Thawte and CAcert have a Web Of Trust (WOT) to deal with the trust issue. I'm a notary myself for both Thawte and CAcert and an ID of a person is not trsuted until mutiple! notaries have physically verified a person with photo ID.
I take my notary job very seriously, and I think all notaries do.
If you get some software of the net, and it's crippled like hell, so you go for the easy way: crack the damn licensing scheme; and you ultimately decide to buy it.
Are you still in error using the cracked copy after you bought the software?
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is committed to constantly reviewing screening procedures to ensure our measures are targeted to counter potential threats, and recently changed passenger screening procedures to strengthen our ability to detect explosives at the security checkpoints. One significant enhancement, which has generated discussion and concerns among some passengers, involves more frequent use of pat-down searches, which are to be done in a professional, respectful manner. We take each situation seriously and procedures are in place to address all concerns.
Dell already went into the gaming laptop business with their Inspiron XPS system. It's a bit pricy, so I bought myself a Inspiron 9100 (much the same realy, except for the P4EE). There's an excellent review here.
Be sure that this will be the next big war. But it will most certainly not be fought in the open field. My guess is that this will mostly influence companies as they move more and more to single sign-on solutions.
June 30, 2004 Single Sign-On Gains Liberty Support By Clint Boulton
Although a lack of interoperability has threatened to hold Web services adoption back, Liberty Alliance, a group dedicated to forging an open identity standard, cracked that barrier by certifying nine single sign-in products this week.
The group awarded Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netegrity, Novell, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun, and Trustgenix its "Liberty Alliance Interoperable" mark in a conformance test.
The certification, which covers Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) version 1.1 and 1.2 for single sign-on services, involves a rigorous testing process that gauges identity federation, authentication, session management and privacy protection. Vendors must demonstrate interoperability with two other randomly selected participants.
Secure single sign-on services are a key ingredient for Web services, a high-flying concept for distributed computing that allows applications to talk to one another to perform tasks. But customers are afraid to "sign-on" without a secure brand, because crackers can swipe their personal information if the site is not safeguarded properly.
According to a Liberty statement, the products are interoperable out-of-the-box, which pares deployment schedules and saves costs. This is key, as customers are loathe to license technology if it isn't supported by a validated standard, according to Gartner analyst Ray Wagner.
Customers who are thinking about federation projects need some reassurance that there won't be a huge amount of manual integration necessary between partners with different infrastructures," Wagner told internetnews.com. "Requiring compliance with Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, and WS-I Basic Security Profile, or a subset of the above, will provide some assurance that systems have the capability to work together."
Wagner said he believes most vendors who make identity management products will provide compatibility with specs or standards in the short term, noting that Federation protocols in particular (SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation) will likely converge in the medium term.
With Liberty's certification, companies can say that their products are compliant with the Liberty identity standard, making their identity management software more appealing to customers looking to shore up their Web services platforms with authentication via single sign-on services.
Forrester analyst Randy Heffner said using Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) requires Liberty's ID-FF and offers an interoperable path to Web services as long as users start with Liberty's ID-FF.
"There is a test suite to ensure broad testing coverage of the technical interfaces," Heffner told internetnews.com. "But successful operation of the tests is sort of on the honor system -- except that a vendor who wants the Liberty logo must participate in an interoperability event and successfully connect with a couple of other randomly chosen products."
"This is better than a simple, pre-planned interoperability event, which only proves that there is 'at least one' configuration by which products can work together -- but not that this is the configuration that any given user might need," Heffner concluded.
Web services have been slow to take off over the last few years, due to obstacles such as interoperability, security and manageability. But this is changing, owing in part to the steady work companies have been putting into the matter and the increasing acceptance of the more broad service-oriented architecture approach to software services.
The following products are now Liberty compliant: the Ericsson User S
Today EAN International has 101 Member Organisations representing 103 countries. These organisations provide full support and information to their local member companies. Nearly one million member companies benefit from using the EAN.UCC system.
The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
I had the same problems until I installed an IPCop Firewall box. In my opinion it's always better to have a dedicated firewall machine. You never know what is open (by mistake) on your workstation and/or servers.
Also the judge ruled that Lindows must ensure that internet users from the Benelux [BElgium NEtherlands LUXembourg] can no longer access the site www.lindows.com.
Not that I'm that patriotic or anything, but how on earth can a Dutch judge restrict my ability (I'm Belgian citizen) to visit a particular website (even if it is www.lindows.com) by obliging the owner to deny me access?
There are no court agreements between the Benelux countries in my opinion, at least a Belgian judge should rule in the same way as the Dutch one to make this ligitimate. This would be different if this ruling was made in the EU (European Union) court in Strassbourg, whose rulings supersede Belgian ones.
Eric Raymond, compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary, lists five possible characteristics that qualify one as a hacker, which we paraphrase here:
A person who enjoys learning details of a programming language or system
A person who enjoys actually doing the programming rather than just theorizing about it
A person capable of appreciating someone else's hacking
A person who picks up programming quickly
A person who is an expert at a particular programming language or system, as in "Unix hacker"
In the article we learn that this boy (13 years old, so see in correct perspective) enjoyed learning and experimenting with the computer system at school, which makes correct use of the word "hacking".
However I totally disagree with the punishment he received from his school principal. People should be motivated to experiment. They should be allowed to make this small mistakes too. As I understood it didn't repeat so the annoyment wasn't to big.
The world is our village. People all over the world communicate with each other. How to better share views, information and the occasional picture with your (potential) friends than with a personal website. Personal websites show initiative and fill the need/right of every person to express himself/herself. Sure there are other means of doing that! And most people do! Not only nerds have personal websites. It is an online extention of your opinions, your way of living. When I meet someone in the real world, I tend to look for a personal website when I come home at night.
On the issue that most personal websites suck (technically speaking), I can only say that I prefer old-fashioned HTML4/XHTML standard based website, above any corporate full-of-fancy-animations expensive marketing tool. Websites should be build to last. This is not accomplished using ever changing proprietary plug-ins, etc... You can make a *very* nice webpages without all this. (I'm one of those people who refuses to install the plug-ins I'm talking about.)
Don't forget the Internet [was/is] all about sharing information!
Mouse Systems was one of the original makers of optical mice, since back in the early 1980s, and made a nice simple & solid three-button optical mouse. Unfortunately they got bought out recently and the new owners, KYE International, are making the same two-button/scroll mice as everyone else.
Here's a picture of the actual three-button optical mouse.
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Thawte and CAcert have a Web Of Trust (WOT) to deal with the trust issue. I'm a notary myself for both Thawte and CAcert and an ID of a person is not trsuted until mutiple! notaries have physically verified a person with photo ID. I take my notary job very seriously, and I think all notaries do.
If you get some software of the net, and it's crippled like hell, so you go for the easy way: crack the damn licensing scheme; and you ultimately decide to buy it.
Are you still in error using the cracked copy after you bought the software?
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is committed to constantly reviewing screening procedures to ensure our measures are targeted to counter potential threats, and recently changed passenger screening procedures to strengthen our ability to detect explosives at the security checkpoints. One significant enhancement, which has generated discussion and concerns among some passengers, involves more frequent use of pat-down searches, which are to be done in a professional, respectful manner. We take each situation seriously and procedures are in place to address all concerns.
Next thing you know there won't be any reason anymore to stay with XP :)
What else to waste your way-to-expensive processor and buckloads of RAM onto? Geeks will always upgrade (M$ geeks anyway. Yes they exist, I heard.)
Do you have really that much time to bother about something which costs less then 50 cents?
Dell already went into the gaming laptop business with their Inspiron XPS system. It's a bit pricy, so I bought myself a Inspiron 9100 (much the same realy, except for the P4EE). There's an excellent review here.
No time to watch TV. Must configure Linux box! Must configure Linux box!! Must configure Linux box!!!
Bwah, breathing is heavily overrated anyway...
Be sure that this will be the next big war. But it will most certainly not be fought in the open field. My guess is that this will mostly influence companies as they move more and more to single sign-on solutions.
Article from Internet News
June 30, 2004
Single Sign-On Gains Liberty Support
By Clint Boulton
Although a lack of interoperability has threatened to hold Web services adoption back, Liberty Alliance, a group dedicated to forging an open identity standard, cracked that barrier by certifying nine single sign-in products this week.
The group awarded Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netegrity, Novell, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun, and Trustgenix its "Liberty Alliance Interoperable" mark in a conformance test.
The certification, which covers Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) version 1.1 and 1.2 for single sign-on services, involves a rigorous testing process that gauges identity federation, authentication, session management and privacy protection. Vendors must demonstrate interoperability with two other randomly selected participants.
Secure single sign-on services are a key ingredient for Web services, a high-flying concept for distributed computing that allows applications to talk to one another to perform tasks. But customers are afraid to "sign-on" without a secure brand, because crackers can swipe their personal information if the site is not safeguarded properly.
According to a Liberty statement, the products are interoperable out-of-the-box, which pares deployment schedules and saves costs. This is key, as customers are loathe to license technology if it isn't supported by a validated standard, according to Gartner analyst Ray Wagner.
Customers who are thinking about federation projects need some reassurance that there won't be a huge amount of manual integration necessary between partners with different infrastructures," Wagner told internetnews.com. "Requiring compliance with Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, and WS-I Basic Security Profile, or a subset of the above, will provide some assurance that systems have the capability to work together."
Wagner said he believes most vendors who make identity management products will provide compatibility with specs or standards in the short term, noting that Federation protocols in particular (SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation) will likely converge in the medium term.
With Liberty's certification, companies can say that their products are compliant with the Liberty identity standard, making their identity management software more appealing to customers looking to shore up their Web services platforms with authentication via single sign-on services.
Forrester analyst Randy Heffner said using Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) requires Liberty's ID-FF and offers an interoperable path to Web services as long as users start with Liberty's ID-FF.
"There is a test suite to ensure broad testing coverage of the technical interfaces," Heffner told internetnews.com. "But successful operation of the tests is sort of on the honor system -- except that a vendor who wants the Liberty logo must participate in an interoperability event and successfully connect with a couple of other randomly chosen products."
"This is better than a simple, pre-planned interoperability event, which only proves that there is 'at least one' configuration by which products can work together -- but not that this is the configuration that any given user might need," Heffner concluded.
Web services have been slow to take off over the last few years, due to obstacles such as interoperability, security and manageability. But this is changing, owing in part to the steady work companies have been putting into the matter and the increasing acceptance of the more broad service-oriented architecture approach to software services.
The following products are now Liberty compliant: the Ericsson User S
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Yep, yet another useless post
The Sunbird Project is a redesign of the Mozilla Calendar component. The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language. At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
I had the same problems until I installed an IPCop Firewall box. In my opinion it's always better to have a dedicated firewall machine. You never know what is open (by mistake) on your workstation and/or servers.
my e$0.02
Not that I'm that patriotic or anything, but how on earth can a Dutch judge restrict my ability (I'm Belgian citizen) to visit a particular website (even if it is www.lindows.com) by obliging the owner to deny me access?
There are no court agreements between the Benelux countries in my opinion, at least a Belgian judge should rule in the same way as the Dutch one to make this ligitimate. This would be different if this ruling was made in the EU (European Union) court in Strassbourg, whose rulings supersede Belgian ones.
1 EUR = $1.2
Actually it would be better not to account the exchange rate. Use 1/1 for comparison.
These prices don't include a plan. Most quality phones simply don't come with a plan in Belgium. They are more focused on the cheaper phones.
BTW: Why doesn't /. accept € ?
Eric Raymond, compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary, lists five possible characteristics that qualify one as a hacker, which we paraphrase here:
In the article we learn that this boy (13 years old, so see in correct perspective) enjoyed learning and experimenting with the computer system at school, which makes correct use of the word "hacking".
However I totally disagree with the punishment he received from his school principal. People should be motivated to experiment. They should be allowed to make this small mistakes too. As I understood it didn't repeat so the annoyment wasn't to big.
First I though they *jumped* out...
...but it seems I have a (bad) cat!
The world is our village. People all over the world communicate with each other. How to better share views, information and the occasional picture with your (potential) friends than with a personal website. Personal websites show initiative and fill the need/right of every person to express himself/herself. Sure there are other means of doing that! And most people do! Not only nerds have personal websites. It is an online extention of your opinions, your way of living. When I meet someone in the real world, I tend to look for a personal website when I come home at night.
On the issue that most personal websites suck (technically speaking), I can only say that I prefer old-fashioned HTML4/XHTML standard based website, above any corporate full-of-fancy-animations expensive marketing tool. Websites should be build to last. This is not accomplished using ever changing proprietary plug-ins, etc... You can make a *very* nice webpages without all this. (I'm one of those people who refuses to install the plug-ins I'm talking about.)
Don't forget the Internet [was/is] all about sharing information!
There are elections in Belgium in 2 months. Make an issue of it.
Actually, this is incorrect. Elections are 18 May 2003 (more like three weeks from now) for Belgium Federal Parliament & Senate.
From the site:
The new engine is called the Source Engine.
- Buy before May 1st (law is know since Jan 1st) : Who doesn't have a few hundred CD-R's at home?
- From anywhere in Belgium drive 100 miles and you find yourself in another country. : 5 miles in my case (France)
- Start using DVD-R's : 650MB is too small anyway to backup all my data
I'm not saying anyone should copy music. Buy the CD if you like it!Mouse Systems was one of the original makers of optical mice, since back in the early 1980s, and made a nice simple & solid three-button optical mouse. Unfortunately they got bought out recently and the new owners, KYE International, are making the same two-button/scroll mice as everyone else.
Here's a picture of the actual three-button optical mouse.
We had to close several offices. People just arrived to find the company moved away...