Nokia Unveils the Industrys First Multi-Gigabit Platform Delivering Breakthrough Check Point FireWall-1 Throug. HUGIN Online Jun 26 2001 4:49AM ET [Computer security news]
Steve Gillmor interviews Adam Bosworth on the future of XML. “If someone sends you a SOAP message and you want to know how to send them back a message, there’s no standard yet to say how to send them something back.” [Scripting News]
Sun’s Anne Thomas-Manes recommends that Java developers do use SOAP. There’s already a lot of interop. Get out from behind the wall of RMI and integrate with apps written in other languages and environments. And thanks for the pointer to our SOAP developers directory! Perfect example of romance. Links are the flowers of developer relations on the Web. Right on. [Scripting News]
ZDNet asks Do Java programmers really need SOAP? [Scripting News]
TeXtrace 0.45 (Default). Converts TeX fonts into .pfb files.
TeXtrace is a collection of scripts that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline font immediately suitable for use with dvips, pdftex, Acroread, and many other programs. The main advantage of using Type1 fonts with TeX is that Acroread renders TeX’s bitmap fonts ugly on screen, but it renders outline fonts beutifully and fast.
Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy: Practical Strategies for Addressing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The privacy and security regulations stemming from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) have captured the attention of the healthcare community. The cumulative cost of compliance with these regulations is variously estimated to cost from somewhere between the equivalent of Y2K preparation for the community to many times that amount. A recent study commissioned by the American Hospital Association placed costs at $22.5 billion over the next five years. To assist medical schools and teaching hospitals in addressing the new regulations, The National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded a series of workshops engaging the membership of several organizations: AAMC’s Group on Information Resources, Internet 2, Object Management Group, and Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange. The workshop participants analyzed current health information security and privacy polices, made recommendations, and developed this resource of best practices for healthcare security and privacy. The Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy: Practical Strategies for Addressing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) addresses the unique concerns of academic medical centers.
The traditional tripartite mission - patient care, education, and research - distinguishes academic medical centers (AMC) from their peer institutions, which focus primarily on patient care services. In the past two decades the ability of academic medical centers to balance and sustain these multiple missions has been severely tested by changes in health care financing and regulation. The implementation of the HIPAA regulations will create barriers unique to these environments. Because of their multiple missions and collegial concerns, AMCs have come together in an effort to create the guidelines - to ensure the privacy, security and confidentiality of patient information.
Dr Dobbs: Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML. “If you peek under the hood of high-profile open-source projects such as Mozilla, Apache, Perl, and Python, you’ll find a little program called “expat” handling the XML parsing. If you’ve ever used the man command on your GNU/Linux distribution, then you’ve also used groff, the GNU version of the UNIX text formatting application, troff. If you’ve ever done any work with SGML, from generating documentation from DocBook to building your own SGML applications, you’ve undoubtedly come across sgmls, SP, and Jade.” [ZopeNewbies]
XSLT Quickly. Bob DuCharme’s new book, XSLT Quickly, has been published by Manning. [xmlhack]
The Key to Encryption. E-commerce credit card theft does not often happen when most people think it does: during the transaction. More likely, the hacker simply breaks into the database of the e-commerce site, where the information is not encrypted. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
Startups aim to prevent DoS attacks. VNU Jun 22 2001 5:08AM ET [Computer security news]
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