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Will Security Task Force Affect OSS Acceptance?

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting article published by SD Times: "Application Security Goes National" discusses some of the talking points generated by a federal task force that will make recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security. One of these talking points is to license software developers and make them accountable for security breaches. Licensed developers would get paid more as well. The article also mentions that "Executives" might not wish to work with smaller undiciplined partners and a little further down that "Hobbyists create Web services [and] professionals create them" and that "companies relying on critical infrastructure Web services need confidence". Would OSS have to be writen entirely by licensed developers to be considered secure? . Yahoo Finance has another article on the subject." The SD Times article is current, despite the incorrect date on it.

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. So this is the new year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes.

    1. Re:So this is the new year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What a waste of a landmark post number.

  4. Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread!

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    1. Re:Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Stupid American... again, you're behind Europe. We already have a new year. Will probably take forever until they introduce it in the US tho...

    2. Re:Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's already 1:50 AM, 2004-01-01, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    4. Re:Official New Years 2004 Slashdot Party Thread! by spicedhamhawg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  5. ** HAPPY NEW YEAR, SCUMBAGS! ** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's 2004 in Germany now and I'm posting on Slashdot because I don't have any friends who could invite me to a party. And even if I had some, they probably wouldn't. And to make the day perfect, my TFT-display's PSU decided to break today and I have to run the fucking thing on a laboratory power supply whose fan is so loud that it ruins all the fun.

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    1. Re:** HAPPY NEW YEAR, SCUMBAGS! ** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. GMT :-) by 3lb4rt0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1'st post of the proper new year!

  7. OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by RetroGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, they give this easy test for the license and every TD&H can drive. Of course we have had over 40,000 fatalities and 2 million crashes every year in the US for past 20 years.

    And then we get stupid laws like banning cell phones while driving.

    If you ban cell phones, then what about police officers, firemen, ambulance drivers, truckers (and other people with CB's) who use two-way radios.

    Using a microphone is more distracting than a cell phone, since you need to push a button to talk.

    Of course most of the a/n people have extra training and experience (and testing).

    BTW, what is a TD&H?

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    1. Re:OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by Kent+Recal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Erm, sorry to jump on your OT-article but what you say is bs. Banning cellphones from driving is one of the good laws that actually adds to safety. Anything that distracts your attention from the street (remember, you're moving) is to be avoided.

      And btw in police cars, firetrucks and ambulances there usually is a 2nd person and NOT the driver responsible for comm. And these vehicles are a whole different story anyways but I'll tell you 'bout that another time...

    2. Re:OT: Re:How about driver's licenses? by boobsea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What about just banning unsafe driving?

      The cell-phone ban is just a "feel-good" law designed to make a people think that the government is doing something when all it is doing is just furthering its encroachments onto our own liberties.

      What about banning eating while driving? Putting on makeup? Talking to the person next to/behind you?

      You only think of the people who cannot drive responsibly with a cell phone but I've seen just as many if not more people who can use phones and drive properly.

  8. will the big flash disempower evile forever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    near as we can tell, you can bet your .asp on it.

    will gnu millennium end corepirate nazi execrable? (Score:?)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @09:39PM
    we won't be needing nearly as much phonIE ?pr? ?firm? 'security' as we're being subjected to now, upon completion of the disempowerment of the greed/fear/ego based corepirate nazis, aka unprecedented evile.

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    mynuts won, expatriated?

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