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Hasnain says:
"In it, a computer virus crashes a computer. And sets it on fire. The virus got in via a fractal. Embedded on a bone of a shooting victim."
Seriously? One of the lamest hacking scenarios I've seen on TV -_-
Posted on 2012-01-31T15:12:07+0000
Marc Stevens - Research - Single-block collision attack on MD5
In response to the challenge posted in: - Construct MD5 Collisions Using Just A Single Block Of Message, Tao Xie and Dengguo Feng, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2010/643, (PDF).
Promo Bay — Paulo Coelho's Blog
The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to
[1201.4995] Gaming is a hard job, but someone has to do it!
arxiv.org
Pruned: Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers
pruned.blogspot.com
Elsevier — my part in its downfall
The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world's best known mathematics journals, including Advances in Mathematics, Comptes Rendus, Discrete Mathematics, The European Journal of Combinat...
Hasnain says:
Tim Gowers driving a revolt against Elsevier. It's pretty interesting how academics are going against publishers.
Posted on 2012-01-23T20:08:09+0000
YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
That's one reason we want to fund startups that will compete with movies and TV, but not the main reason. The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're r...
Hasnain says:
"Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise."
Posted on 2012-01-21T06:57:08+0000