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Submission + - SHA-3 Finalists Known

Submitted by Skuto on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:01AM

Skuto writes: NIST just announced the final selection of algorithms in the SHA-3 hash competition. The algorithms that are candidates to replace SHA-2 are BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein. The selection criteria included performance in software and hardware, hardware implementation size, best known attacks and being different enough from the other candidates. Curiously, some of the faster algorithms were eliminated as they were felt to be "too fast to be true". A full report with the (non-)selection rationale for each candidate is forthcoming.

Comment History repeats itself (Score 1) 396

by bagder on Friday May 28, 2010 @10:59AM (#32377144) Attached to: <em>Tetris</em> Clones Pulled From Android Market

As everyone knows, this has been done before and we've (including actual lawyers involved) already years ago concluded that this company has no copyright on the gameplay or concept or anything. What they have is trademark(s) so staying out of actually using their name(s) is probably a clever idea.

Old data from 2006 when Tetris LLC sent mail to the Rockbox project: http://lwn.net/Articles/200179/

As others have mentioned: a common practice that seems to be going on when some of these law firms contact you and are going out on a limb, is that they attach a contract which they want you to sign and agree to things, as if you actually go ahead and do that and you wouldn't stick to that agreement, you're suddenly violating contract law.

Submission + - NZ woman fired for using uppercase in email (nzherald.co.nz)

Submitted by

tomachi

on Saturday August 29, 2009 @05:18PM

tomachi writes: "This is hilarious. An accountant in NZ has been awarded $17,000 NZD for unfair dismissal after her boss fired her without warning for using uppercase letters in a single email to co-workers. The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, and a sentence written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue. It reads: "To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist.""

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