Data cannon - Hacking biometric systems
Fingerprint scanners outwitted with household items. So much for the security of biometric systems, as Schily wants to have them built into identity cards.
Archive 1. November 2004
freshmeat.net: Project details for Kernel TCP Virtual Server - Virtual servers (performance or failsafe clusters) based on protocol content directly in the Linux kernel
freshmeat.net: Project details for ProxSMTP - SMTP proxy with hooks for external filters etc.
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More madness around trademark law. Eventually we won't be allowed to say anything because absurd jurisprudence, brazen lawyers and incompetent judges consider this whole nonsense more important than protecting citizens from such rubbish. We can probably just wait for the first websites to be cease-and-desist letters because they have some word sequences in the title tag that some manufacturer has had registered.
At Telepolis News (01.11.2004) you can find the original article.
Linux: In Kernel GUI
Very interesting for control systems and perhaps also PDAs: a GUI system that runs completely in the Linux Kernel and is integrated into it, requiring extremely few resources.
Pasta: text pasting service for del.icio.us - Convert text via copy-and-paste into a website and automatically post to del.icio.us
Polar ice melts faster than expected
On the one hand, the effects are certainly threatening - and whether we can really still turn things around in time (and whether we can even change the outcome at all!) is still completely unclear. On the other hand, it's actually pretty exciting to be living in exactly such a time, when the magnetic pole will probably flip and maybe one of the bigger climate catastrophes is looming. I mean, who experiences something like that? Not just boring civil wars, social upheavals and similar nonsense, but real events with geological consequences?
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
#python discussion of how to implement the Halting Problem
Ouch. Such discussions hurt. Even when you only read them and don't have to take part.