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Comment Re:Maybe i dont get the point (Score 1) 216

by fadilnet on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:34PM (#20818009) Attached to: Torvalds On Pluggable Security Models

If that is so, should there be @ least 1 scheduler provided as default? I mean, who wants to end up with an uncompiled kernel? In no time, we'll end up with different versions of kernels, forks of plugins, and we'll end up in a pit of compatibility issues. A default one can be used as part of the failsafe.

Submission + - LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30, 2007 @01:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is using randomization software to determine the location and timing of security checkpoints and patrols. The theory is that random security will make it impossible for terrorists to predict the actions of security forces. The ARMOR software, written by computer scientists at the University of Southern California, was initially developed to solve a problem in game theory. Doctoral student Praveen Paruchuri wrote algorithms on how an agent should react to an opponent who has perfect information about the agent's choices.

Feed New York Times: Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Sunday September 30, 2007 @12:52AM

Software radio could offer an elegant solution to a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.

Submission + - Novel method for universal email authentication (spamfizzle.com)

Submitted by

MKaplan

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @12:36AM

MKaplan writes: "Most spam is sent using spoofed domains. Email authentication schemes such as SPF attempt to foil spoofing by having domain administrators publish a list of their approved outgoing mail servers. SPF is sharply limited by incomplete domain participation and failure to authenticate forwarded email. A paper describes a novel method to rapidly generate a near-perfect global SPF database independent of the participation of domain administrators. A single email from an unauthenticated domain is bounced and then resent — this previously unauthenticated domain and the server listed in the return path of the resent bounce are entered into a globally accessible database. All future emails sent from this domain via this server will be authenticated after checking this new database. Mechanisms to authenticate forwarded email and to nullify subversion of this anti-spam system are also described."

Feed Linux.com: OpenOffice.org charts undergo cosmetic surgery (linux.com)

From feed by lcfeed on Thursday July 05, 2007 @10:53AM

OpenOffice.org suffers from a wildly inconsistent user interface (UI) that combines unique elements with borrowings from Microsoft Office. Now, in the upcoming version 2.3, it is finally having some of the cosmetic procedures it so badly needs -- at least in the charts subsystem. The changes include a new default color scheme and a heavily revamped wizard, but only small changes in functionality, making this revision a case study in UI design for both better and worse.

Feed New Scientist: Bird song goes out of fashion too (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday July 05, 2007 @10:52AM

Just as pop music changes with the times, so too does bird song - it might even explain how new species arise

Journal Journal: A brief list of things that are being discussed at the GUF

Journal by Short Circuit on Thursday July 05, 2007 @10:47AM

A brief discussion about possible avenues of colonization.
Some speculation on how Earth politics will expand to space.
A discussion about the direction of Grokked Universe.
A discussion about territory in space.
A mention ab

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