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Comment ring a bell anyone? (Score 1) 470

by TurnerPunk on Saturday June 30, 2007 @03:14AM (#19697781) Attached to: Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator

All I know is that's one huge freakin Sims game I wanna play!

Feed The Register: Intel has four-core Opteron stuffer set for August (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Saturday June 30, 2007 @03:12AM

Barcelona: 'It could have been a contender'

Exclusive Intel looks set to blunt AMD's August Barcelona processor release by handing customers a 2.0GHz version of its four-core Clovertown, The Register has learned.

Feed The Register: Space nuke boffin: NASA Moonbase needs nuclear rockets (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Saturday June 30, 2007 @03:12AM

Could face stiff opposition from granola tendency

One of America'a top nukes-in-space boffins says it's time to consider nuclear-powered rockets again. He reckons atomic boosters could cut the cost of NASA's upcoming Moonbase plan.

Submission + - Fuzzing toolkit for Web server testing (ddj.com)

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Saturday June 30, 2007 @02:42AM

prostoalex writes: "Dr. Dobb's Journal runs an article discussing the tools necessary for fuzzing (testing the system by generating random input in order to cause program failure or crash): "You are fuzzing a Web server's capability to handle malformed POST data and discover a potentially exploitable memory corruption condition when the 50th test case you sent that crashes the service. You restart the Web daemon and retransmit your last malicious payload, but nothing happens.Was the issue a fluke? Of course not: Computers are deterministic and have no notion of randomness. The issue must rely on some combination of inputs. Perhaps an earlier packet put the Web server in a state that later allowed the 50th test to trigger the memory corruption.We can't tell without further analysis and we can't narrow the possibilities down without the capability of replaying the entire test set in a methodical fashion.""

Journal Journal: Half-Blood Prince End-Game More SPOILERS 10

Journal by Shadow Wrought on Saturday June 30, 2007 @01:21AM

***SPOILERS***

Same proviso.

Feed Science Daily: Newfound Mechanisms May Unlock Answers To Alzheimer's Disease (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Saturday June 30, 2007 @12:12AM

Four million people in the United States and 15 to 20 million people worldwide are affected by Alzheimer's disease. These numbers are likely to triple by 2050 due to the fact that 24 percent of the population will be more than 65 years old. In their attempt to combat the disease, two University of Missouri-Columbia professors have identified new mechanisms that could have major implications in the development of treatments for the disease.

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