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IBM Clinches Security Certification for Linux
Nimey writes "IBM has gotten Linux certified under the Common Criteria specification. " What this means is that government can consider Linux when making purchasing decisions. Linux got the highest rating possible.
furzt poast!!
FIRST POST! again! :)
Adequacy.com, here I come.
P.S. I won't miss you.
Locked and loaded !!
can they do anything about the choices of toilet paper available at most federal offices? My rhoids can't take much more of this rough Homeland Security teepee...
There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
For the record, Rob Malda has a firm hold on my penis and is showing no signs of letting go.
I kinda like it too
From USAToday:
EFF urges RIAA to change legal tune
By Jefferson Graham USA TODAY
The Recording Industry Association of America just hired a new CEO, at a salary of $1 million a year.
Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, its legal nemesis, exists on a total annual budget of $2 million, doled out in small checks to fight government and industry opponents in battles over online song swapping, privacy, computer hacking and other Internet related issues.
"We are defending the constitution," says John Perry Barlow, 55, a former Grateful Dead lyricist, cattle rancher and writer, who co-founded the EFF in 1990. "The desire to share information is second only to sex and basic survival in terms of human motivation. The record labels and movie studios are convinced they have the means to control this, and we can't allow that to happen."
EFF, located on a rundown street in San Francisco's Mission district, is the leading advocate for consumer rights in the RIAA's plans to sue hundreds of song swappers. The non-profit EFF, which has 23 staffers, recently put up a database on its eff.org Web site to let worried users of pirate file-sharing services check to see if their screen names are listed on the over 1,000 subpoenas that have been filed by the RIAA for possible lawsuits. EFF has also launched a "Let the Music Play" ad campaign promoting alternatives to litigation.
Even while sounding the alarm, executive director Shari Steele admits the RIAA's stance towards music fans is the best thing that ever happened to the EFF.
"In the past, we were getting five to 10 new members per day," she says. "Now we're up to 60 to 70. Our site almost went down the other day due to its popularity. This is the busiest we've ever been, by far."
Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel for Internet provider Verizon, assumed at first that the EFF was some scrappy, "radical," San Francisco fringe group. But as she got to know them, she saw that "they know the law inside and out. They make very compelling arguments."
EFF filed a brief in support of Verizon in its battle with the RIAA over the Internet provider's refusal to reveal names of subscribers accused of swapping music, a case Verizon lost but is appealing.
Unlike Verizon, which makes its money from subscriber fees, or the RIAA, whose dues are paid by the five major record labels, EFF's annual budget comes mostly from computer users, in membership fees averaging $65. Corporate money is rare. None of EFF's well-financed neighbors -- Apple, Intel, Palm, Google, Hewlett-Packard -- has pitched in a cent. Neither have friends such as Verizon.
"Corporations don't like us, because we can't guarantee that we'll be on their side," says Steele. "We take positions early, and that makes people uncomfortable."
The "Let the Music Play" ad campaign, kicked off this month in Rolling Stone, "was a huge gamble," says legal director Cindy Cohn. "For the money we spent in Rolling Stone alone, that was the yearly salary of two employees." Ads also are planned in Spin and other music magazines.
EFF chose to do it because "we can either save this thing or it will drown," says Cohn. "Congress needs to hear from the people, not the corporations and their big campaign contributions. Look at what happened with the FCC," she says. New regulations easing radio and TV station ownership touched off a public backlash so intense the House voted 400 to 21 to overturn the rules, despite the threat of a presidential veto.
"It proved that when people make their voice heard, lawmakers listen," Cohn says.
The RIAA declined comment for this story, but James DeLong, a senior fellow with D.C. advocacy group the Freedom and Progress Foundation, says, "The EFF's basic stance on most issues is plain wrong."
Unlike the EFF, the FPF, which supports the RIAA and the new FCC rules, lists corporate sponsors such as Microsoft, AOL Time Warner
For heaven's sake, whatever you do just don't let him TacoSnot you!!!!
I just got the following email in one of my accounts:
" I am Najwa Karam, I am the son of a victim of oppression in iraq. my father
was a successful business man in bagdad-iraq, and not too long the iraqi
presidential guards came into our house at about one a.m. midnight, picked
up my father away, only to find him few days later, dead in front of the
house. At present we are not also safe because they believe my father has
been financing the opposition group in surport of the Americans, One thing
we ask from you,on behalf of my mother and sisters, is to please indicate
your interest in helping us secure a safe place for the bulk USD23M of our
fathers funds in the bank at union bank of switzerland." My family are ready
to move this funds from switzerland to any bank account you provide for us
and we are ready to negotiate with you your desire percentage.Please, you
must understand that the union bank of switzerland is fully ready to
transfer this funds immediately you provide your bank informations and bear
it in mind that this money has been programmed into the paying system of the
bank. therefore we advise you provide us your telephone number where we can
reach immediately you indicate your interest to assist us. Thank you as you
assist my Family.
Najwa Karam EMAIL: nakaram111@ummah.org "
So, nerds of the world - UNITE and send this poor fellow some cash.
Wow, nothing gets pass you. "Implied" means not said outright :P