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+ - What would happen if a hydrogen bomb were detonated in an active volcano?-> 2

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BlueToast
BlueToast writes "The thought came to me after joking with a co-worker about renting a helicopter in Hawaii to drop propane tanks or buckets of liquid nitrogen into larger pools of lava. If a nuclear or hydrogen bomb were detonated above a lava lake of an active volcano, or perhaps even somehow able to withstand the lava for some time to sink down further into a volcano and then detonated — what would happen?"
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Intel

+ - Intel breathes new life into Pentium->

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angry tapir
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."
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+ - Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eye->

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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."
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Earth

+ - NASA Sees Southern Lights From Space ->

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gabbo529
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."
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Encryption

+ - Brute-Force Password Cracking with FPGAs

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BlueToast
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

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

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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?"

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