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Comment Re:Other than supposed security improvements... (Score 1) 131

by EchoNiner on Monday March 17, 2008 @10:30AM (#22773600) Attached to: Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite

Supposed security improvements? This is the only truly secure method of communicating without a key exchange. This is the only thing we can fall back on after factoring is made "easy" by quantum computers. Maybe it's breakable in some future world, but for now it's our backstop for RSA. Have you ever imagined the implications of this world without public key encryption?

Submission + - How to lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic skills (theregister.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Cityslacker on Friday February 01, 2008 @06:44AM

Cityslacker writes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/kerviel/ Some geek at a french bank used Excel VB to lose them billions

Feed Wired: Bob Lutz: Volt Is U.S. Car Industry's Moon Shot (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @09:12PM

Wired News grills Bob Lutz and other top General Motors executives including about when we can expect the highly-anticipated flex-fuel Volt, and what it will look like.

Journal Journal: Have mp3s ruined our appreciation of music? 1

Journal by TechForensics on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @09:02PM

I always wondered why I never enjoyed listening to my favorite music played from an mp3 file on my computer. I guess I was just thinking that as I got older, my youthful passions were fading.

Submission + - High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid (wisn.com) 1

Submitted by

Jack Schitt

on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @09:02PM

Jack Schitt writes: "Three Racine, Wisconsin sophomore students were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid. The students at Racine's Prairie School will be able to name the asteroid in about four years."

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