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India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference
India's Upcoming Free Software, Free
Society Conference
06/05/2005 11:10 PMFree software advocates and IT delegates from around the world will be
in Kerala, India, this week in the hopes of building free software
collaborations for the future.
Permission-Free Prison
Permission-Free Prison
05/16/2004 07:55 AM Fascinating article by Seymour "Next Pulitzer a-Comin'" Hersh in this
week's New Yorker. It alleges that the abuses at Abu Ghraib happened
because a "special-access program" established by Rumsfeld to
authorize quick-response kill/capture/interrogate operations took hold
there. Hersh does not allege that Rumsfeld knew of or authorized the
particular abuses, only that his program of secret, rough
interrogation enabled them. But it's a far more nuanced article than
I'm letting on. And, of course, it's well-told....
Forum Stories: Free reporting tools for
SUS
Forum Stories: Free reporting tools for
SUS
07/20/2004 05:58 PMAn Armed Society is a Polite Society
An Armed Society is a Polite Society
09/13/2004 05:03 PM
U
S Ban on Assault Weapons Expires
Without much fanfare the ten year old ban on assault weapons has
expired. How does this affect our relative level of safety now that we
can all own high powered, high capacity weapons again?
James Patrick Kelly's wonderful sf
stories online as free audiobooks
James Patrick Kelly's wonderful sf
stories online as free audiobooks
04/28/2004 02:43 PMJames Patrick Kelly, my friend and mentor, is one of the finest short
story writers working in science fiction today. His stories are like
perfect little gems, and his advice on story-writing was the most
important artistic advice I've ever received.
Which is a preamble to some of the best news I've ever imparted: Jim
Kelly is releasing audiobooks of his stories on teh net under a
Creative Commons license. I know what I'm gonna be listening to before
bed and on the tube this month.
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Hansard Society - Hansard Society
organises public meeting on MPs and
Blogging
Hansard Society - Hansard Society
organises public meeting on MPs and
Blogging
01/27/2004 06:24 PMHansard Society Public Meeting about the Political Potential of MPs
and Weblogs .. politics, MPs and blogging .. blogging for politicians
.. speak
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If All Stories Were Written Like Science
Fiction Stories
If All Stories Were Written Like Science
Fiction Stories
09/26/2004 09:14 PM
If All
Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories. "Roger and
Ann needed to meet Sergey in San Francisco.
'Should we take a train, or a steamship, or a plane?' asked Ann.
'Trains are too slow, and the trip by steamship around South America
would take months,' replied Roger. 'We’ll take a plane.'"
"used without permission. please don't
sue us."
"used without permission. please don't
sue us."
02/10/2004 02:53 AMA Peanuts (re)
Mix.
Permission Marketing
Permission Marketing
05/24/2002 11:27 AMSiniS 0.1a (Permission GUI)
SiniS 0.1a (Permission GUI)
08/29/2004 03:47 AMA CVS user access and operations permission tool.
aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness
aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness
07/13/2004 06:40 PMMaarten Tielemans (Jul 13 2004)
SiniS alpha (Permission GUI)
SiniS alpha (Permission GUI)
06/21/2004 07:36 AMA CVS user access and operations permission tool.
Why new US passports can be read without
permission
Why new US passports can be read without
permission
04/14/2005 12:47 PMCory Doctorow:
Yesterday at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle,
Ed Felten cornered a State Department Fed who was there to advocate
for passports enabled with RFID chips that will make it possible to
track Americans as they wander the streets of foreign cities, and for
terrorists and crooks to target American citizens by detecting the
signature radio-pulses their passports give off. Ed asked the Fed why
the US needed remotely readable passports, instead of passports with
smart-cards or other "contact-read" technologies in them? The Fed's
responses are hilariously lame:
In the Q&A session, I asked Mr. Moss directly why the decision was
made to use a remotely readable chip rather than one that can only be
read by physical contact. Technically, this decision is nearly
indefensible, unless one wants to be able to read passports without
notifying their owners -- which, officially at least, is not a goal of
the U.S. government's program. Mr. Moss gave a pretty weak answer,
which amounted to an assertion that it would have been too difficult
to agree on a standard for contact-based reading of passports. This
wasn't very convincing, since the smart-card standard could be applied
to passports nearly as-is -- the only change necessary would be to
specify exactly where on the passport the smart-card contacts would
be. The standardization and security problems associated with
contactless cards seem to be much more serious.
After the panel, I discussed this issue with Kenn Cukier of The
Economist, who has followed the development of this technology for a
while and has a good perspective on how we reached the current state.
It seems that the decision to use contactless technology was made
without fully understanding its consequences, relying on technical
assurances from people who had products to sell. Now that the problems
with that decision have become obvious, it's late in the process and
would be expensive and embarrassing to back out. In short, this looks
like another flawed technology procurement program.
LinkWindows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes
Windows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes
05/25/2004 10:18 PMRe: aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness
Re: aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness
07/15/2004 03:10 PMArmin Wolfermann (Jul 14 2004)
Why Does TiVo Need Permission To
Innovate?
Why Does TiVo Need Permission To
Innovate?
08/02/2004 04:42 AMA couple weeks ago, we had the story of the MPAA and the NFL trying to
force
TiVo to stop its plans to add new features to their devices that
would let a user send a recorded program to another device. While we
discussed why this was a ridiculous move by both the MPAA and the NFL,
a reporter at the Washington Post is now going one step further and
pointing out that the real travesty is the fact that
TiVo suddenly needs to ask permission from the
government to innovate. The ability of companies to continually
innovate and reinvent markets based on free and open competition is
what helps drive this economy. When companies need to ask permission
to add innovative features, and that permission needs to go through
other companies, we're destroying our ability to innovate
competitively. Instead, companies outside of this country will build
new systems with features that consumers actually want, while systems
here are held back by regulations that serve no other purpose than to
protect an adjacent industry that refuses to change with the times.
It's the worst form of protectionism -- since no one will even admit
that it's protectionism. And, like all attempts at protectionism, the
end result will be much worse for those these rules supposedly
protect.
TiVo Gets Permission To Innovate
TiVo Gets Permission To Innovate
08/04/2004 01:33 PMWhile it's good news that
the FCC
has given TiVo permission to offer their TiVoToGo service it still
raises serious questions about why
any company should need to
ask
for permission to offer an innovative service? It sets a bad
precedent for the entire industry.
how to implement a permission system in
a CMS ?
how to implement a permission system in
a CMS ?
01/22/2003 06:39 PMI'm currently coding (yet another) content management system with
PHP/MySQL. As any modern CMS, mine got users. Now I need to implement
the 'permissions' system. Basically it's a flag recorded in the
database, allowing or not user 'x' to do action 'y' on the website.
I can see every 'piece of information' in a CMS as an 'element'. That
is, blogs of course, links, files, users, all is recorded in the same
table with a 'type' attribute describing element type and allowing
code to fetch and display correctly the element content.
Giving and receiving authorization and
permission
Giving and receiving authorization and
permission
04/09/2004 04:02 PMWe've been exploring the key concepts of identity management as
promulgated by the Open Group in a recent white paper (link below).
Today our topic is authorization and permission management.
Core Technology Exports Need Permission
Core Technology Exports Need Permission
09/19/2004 04:01 AMHankooki Sep 19 2004 8:37AM GMT
Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm
pro.
Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm
pro.
08/20/2004 04:07 PMBipin Gautam (Aug 19 2004)
Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam
Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam
04/09/2005 07:58 AMChicago Tribune Apr 9 2005 11:20AM GMT
IBM DB2 Windows Permission Problems
(#NISR05012005F)
IBM DB2 Windows Permission Problems
(#NISR05012005F)
01/05/2005 06:39 PMNGSSoftware Insight Security Research (Jan 05 2005)
Re: [security] aterm 0.4.2 tty
permission weakness
Re: [security] aterm 0.4.2 tty
permission weakness
07/15/2004 05:20 PMlorenzo (Jul 14 2004)
Re: Unsecure file permission of
ZoneAlarm pro.
Re: Unsecure file permission of
ZoneAlarm pro.
08/27/2004 01:32 PMBipin Gautam (Aug 22 2004)
Stay a While, Stay Forever
Stay a While, Stay Forever
01/06/2005 02:23 AM
Stay a While, Stay Forever is the title for
The Hospital.
SCO using Samba source code: permission
granted or not?
SCO using Samba source code: permission
granted or not?
12/07/2003 10:29 AMI've never told anyone about this before. In 1997, I collaborated for
a few weeks with one of the developers of VisionFS on decoding the NT
Domain protocols. Both VisionFS and Samba are windows-compatible
file, print and login servers.
The issue is that whilst our cooperation accelerated the
understanding of NT Domains, SCO's developer sent me some of his code,
and the implicit understanding was that he would be able to copy mine.
However, no such agreements were actually in place...
Permission-based Content Notifications
in Plone
Permission-based Content Notifications
in Plone
03/11/2003 01:22 AMMany sites need to be able to announce new content to their registered
users. Wouldn't it be good if they did so only when the users have
given them permission to do so and the content was genuinely of
interest to each recipient? Here's a system for doing just that, using
the Plone/Zope CMS.
Notes and Tips: File Permission Problems
Notes and Tips: File Permission Problems
05/20/2004 10:03 AMApple updates its help file for dealing with all-too-common
file-permission problems in Mac OS X.
Linux VServer procfs Permission Weakness
Linux VServer procfs Permission Weakness
07/07/2004 04:44 AM“Veit Wahlich has reported a weakness in Linux VServer, which
can be exploited by certain malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service) or gain knowledge of sensitive information. The
vulnerability is caused due to weak permissions on procfs, which
allows a privileged user on a virtual server to manipulate the
permissions on “/proc” for all virtual servers or gain
knowledge of information related to other virtual
servers….Solution: Update to version 1.28.”
Longmont Area Economic Council sponsors
"Company Success Stories" Forum
presented by the Colorado Software and
Internet Association; Executives from
Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and
Evolving Systems shared stories, advice,
lessons learned
Longmont Area Economic Council sponsors
"Company Success Stories" Forum
presented by the Colorado Software and
Internet Association; Executives from
Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and
Evolving Systems shared stories, advice,
lessons learned
08/30/2004 08:16 AMThe Longmont Area Economic Council (LAEC) sponsored a breakfast on
August 26th hosted by the Colorado Software and Internet Association
(CSIA) titled "Company Success Stories". The event was held at the
Cable Center on the University of Denver campus. LAEC President and
CEO John Cody moderated a panel discussion by representatives from
Digital Globe, Time Warner Telecom and Evolving Systems. [PRWEB Aug
30, 2004]
House panel passes spyware permission
bill
House panel passes spyware permission
bill
06/17/2004 08:56 PMNo more sneaking monitoring software onto people's PCs if this becomes
law.
Boeing asks government for permission to
harass seals
Boeing asks government for permission to
harass seals
04/08/2005 06:36 PMBlog: Boeing has asked the U.S. government for permission to harass
Pacific seals.
It's no joke. The defense contractor...
Tender: Planning permission web system
for Vale of White Horse DC
Tender: Planning permission web system
for Vale of White Horse DC
12/22/2003 04:25 AMPublicTechnology.net Dec 22 2003 3:09AM ET
HOWTO Stream from iTunes to your mobile
phone (without Apple's permission)
HOWTO Stream from iTunes to your mobile
phone (without Apple's permission)
06/17/2005 03:34 PMCory Doctorow:
DittyBot is a script for OS X that uses a clever combination of mobile
email and VoIP to stream music from your iTunes collection to your
cellphone. Using your phone, email the title/artist info for a song in
your iTunes library to DittyBot, which is running on your Mac, pulling
down mail every minute. DittyBot receives the request, calls you with
Skype, and plays the song back to you over voice-over-IP using iTunes.
Wow.
You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email
account. Your text message should contain the keywords of a song title
(and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds
that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and copies the song name
into a text file. The song name is then copied into iTunes and a
playlist is created from your search. Next, DittyBot loads Skype (the
internet telephony app) and begins calling your mobile phone. Your
mobile phone rings and when you pick it up, you should hear your song
start playing in all its compressed glory. DittyBot will play your
selection to you over your phone until you hang up. Mind you, this all
should happen within 1 minute of sending your song request (depending
on the speed of your POP server). Sometimes it's even quicker!
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Hyperlinking to this site is not
permitted without the express prior
permission of Sellotape®
Hyperlinking to this site is not
permitted without the express prior
permission of Sellotape®
06/29/2004 07:33 AMa ne soit pas toujours le cas .. Sellotape ..
really
sellotape.co.uk/copyright.htm
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Thrashing Through Cyberspace: AOL
Eavesdrops, Grants Itself Permission To
Steal Your AIM Conversations
Thrashing Through Cyberspace: AOL
Eavesdrops, Grants Itself Permission To
Steal Your AIM Conversations
03/14/2005 04:50 PM"You waive any right to privacy." .. Is it time to stop using AIM? ..
Absolutely unacceptable .. in any way they see
fit
benstanfield.com/thrash/2005/03/aol_eavesdrops_.html
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McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005
Insecure File Permission
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005
Insecure File Permission
04/19/2005 09:25 AMfrSIRT Apr 19 2005 2:08PM GMT
"Michael Moore of lifting the title from
his classic science-fiction novel
"Fahrenheit 451" without permission"
"Michael Moore of lifting the title from
his classic science-fiction novel
"Fahrenheit 451" without permission"
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