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2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form 258

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @06:26PM from the probably-nothing-more-than-an-electrical-meter dept.

coondoggie writes "A new working model of the mysterious 2,100-year-old astronomical calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Device, has been unveiled, incorporating the most recent discoveries announced two years ago by an international team of researchers. The new model was demonstrated by its creator, former museum curator Michael Wright, who had created an earlier model based on decades of study."

Comment At ericsson as well (Score 1) 95

by mrniceguy600 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:20AM (#26046813) Attached to: World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call"

Apparently the operator Tre provides 21 Mbit at Ericsson's headquarter in Stockholm. Not for commercial use yet though. (In swedish, sorry...) http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.198793/tres-rekordbredband--bara-pa-ericssons-kontor

Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making 203

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @03:57PM from the were-they-lean-years-or-fat-years? dept.

narramissic writes "Back in March 2001, a hacker named Josh Buchbinder (a.k.a Sir Dystic) published code showing how an attack on a flaw in Microsoft's SMB (Server Message Block) service worked. Or maybe the flaw was first disclosed at Defcon 2000, by Veracode Chief Scientist Christien Rioux (a.k.a. Dildog). It was so long ago, memory is dim. Either way, it has taken Microsoft an unusually long time to fix. Now, a mere seven and a half years later, Microsoft has released a patch. 'I've been holding my breath since 2001 for this patch,' said Shavlik Technologies CTO Eric Schultze, in an e-mailed statement. Buchbinder's attack, called a SMB relay attack, 'showed how easy it was to take control of a remote machine without knowing the password,' he said."

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