Malaysian Airlines lose contact with plane en route bound for Beijing– live
Malaysian Airlines says it lost contact with flight MH370 about two hours after it left Kuala Lumpur en route for Beijing
Hasnain says:
It's sad that in this day and age we still rely on modes of transportation that can result in such catastrophic failure.
Posted on 2014-03-08T06:29:58+0000
How PowerPoint Is Ruining Higher Ed, Explained in One PowerPoint
SlateEducationGetting schooled.March 7 2014 8:15 AMPowerPointlessDigital slideshows are the scourge of higher education. By Rebecca Schuman REPRINTPRINTEMAIL '; $("#outbrain_placeholder").append(divHtml); } if (mobileMode()) { createOutbrainDivs("MB_1"); } else { createOutbrainDivs("AR_6"); createOu...
Myths about /dev/urandom
Myths about /dev/urandom There are a few things about /dev/urandom and /dev/random that are repeated again and again. Still they are false. I'm mostly talking about reasonably recent Linux systems. A few remarks about FreeBSD or other systems may be found here and there. /dev/urandom is insecure. Al...
How The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Us: A Detailed Timeline
Early Thursday morning, a Forbes senior executive was woken up by a call from her assistant, saying that she'd be working from home due to a forecast predicting the snowiest day of the year. When she ended the call, the executive saw on her Blackberry that she had just received [...]
How Fat May Hurt the Brain, and How Exercise May Help
Obesity may have harmful effects on the brain, and exercise may counteract many of those negative effects, new studies in mice suggest.
Hasnain says:
"Obesity may have harmful effects on the brain, and exercise may counteract many of those negative effects, according to sophisticated new neurological experiments with mice, even when the animals do not lose much weight. While it’s impossible to know if human brains respond in precisely the same way to fat and physical activity, the findings offer one more reason to get out and exercise."
Posted on 2014-03-07T06:17:49+0000
Rereading the tea leaves in the Netflix-Comcast deal
<b>commentary</b> Commentators appear to have assumed the worst about Netflix's recently announced paid peering deal with Comcast. What's the real message in the deal? The Internet isn't broken. Read this article by Larry Downes on CNET News.
I am Brian Greene, Theoretical Physicist & co-founder of World Science U. My obsessions: Space,...
Hi Reddit, My research focuses on some of the big mysteries: the origin of the cosmos, quantum mechanics and reality, the possibility of other unive...
Hasnain says:
For all the physicists out there, Brian Greene was doing an AMA.
Posted on 2014-03-07T00:17:49+0000
Gamasutra: Ramin Shokrizade's Blog - The Top F2P Monetization Tricks
Finally, I would like to relay that King.com feels that their use of data in their game is for the purpose of "optimizing fun", not profits...�
Hasnain says:
"Research has shown that putting even one intermediate currency between the consumer and real money, such as a “game gem” (premium currency), makes the consumer much less adept at assessing the value of the transaction. Additional intermediary objects, what I call “layering”, makes it even harder for the brain to accurately assess the situation, especially if there is some additional stress applied."
Just reading that leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Posted on 2014-03-06T01:02:15+0000
Solid Angle: BioShock Infinite Lighting
solid-angle.blogspot.com
Hasnain says:
This is a really impressive writeup on the lighting and rendering that went on behind the scenes in BioShock Infinite.
Posted on 2014-03-04T23:27:07+0000
1 in 10 Americans think HTML is an STD, study finds
If you're talking tech with Americans, you may want to avoid using any jargon.
Hasnain says:
"12% said "USB" is the acronym for a European country. In fact, USB is a type of connector."
Posted on 2014-03-04T23:26:18+0000