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The Next Nobel in Economics
My friend Jack Ayer points me to one site where folks are voting for their favored economist for the big prize. Paul Krugman is at the top, but that's prob…
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Beyond "Goodnight Moon"
What are your favorite toddler picture books? I like "Good night, Gorilla," written and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann (1994) (a nice coincidence, &qu…
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Linus Torvalds Asks Contributors to Sign Their Work
Open Source Development Labs, the organization for which Torvalds currently works, will henceforth require contributors to Linux to certify their contributions.…
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NY Times Drumbeat on the March to War
The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion. Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more ho…
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Mapping the Information Environment
At the end every question concerning the information habitats may indeed boil down to a decision between freedom v. control. The legitimate function of this har…
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Haldar, Semantic Remote Attestation
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra & Michael Franz, Semantic Remote Attestation - A Virtual Machine directed approach to Trusted Computing, in: Proceedings of the…
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Camenish, Better Privacy
Jan Camenish, Better Privacy for Trusted Computing Platforms, in: Samarati (ed.), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2004, Lecture Notes in Com…
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New Specs on Federated Identity Management
Both Liberty Alliance and RSA have announced progress on their Federated Identity Management specs for Web Services on Monday and Tuesday respectively. Federat…
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Faking Sovereignty
President Bush repeated his commitment to transfer "full sovereignty" to the people of Iraq on July 1. At the same time, he stated that American mili…
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Erasing Abu Ghraib
President Bush promised to destroy Abu Ghraib, the symbol, in his words, of "death and torture" under Hussein, and "disgraceful conduct" und…
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Don't spend that graduation check yet-
Here we go again- The RIAA has sued another round of John Does for file sharing, this time 493 of them. Seems like they should have been able to find another 7…
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Patents should not deprive poor people of AIDS drugs
Dan Ravicher of Public Patent Foundation provided testimony in a hearing before the National Institute of Health on whether the government should invoke a rare…