Topic: Space - on November 8, 2006 at 8:05:00 PM CET
Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes.
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Topic: CARS - on November 8, 2006 at 8:01:00 PM CET
Danish Bikini Speed Bandits Help Make Copenhagen A Less Fast Place
The movie below via the link, which is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, was made by the Danish Road Safety Council in a misguided attempt to cut down on speeding by drawing attention to speed signs and speed limits.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 8, 2006 at 4:12:00 PM CET
Drahdiwaberl-Gründer ist 60
Heute feiert Österreichs Kultrocker und Drahdiwaberl-Gründer Stefan Weber seinen 60. Geburtstag. "Ich glaub, die Jane Fonda hat einmal gesagt, sie freue sich über jede Runzel - I freu mi net", scherzt der Wiener, der sich als Musiker einen Namen gemacht hat.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 3:56:00 PM CET
Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack
Caution: With tools such as these, we do not condone their use for anything but testing networks for which you have the authority and for implementing defensive measures. Have fun!
Rainbow tables reduce the difficulty in brute force cracking a single password by creating a large pre-generated data set of hashes from nearly every possible password. Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack come from the work and subsequent paper by Philippe Oechsli. The method, known as the Faster Time-Memory Trade-Off Technique, is based on research by Martin Hellman & Ronald Rivest done in the early 1980’s on the performance trade-offs between processing time and the memory needed for cryptanalysis. In his paper published in 2003, Oechslin refined the techniques and showed that the attack could reduce the time to attack 99.9% of Microsoft's LAN Manager passwords (alpha characters only) to 13.6 seconds from 101 seconds. Further algorithm refinements also reduced the number of false positives produced by the system.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 8, 2006 at 3:53:00 PM CET
Google steps up investment in radio industry
Web search leader Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry.
Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year. Advertisers will be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads using the same AdWords system they use to buy Web search ads.
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Topic: PHOTO - on November 8, 2006 at 3:43:00 PM CET
The highest railway in the world
The pan-Himalayan line climbs 5 072m (16 640ft) above sea level and runs across Tibet's snow-covered plateau, providing a controversial link between Beijing and Lhasa. The photography below is some of the first to be seen of this railway, which was completed in October, 2005.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 3:41:00 PM CET
UK supercomputer sets faster pace
The UK's fastest-proven supercomputer used by the academic community has doubled in size and performance.
The HPCx machine, based in Warrington, is now capable of operating at speeds up to 15.4 teraflops, or 15.4 trillion calculations every second.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 8, 2006 at 12:30:00 PM CET
The best of Google Earth
Around the world, via burning oil fields, topless sunbathers and Area 51...
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Microsoft to pay Novell $348 million under Linux pact
Software maker Novell Corp. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell's open-source Linux software to work with Windows.
Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow the world's largest software maker to use its Linux software. Microsoft will pay an additional $108 million upfront for use of patents, Novell said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 8, 2006 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Lucas killed Indiana Jones 4
If you wanna blame anyone for the tardiness of the fourth “Indiana Jones” film – a film many predict may never happen, if only because its been off and on more times than a kettle – you can probably take aim at George Lucas.
According to Screenwriter Frank Darabont (“The Green Mile”), the fourth film was ready to go two years ago – until Lucas decided he didn’t like his script. Considering Steven Spielberg thought the script was the best Jaunt Indy had had since ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, it sounds like Uncle George needs his head read.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 8, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Oops, she did it again.
Britney Spears has filed a petition for divorce from Kevin Federline.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 8, 2006 at 12:01:00 PM CET
SELF FUCKING SYSTEMS oder INFORMATION MACHT GLÜCKLICH
"Journalismus und Management sind die wichtigsten Berufe des 21. Jahrhunderts." Das deckt die österreichische Kybernetikerin Maria Pruckner anhand ihrer aktuellsten kybernetischen Systemstudie auf. Ihr Titel: "SELF FUCKING SYSTEMS oder INFORMATION MACHT GLÜCKLICH". Diese Untersuchung widmet sich den Anforderungen an die Informationsleistungen und erforderliche Informationssicherheit in der Komplexitätsepoche für eine erfolgreiche Gesellschaft und den Auswirkungen, wenn sie unter einem erforderlichen Level bleiben.
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