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[osdn starter] April 17, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Hackers in the Henhouse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/0315208
strucker writes "A good story on [0]SecurityFocus from the [1]RSA
Conference. Kevin Mitnick [2]debated his former prosecutor, DOJ
attorney Christopher Painter, on the whether ex-hackers could be
trusted as computer security professionals. Mitnick says hackers bring
special skills to the job, while Painter says a criminal is a
criminal."
Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://www.rsaconference.com/
2.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3982Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/037209
[0]ctar writes "You couldn't ask for a more appropriate or
schizophrenic slashdot story...The NYTimes online was the only one
carrying [1]the story according to [2]Google News, so this is all you
get."
Links
0. mailto:ctar.zoo@uvm@edu
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/arts/design/17SCIF.html?ex=1051156800&en=0fe59d4a591d6478&ei=5062
2.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=paul+allen+sci+fi&sa=N&tab=wnCisco Support for Lawful Intercept In IP Networks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/0024235
cf_33073 writes "Scary stuff for the privacy advocates out there. Your Internet telephone conversations may soon be tapped by the government. Anyone else concerned about these intercepts being hacked? Full text of the [0]RFC Is available ([1]mirror)" Links
0. http://www.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-baker-slem-architecture-00.txt
Slashback: Discipline, License, Name-calling http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/211228
Slashback tonight brings you a boatload of updates and amplification to previous Slashdot stories, including: the outcome of the RIAA-driven administrative crackdown on file trading at the U.S. Naval Academy, the legal status of ambiguously labeled Microsoft "gimme" software, more information on the insecurities of Blackboard's card-based payment system, and more. Read on for the details!
3G phones: Send Anywhere, But Not Anything http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/236218
glengyron writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting the success of an Australian company in developing Digital Rights Management for the next generation of mobile phones. Imagine if you could only forward email once, or not at all: these are the kind of restrictions being built into the next generaion of mobile phones. [0]Read the article here. [1]ODRL? Orwellian Digital Rights Language." Links
0. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/14/1050172523035.html
Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/229244
An anonymous coward writes: "It seems the folks over at Novell have the answer to making the "immature" Linux OS more "robust, reliable and scaleable" according to this [0]Computer Weekly article. We have a lot more problems to use and keep running our NetWare 5 and 6 servers at our University than we've ever had with any of our Linux servers. I can't wait for Novell to help us out here." Links
0. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121012
Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/207215
[0]Toasty16 writes "David Kushner over at [1]Wired has a [2]write-up on
the progress of Doom III, hinting at a possible fall release, that is
unless Microsoft convinces id to sit on the game until an Xbox version
is completed. He also talks to Carmack about the evolution of game
engines and the possibility of a "next-generation rendering engine
[that] will be a stable, mature technology that lasts in more or less
its basic form for a long time." Will this lead to a shift from coders
to "technical directors," as Carmack believes? This ties into the
Slashdot story awhile back about [3]new titles for sysadmins."
Links
0. mailto:toastman_16@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/doom.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/2237213&tid=126
SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/204224
[0]GreyPoopon writes "[1]Computerworld has [2]an article referring to
SCO's [3]announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base
installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote:
"With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2
market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries
right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy.
[4]Newsfactor has a [5]better article."
Links
0. mailto:greypoopon1968@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,80387,00.html
3.
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=106545
4.
http://www.newsfactor.com/
5.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21283.htmlFormer DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1844222
[0]tsu doh nimh writes "A former executive for banner ad giant
DoubleClick has been selected to be the first ever privacy czar for the
Department of Homeland Security, says this [1]Washingtonpost.com
story." Just leaves you speechless ....
Links
0. mailto:leastdeadlygameNO@SPAMhotmail.com
Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1755248
Kaz Riprock writes "Mark Baard, author of [0]this Wired article was a recent attendee at [1]The Future of Human Nature symposium (that I helped organize). The talks were held at Boston University through the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. A high profile assemblage of well-known thinkers, such as Steven Pinker, Lee Silver, and Marvin Minsky, were invited to speak at the 3 day conference to examine what 'Human Nature' would be like in 50-200 years. While the article describes a good amount of the '[2]doom and gloom' which was presented and discussed, it does not quite capture the upside to our potential future aims. One example from the conference was the talk by Christine Peterson, head of [3]The Foresight Institute, on the future use of nanotechnology to better the human condition." Links
0.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58467,00.html
1.
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/events/conferences/S03%20abstract.html
2.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/186203&tid=134
3.
http://www.foresight.org/
Linux.com
Sun Microsystems Posts Small 3Q Profit
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2143218
Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a small profit for its fiscal third quarter Wednesday despite a 10 percent drop in sales and the persistent downturn in spending by its corporate customers.
Necessary Censorship: Web Filtering with Open Source http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2017245
In some cases and for some audiences, relying on the human safeguard isn't facing reality. Here are some tools you can use in those cases.
Users back Netware's Linux option
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1853205
Novell customers and partners have welcomed the company's plan to offer its Netware operating system with either a Netware or Linux kernel from next autumn.
Why Linux is Not for You: The Lengthy Rebuttal of a Linux user http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1850237
Anonymous Reader writes ""Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not." Read the editorial at ...
ION Computer Systems® offers online Intel® Itanium® 2 Benchmarking! http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1840215
Paul Scheremeta writes "Hauppauge, New York - ION Computer Systems, Inc. today announced that it has made available one of their new I2X4 servers for online benchmarking of the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Potential customers who would like to upload, compile and benchmark their application on the I2X4 4-processor Intel® Itanium® 2 server may simply request access with a description of their tests.
Metaclass programming in Python
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1818239
Anonymous Reader writes "Most readers are already familiar with the concepts of object-oriented programming: inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism. But the creation of objects of a given class, with certain parents, is usually thought of as a "just so" operation. It turns out that a number of new programming constructs become either easier, or possible at all, when you can customize the process of object creation. Metaclasses enable certain ...
Will patents pillage open source?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1512204
Is open-source software just one patent away from annihilation? Many people think so and point to the ominous convergence of two trends: the widening availability of software patents and the willingness of intellectual-property owners to challenge distributors of open-source software. If someone can obtain a patent to key features of the Linux kernel, couldn't that person bring the entire open-source community to its knees by threatening ...
Novell jumps on the Forge bandwagon
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1431222
- Lee Schlesinger - Network software vendor Novell, in a bid to gain market and mind share, has started up a Novell Forge Web site for developers. The initiative was announced this week at BrainShare 2003, the company's annual technical conference.
Softmaker annouces TextMaker for Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/159226
Is there a Linux desktop in your future? Linux advocates push for widespread deployment of Linux on desktop computers, but sometimes forget the realities of life: Like it or not, electronic document exchange today is based on Microsoft Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls) files.
Think Global, Buy Local Dept.
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/154236
Think Global, Buy Local Dept.: There's little doubt that much high-tech activity is moving west--way west, to China and India. China is expected to be on a par with the rest of the high-tech world in process technology, because it can now buy the same American and Japanese semiconductor-manufacturing gear as anyone else. I laugh to myself when I recall the fuss made just a few years ago about certain CPUs and chips going to China and Russia, ...
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