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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.

[freshmeat.net]

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.

[Association of Americal Medical Colleges (AAMC)]

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]

CIA says it cant keep up with hackers. CNET Jun 21 2001 3:58PM ET [via Computer security news]

Sun and Veritas:
Samba Officially Supported on Solaris


[via Linux Today]

Clay Shirky: From June 1999; Why Smart Agents Are A Dumb Idea [Tomalak’s Realm]