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Stories · 8

  1. Inside Echelon

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the fodder-for-the-conspiracy-theorists dept. · 164 comments
    kris writes "German magazine Telepolis has an article by Duncan Campbell about Inside Echelon. The article gives a nice overview about what Echelon is and how it came to be. This article is available in a German Version as well." Somewhat lengthy, and written with an agenda, but very interesting. Although I have to say it's wierd seeing banner ads in german ;)

  2. Wildcard DNS, Session Management And Prior Art

    Yro · Patents · · posted by Cliff · from the interesting-idea-bad-patent dept. · 177 comments
    Alowishus asks: "A company called sevenval has an interesting, but obvious, use of Wildcard A-Records in the DNS to encode Web session management IDs in the hostname of the site. Interesting, because if you are using relative URLs on your site, you do not need to do anything (i.e. setting a cookie or appending GET parameters) after the initial redirect to maintain a user session. See www.fahrschulportal.de for an example. Sevenval is applying for a patent on this technique, and Kristian Kohntopp, the author of a PHP session management library, is looking for prior art. He would like to find uses of hostnames that encode state or session information. Has anyone seen this before? It's an exceptionally useful technique, and I'd hate to see its use restricted by another improper software patent. "

  3. Nanobes - Life may be smaller than you think

    Science · Science · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the and-it-fits-in-teh-palm-of-your-hand dept. · 5 comments
    kris writes "The existence of nano-sized organisms has been proposed for a number of years by geologists who refer to a range of mineralised structures in rocks as the fossil remnants of nanobacteria. Bacteria range in size from 150nm (Mycoplasmas)-50m in diameter while the proposed nanobacteria are an order of magnitude smaller with diameters reported to range from 20nm-150nm. How small can life be? See for yourself at the Nanoworld Image gallery. Can we build computers from microbes and nanobes? Or has this already happened in precambrian times? "

  4. 'I Was a Human Crash-Test Dummy'

    News · News · · posted by Roblimo · from the bizarre-research-tales dept. · 71 comments
    kris writes "Salon.com has a gross story titled I was a human crash test dummy about a professor who gave his body for human impact-survival research -- and lived to tell the tale. 'We needed some information on what the human body could stand." This is what retired Wayne State University biomechanics professor Lawrence M. Patrick will tell you if you ask him why he agreed to be slammed in the chest by a 22-pound metal pendulum, to hurl one knee repeatedly against a metal bar outfitted with a load cell and to undertake some 400 rides on a rapid-deceleration sled that mimics the effects of a car crashing head-on into a wall. From 1960 to 1975, Lawrence Patrick was a human crash-test dummy.'"

  5. Smart Dust

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the fun-with-miniturization dept. · 109 comments
    kris writes "The german Telepolis magazine from Heise put up a small article about Kris Pister and Randy Katz creating small laser-driven wireless communicating swarm-computing nano-devices called MEMS. This is right out of a Neal Stevenson novel, The Diamond Age. The article is in english language. " I wish there's was more details to this article-if you find more, please post below. Update: 09/08 12:15 by H :Check out New Scientist for more information too.

  6. qt 2.0 released

    Tech · Kde · · posted by Hemos · from the come-and-get-it dept. · 157 comments
    kris writes "Those funky Trolls up there north have released Version 2.0 of the Qt library. Unlike Version 1, this one is available under the QPL Open Source license, which is in compliance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines and qualifies as Open Source. Qt 2.0 also contains tons of changes and improvements, such as Unicode support, better I18N, rich text, theming and thousands of other things. You want to download their stuff to give it a try. "

  7. SuSE larger than RedHat

    Linux · Suse · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the now-it-gets-crazy dept. · 252 comments
    kris writes "German c't magazine has a story about SUSE (english site: suse.com) reporting a larger turnover that RedHat (26.6 Mio. DM == 15 Mio US$ vs. RedHat with 11 Mio. US$). Suse also reported earnings, while RedHat reported a loss of $130,000 during the same time." kris has translated the article below if you want. Else use babelfish. Here is a rough translation of the article:

    Suse: We are the largest.

    As a reaction to the IPO of RedHat, which requires the company to disclose its earnings, german Linux distributor Suse has disclosed their own numbers. While RedHat reported a turnover of $11M between March 1998 and February 1999, Suse reported a turnover of almost $15M (Deutschmark 26.6 M) between 01-Apr-1998 and 31-Mar-1999. Like RedHat, most of this is due to their distribution sales (Deutschmark 17.4M). Unlike RedHat, who lost $130.000 during this time, Suse was able to report earnings of an undisclosed amount during this time.

    Both companies employ approx. 130 people each at the time and are growing rapidly: In 1Q1999 Suse reported a turnover of Deutschmark 9.5M, an increase of 230% compared to the year before. Since the funding of SUSE Inc. in the USA, german Distributor Suse is focusing more and more on the international market. CEO Roland Dyroff reported a larger than proportional growth of the US daugther. He did not want to answer direct questions about an IPO, though. "

  8. Students Develop Open Crypto Chip

    It · Encryption · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the ain't-that-cool dept. · 72 comments
    kris writes "German Computer Magazine c't just pointed to an article about German Students developing a crypto chip. The device will do 168 MBit/sec DES, 50 key exchanges in 768 bit RSA and will the VHDL will be published as Open Source. Alcatel will build the beast." The original article is in German, but kris also sent us a rough translation which I've attached below.

    Stuttgart students develop crypto chip

    The eight head team "pg99" at the computer science dept of stuttgart university under guidance from Dipl-Ing Gundolf Kiefer has developed a complete crypto chip, which can do RSA (768 bit) and DES. With DES, with is intended for large data volumes, the chip can to 168 MBit/sec. The higher level RSA is being used mainly for DES key exchange, for authentication and for digital signatures. The chip will to ~50 keys/sec in RSA. Communication with the environment can be done via a parallel interface (8, 16 or 32 bit) or via two-wire I2C bis, which can be found on many current motherboards (Intel calls this SMB).

    The 100,000 gate chip will be produced by Alcatel in 0.35 m technology (compare this to the 134,000 gates in an 80286). Officially the chip will be unveiled at the 8th of July at the computer science faculty, where the VHDL source of the design will be made availabe as Open Source.