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Comment Re:SHOULD it happen? I'm not convinced. (Score 1) 567

by ASimPerson on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:47PM (#29623343) Attached to: California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train

Planning has been underway since before the vote last year. The HSR will have its own right-of-way and will require building new track. Am I confident it's going to happen? Eh, maybe. But the idea is that it will be true high-speed rail, and with that requires specially constructed track and all the trappings thereof.

Submission + - TMTO[dot]ORG's new MD5 hash database is now online

Submitted by

JasonRDavis

on Friday March 30, 2007 @05:37PM

JasonRDavis writes: "TMTO[dot]ORG, formally MD5Lookup.com, has put a new revision of it's infamous MD5 hash database online today. The database has 306,777,669,363 entries and is 1.6TB in size. These factors may make it one of the largest non-rainbow-table based MD5 reversers to date. The new character set added all permutations of the 8 length, alpha-lower range. Meaning, it can reverse the MD5 hash of "abcdefgh", "jughfyde", and "ekfjudys" in .20 of a second. For those of you looking for a pro-active password auditing tool for your web forum or applications that utilize the MD5 algorithm, this is a must have resource. An API to the database is going to be available in the near future as well, meaning it's use could soon be tied into applications to provide an on-the-fly auditing tool for webmasters and admins."

iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax 311

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:59PM from the man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-Hatto dept.

holy_calamity writes "The reliance by iTunes on the CDDB has burst open a musical fraud in the usually staid world of classical piano. Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto, who died in June 2006, are identified by the iTunes player as belonging to other performers. A more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers. Her husband, who produced all her albums, says he 'cannot explain' the similarities."

Submission + - Congress Tackles Patent Reform

Submitted by nadamsieee on Friday February 16, 2007 @03:07PM

nadamsieee writes: Wired's Luke O'Brian recently reported about Congress' latest attempt to reform the patent system. In the article O'Brian tells of how "[w]itnesses at Thursday's hearing painted a bleak picture of that system. Adam Jaffe, a Brandeis University professor and author of a book on the subject, described the system as "out of whack." Instead of "the engine of innovation," the patent has become "the sand in the gears," he said, citing widespread fears of litigation." The House Oversight Committee website has more details. How would you fix the patent system?

Submission + - ATI is not supporting the All-in-Wonder in Vista

Submitted by Working-Person on Friday February 16, 2007 @12:36PM

Working-Person writes: Thinking about using your expensive All-in-Wonder with Vista? Think again. Here's the response from ATI when looking for Vista drivers "The product you purchased was not advertised or broadcasted as Vista Compliant it is fully functional and supported on the specified Operating Systems. The tuner on the board doesn't meet Windows Vista's requirements and is not compatable. That means it will not be supported and there will be no drivers or software release for the tuner on the ALL IN WONDER Board."

Submission + - MIT Team Makes Light Chip

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:32PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they've overcome a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of the light waves. It promises to solve a problem that's long plagued fiber-optic networks: Light waves gradually weaken over distances as they become polarized, or randomly oriented horizontally and vertically. The tools available to fix it are expensive to deploy on a massive scale. It's a promising development as bandwidth-hungry video puts a strain on networks and consumers demand seamless transmissions."

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