Archive for March, 2003

Horatio: Authenticated Network Access

Friday, March 28th, 2003

Horatio: Authenticated Network Access (U Texas CS Dept)

Super-DMCA Bills in several states threaten, among other things, firewall

Friday, March 28th, 2003

Ed Felten:
Intent Requirements in the State Super-DMCA Bills,
MPAA Lobbying for State Super-DMCA Bills,
Use a Firewall, Go to Jail.

Hutson receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Grant

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

UB Reporter: Hutson receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Grant “This NYSTAR Faculty Development grant was used to recruit a key investigator in biostastics/statistical genetics to support the infrastructure of the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.”

Why XML doesn’t suck

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

Tim Bray: Why XML Doesn’t Suck

the mismatch of JVM/virtual machines and dynamic languages

Wednesday, March 26th, 2003

Jon Udell with links to interesting comments re Jython, SmallScript, and Parrot.

First look at Red Hat Linux 9

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003

Red Hat Linux 9 - World’s First Look at Shrike - OSNews.com

Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts

Monday, March 24th, 2003

Techdirt: Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts (regarding Mailblocks, a largely challenge/response email MUA).

IBM Watson researchers on sender-pays solution to spam

Friday, March 21st, 2003

Information Week: Techdirt]
See also:
Scott Fahlman: Spam and Telemarketing
and his IBM paper (PDF)
Slashdot: IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution
United States Patent: 5,999,967

More CORBA vs SOAP

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

Via O’Reilly Network: More CORBA vs SOAP (Uche Ogbuji):

Hacker posts three early full disclosures

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

Hacker posts three draft CERT advisories to full-disclosure list