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by iliis 15y ago
For more general math there's also WolframAlpha. Eg.: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=partition+1034 They are also quite capable of blowing my mind sometimes. (Try "When will the ISS be visible?" or "coastline length of africa / leng
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by iliis 15y ago
They hacked a company called 'RSA Security' [1] and not the cryptography algorithm RSA [2]. While the former is still interesting, the latter would be big news indeed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security [2] http://en.wikipedia
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by iliis 15y ago
Nice to see that not everybody is a greedy asshole :) A commenter on Slashdot gave another good point on why the industry HAS a reason to develop a cure for cancer: If any "Big Pharma" company invented a cure for cancer tomorrow, you can b
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by iliis 15y ago
That's one of my favorite plugins too. In combination with something like Session Manager it's really useful. To give some stats: I normally have around 30-40 tabs open, my peak so far was at 97. Yes, there's even a plugin for that ;) ("Tab
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by iliis 15y ago
A program that looks out for any wireless networks it can detect. Mostly used to find an open access point, debugging wireless lans or just to map them. See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving for more.
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by iliis 15y ago
Good point. Altough a funny tought to see some company redirect it's customers to goatse. I think, a more realistic approach for example would be a ssh honeypot like kippo ( https://code.google.com/p/kippo/ ).
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by iliis 15y ago
Yeah, this is really cool :) A favorite of mine is the xor-swap: While not useful in pratice for me, you can get quite stunned faces if you tell your friends, that a swap is possible without a third variable. x = x xor y y = x xor y
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by iliis 15y ago
I don't really see the breaktrought here. As far as I can see (I'm not an expert), they managed to keep the phase undisturbed. Metamaterials as such aren't exactly new, but certainly very interesting. Wikipedia is very informative on this t
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by iliis 15y ago
Yep, they use magnets on the airplaines. The planes are powered by batteries and guided by other magnets (watch the nose wheel with his little skid). They even have some elevators behind the scene to sort and distribute the planes.
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by iliis 16y ago
Yep: http://www.swisstrains.ch/ (Search eg. for "Zürich HB" for some traffic) But it's also just timetables drawn to a map :/ Oh, and then there's one for planes: http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html This actually uses real data (They have a