OpenLife

Posting (in Danish) to the Open Source Forum weblog

http://suse.groenbaek.net/opensourceforum/archives/000330.html#000330

One of those conferences I would have loved to attend:

Democracy in the Digital Age.

Pictures from the meeting 26 March 2003 in Open Source Forum with politician Morten Helveg Petersen, MP for the Social Liberal Party.

Visit http://suse.groenbaek.net/opensourceforum/archives/000322.html#000322

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the Americas cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn’t want to go to war”

Nyt Madsen-Mygdal projekt “Arena” Highly recommendable!

Tryk på MORE forneden.
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Et modulopbygget uddannelsesforløb, der kombinerer personlig udvikling med et generelt kompetenceløft i virksomheden. Uddannelsen kan gennemføres i samarbejde mellem to medarbejdere fra samme virksomhed eventuelt med udgangspunkt i et praktisk projekt. Uddannelsesforløbet kan afsluttes med en eksamen.

Deltagere
Virksomhedsjurister, IT-medarbejdere, projektledere, virksomhedsledere og andre, der regelmæssigt er i berøring med IT i virksomheden. Uddannelsesforløbet kan eventuelt gennemføres i samarbejde mellem to medarbejdere, således at IT medarbejderen f.eks. kan få større indsigt i juraen og juristen kan få større indsigt teknologien og de forretningsmæssige aspekter af den nye teknologi. Det afgørende er, at virksomhedens samlede kompetence løftes, uanset hvordan virksomheden er organiseret.

Tid og sted
Uddannelsen starter med introduktionsdag mandag den 11.august 2003 og slutter med mulighed for eksamen torsdag den 11. december 2003
Kursusstedet er Admiral Gjeddes Gaard, København og Djøf Mødecenter . Eksternat.

Download beskrivelse og program.

My friend Jacob Vee Tornbjerg runs a small wine import firm - Winebrokers - with a friend. Here is an invitation (in Danish) for a wine tasting that takes place Sunday 30 March 2003 at Admiral Gjeddes Gaard.
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In his book Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web author David Weinberger argues that Web or the Internet (the words are used interchangebly) is by its nature imperfect and thus cannot be controlled. The Internet is decentralized as opposed to government or traditional management that built on centralization. The Internet in itself does not seek perfection. Perfection is sought by the users at the fringes. Conversely, government seeks control to perfect its system. But Weinberger maintaind that the success of the Internet in fact stems from this imperfection: The web works because it is broken!

In direct opposition to Weinberger’s views that the staying power of the Internet depends on its brokeness and thus uncontrollability is the view of Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs Ltd. of Moscow who argues that governments of the world have to take control of the Internet to saveit from buckling under the increasing pressure of worms, viruses and other cyberattacks

Governments should control the Internet in the same way other public networks, such as electricity and traffic information networks, are controlled, Kaspersky said in a meeting with journalists at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, on 13 March 2003.

Rules for usage of the network should be enforced by Internet police with users licensed to use the ‘Net, he said. “If we want to have a big public network like the Internet in the future, there must be very strict usage rules. If we don’t have those, the Internet will just die,” Kaspersky said. “The Internet today is like a road without policemen and driving licenses.”

Kaspersky warned of a “new era” of global Internet attacks in which antivirus companies won’t be able to protect users. The advent of fast-spreading Internet worms has decreased the time vendors have to provide protection to a day or two, according to Kaspersky. Smarter worms will propagate even faster.

“In the future antivirus companies won’t be able to deliver protection on time,” Kaspersky said. “We have to prepare for a scenario one day this year or next year that will visibly slowdown the global Internet.”

Kaspersky is quoted from http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=791234.

In Bruce Schneier’s March 15, 2003 CRYPTO-GRAM it is persuasively stated what most people dealing with ecommerce and security have had lurking in the back of their heads but never dared say loud and clear out in the open:

Nobody bothers eavesdropping on the communications while it is in transit. Even if SSL were irrevocably broken, it wouldn’t affect Internet security very much. There are two reasons. One, SSL is almost never used in a secure manner. And two, SSL doesn’t solve an important security problem.
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Red Herring ceases publication, as original founders plan comeback.

The Silicon Valley based monthly magazine Red Herring seems to have become the latest victim of the slump in advertisement spending in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble burst. Too bad, I really enjoyed the insight from this magazine. Ironically, it is my opinion that the quality of Red Herring actually reached its peak in the last two years as its journalists had to scrap all the hype and get down to describing what really went on with respect to emerging technolgies. It think they in this final period managed to reach a very good balance between refraining from hype while on the other hand not become turncoats befallen automatically to decry Internet technologies and startup companies that based their business ideas on the Internet.

The latest issue (the 10th anniversary issue) from March 2003 has a brilliant article (which unfortunately does not seem to be published online) on the role of the large public company in modern society. The article is written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (the authors of A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization) and is based on their upcoming book The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea.