Government Funds Secret Sustainable Computing

SEWilco writes "OSDN's NewsForge reports that Carnegie Mellon University has started a Sustainable Computing Consortium to improve the quality and security of software. The only news release is that NASA gave CMU $23 million to help create dependable software. SCC members get an internal-use license for SCC software. So taxpayers are paying millions to create proprietary software, and companies get access for a few thousand dollars. (There is some blurring between CMU's SCC and CMU's High Dependability Computing Consortium, although HDCC's web site has been idle for a year.)"

Comments

Re:Secret?

[CFN]

Dude, you are making a logical fallacy.

If A implies B (ie. if something is secret then it is proprietary) does not mean B implies A (if it is proprietary then it is secret). It also does not mean ~A imples ~B (if it is not secret then it is not proprietary).

Secrecy has nothing to do with proprietaryness: the whole point of the patent system is to have proprietary techniques open for all to read.

SEcond ever moderation study

[larry bagina]

I've lately noticed a lot of non-offensive, ontopic posts being moderated down as trolls, offtopic, or flamebait lately.

My initial theroy was that it was related to the mother/son conflict manifesting in the moderators.

I recieved a research grant from VA Goatse.cx to study this phenomena, and discovered that it was actually caused by pent-up frustration resulting from the inability to get laid (aka ``blue balls'') causing the poor moderation. Since these moderators can't get any ass, their only satisfaction is in moderating down other posts.

This post also serves as a test case -- watch how fast it gets moderated down!