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Intel

Submission + - Intel breathes new life into Pentium (techworld.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "Intel is giving new life to its Pentium processor for servers, and has started shipping the new Pentium 350 chip for low-end servers. The dual-core processor operates at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and has 3MB of cache. Like many server chips, the Pentium 350 lacks features such as integrated graphics, which are on most of Intel's laptop and desktop processors."

Submission + - Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eye (newscientist.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The future of augmented-reality technology is here — as long as you're a rabbit. Bioengineers have placed the first contact lenses containing electronic displays into the eyes of rabbits as a first step on the way to proving they are safe for humans. The bunnies suffered no ill effects, the researchers say.
Earth

Submission + - NASA Sees Southern Lights From Space (ibtimes.com)

gabbo529 writes: "Talk about a hell of a view. NASA satellites on the current Atlantis space shuttle mission were able to capture the geomagnetic phenomenon known as Aurora Australis while it was in progress. The phenomenon, which is called Aurora Borealis in the North, is a natural light display caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere."
Encryption

Submission + - Brute-Force Password Cracking with FPGAs

BlueToast writes: "It was only about a month ago that there had been an article about how great GPUs can be at brute-force password cracking, and only recently about JPMorgan's FPGA supercomputer churning out a 9-hour job in only about 5 minutes. So now my curiosity is just how powerful could a datacenter-sized supercomputer of FPGAs be when it comes to brute-force password cracking?"
Security

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: You Break RSA. What next?

An anonymous reader writes: A near 20-year hobby of mine has been searching for an algorithm to efficiently factor large numbers into their constituent primes. While I'm no closer to a solution, I sometimes fantasize about what I would do with one if I somehow succeeded--Lease it to the government? Release it into the public domain? Become paranoid and never leave my house? What would you do?

Comment Re:No amount of security will prevent terrorism (Score 5, Insightful) 457

Incorrect. True security *has* stopped another 9/11.

That 'security' includes exactly 2 things:

Reinforced and 'locked' cockpit doors.

Flight #93 passenger response.

Those 2 things will prevent another 9/11 from happening. The TSA is preventing bombs 'on' planes which is *not* what 9/11 was. It was using planes as flying missles. Very. Different. Threats.

Reinforced and 'locked' cockpit doors are things that should have naturally been implemented into design by common sense. That would be passive security that works on its own without further human intervention after fabrication and production.

Submission + - Yes, We Can Stop The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger! (fcc.gov)

BlueToast writes: "Proceeding 11-65 on FCC's website is in regards to the potential merge between AT&T and T-Mobile. This merge would be a bad thing as it would result in less competition for consumers to choose from, providing the dominating players of the mobile telecom industry the capability of raising prices for the same plans. The greatest thing any one person can do right now is to submit a comment in petition for this merger (11-65) to not go through."

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