Comment: Holographic Mobile Phones... (Score 2) 109
Aren't cell phones annoying enough as it is without people projecting the person on the other end in my face?
Comment: 27 lbs in 10 days (Score 1) 35
Not sure where the 10 days comes from when the article clearly indicates it was over 2 months. It was just a clever trick to make me RTFA wasn't it?
Comment: Re:When is a bank not a bank (Score 1) 775
1 time use numbers. Discovers expire the same month as your normal card.
Discover card's secure numbers aren't exactly one time use they're one vendor use. When you generate number X and use it to buy something from Y, the number is locked into Y and no one else can use it. A little less secure than one time use numbers but a lot more convenient in my opinion.
Comment: misleading headline (Score 1) 385
Rick wasn't one of the maintainers of Adblock Plus. He was the maintainer of Easylist, a filter list that works with ABP, and quite possibly the best one I might add.
Comment: Not really a robot company, but... (Score 1) 581
My vote goes to Cybertron.
German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims 191
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LeCaddie writes "Last week German investigators raided 51 exhibitor stands at CeBIT, the German information technology fair in Hanover, looking for goods suspected of infringing patents. Some 183 police, customs officers, and prosecutors raided the fair on Wednesday and carried off 68 boxes of electronic goods and documents including cellphones, navigation devices, digital picture frames, and flat-screen monitors. Of the 51 companies raided, 24 were Chinese. Most of the patents concerned were related to devices with MP3, MP4, and DVB standard functions for digital audio and video, blank CDs, and DVD copiers, police said." In the US there are no criminal penalties associated with patents, and such a raid could not be conducted, especially in the absence of a court ruling of infringement.
National Academies mount new defense of evolution
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mpsmps writes "The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine today released SCIENCE, EVOLUTION, AND CREATIONISM, a book laying out the latest and overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution and why non-scientific approaches do not belong in the science classroom. It also discusses how our understanding of evolution has been essential in scientific advances, such as the analysis of the SARS virus. You can download the press release or read the entire book for free online."
Google tracks you on torrent and porn sites 7
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An anonymous reader writes "Think Google can only track you search habits? Think again. This site survey found that 40 of the top100 websites use Google-analytics as their web analysis software. Sites like mininova and youporn included. Google dominates the search engine world and now as a centralized service dominate the none-search website metrics. I am glad they do. I will be immortalized in Google databases as Google scientists of the future analyze my search habits, movies I like to see and types of girls I would like to meet."
Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? 388
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from the she-does-exist-yes dept.
from the she-does-exist-yes dept.
AlpineR writes "Is there an opposite to absolute zero? An article from PBS's NOVA online explains several theories of the maximum possible temperature. Maybe it's the Planck temperature, 10^32 K, beyond which the known laws of physics break down. Or maybe just 10^30 K, the limit of some versions of string theory. If space is actually 11-dimensional then the maximum temperature could even be as low as 10^17 K, attainable by the Large Hadron Collider. Or maybe infinite temperature wraps around to negative temperature and absolute hot is the same as absolute cold."
Possibilities of reversing md5 hashes 1
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maclizard writes "I'm sure there is a simple answer (probably 'no'), but I've researching md5 hashing and how there have been reports of such hashes being cracked to reveal passwords. My question is this: If a 32 character hash can be reversed to uncover a password, is it possible to reverse the hash of a large file, essentially reproducing it from its hash? Even if the answer is 'no', please elaborate."