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Short Takes: June 15, 2009


By SD Times News Team
June 15, 2009 — 
E-tox
A global environmental group that targets e-waste (outdated computer and electronic equipment) called Basel Action Network (BAN) notified me last month that it had uncovered potential wrongdoing following a Humane Society-sponsored e-waste recycling event in the Pittsburgh area. The event's organizers allegedly shipped the techno-trash overseas in seven shipping containers instead of recycling it. BAN says that it tracked the waste to Hong Kong and South Africa, then notified the authorities in those countries. E-waste contains toxic elements, including cadmium, mercury and lead.

It is dismaying to me that there is no comprehensive nationwide program extant in the United States to dispose of toxic trash. Some strides have been made in e-waste collection, but now I am left wondering whether the right thing is ultimately being done.
— David Worthington

OWASP examines Struts 2
Jeff Williams, chair of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), recently told me that the organization has been increasing its research reports. One of those research groups, the Intrinsic Security Working Group (ISWG), published a security analysis of Apache’s Struts 2 framework for creating Java Web applications.

ISWG examined what security features already exist in Struts 2 and what need to be created by the developer. “It shows that Struts has some stuff built into it, but there’s an awful lot that you have to do yourself,” Williams said. “It tells developers, ‘Here’s what you get. You can’t just assume that because you wrote your app on top of Struts 2 that it’s automatically secure. There’s a lot you have to do yourself.’ ”

Visit www.owasp.org for this report and for other reports on frameworks that you might be using.
— Jeff Feinman

Google goes with the white gloves
Google's I/O developer conference, held last month, was the first such conference I've been to in years that treated developers like gold. Sun used to handle its Java folks with these spotless white gloves back during the dot-com era, and Microsoft used to do the same only a few years ago. But tight budgets at both companies have forced the frills to be funneled down into cheaper, less elaborate doses.

But Google doesn't seem to mind spending money to woo developers. Indeed, it seems willing to spend as much as it feels is necessary to keep its coders happy. It's a good tactic to be sure, but one that inevitably will end in tears when Google decides to trim budgets three or four years down the line.

For now, however, they seem to have a lock on the hip, cool new developer conference award.
— Alex Handy

Mo prices, mo problem
There oughta be a law that requires purveyors of technology—in this specific case, the phone/television/Internet providers and cellular service providers—to list the true costs of what they’re providing.

I recently was moved to switch from the local cable television company to the phone/television/Internet service provider with the promise of one low monthly fee for all the services. One of the features that appealed to me was the ability to record a show in one room of the house and view it in any other room where you have a TV with a set-top box. It’s not until you actually try to do this that you find out that ALL the set-top boxes have to be top-of-the-line offerings. This would raise the cost of my service by about US$65 per month.

And then I had to get the unlimited text messaging package at about another $45 per month after learning the hard way that it was more cost-effective than paying for individual text messages when my wife and children send literally thousands of texts per month. Also recently, my 15-year-old daughter wouldn’t stop “hocking mir a chinik” (a lovely Yiddish expression meaning she was giving me headache by asking so many times already) about getting a BlackBerry. It seems they’re all the rage in high school now. And, it was on sale for a mere $79.99.

I learned that the price required a mail-in-rebate form (not a big deal), and also required the activation of data services at the cost of about $30 per month. I also had to purchase the accompanying package that included a Bluetooth headset, an upgraded memory card for photos and video, and multi-colored covers, so the look of the phone could change to reflect my daughter’s ever-changing mood (happy when we’re getting her something; not so much when we’re not). That was a one-time charge of around $75.

All this, and my money’s on her losing the damn thing, or dropping it into a puddle and ruining the SIM card, by the end of the week. Can’t someone out there cut me a break???
— David Rubinstein


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