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German software engineer beat Colossus, the British Second World War code-cracking computer
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Susan Johnson
Actually his laptop beat Colossus: Joachim Schueth, from Bonn, won the National Museum of Computing’s Cipher Challenge on November 15 last year. He received his prize, which includes a valve from the working Colossus at the museum, in Block H at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the wartime home of Colossus. Using his laptop, Mr Schueth…
Hackers aim at Scientologists, hit Dutch school kids
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Susan Johnson
OOPS! The Scientologists decided to make it hard for the hackers to bring them down, so the hired a firm to protect their site: But the Church of Scientology hired Prolexic, a company that specializes in protecting websites from DDOS attacks. Prolexic’s protection works by publicly substituting a Prolexic server for the attacked server, filtering…
Romney is within 3 points of John McCain nationally
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Susan Johnson
And it’s starting to look like they are the frontrunners: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows John McCain and Mitt Romney are starting to pull away from the rest of the field in the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination. McCain earns 27% of the vote while Romney attracts 25%. These…
E-Paper MP4 Player Bracelet
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Susan Johnson
You know those slap bracelets that the kids were wearing a couple years ago? It an aluminum strip covered in fabric that they would slap on their wrist and it would wraparound their wrist forming a bracelet. Here is a similar idea using e-paper. It’s a flexible MP4 player that you can wear on your…
Clinton: “Obama Is Just Like Jesse Jackson”
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Susan Johnson
Everyone said that he would do it, that he would minimize a win in SC by making Obama the “black” candidate and he actually did it: Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in ’84 and ’88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”This was…
Subway kiss winds up on YouTube
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Susan Johnson
Big Brother is watching and he’s a perv: Shanghai subway authorities apologized to a Chinese couple videotaped hugging and kissing on a subway platform and dismissed an employee involved in uploading the video which drew thousands of hits, state media said on Friday. The company found three staff were responsible for taking and uploading the…
Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are ‘very close’
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Susan Johnson
I wonder what Clinton’s motive was in saying this? Does he want McCain to be tainted because he really does fear him as Hillary’s opponent or does he want us to think he fears him so we’ll vote for the candidate that they know they can beat? Or is he just saying it to demonstrate…
Can you actually fry a squirrel in a popcorn popper?
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Susan Johnson
Samantha Henig of Slate gave it a try (she couldn’t catch a squirrel so she used chicken instead). She also offers fun facts about squirrel brain:(via)
Mail is slow as snails in Poland
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Susan Johnson
A letter sent on December 20 marked priority mail was not received until January 3rd. The recipient of the letter calculated that a snail could have traveled faster than the mail. In Poland the mail system really does earn the name “snail mail.” Here are the calculations: Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294 hours…
Jonathan Chait: We’re not frothing Clinton haters … We just really wish they’d go away
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Susan Johnson
Thank you, Obama for entering this race because now some on the left are starting to wake up and view the Clintons in a more realistic light. There is a reason we dislike them and now the left is learning from experience what the reason is: they are liars and unethical and will do anything…
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