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Steve Ballmer Talk at UW March 4, 2010

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time

Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Computer Science & Engineering department's Paul Allen Center. As you can tell from that first sentence UW and Microsoft have long had very...

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Help Rod With His Summer Reading

Category: Computers

Rod Van Meter is in search of some summer reading:I'm feeling the need to recharge my store of ideas, and I have the nagging feeling that my lack of currency in a bunch of fields is causing me to miss...

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Original McEliece Cracked

Category: Quantum Computing

Shor's algorithm is an algorithm for quantum computers which allows for efficiently factoring of numbers. This in turn allows Shor's algorithm to break the RSA public key cryptosystem. Further variations on Shor's algorithm break a plethora of other public key...

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Graceful Error Handling?

Category: Computers

Running a process to fix the utf-8 support on scirate.com using the unix "screen" command I got the following crash: Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...Doh!...

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