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Russian Firm Files Patent for Password Cracker
Post Date: 2007-10-25 16:24:15 by robin
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According to ElcomSoft, it has found a way to harness the combined power of a PC's Central Processing Unit and its video card's Graphics Processing Unit. "The resulting hardware/software powerhouse," it asserts, "will allow cryptology professionals to build affordable PCs that will work like supercomputers when recovering lost passwords." Others question how original the method really is. A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that ...
Hidden data: You may be sharing more than you think
Post Date: 2007-10-24 16:46:42 by gengis gandhi
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October 24th, 2007 Hidden data: You may be sharing more than you think By RONALD HACKETT August 21, 2006 In April 2005, when the Defense Department’s Multi-National Force — Iraq posted a redacted report on the death of Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq, a group of Pentagon Web site visitors from Italy could copy and paste the classified portions from Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Web site into a Microsoft Word document, including the name of the U.S. soldier who accidentally killed her. Last December, Web surfers found out from the posted White House policy document “Strategy for Victory in Iraq” who the report’s author was, causing some embarrassment ...
35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie
Post Date: 2007-10-21 17:06:17 by farmfriend
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35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie Written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Friday, 19 October 2007 A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English ...
Scientists hail DNA repair study
Post Date: 2007-10-18 11:51:40 by gengis gandhi
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Enzyme image One of the images used by the research team Research into how the human body repairs damaged DNA has been described as a "major breakthrough". The way that cells protect themselves from diseases like cancer has been the focus of a study by scientists at Dundee and Leeds Universities. They used special x-rays to build 3D pictures of a particular enzyme, which recognises and fixes damaged DNA. The researchers used the images to get a better understanding of how the process works. The team studied an enzyme, known as T7 endonuclease 1, which played a central role in identifying damaged or "branched" DNA. 'New insight' The scientists said it was ...
Bleak U.S. "report card" finds warming Arctic
Post Date: 2007-10-18 08:37:37 by angle
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NASA satellite image from September 21, 2005 and released on September 21, 2007 shows Arctic summer sea ice coverage in 2005. Arctic sea ice melted to its lowest level ever this week, shattering a record set in 2005 and continuing a trend spurred by human-caused global warming, scientists said on September 20, 2007. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bleak "report card" on global warming's Arctic impact released on Wednesday found less ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, and stressed that what happens around the North Pole affects the entire planet. The report, issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also found that weird winds blowing warm air toward ...
Apple to allow outside applications on iPhone
Post Date: 2007-10-18 08:31:37 by angle
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that outside developers will be allowed to create programs for the iPhone, changing a policy that had angered many. Blocking outsiders from making programs that would run easily on the iPhone has been one of a series of restrictions that have annoyed users, even leading to some lawsuits. Jobs, in comments on Apple's Web site, said a kit for developers still will not be available until February, as the company works out how to open up the phone without exposing it to malicious programs. "We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on ...
Study seeks genetic roots of homosexuality
Post Date: 2007-10-15 23:35:01 by Trace21231
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Study seeks scientific explanation for roots of homosexuality The Associated Press Updated: 1:59 p.m. MT Oct 15, 2007 CHICAGO - Two gay brothers are convinced their sexual orientation is as deeply rooted as their Mexican ancestry. They are among 1,000 pairs of gay brothers taking part in the largest study to date seeking genes that may influence whether people are gay. The Cabreras hope the findings will help silence critics who say homosexuality is an immoral choice. If fresh evidence is found suggesting genes are involved, perhaps homosexuality will be viewed as no different than other genetic traits like height and hair color, said AKA Stone, a student at DePaul University in Chicago. ...
MS Process Explorer - Windows Users
Post Date: 2007-10-14 16:22:20 by Lod
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This tool has really helped my machine.
RETHINKING RELATIVITY
Post Date: 2007-10-13 17:52:19 by RickyJ
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Any physicists here at 4um care to comment on this? I would like your thoughts on this article. No one has paid attention yet, but a well-respected physics journal just published an article whose conclusion, if generally accepted, will undermine the foundations of modern physics -- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in particular. Published in Physics Letters A (December 21, 1998), the article claims that the speed with which the force of gravity propagates must be at least twenty billion times faster than the speed of light. This would contradict the Special Theory of Relativity of 1905, which asserts that nothing can go faster than light. This claim about the special status of the ...
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Post Date: 2007-10-12 11:23:05 by Brian S
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Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects." Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' " That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at ...
Bill Clinton
Post Date: 2007-10-11 21:54:11 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Bill Clinton under Mind Control
Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship
Post Date: 2007-10-11 19:10:41 by Zipporah
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The Citizen Lab has a new anti-censorware guide, "Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide." The 31-page PDF covers a lot of ground, with material for anti-censorware activists and users, and is very handsomely put together. Circumvention and anonymity are different. Anony- mous systems protect your identity from the website you are connecting to and from the anonymity system itself. They can be used for circumvention, but are not designed for this purpose and thus can easily be blocked. Circumvention systems are designed to get around blocking but do not protect your identity from the circumvention provider. Do not mistake open public ...
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight
Post Date: 2007-10-10 09:25:36 by gengis gandhi
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PARIS, France (AP) -- A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. art.kilogram.ap.jpg Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures with the reference kilogram. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight -- if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies. "The mystery is that they were all made of the same material, and many were made at the same time and ...
c2c interview: Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix
Post Date: 2007-10-10 09:19:56 by gengis gandhi
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New Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Pollute Aquatic Ecosystems
Post Date: 2007-10-10 08:03:53 by angle
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study by an Indiana University environmental science professor and several colleagues suggests a widely planted variety of genetically engineered corn has the potential to harm aquatic ecosystems. The study is being published this week by the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Researchers, including Todd V. Royer, an assistant professor in the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, established that pollen and other plant parts containing toxins from genetically engineered Bt corn are washing into streams near cornfields. They also conducted laboratory trials that found consumption of Bt corn byproducts produced increased mortality and ...
Following Honeybee Disappearance, Bumblebees Begin Vanishing Act
Post Date: 2007-10-09 23:30:13 by robin
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains, but hasn't been able to locate any this year. He fears that the species — Franklin's bumblebee — has gone extinct before anyone could even propose it for the endangered species list. To make matters worse, two other bumblebee species — one on the East coast, one on the West — have gone from ...
Chimps choose more rationally than humans
Post Date: 2007-10-09 12:58:34 by Horse
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German researchers have demonstrated chimpanzees make choices that protect their self-interest more consistently than do humans. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig studied the chimp's choices by using an economic game with two players. In the game, a human or chimpanzee who receives something of value can offer to share it with another. If the proposed share is rejected, neither player gets anything. Humans typically make offers close to 50 percent of the reward. They also reject as unfair offers of significantly less than half of the reward, even though this choice means they get nothing. The study, however, showed chimpanzees reliably ...
The Inconvenient Science of Racial DNA Profiling
Post Date: 2007-10-08 23:04:48 by Tauzero
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The Inconvenient Science of Racial DNA Profiling by Melba Newsome 10.05.07 | 11:00 AM On July 16, 2002, a survey crew from the Department of Transportation found Pam Kinamore's nude, decomposing body in the area along the banks of the Mississippi known as Whiskey Bay, just west of Baton Rouge. The police tested the DNA and quickly realized that they were dealing with a serial killer: the same man who had killed two other white, middle-class women in the area. The FBI, Louisiana State Police, Baton Rouge Police Department and sheriff's departments soon began a massive search. Based on an FBI profile and a confident eyewitness, the Multi-Agency Homicide Task Force futilely upended ...
Asteroid could hit Earth in 2029 - Russian astronomer
Post Date: 2007-10-07 20:49:58 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti) - An asteroid, discovered in 2004, could pose a threat to Earth in 2029, the director of the Institute of Astronomy said Monday. Boris Shustov said at an international space forum in Moscow that the Apophis asteroid, which is due to cross earth's orbit in 2029 at a height of 27,000 km (17,000 miles), could under certain conditions hit Earth in 2029. The explosion could surpass the famous Tunguska explosion of June 30, 1908, which affected a 2,150 square kilometer (830 sq miles) area of Russia felling over 80 million trees in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in Siberia. The meteoroid's air blast was estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons in TNT ...
Free wireless networking HOWTO book
Post Date: 2007-10-07 12:06:05 by Zipporah
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Glenn Fleishman from Wireless Networking News sez, "My colleague Adam Engst and I are releasing our book The Wireless Networking Starter Kit as a free download. We wrote this edition in 2004, and sales weren't strong enough to promote further editions in print. However, we felt that it was still timely enough to give away. The book covers planning a Wi-Fi network, setting it up, security considerations, and adding antennas or more base stations to increase coverage and range. (What's not included? Much about WPA security and anything about 802.11n.) We haven't put it into Creative Commons because we share licensing with our publisher, but it's free for ...
Squaring the Circle
Post Date: 2007-10-07 01:05:28 by Tauzero
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Squaring the Circle An ingenious attempt to explain racial differences in achievement. reviewed by Michael Levin The gaps in achievement among world cultures are an obvious problem for racial egalitarians. If no group is more talented than any other, why did Eurasians rather than Africans split the atom? Why didn’t indigenous Americans invent arithmetic? Egalitarians usually dodge such questions, citing American “racism” to explain black and Hispanic failures in the United States despite its irrelevance to the “developing (i.e. undeveloped) world.” To his credit, Jared Diamond has confronted this issue head-on. He hopes to explain the attainments of each race ...
Rewriting the Reality Code-The Quantum Power of Living From The Answer
Post Date: 2007-10-05 17:02:40 by gengis gandhi
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Rewriting the Reality Code-The Quantum Power of Living From The Answer Copyright © Gregg Braden Reprinted with permission from Mystic Pop Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue 2006 www.mysticpopmagazine.com “What strange beings we are!” noted the 13th Century mystic Rumi, “That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” Perhaps it is actually the power to choose our immortality, as well as everything from our personal healing to the peace of our world, that truly frightens us! A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that it is us —our consciousness— that holds the key to life and even reality itself! In 1967 the pioneering ...
CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film
Post Date: 2007-10-04 16:58:43 by christine
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CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Finally,” in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to “American Morning,” “it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies.” "There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano added. “The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming.” Video (0:48): Windows (514 kB), plus MP3 audio (365 kB) Marciano went on to explain that, “global warming does not conclusively cause stronger hurricanes like we've seen,” ...
FTC shuts down adware ring [Spyware disabler]
Post Date: 2007-10-03 13:31:29 by Eoghan
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A company accused of running an adware scam which infected 15 million PCs has settled its case with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The owner of ERG Ventures has agreed to pay a $330,000 penalty and follow stricter distribution guidelines in the future. The FTC alleged that ERG used seemingly harmless software downloads, such as screen savers and video files, to mask covert installations of the Media Motor adware program. The covertly installed software proceeded to disable any antivirus or adware-blocking software installed on the user's computer and initiate a series of malicious installations. These included tracking software, pop-up generators and other pieces of malware ...
China May Win New Space Race, NASA Says
Post Date: 2007-10-03 11:51:53 by Brian S
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(10-03) 08:23 PDT Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit. Fifty years after Sputnik became the world's first artificial satellite, a new race is under way with the finish line on the moon. NASA, the former lunar champion, already is predicting defeat. "I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a low-key lecture in Washington two weeks ago, marking the space agency's 50th anniversary, still a year away. "I think when that happens, Americans ...
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