This book is “The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics“. It is available both as a PDF document and “source code” (word document).
The book’s main site is: http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/.
Fighting the automation paradox || Deployment θα κάνουμε φωνάζοντας "αέρα"
This book is “The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics“. It is available both as a PDF document and “source code” (word document).
The book’s main site is: http://www.mcafee.cc/Introecon/.
Privacy Awareness Week 2008: 24th August – 30th August
Privacy Awareness Week is an annual promotion by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) group. APPA members participating in PAW 2008 are; Australia (including New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory), Canada (including British Columbia), Hong Kong and New Zealand.
The week is an opportunity for governments, business and individuals to promote privacy awareness.
I can only hope that we see similar initiatives in the EU region.
[via IAMEMS]
There is an interesting thread* over at Interesting People, on NSF and the Birth of the Internet. The first message in the thread sparked a lot of responses, mainly because the NSF video on the Birth of the Internet missed out a lot of contributions along the timeline.
Update: ycor writes an interesting commentary in Greek.
[*] – To read the whole thread you need to scroll down the thread index in order to view all the subthreads that emerged. Alternatively you can search via the markmail.org interface.
From iso27001security.com:
The free ISO27k toolkit consists of a collection of papers contributed by members of the ISO27k Implementers’ Forum, either individually or through collaborative working groups organized on the Forum.
Helpful starting point for those dealing with compliance issues, especially the ones whose organization has not provided them with the right tools for the job…
Φαίνεται πως το ελληνικό DNA εκτός από τη νίκη έχει εγγεγραμμένη μέσα του και την M3.
Υπάρχει όμως και ένα μεγαλύτερο ζήτημα. Για να πάει η Χαλκιά στο Πεκίνο αδικήθηκε η Χατζή η οποία είχε καλύτερες επιδόσεις και όμως έμεινε πίσω, μετά από ατομική χρονομέτρηση της Χαλκιά στα 300m(!) Και με το γεγονός αυτό η Χατζή δεν δικαιώνεται. Απλά εκτείθονται διπλά αυτοί που αποφάσισαν για την αντικατάστασή της:
– Μία φορά γιατί αδίκησαν την αθλήτρια με τις καλύτερες επιδόσεις. Πόσο έξυπνο είναι άραγε να αφαιρεί κανείς το κίνητρο από έναν αθλητή;
– Δεύτερη φορά γιατί η επιλογή τους τους εκθέτει διπλά καθώς το ρίσκο όχι μόνο δεν τους βγήκε, αλλά βγήκε ντοπέ.
Η Χαλκιά για τις επιλογές της θα φάει την κατακραυγή που της αναλογεί. Αυτοί που την έφεραν σε αυτή τη θέση;
| Η φωτογραφία αυτή είναι από μια κολώνα στην Αγία Παρασκευή. Παρόλο που από όσο έχω καταλάβει δεν επιτρέπεται να συμπληρώνονται οι δηλώσεις από άλλον εκτός από το δικαιούχο, αντιλλαμβάνομαι πως υπάρχει η ανάγκη. Βλέπω όμως πως υπάρχει και ένα πρόβλημα:
Όλοι αυτοί οι μεσάζοντες καταλλήγουν να έχουν -χωρίς δεσμεύσεις ή άλλο έλεγχο- στην κατοχή τους πληροφορία για τα περιουσιακά στοιχεία ανθρώπων. Χμ, τι να μπορεί να πάει στραβά άραγε; |
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Έτσι δεν είχες πει πρόεδρε; Για να δούμε τι θα πει και ο Σάββας τώρα…
Perry E. Metzger explains why he does not allow HTML email to be sent in the cryptography mailing list. I copy-and-paste:
- Many people still read their email in systems that handle only plain text effectively. They’re a large enough group that I don’t like disenfranchising them.
- HTML email, like most machine parsable data, often has “gotchas”, and as this is a security oriented list, I really don’t want to have to vet email for hacking attempts. Vetting real code is unpleasant enough — I don’t want to have to look for attempted buffer overflows and web bugs in email I’m forwarding.
- HTML email is harder to search, to edit down, to cut and paste cleanly, etc.
- HTML email is often just plain ugly to look at.
To those who often without previously thinking thoroughly their suggestion and only judging by their own limited experience, propose that he should simply switch his email reader to a GUI one, he responds:
I’m one of the group that reads email in a non-GUI. Please don’t tell me to switch mail readers, because I’ve yet to find a GUI based one that will let me process hundreds to thousands of incoming emails a day efficiently, and without efficiency I’d stop getting any work done. Pretty toys are great if you’re reading 20 messages a day and can’t remember commands — I need stuff that’s fully programmable.)
Haven’t I been told to switch my MUA on numerous occasions! For many many years I even silently refused to accept .doc attachments or worse winmail.dat ones. Why on earth would one fire up Word to write three lines of plaintext?
Oh well, now with alpine’s prospects uncertain, it may be time to check whether sup is a suitable MUA (mail user agent) for me.
[via cryptography]