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Hasnain says:

I don't know why, but this really resonated with me.

"People silently struggle from all kinds of terrible things. They suffer from depression, ambition, substance abuse, and pretension. They suffer from family tragedy, Ivy-League educations, and self-loathing. They suffer from failing marriages, physical pain, and publishing. The good thing about politeness is that you can treat these people exactly the same. And then wait to see what happens. You don’t have to have an opinion. You don’t need to make a judgment. I know that doesn’t sound like liberation, because we live and work in an opinion-based economy. But it is. Not having an opinion means not having an obligation. And not being obligated is one of the sweetest of life’s riches."

Posted on 2014-08-18T00:17:14+0000

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Drop that spoon! The truth about breakfast cereals: an extract from Felicity Lawrence's book

Britain is one of the world's largest consumers of puffed, flaked and sugared breakfast cereals. How did that happen when many were said to contain less nutrition than the boxes they come in? Felicity Lawrence investigates

Click to view the original at theguardian.com

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Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection

In the murky world of unpaid-bills, a banker and an ex-con can make a fortune — if they don’t run into too many crooks.

Click to view the original at nytimes.com

Hasnain says:

I knew debt collection was messed up but this takes the cake. An interesting perspective into a totally different world.

Posted on 2014-08-16T23:32:25+0000

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Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level | WIRED

The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”

Click to view the original at wired.com

Hasnain says:

"One day an intelligence officer told him that TAO—a division of NSA hackers—had attempted in 2012 to remotely install an exploit in one of the core routers at a major Internet service provider in Syria, which was in the midst of a prolonged civil war. This would have given the NSA access to email and other Internet traffic from much of the country. But something went wrong, and the router was bricked instead—rendered totally inoperable. The failure of this router caused Syria to suddenly lose all connection to the Internet—although the public didn't know that the US government was responsible. (This is the first time the claim has been revealed.)"

Posted on 2014-08-13T17:34:14+0000

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Hasnain says:

This is from 2005, but the nostalgia...

"I know that many of you swear by assembly language for PC programming and I’m very sympathetic. The PC wouldn’t be where it is today without assembly language. And many of you are hesitant about using high-level languages like C because of the performance issues."

Posted on 2014-08-13T05:26:37+0000

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Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics—Stephen Wolfram Blog

Proposing technology for pure mathematics: curating concepts, constructs, theorems, & literature; precise symbolic language; automated computations...

Click to view the original at blog.stephenwolfram.com

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"Reverse Engineering for Beginners" free book

Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH.

Click to view the original at beginners.re

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Push for Pizza app a Silicon Valley triumph - CNET

An app that tackles one of the world's most pressing problems has arrived. Now, with a simple few taps, you too can realize what it's like to live in the year 2014.

Click to view the original at www.cnet.com

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