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Comment I had two rolls in for the final processing (Score 5, Interesting) 262

Kodachrome is hard film to use; I gave up trying to take indoor photos with it years ago. I have continued to use it (about 25 rolls in the last two years), mostly because the quality of the images is obviously different from modern film or digital, and evokes nostalgia in older viewers. And I liked the bragging rights. It's no surprise that Kodachrome is gone; Kodak had been phasing it out for years -- first killing the larger format versions, then the iso25 and iso200 variants, and the motion picture film. The economics just weren't there; virtually every other color film uses identical (C41 or E6) processing chemicals, and Kodachrome used a different and apparently more toxic set. Without scale, it was more expensive to buy and process than other color films, and the emulsion can't even be scanned by most slide scanners. You're left with only nostalgia and archival properties to drive sales, enough for a small specialty chemical company perhaps, but not for Kodak.

Bug

Submission + - Fossil of 8 foot sea scorpion discovered (newscientist.com)

stern writes: "The fossil remains of a giant claw have been found in Germany. Scientists believe it came from a sea scorpion 8 feet long, about 390 million years ago. I appreciate we are supposed to save the environment and all, but sometimes you have just got to thank God for extinction. Deeply distressing illustration available at http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn12941/dn12941-1_351.jpg"
Security

Submission + - Using Google to crack MD5 passwords. (lightbluetouchpaper.org) 2

stern writes: "A security researcher at Cambridge, trying to figure out the password used by somebody who had hacked his website, ran a dictionary through the encryption hash function. No dice. Then he pasted the hacker's encrypted password into Google, and Shazzam — the all-knowing Google delivered his answer. Conclusion? Use no password any other human being is ever likely to use for any purpose, I think."
Math

Submission + - Simplist Universal Turing Machine Has Been Proven (wolfram.com)

stern writes: "Five months ago, Stephen Wolfram announced a contest to prove that a two state, three color Turing machine was universal (which is to say, that it could simulate any other Turing machine, regardless of complexity). It is known that no 2,2 universal machines exist, so the 2,3 machine, if it could be proven universal, would be the most simple possible universal machine.

A 20 year old English student found the proof in only five months, and Wolfram has awarded him $25,000 for his trouble."

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