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Submission + - Rainbow Tables for Download - Free!

Submitted by

Tristan Gamilis

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @04:13AM

Tristan Gamilis writes: "Rainbow Tables are well and good, but for those of us with single cores and less than 10 years to sit and wait for them to generate, they are more than a little beyond reach.

Enter Free Rainbow Tables.com
Nearing their first Terabyte of tables, and all for free — No strings attached.

The tables are generated by their community using DistrRTgen, a distributed Rainbow Tables Generator. Breaking tables down into parts, the program then assigns the parts to the many users running the DistrRTgen client. The parts are completed and uploaded back to the server where they are compiled, compressed, and made available for download to anyone and everyone with a hash that needs cracking.

Progress can be followed, as well as User Stats.

The site is currently focusing on NTLM tables to give Windows Vista a warm welcome!"

Submission + - British Government against 'pure' software patents

Submitted by

uglyduckling

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @04:09AM

uglyduckling writes: "The British Government has issued a response to a recent petition calling for 'the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible'. The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter and the spirit of the law'. The Gowers Review that it references gives detailed insight into the current British position on this debate, most interestingly recommending a policy of 'not extending patent rights beyond their present limits within the areas of software, business methods and genes.'"

Submission + - The Ultimate Blooper?

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @04:04AM

WerewolfOfVulcan writes: This video appears to be evidence that the BBC was reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 approximately 23 minutes before it actually collapsed. Given that no steel frame building had ever collapsed due to fire prior to 9-11, it raises considerable questions. Still more interesting is that Google Video seems to be removing copies of the video as fast as it's posted. Link after link gave me an error. The one in this message is working as of 1:55 am CST.

Prison Planet has several downloadable versions, but they don't have the annotation.

Journal Journal: First entry from FF under Kubuntu

Journal by mysticgoat on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @04:01AM

20070226:

This is my first session on slashdot using Firefox under Kubuntu. It is also my first session on slashdot with Kubuntu at all. In fact, at this point my total experience with Kubuntu is less than 4 hours— and half of that was just reading the noobie toots. Most of the rest has been in just looking around to see what came in the package.

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by bratgitarre on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:43AM

Submission + - New FreeBSD ULE 2.0 Scheduler for the win...

Submitted by Sean on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:42AM

Sean writes: Now that the goals of the SMPng project are considered complete, FreeBSD has some glory to share for the work that's been done over the last 7 years (ie: post-FreeBSD 4.X): MySQL runs 4x faster on FreeBSD 7 than on Linux 2.6 with 20 or more threads. The FreeBSD performance list archives have the details and graphs for those with inquiring minds. Additional details and patches can be found here.

Submission + - Innovations Inpiration Interesting

Submitted by

indyank

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:36AM

indyank writes: "Innovators receive awards from the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam. Innovations include: 1) "herbal" bulletproof jacket 2) A mobile-operated device to turn on the microwave from office or prevent a car from being stolen while the person is on holiday 3) An umbrella that will ensure for the person underneath as not to get a heatstroke 4) A self-fabricated shoes, which allows a person to walk over the water Read more here"

Submission + - Pirate Bay abandons bid for own nation

Submitted by tomp76 on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:21AM

tomp76 writes: Perhaps it was all just a joke. Or perhaps The Pirate Bay, despite being one of the largest bit torrent trackers in the world, isn't really as powerful as its supporters would like to believe. That, at least, is the impression given by one of the founders in this interview. The plans for a copyright-free nation have been scaled down considerably: "We have $20,000 and we are looking at some alternatives. Really we just want somewhere we can name The Pirate Bay, so we can look on Google Maps and find ourselves there."

Submission + - Supreme Court Refuses 200 Year Porn Sentence

Submitted by

Class Act Dynamo

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:14AM

Class Act Dynamo writes: "The United States Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of a high school teacher who was sentenced to over 200 years in prison for possessing thousands of child pornography images in Arizona. The justices declined without comment to hear the case. His attorneys argued that the sentence (10 years per image for the 20 images presumably leading to indictment) was disproportionate to the crime. I put this under Your Rights Online even though those rights really don't include possessing child pornography. However, what do Slashdotters think? Was the punishment appropriate for the crime? Think of the children!..but not in the way that this teacher apparently was."

Journal Journal: Prototype Prose

Journal by Deltronica on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:52AM

Every day I make political speeches muffled by shower curtains. I pound invisible podiums as I shout for imaginary people to stand up for their beliefs and live their dreams. The water is moved by the tears in my eyes while my soul spills out from my trembling mouth. "We can make a difference!" I cry to the tiles. I want them to understand that i'm following my dream when I beg them to stand up and spread their wings flap with the force of all they've ever yearned for and carry humanity into th

Submission + - Windows XP & WPA2

Submitted by Arnold Davies on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:49AM

Arnold Davies writes: Microsoft says they're doing their best to make Windows secure — but it seems that they're too busy with Vista to give a minute's time to Windows XP. WPA2 is the only network encryption protocol worth using, all the rest have been cracked. Yet Windows XP doesn't support WPA2 encryption — at any rate, not without hunting down the patch and installing it yourself.. we're not all IT admins you know!

But that's not the big problem. The real problem is, Microsoft hasn't even released a patch for Windows XP x64 WPA2 compatibility! The x86 patch has been out since May 1st, 2005 — but 2 years later, it's still not out for x64 and it's still not on Windows Update... So when WPA3 comes out, it looks we'll all have to upgrade to Vienna to be secure!

Submission + - Citibank: training users to be less secure

Submitted by Llamedos on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:29AM

Llamedos writes: Citibank has redesigned their credit card website (Citicards.com) so that the login page is not an SSL encrypted page. Instead, they expect users to simply accept a little lock GIF file they put up themselves, and their assurance that the form is submitted via SSL. According to Citibank, "Your security is important to us. While the new Citicards.com has an "http" address and no lock icon displays in your browser, your personal information is still protected." Citibank's security page While other sites are moving to more security and more ways for the user to protect himself (e.g., Bank of America's SiteKey program), Citibank is tearing away at protections and trying to train users not to care about security.

Submission + - Operation Falcon and the Encroaching Police State

Submitted by Deltronica on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:20AM

Deltronica writes: According to Information Clearinghouse, the police state feared by many is being carried out right under our noses. From TFA: "The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public. Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment's notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin. " The full article can be found here.

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by ardianelkana on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:13AM

Submission + - Documentary on DRM, Piracy, Released for Free

Submitted by iSeal on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @02:06AM

iSeal writes: The "On Piracy" documentary team have just released version 1.0 of their documentary, free for the download. In it, they interview figureheads of various agencies including the president of CRIA (Canadian RIAA), the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (Canadian MPAA), as well as the head of Creative Commons Canada, Michael Geist, youths off the street, indy labels, band members, etc. Streaming downloads are up, and the DVD ISO is being legitimately distributed via bittorrent.

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