I've contacted the conference organizers, who have pointed out the following issues:
No such person was invited by them to the conference, in fact, no KDE people from overseas were invited at all.
If this had happened to someone who was registered for the conference, there would have been a left-over name tag, which there wasn't.
It is extremely unlikely that he would have been handed over to German officals bloodied and beaten to the point where they sent him to hospital with no reaction from the German government.
Not quite. LSM is a generic security hook framework which SELinux has now been ported to. LSM arose after SELinux was presented at the 2001 Kernel Summit, where Linus basically said that these types of security mechanisms should be pluggable. LSM itself is actually based on the Immunix security scaffolding.
Too bad it doesn't run on linux. Oh well, openbsd is really easy to install/experiment with. Please don't take this as a linux-flame, I honestly think you would profit from taking a look at something that runs IPF/IPNAT.
IPfilter was ported to Linux some time ago, but it is not maintained.
With the new Netfilter framework, it should be much simpler to port IPF to Linux and easier to maintain. This would certainly be a good thing.
While it is obviously flawed to try and work out who was the most significant out of Einstein, Ghandi, JFK and any number of great people, there is one person who bears special consideration. I think, in the very long march of history, perhaps many thousands of years from now, people will remember this as the Turing century. Quantum physics and relativity will be historic relics, while politicians and spiritual leaders will have assumed mythical status. One concrete, profound change will remain wedded inseperably to the future of humanity: the conception of the general purpose programmable computer, or Turing Machine. Why? Because it is the computer that is the first real extension of the human mind. In a similar way that an axe or hammer is an extension of an arm, the general purpose computer is the direct extension of what makes us inherently different to other known species: intelligence. I will not try and predict the future of computing or speculate any further on the future of humanity (many others have done this already in this context), but will ask you this: Would you even be reading this message if it wasn't for Turing?
Note -- please see this web site for more information on Turing's life and achievments.
Basic authentication involves sending the password to the server encoded with Base64. (See the HTTP specification for more details). What this means is that it is trivial to recover the password if intercepted. There is a potentially useful solution called digest authentication, although I'm not aware of any browsers in common use which support it.
In a standard server/browser situation, you will need to use SSL to provide any useful security.
"Science cannnot deal with God, the supernatural, or anything else non-observable."
Better tell that to the String Theory scientists, who are facing the enormous challenge of understanding the way the universe works at scales under 10^-30cm. This is unobservable, and one estimate I have read is that it will take 10-15 years to complete the mathematical work on current hypotheses (perhaps a bit less if they can make some large scale observations of cosmic background radiation from satellites).
Interestingly, I have heard one scientist describe solving String Theory as working towards providing us with a "God Equation":-)
He got very upset and angrily announced that a scientist's only responsibility is to science.
For those interested in the ethics of science, I would strongly recommend finding anything written or presented by the late Jacob Brownowski.
He was a leading military mathematician who visitied Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs to study aftermath. He returned as a profoundly changed man, and pioneered a new field of ethics in science. His television series _The Ascent of Man_ is an amazing account of our history encompassing science, art and the human condition; and builds strong case for ethics in the practice of science. If you get the chance, see it. It will probably change your life.
You can find out about the companion book at amazon.
He was a great man. It would have been interesting to see what Brownowski and Teller would have said to each other if they were in the same room.
It's all pretty sad really. The senator who was being bribed with the censorship legislation voted against the new tax system anyway.
In the end, the balance of power was with two independent senators, the abovementioned, and another who left a major party due to fraud charges (but who was deemed to ill to face these, but somehow competent to vote for the legislation).
The situation is pretty fucked up. I think part of the problem is that most of the population simply don't understand the issues that are at stake, and the government is playing on this naivety.
The legislation was tabled very quickly with only a month for public input into a senate enquiry. There were around 104 submissions from industry and community groups, all but one coming out against the legislation. The government even ignored it's own research from the CSRIO on the issue.
It was then raced into the senate with a few ammendments, and voted in with no understanding or regard for the impact on civil liberties, or the long term economic and social implications.
As an Australian, I find this embarassing and disgusting. Depressing even.
Worse however, will be explaining to my grandkids that I was part of the generation that failed to stop this.
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Not quite. LSM is a generic security hook framework which SELinux has now been ported to. LSM arose after SELinux was presented at the 2001 Kernel Summit, where Linus basically said that these types of security mechanisms should be pluggable. LSM itself is actually based on the Immunix security scaffolding.
IPfilter was ported to Linux some time ago, but it is not maintained.
With the new Netfilter framework, it should be much simpler to port IPF to Linux and easier to maintain. This would certainly be a good thing.
Agreed.
While it is obviously flawed to try and work out who was the most significant out of Einstein, Ghandi, JFK and any number of great people, there is one person who bears special consideration. I think, in the very long march of history, perhaps many thousands of years from now, people will remember this as the Turing century. Quantum physics and relativity will be historic relics, while politicians and spiritual leaders will have assumed mythical status. One concrete, profound change will remain wedded inseperably to the future of humanity: the conception of the general purpose programmable computer, or Turing Machine. Why? Because it is the computer that is the first real extension of the human mind. In a similar way that an axe or hammer is an extension of an arm, the general purpose computer is the direct extension of what makes us inherently different to other known species: intelligence. I will not try and predict the future of computing or speculate any further on the future of humanity (many others have done this already in this context), but will ask you this: Would you even be reading this message if it wasn't for Turing?
Note -- please see this web site for more information on Turing's life and achievments.
I wonder if McNealy still thinks Linux is a "great way to get the wrong answer".
(See the HTTP specification for more details).
What this means is that it is trivial to recover the password if intercepted.
There is a potentially useful solution called digest authentication, although I'm not aware of any browsers in common use which support it.
In a standard server/browser situation, you will need to use SSL to provide any useful security.
Better tell that to the String Theory scientists, who are facing the enormous challenge of understanding the way the universe works at scales under 10^-30cm. This is unobservable, and one estimate I have read is that it will take 10-15 years to complete the mathematical work on current hypotheses (perhaps a bit less if they can make some large scale observations of cosmic background radiation from satellites).
Interestingly, I have heard one scientist describe solving String Theory as working towards providing us with a "God Equation"
For those interested in the ethics of science, I would strongly recommend finding anything written or presented by the late Jacob Brownowski.
He was a leading military mathematician who visitied Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs to study aftermath. He returned as a profoundly changed man, and pioneered a new field of ethics in science. His television series _The Ascent of Man_ is an amazing account of our history encompassing science, art and the human condition; and builds strong case for ethics in the practice of science. If you get the chance, see it. It will probably change your life.
You can find out about the companion book at amazon.
He was a great man. It would have been interesting to see what Brownowski and Teller would have said to each other if they were in the same room.
- James.
It's all pretty sad really. The senator who was being bribed with the censorship legislation voted against the new tax system anyway.
In the end, the balance of power was with two independent senators, the abovementioned, and another who left a major party due to fraud charges (but who was deemed to ill to face these, but somehow competent to vote for the legislation).
The situation is pretty fucked up. I think part of the problem is that most of the population simply don't understand the issues that are at stake, and the government is playing on this naivety.
The legislation was tabled very quickly with only a month for public input into a senate enquiry. There were around 104 submissions from industry and community groups, all but one coming out against the legislation. The government even ignored it's own research from the CSRIO on the issue.
It was then raced into the senate with a few ammendments, and voted in with no understanding or regard for the impact on civil liberties, or the long term economic and social implications.
As an Australian, I find this embarassing and disgusting. Depressing even.
Worse however, will be explaining to my grandkids that I was part of the generation that failed to stop this.
This is a very dark day in Australian history.
- James.