DynamicPhil - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It is easy (Score 1) 168

by DynamicPhil on Monday May 03, 2010 @06:40AM (#32070788) Attached to: Chains of RFCs and Chains of Laws?

You should check (in Sweden, with Swedish law): https://lagen.nu/ [lagen.nu]

It's the law, combined with cases from Domstolsverket (Courts Administration). He has a tech description to:

I'll try to translate:
he fetches laws from the Cabinet Office web server, which he converts into XML (XHTML2 med RDFa)

He then retrieves cases from the Courts Administration FTP server, also converts this into XML. (via words "save as HTML", and then converting).

He then compiles all the meta-data from all the documents into RDF -graph. This is used in conjunction with style sheets to create XHTML1.0 pages, ready for displaying in a browser.

finally, indexes and Table of contents are created and the result is hosted on Apache-servers. The code is written in python, with parts in XSLT.

Impressive, impressive work. Which landed him a job in e-gov (I hope he keeps the law-project going!)

Comment Re:Refactoring (Score 5, Interesting) 168

by DynamicPhil on Monday May 03, 2010 @02:25AM (#32069958) Attached to: Chains of RFCs and Chains of Laws?

Well, someone (a hobbyist) is doing just that (in Sweden, with Swedish law): https://lagen.nu/

Technologically, he has a description of what he does. I'll try to translate:
he fetches laws from the Cabinet Office web server, which he converts into XML (XHTML2 med RDFa)

He then retrieves cases from the Courts Administration FTP server, also converts this into XML. (via words "save as HTML", and then converting).

He then compiles all the meta-data from all the documents into RDF -graph. This is used in conjunction with style sheets to create XHTML1.0 pages, ready for displaying in a browser.

finally, indexes and Table of contents are created and the result is hosted on Apache-servers. The code is written in python, with parts in XSLT.

Impressive, impressive work. Which landed him a job in e-gov (I hope he keeps the law-project going!)

Comment Re:sneakernet filesharing (Score 1) 288

by DynamicPhil on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @08:05AM (#31908832) Attached to: File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life

Absolutely.

As mentioned - the space requirement for copying the most outrageous amount of files can be met with a couple of 2TB discs.

And - more intresting, filling the speed requirement:

We will have SuperSpeed USB 3 going mainstream soon (with theoretical transfer speeds of 4.8 Gbps) .
Lets put that in perspective. Depending on that products (HDD's, controllers, external cabinets) appear which could support these transfer speeds,
we could look at speeds where filling a 2TB disc would take 10-15 minutes. Minutes, guys.

That's 15 minutes to grab 75 single layer 27Bg Blue-ray movies, or 400 5GB DVD .ISO's, without any compression.

Prediction: Sneakernet will be hard beaten, in terms of speed, security and capacity.
Only con I'm able to see is availability, where nothing beats the internet.

Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen 306

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 19, 2010 @09:04PM from the crown-jewels dept.

Aardvark writes "More details are coming out about the extent of the break-in at Google a few months ago. The NY Times is reporting that one of the things stolen was the source code to Google's single sign-on authentication system, called Gaia. Though Google is making changes to the system, the theft raises the possibility that attackers could analyze the code to find new exploits to take advantage of in the future. No wonder that Eric Schmidt recently said they've become paranoid about security."

Comment Re:I LOVE it (Score 1) 625

by DynamicPhil on Thursday December 13, 2007 @06:51AM (#21682021) Attached to: Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets

Dispatch War-Rocket AJAX!

Submission + - Microsoft bought Swedens ISO vote on OOXML ?

Submitted by a_n_d_e_r_s on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @04:20AM

a_n_d_e_r_s writes: The vote on OOXML looked fairly secured for a No vote in Sweden. Most in the Working Group In Sweden was against the vote to approve OOXML. Suddenly on the day of the vote more companies showed up at the door, some 20 more companies — each one payed about $2500 to be allowed to vote — and vote they did. Most of the new companies was strangely enough partners from Microsoft who suddenly out of the blue joined the working group, payed membership fees and voted yes for approval.

From being a fairly negative group the working group suddely had a huge majority of yay-sayers who voted for Sweden to approve OOXML as an ISO standard.

For those that want to buy the Swedish vote on an ISO standard — it only cost about $50 000 — its not too much money for anyone that want there own bought and payed for ISO standard.

This has started to brew in Sweden and the newspapers are right now starting to write about the coup against the SIS — Swedens Standards Institute http://www.sis.se/ . The workings groups position can be changed if the power to be at SIS wants to — so its not over yet.

OS2World writes about it:

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14868/1/

Patrik Fältströms blogg about it:

http://stupid.domain.name/node/382

Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences 466

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 05, 2006 @05:00PM from the darn-it-I-really-liked-polar-bears dept.

OriginalArlen writes to tell us about some compelling global warming coverage in the Washington Post. First there is an article about a study indicating that melting Arctic ice is threatening polar bears with extinction. The article quotes an environmentalist: "This study is the smoking gun. Skeptics, polluting industries and President Bush can't run away from this one." And the polar melting is opening new shipping lanes. The second article details a trip late in October through the Northwest Passage by a Canadian icebreaker. Never before in history could this trip have been accomplished so late in the year; ice would have choked off the passage. Estimates of when the passage might be navigable by commercial shipping range from 2020 to the end of the century. The indigeneous people are not looking forward to this development.

Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press 747

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 13, 2006 @02:33AM from the who-needs-news? dept.

WerewolfOfVulcan writes "The Washington Post is carrying an article about a disturbing Senate bill that could make it illegal to publicly disclose even the existence of US domestic spying programs (i.e. NSA wiretaps)." An aide to the bill's author assures us it's not aimed at reporters, but the language is ambiguous at best. From the article: "Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the measure is broader than any existing laws. She said, for example, the language does not specify that the information has to be harmful to national security or classified. 'The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact,' said Martin, a civil liberties advocate."

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