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  1. United Nations Resolution on Cyber Terrorism by PGillingwater · · Score: 1 · on Pakistan-India Cyberwar
    For those who are interested, last year's General Assembly had a Resolution (PDF file) on developing an internationally coordinated approach to combatting the threat of cyber-terrorism, such as the recent hostilities between Indian and Pakistan, and the Serbia versus NATO incidents. The UN General Assembly is meeting again this week, and this issue is on the Agenda, with support from Russia.

    What do ./ers think? Would you like to see international policy development undertaken by the United Nations towards developing international principles that would enhance the security of global information and telecommunications systems and help to combat information terrorism and criminality? Or is this something that the Internet Society should be doing? I note that Vint Cerf is promoting the idea of a Law of Cyberspace, similar to the existing United Nations Law of the Sea.

    My feeling is that like it or not, future skirmishes will be fought on a digital battleground, and governments will need to cooperate to fight cyber-terrorism.

    -- Paul Gillingwater

  2. What "athlon" means in Greek. by Astarte · · Score: 1 · on K7 Renamed "Athlon"

    Not to be out-dorked:

    tòn `áthlon

    [(smooth-breathing) alpha-theta-lambda-omicron-nu, acute accent on alpha]:

    "The prize of a contest"

    Found this at the Perseus Project at Tufts University.

    Whee.

    coyote-at-ihateclowns-dot-com

  3. The Encheferizer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Linus To Recieve Honorary Doctorate

    Maybe they should add the encheferizer to babelfish. Unfortunately, it only goes english -> swedish, though.

    Another multi-lingual translation service along the same lines:

    Chef/Jive/ValSpeak/Pig Translator

    bork bork bork