Links for 25-10-2007
Cracking passwords with graphics cards, simplest universal computer proven, music reviews …
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1 – Password-cracking chip causes security concerns
“By harnessing a $150 GPU – less powerful than the nVidia 8800 card – Elcomsoft says they can cracked in just three to five days. Less complex passwords can be retrieved in minutes, rather than hours or days.”
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2 – Beating “White Screen Syndromeâ€
“I fire up the word processor and am I prepared to hammer out the best thousand words I’ve ever written. Then I lean forward to type…and…nothing inspires me. Not even the fact that my deadline is in one hour.”
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3 – Simplest ‘universal computer’ wins student $25,000
“… Wolfram says it is not just of theoretical interest. Turing machines are loose models for molecular automata – simple computing devices built from DNA and other biological molecules.”
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4 – China Launches First Moon Probe
“The spacecraft carries a total of eight primary instruments to photograph and map the lunar surface, probe its depth, study the regolith’s chemical composition, and analyze the space environment around the Moon.”
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5 – The Revolution
“Fans…keep acquiring the music the way you want to consume it. That’s the ONLY WAY change will happen. The labels don’t want to lead, they follow at best. A buck a track is bullshit. Ten bucks a month from EVERYBODY is a better business model.”
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6 – Live review / interview: Electric Eel Shock album launch party
“When the set finishes and the boys say their goodnights, there’s not a face in the room that isn’t dressed up in a proper shit-eating grin. We are all Electric Eel Shock, for sure.”
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7 – Album review: The Hives – The Black & White Album
“The Black & White Album is a piece of pure pop — brash and fun, sincere and silly, classy and trashy, and grinning like a ghost-train ticket clerk.”
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8 – Album review: Skindred – Roots Rock Riot
“That’s the album’s salvation, but also its curse, in that it doesn’t break any new ground or progress greatly from where Skindred were half a decade ago.”
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9 – Album review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal
“It’s like living with a housemate who shouts all the time; there’s just no contrast, no real sense of dynamics, nothing to re-emphasise the heaviness by momentarily removing it.”
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10 – Album review: Hundred Reasons – Quick The Word Sharp The Action
“… as much as it might not be exactly the new album I had hoped they’d release, it’s infinitely preferable to them not having released one at all.”
