Mathew Bevan, an earlier scapegoat for incompetence in governmental security, discusses the non-threat that Gary McKinnon posed:
"Gary is a self-confessed stoner and perpetrated the 'biggest military hack of all time' whilst completely wasted. This is clearly a sign of how lax the security of these systems was.
The UK government’s Central Office of Information (COI) has produced a draft report on governmental departments' adherence to browser standards and asked for feedback.
The past couple of evenings I've been away from a computer and so not free to consolidate my copious notes all the interesting stuff that happened at Google Developer Day on Tuesday. I should start by saying that all the organizers, especially Liz Ericson, should be proud for planning and running such a fun event, and so smoothly.
If a user asks for something, it's probably because they want it.
In fact, if a user actually asks you, with their mouths or their keyboards, then you should be grateful: especially if they ask nicely. Most users won't say anything: they'll plod along, fightig against your software's behaviour, until the cost in time eventually far outweighs the benefits. Then they'll move on, and you'll never know.
Sean McGrath suggests that you should implement first and design later:
A design phase, wedged between two implementation phases, makes sense if you are doing rapid prototyping.