.

And another:

Mahoney [the MBTA attorney] praised a security analysis the students had prepared for the agency, saying the information in it convinced them of the vulnerability.

Looks like you're wrong, or one of TFAs is wrong anyway.