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Comment Re:Evolution.. (Score 1) 588

by Trentula (#35642686) Attached to: 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity

I'm not sure I'd label it as the next stage in evolution, but perhaps a simultaneous branch.

We need people who are capable of interacting with other people as well as those who are able to focus incredibly well on particular things at the cost of being able to interact with other people.

To claim one is better than the other is, I feel, foolish.

Who cares if one is brilliant if one isn't able to effectively articulate and communicate ideas to others who can help a concept come to fruition?

To me, it seems that most advancements in STEM these days come from a team effort, not lone wolves
Government

White House Warns of Supercomputer Arms Race 123

Posted by Soulskill from the supercold-war dept.
dcblogs writes "The White House's science advisors, in a report last week, said a petaflop-by-petaflop race to achieve number one on the Top500 could prove costly and divert money from supercomputing research. 'While it would be imprudent to allow ourselves to fall significantly behind our peers with respect to scientific performance benchmarks that have demonstrable practical significance, a single-minded focus on maintaining clear superiority in terms of flops count is probably not in our national interest,' the report said (PDF). It is urging the supercomputing community to expand its benchmark measures beyond the Top500's Linpack. It says the Graph500, for data-intensive applications involving the rapid execution of graph operations, 'will be more relevant,' but also acknowledges that it will difficult to rely on any one measure."
Security

Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances 217

Posted by CmdrTaco from the sekrit-p4ssw0rd dept.
suraj.sun writes "As of Nov. 15, 2010, Amazon EC2 is providing what they call 'Cluster GPU Instances': An instance in the Amazon cloud that provides you with the power of two NVIDIA Tesla 'Fermi' M2050 GPUs... Using the CUDA-Multiforce, I was able to crack all hashes from this file with a password length from 1-6 in only 49 Minutes (1 hour costs $2.10 by the way.). This is just another demonstration of the weakness of SHA1 — you really don't want to use it anymore."
The Internet

Afghan Government Turns To Iran For Internet 80

Posted by Soulskill from the access-of-evil dept.
Barlaam writes "Renesys describes new evidence that the Iranian national telecommunications provider, DCI, is selling (uncensored?) Internet connectivity to customers in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. 'The Internet connectivity outreach that we now see in the global routing tables seems like continuing evidence of Iran's long-term strategy: aggressively pursuing bilateral infrastructure and investment projects with its neighbors, in ways that will increase Iran's regional influence after the Americans have moved on.'"
It's funny. Laugh.

Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex 284

Posted by timothy from the now-with-more-highly-integrated-business-principles dept.
After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
Cellphones

Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154

Posted by Soulskill from the first-in-line dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."

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