XKMS
Phil Wainewright:
XKMS is key
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You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If…
Vernon Schryver: You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If…
ISIPP & False Positives & Vendor Liability in US spam law (proposal)
ISIPP’s Anne Mitchell mostly discusses the pain of false positives, and suggests vendor legal liability as one solution.
[via taint.org]
Is that a firewall on your perimeter or just some Swiss cheese?
David Berlind (ZDNET):
Is that a firewall on your perimeter or just some Swiss cheese?
Case Western Opens Its WiFi Network to Cleveland
Wi-Fi Networking News:
Case Western Opens Its Network to Cleveland:
It’s an ambitious project that allows the public to take advantage of an expensive, but bursty and abundant service. The university has over 1,200 access points, and unless it’s a unique case, there must be businesses, apartments, and houses sprawled all around and on top of it that can take advantage, as well as visitors to the campus. The project is labeled OneCleveland.
W3C Opens Public Discussion Forum on US Patent 5,838,906 and Eolas v. Microsoft.
Cover Pages: W3C Opens Public Discussion Forum on US Patent 5,838,906 and Eolas v. Microsoft:
- Eolas claims: ‘The patent covers Web browsers that support such currently popular technologies as ActiveX components, Java applets, and Navigator plug-ins. Eolas’ advanced browser technology makes possible rich interactive online experiences for over 500 million Web users, worldwide.’
- The article’s analysis: “People already of the opinion that US laws on software patents are hopelessly broken, that philosophical justification is fatally flawed, and that the patent review process is badly administered (patent application reviewers having no concept of what a “non-obvious” software solution might be) — will have no difficulty classifying this case as yet another in a long history of embarrassing episodes, giving the Europeans just cause for derisive laughter. People already of the opinion that software patents constitute a healthy mechanism for supporting innovation will applaud the entrepreneurial spirit of the University of California in (apparently) landing this big fish at the expense of a(nother) convicted monopolist. Open source software vendors are understandably worried about rulings such as this, as they have no adequate weapons with which to defend themselves against attack.”
Mike May regains his sight after 43 years of blindness
The Guardian: Mike May regains his sight after 43 years of blindness: “his remarkable account of seeing for the first time since he was three”
… I can’t fathom how sighted people go around seeing each other’s eyes without being flustered too.
RSA develops selective RFID blocker
RFID readers can’t talk to more than one tag at a time, so when multiple tags reply to a query, the readers detect a collision and revert to what’s known as a singulation protocol to communicate with each tag individually. To accomplish this, the reader queries each tag for its next bit, which identifies which portion of a binary tree the tag resides on. When queried, a blocker tag responds with a ‘0’ and a ‘1’ bit. This causes the reader to start over and explore the entire tree.
Such a tag could be programmed to block only a certain range of RFID serial numbers. This would still allow for benign uses of RFID tags while enabling users or corporations to control which tags are readable.
