- Prime Minister's Surrender: "Pulok Chatterjee from PMO had regular meetings with Sonia at which he would brief her on the key policy issues and seek her instructions on the important files to be cleared by the PM" (NDTV nearly blacked this out. We know their man Pankaj Pachauri succeeded Sanjaya Baru)
- Lust for power: "Kejriwal wanted to be PM, that’s why AAP quit Delhi" - Anna Hazare
- Mr Bright: Stanford Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Manu Prakash won a contest to develop the 21st-century chemistry set. His version, based on a toy music box, is small, robust, programmable and costs $5.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Quick notes: Accidental PM, $5 Chemistry set...
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Quick notes: Visa swipe fees, Pedal power ...
- Wal-Mart sues Visa for $5 billion: Visa swipe fees cost retailers and customers over $350 billion over 9 years.
- Aam aurat: AAP leader Shazia Ilmi has power bill dues of Rs 59,000 even as she holds assets of over Rs 4.42 crore in addition to her husband's over Rs 25 crore assets. The same female who was caught accepting donation to campaign against a firm.
- Pedal Power! How to Build a Bike Generator: (apt for this AAP lady)
- Battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids are cutting US gasoline use by 45 million gallons a year.
- Lit Motors' C-1: Untippable motorcycle
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Paki Islamists launch online donation campaign for Allahu Akbar Party?
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Quick notes: MIMO inventor, RAM scraping...
- Professor (Emeritus) Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, Stanford University, has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Marconi Society Prize. His idea for using multiple antennas (MIMO) at both the transmitting and receiving stations - which is at the heart of the current high speed WiFi and 4G mobile systems – has revolutionized high speed wireless delivery of multimedia services for billions of people.
- Super Capacitors, super possibilities:Professor Raghavendra Pandey's pioneering work
- shAAP is psecular: EC warns Kejriwal on pamphlets appealing for Muslim votes.
- China air pollution reaching the U.S: "We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us."
- Expect more credit card breaches: In all these attacks, cyber criminals used memory-parsing software, also known as a "RAM scraper." When a customer swipes a credit or debit card, the POS terminal grabs the transaction data from the magnetic stripe and transfers it to the retailer's payment processing provider. While the data is encrypted during the process, RAM scrapers extract the information while it is in the computer's live memory, where it very briefly appears in plain text.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Lawless AAPtard "law minister"
Business careerEdit
In the 2000s, Somnath Bharti ran a Delhi-based IT firm Madgen solutions' based in Delhi. The Spamhaus Project accused him ofspamming on behalf of TopSites LLC, naming him in Register of Known Spam Operations(ROKSO) as one of the top spam operators in the world.[6] According to Bharti, he was listed in ROKSO after an Open Directory Project editor Conrad Longmore ran a story on him.[7][8] Responding to a PCQuestinvestigation in 2005, he insisted that all the e-mails sent by his company complied with the laws and regulations. PCQuest found that he had been sued in a California Superior Court for spamming by Daniel Balsam. Balsam's attorney Timothy Walton revealed that in 2004, Bharti and two others had paid Balsam $5,000 in damages apart from making a court declaration agreeing to use only confirmed opt-in e-mail addresses when sending commercial e-mails. Bharti defended himself by saying that he chose to settle because defending the case in the United States would have been costlier for him. Bharti also claimed that he was in touch with SpamHaus, but the SpamHaus CEO Steve Linford denied this to PCQuest.[7]




