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Comment Mystery Pits (Score 3, Informative) 552

by Gonzotek on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @07:32PM (#26554501) Attached to: Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump

"But sloppy work by the contractors running the site saw all kinds of chemical and radioactive waste indiscriminately buried in pits underground over the 40 years Hanford was operational, earning it the accolade of the dirtiest place on Earth."
Oh, great. :)

Submission + - Google mobiles to make February debut? (apcmag.com)

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SpinelessJelly

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @07:35AM

SpinelessJelly writes: "It appears that Google's Android, criticised by Microsoft as vaporware, has sprung to life. Prototype devices are circulating, software developers are experimenting with the SDK and PC-based Android emulator, and there are rumours of a show-stopping debut at February's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Numerous examples of the Android GUI are also starting to leak out."

WEP Broken Even Worse 393

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:43PM from the give-me-a-minute dept.

collin.m writes in with news of results out of Darmstadt. Erik Tews and others there have demonstrated how to recover a 104-bit WEP key in under a minute, requiring the capture of fewer than 10% the number of packets the previous best method called for. The paper is here (PDF). Quoting: "We were able to extend Klein's attack and optimize it for usage against WEP. Using our version, it is possible to recover a 104 bit WEP key with probability 50% using just 40,000 captured packets... for 85,000 data packets [the success probability is] about 95%... 40,000 packets can be captured in less than one minute under good condition. The actual computation takes about 3 seconds and 3 MB main memory on a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz..."

Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power 766

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:03PM from the pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later dept.

Brett writes "Results from energy companies are coming in, and the word is that moving Daylight Saving Time forward three weeks had no measurable impact on power consumption. The attempt by the US Congress to make it look like they were doing something about the energy crisis has been exposed as the waste it is. But the new DST is probably here to stay — letting the bill expire would mean re-patching a lot of systems again next year. So much for saving energy."

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