Saturday August 19, 2006 links for 2006-08-20
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McSweeneys, with an illicit e-mail and then a glimpse of the future that you need to read.
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"The idea of hand cream and matches -- hand cream and matches -- becoming the focus of a TSA press conference, is clear evidence enough that our security hysteria has become unmanageable." -- Patrick Smith (Pilot)
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British Airways goes out of its way to apply every rule it can possibly find to inconvenience its passengers in my experience, but this is a new extreme that I've not personally encountered.
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"Consumers won't be aware that meat and poultry products have been treated with the spray, Zajac added. The Department of Agriculture will regulate the actual use of the product." So you'll not get the choice to avoid them either.
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( Aug 19 2006, 06:17:47 PM PDT )
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OpenSSO is Live
If you're looking for an open source access management system, look no further! I'm delighted to say that Sun has just opened the doors on the OpenSSO Community, which includes the source code for the Sun Java System Access Manager product, which offers single sign-on services to other applications based on the idea of federating diverse identity directories. It's been released as open source under the CDDL and the full source is available today. The project says of itself:
The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers.
Many congratulations to the Sun team for completing the substantial work necessary to make this transition from closed to open source - I hope you rapidly gather an energetic and skilled community around the code, to the benefit of all.
Posted by webmink
( Aug 19 2006, 01:58:11 AM PDT )
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