Visa website down after threat from WikiLeaks supporters
The website of credit card company Visa apparently went down Wednesday, shortly after being threatened by apparent WikiLeaks supporters who claimed to have attacked MasterCard's corporate website earlier in the day.
Hasnain says:
Visa's site is down too. and mastercard's site is still down. ouch.
Posted on 2010-12-09T07:55:30+0000
a sea of lead, a sky of slate: Abandoned on Everest
This article raises many unsettling ideas. I know that people spend months training for the ascent attempt. I KNOW that they sit for weeks at Base Camp sometimes, acclimatising, and I KNOW that they have spent thousands of pounds to get there, taken weeks off work, and have built up so many hopes an
Glenn Greenwald: Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
The Connecticut Senator pressures Amazon to block Americans from viewing WikiLeaks documents
Hasnain says:
The death of democracy just gets more depressing each day.
Posted on 2010-12-05T09:23:40+0000
BBC News - Spanish MP's photo used for Osama Bin Laden poster
A Spanish politician says the FBI used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look.
'05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein
Instructions: Please complete each part of each question and discuss with the employee during the performance review meeting.
Ben Morris: Eliminate the Computer Science major
bendmorris.com
Hasnain says:
I totally agree.
For all the CS folks...
(and guys, do read before commenting)
Seven Cubed Project
Starting November 20th, seven UW coders will enter an office stocked with food, energy drinks, and beanbag chairs, to try and write an app a day for seven days. This is going to be fun.
Hasnain says:
LUMS need something like this!
CS majors really need to get their act together.
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Pin Dancing: Stuck in Code
Hi,its an awesome tutorial. In India managerial is ****** up.. Everyone wants to delegate the working responsiblity to so called "DEVELOPER", but at the time of recognition it is the ***** up Manager, who receives the award. and in bad times,manager puts the Developer in the Front, "he has done the
Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances
As of today, Amazon EC2 is providing what they call "Cluster GPU Instances": An instance in the Amazon cloud that provides you with the power of two NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs. The exact specifications look like this:
Hasnain says:
Re: my post earlier.
Spending 4-5$ to crack someone's password. Not too bad if you really need it.
Posted on 2010-11-15T21:34:06+0000