Justin Mason : Mail::SpamAssasin.pm
"is a Mail::Audit plugin to identify spam using text
analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email."
Ken Simpson : Pyinline
"allows you to put source code from other programming languages directly "inline" in a Python script or module. The code is automatically compiled as needed, and then loaded for immediate access from Python. PyInline is the Python equivalent of Brian Ingerson's Inline module for Perl"
David Bollier : Can the Information Commons Be Saved?
"How Intellectual Property Policies Are Eroding Democratic Culture and Some Strategies for Asserting the Public Interest" via
libjuice. (pdf)
Brendan Scott : Copyright in a Frictionless World: Toward a Rhetoric of Responsibility
"In this paper, the author reviews the history and application of copyright and concludes that, although promoted as being in the interests of authors, it is designed in such a way as to be primarily a right which benefits distributors and publishers. The author identifies a number of difficulties faced by distributors and publishers in enforcing their rights in an age where the various sources of "friction" which once limited infringement are being constantly reduced. In particular, in the emerging frictionless world the typical targets of the holder of a copyright monopoly (distributors pirating for profit) are being overtaken by a new breed of target (individuals with a cost reduction motive) and it is uneconomical for a holder of a copyright monopoly to pursue this new breed. The author argues that recent extensions to copyright monopolies add little to the illegality of the infringing acts nor any stigma to the performance of those acts. Instead, they exacerbate one of the main causes of infringement - consumer cynicism as to the benefits to society of the copyright monopoly. The author argues further that, rather than driving further cynicism through more expansive rhetoric relating to rights, holders of a copyright monopoly should instead seek to mollify consumer sentiment and encourage compliance by emphasizing a rhetoric of responsibility in the exercise of those rights."
Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, Nick Feamster : Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
"Of the twenty-seven sites we investigated, we weakened the client authentication on two systems, gained unauthorized access on eight, and extracted the secret key used to mint authenticators from one."
Java xsl-FO to Rtf
"converts XML documents conforming to the XSL-FO specification to RTF format, the goal being to use the same XSL-FO documents (as often generated using XSLT transforms) to generate PDF (using FOP or similar) and RTF (using jfor) documents. Through an intermediate transformation to XSL-FO, jfor can be used to convert any raw or XML data to RTF format."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is contretemps
| source : web1913 |
Contretemps \Con`tre*temps"\, n. [F., fr. contre (L. conta) +
temps time, fr. L. tempus.]
An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or
embarrassing; a hitch.
In this unhappy contretemps. --De Quincey.
| source : wn |
contretemps
n : an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps
with the policeman"