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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
CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
Tomorrow, at 9am EST, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland are expected to announce, with fairly strong certainty, that they have observed the Higgs boson
Hasnain says:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc
Posted on 2011-12-12T14:33:40+0000
Parrondo's Paradox: Winning Two Games You're Guaranteed to Lose
JM Parrondo is a casino and con artist's worst nightmare. In the 1990s, he invented two games that are sure to lose you everything. They're both mathematically designed to make you go broke, but play them one after another and you are guaranteed to win. Parrondo's Paradox was dreamed up in the...
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Posted on 2011-11-23T07:41:12+0000
Pizza is a vegetable? Congress says yes
Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
Hasnain says:
What. The. F
How the hell can such a law pass anyway?
I won't believe it until I'm able to plant my pizza trees.
Posted on 2011-11-17T19:05:02+0000