(Chorus- Mary J Blige)

(Chorus- Mary J Blige)

They try to tell us to stay strong,
but every day we losing jobs,
from College Park down to Beverly Hills,
Something’s Gonna Have to Give

Across the world they live in fear
but its the same thing over here.
If you can hear me on Capitol Hill,
Something’s gonna have to give.

Published in:  on August 31, 2008 at 7:01 pm Leave a Comment

More then a feeling

This is how the argument grew.

When I got back home wednesday evening with thoughts of organizing,  who was greeting me in the doorway? Anan, my little spider weaving her web in my doorway. That’s when I knew we are going to make it.

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Homecoming

 

When I was three years old.

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Do you have a favorite tree? A man in Zlatar did.

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BELGRADE, August 20 (RIA Novosti) – A Croatian pensioner committed suicide after a tree growing in front of his house was cut down to make way for a highway, local media said on Wednesday.

The 83-year-old man, from Zlatar, in northwest Croatia, shot himself in front of road workers Tuesday shortly after they had cut the tree down, media reported.

The oak tree was cut down to allow widening of a nearby highway.

The pensioner, who was distraught about the tree being cleared, had earlier threatened local authorities with extreme action in an attempt to save his favorite tree.

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Comme si!

He could act, if he wanted to. If he don’t nobody will.

You ask me where to begin?

I think that is clear now. If you find what is near. If you find what is near, you better leave with it.

If I call him the keeper of trees, I don’t think the keeper of keys will mind.

A hard time for the road workers, though.

 

 

Published in:  on August 21, 2008 at 10:18 am Leave a Comment

another word for: i’ll put a killswitch on your gadgets: can i entrust you remotely?

 

Call for contributions

 

RE-TRUST 2008

First International Workshop on Remote Entrusting

October 15 – 16, 2008  – Trento, Italy

 

 Important dates

 

• Submission date: September 5, 2008

• Notification date: September 17, 2008

• Workshop: October 15 – 16, 2008

• Keynote presentation: Prof. Mikhail Atallah – Purdue University, USA

 

 Aim and Scope

 

“Remote Entrusting” is a novel paradigm with the specific objective of ensuring that code running on an untrusted machine, is being executed in a trustworthy manner. In other words, the original code functionality (as originally specified and implemented) has not been modified prior to or during run-time. The assumption is the availability of a connection to trusted entities.

 

The workshop is organized by the RE-TRUST project (Remote EnTrusting by RUn-time Software au-Thentication), funded by the European Commission, under the Future Emerging Technology (FET) program. See www.re-trust.org for more details on previous workshops.  We intend to bring researchers together that are interested in the various topics that are related to the remote entrusting paradigm, for open discussions.

 

 Call for Contributions

 

RE-TRUST 2008 invites abstract submissions on theory and techniques that are related to “Remote Entrusting”. We are seeking contributions that will stimulate the discussion in several different areas.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

 

• Computing with encrypted functions and data

• Dynamic software updating

• Hardware assisted software obfuscation

• Obfuscation metrics

• Remote software attestation

• Remote entrusting

• Self modifying code

• Software obfuscation techniques

• Software reverse engineering (and complexity)

• Tamper resistant software

• Trust mitigation

• Trusted Computing

• White-box cryptography

• Use of Smart Cards and TPMs for remote entrusting

 

The results themselves may or may not be recent, however we encourage the speakers to position the work in the context of “Remote Entrusting”. More information and submission: www.re-trust.org

 

 Workshop Scientific Committee

 

General Chair:

• Yoram Ofek – University di Trento, Italy – ofek@disi.unitn.it

 

Program Chairs:

• Mariano Ceccato – FBK – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy -  ceccato@fbk.eu

• Stefano Di Carlo – Politechnico di Tornino, Italy – dicarlo@polito.it

• Brecht Wyseur – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium -  brecht.wyseur@esat.kuleuven.be

 

Steering Committee:

• Olivier Billet – Orange Labs, France

• Christian Collberg – University of Arizona, USA

• Amir Herzberg – Bar-Ilan University, Israel

• Willem Jonker – Philips Research, The Netherlands

• Marc Joye – Thomson R&D, France

• David Naccache – University Paris II, France

• Bart Preneel – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

• Paolo Prinetto – Politechnico di Torino, Italy

• Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi – Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

• Paolo Tonella – FBK – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

• Paul Van Oorschot – Carleton University, Canada

• Moti Yung – Google & Columbia University, USA

 

 Venue

 

The workshop takes place at the heart of the most beautiful Alpi Dolomiti (www.trentino.to), in Villa Madruzzo, over-looking Trento (www.villamadruzzo.it).

 

The workshop is open and registration should be completed on-line.

Published in:  on August 20, 2008 at 8:54 pm Leave a Comment

if we don’t

nobody will

Published in:  on August 16, 2008 at 7:25 am Leave a Comment

comme si!

yes we can dance

if we want to

i say we can dance if we want to

getting some energy back after visiting gustaff and venzha, and feeling good there- coming back to holland feels like running through mud 

but maybe, maybe we can dance here too

a safety dance probably!

but a dance anyway

cause we dance if we want to

comme si!

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