Comment Yeah (Score 5, Informative) 293
And if that fails, at least give us a standardized interface to share our data, for saving costs.
Comment Re:Unless, of course, you study the author... (Score 1) 726
You seem to forget the asteroid launched at and hitting Earth by bugs (implausible as that may be, but that's the story)
Comment Closer to reality? Really? (Score 1) 49
Stanley Cubrick did it in 1971, and it's been a classic since. Ah yes, the old ultra-violet. Nothing like milk plus to sharpen you up a bit.
Comment Re:well good for them (Score 3, Insightful) 142
This time it's not political critters developing a shred of common sense, it's political critters channeling civil society's common sense and massive protests. For once, they have worked.
Comment The story's server has a funny name, too (Score 2, Funny) 1397
"Unable to connect to database server"
Comment A modest proposal (Score 4, Funny) 408
1. Make the proof for P=NP the new CAPTCHA
2. Wait for crackers to solve it.
3. Profit!!
2. Wait for crackers to solve it.
3. Profit!!
Submission + - Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol
GroeFaZ writes: As the BBC reports, the first political act of the new PM of Australia, Rudd, was to start ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. He was quoted as saying "[Signing the Kyoto Protocol is] a significant step forward in our country's efforts to fight climate change domestically — and with the international community,". That is, the international community without the USA — Australia's ratification made the USA the only industrialized nation to not have signed the Kyoto Protocol.
Using Google To Crack MD5 Passwords 232
stern writes "A security researcher at Cambridge was trying to figure out the password used by somebody who had hacked his Web site. He tried running a dictionary through the encryption hash function; no dice. Then he pasted the hacker's encrypted password into Google, and voila — there was his answer. Conclusion? Use no password that any other human being has ever used, or is ever likely to use, for any purpose. I think."
