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Blogging about their products is clearly a good move for Lenovo, which needs to emerge from under IBM’s shadow as a trustworthy and innovative brand (lest the ThinkPad name lose its lustre).

(Note that the blog’s banner graphic is also made up of those little keyboard-mounted nipple-devices.)

It looks like these businesses offer discounts just with presentation of a Rice ID card (no special card required).

“Students—along with faculty and staff—can take advantage of area businesses who offer discounts with the presentation of a Rice identification card.”

>Erdmann and his team claim to have discovered 52 new species…Among the highlights were an epaulette shark that walks on its fins, a praying mantis-like shrimp and scores of reef-building corals

I think this tagline is somewhat misleading; really, this is a LISP-like application server for JavaScript, HTML, and CSS output.

“Houston food, restaurants and dining review. Urban living, travel, thoughts and other randomness.”

The SPKI page. Work on SPKI has stopped, but that doesn’t mean SPKI has stopped being useful.

Q: “What are the main reasons that work on SDSI/SPKI stopped although much work was already done?” A: “We went on to use it in products and research.”

Pisces is a Python implementation of the SPKI Certificate standard.

Useful for those of us who, upon attempting to read standards documents about things like ASN.1, get lost in the layers and layers of abstraction. This document actually has sample bit strings!

Showdown: X.509, PGP/WoT, SPKI/SDSI, nameless SPKI. (Slightly biased against X.509.) Fight!

>”Rerèkçib Birç”! The Turkish insult, “God will shame him on harvest day”! As I live and breathe, do it again!

> The authors’ propose manual voting systems that have significant security advantages over existing systems, yet retain the simplicity and familiarity that has led to widespread acceptance. The authors also discuss ways to improve efficiency without enda

replacement for the treemap