Target stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards
Target says about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected by a data breach linked to recent purchases in its U.S. stores.
Spoiler alert: Bill Gates did not get you, because he got me. - Secret Santa 2013 - redditgifts
I want to start by giving a HUGE THANK YOU to Mr. Bill Gates for an amazing gift and secret santa experience. Bill- you ...
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
Hasnain says:
This is from 1995.
"Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn't—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."
And here I sit, peacefully ordering things from Amazon so that I don't have to interact with people.
Posted on 2013-12-19T03:20:56+0000
Disney's Frozen - A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation
Disney's Frozen is now playing in theatres in 3D! Find showtimes: http://di.sn/pIO Like Frozen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyFrozen Follow Froz...
Hasnain says:
2:16: "Now we destroy a castle with a cannonball"...
(paper: https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/production/publication_asset/72/asset/snow.pdf)
Posted on 2013-12-18T22:33:45+0000
Icons of the Web
The top million web sites on the Internet visualized in a 5-gigapixel interactive collage
Data Structure Visualization
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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
A former prosecutor fights the law and lets it win.
Hasnain says:
"But in between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out."
Posted on 2013-12-17T21:38:17+0000
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack - Tom Moertel’s Blog
A long time ago, when I was a college undergrad, I spent some time working on computer video games. This was in the 8-bit PC era, so the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards.
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SteamOS Beta is the first public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 7, code named Debian Wheezy. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for a living room experience. Most of all, it is an open Linux platform that leaves you in ful...