Some Of Your Body's Cells Have A 'License To Kill'

Millions of "natural killer cells" -- nature's first line of defense against cancer, viruses and other infectious microbes --- are on constant patrol inside your body.

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Remembering Sierra On-Line: The Best of Early Computer Games

Classic Adventure Games like King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry.

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Объявлено кодовое имя Ubuntu 9.10

Основатель дистрибутива Ubuntu Марк Шаттлворт сообщил в ubuntu-devel-announce кодовое имя версии, которая последует за Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope".

Итак, встречайте: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala".

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Industry Consortium Rivalry over Crypto Standards

Linux Magazine: "The idea of an industry-wide common cryptography standard is certainly welcome. But self-interest usually precedes usability, so two industry consortiums are now vying over which standards to adopt..."

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Industry Consortium Rivalry over Crypto Standards

Industry Consortium Rivalry over Crypto Standards
Feb 21, 2009, 06 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Britta Wuelfing for this link. ]

"In the spirit of the Tanenbaum bromide that the good thing about standards is that there are so many of them, Sun Microsystems has now offered direct access to its own cryptology recommendation. Naturally Sun is also promoting a vendor-independent, generic and open source approach. Its answer is the Crypto KMS Agent Toolkit under a BSD license that, unfortunately, can only be compiled with Sun Studio 12. According to Jason Schaffer, senior director of storage product management at Sun, "Open Storage solutions allows customers to break free from the chains of proprietary hardware... [in this] highly fragmented encryption market." The Sun solution involves "a number of additional partners" such as EMC's RSA Security division proposing a unified standard to the IEEE 1619.3 Working Group.

"But the two competing standards groups are still not cooperating. In fact, a ChannelWeb article says that they're unprepared to do so. Both entities say alternately that each is welcome to participate in each other's work."

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Introducing Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala

Mark Shuttleworth : "When you are looking for inspiration beyond the looming Jaunty feature freeze, I hope you’ll think of the Koala, our official mascot for Ubuntu 9.10. And if you’ll bear with me for a minute I’ll set the scene for what we hope to achieve in that time."

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Introducing Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala

Mark Shuttleworth : "When you are looking for inspiration beyond the looming Jaunty feature freeze, I hope you’ll think of the Koala, our official mascot for Ubuntu 9.10. And if you’ll bear with me for a minute I’ll set the scene for what we hope to achieve in that time."

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