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Food Security: The biggest mistake India might have made till date. Historians often ask counterfactual questions to figure out how history could have evolved differently. Ramachandra Guha asks and answers one such question in an essay titled A Short History of Congress Chamchagiri, which is a part of the book Patriots and Partisans. In this essay Guha briefly discusses what would have happened if Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second prime minister of India, had lived a little longer.
Shastri died on January 11, 1966, after serving as the prime minister for a little over 19 months. The political future of India would have evolved very differently had Shashtri lived longer, feels Guha. As he writes “Had Shastri lived, Indira Gandhi may or may not have migrated to London. But even had she stayed in India, it is highly unlikely that she would have become prime minister. And it is certain that her son would have never have occupied or aspired to that office…Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life.
Think Again: North Korea - By David Kang and Victor Cha. "North Korea's not that dangerous. " Wrong. There is no threat of war on the Korean peninsula because the United States and South Korea have deterred the regime for over six decades, or so the thinking goes. And the occasional provocation from Pyongyang -- full of sound and fury -- usually ends with it blowing up in its face, signifying nothing. So why worry? Two reasons. First, North Korea has a penchant for testing new South Korean presidents. The difference today is that South Korea is no longer turning the other cheek. This development appears to validate former U.S. But there's another point that is often overlooked: North Korea today can threaten all of South Korea and parts of Japan with its conventional missiles and its conventional military. KNS/AFP/Getty Images "Kim Jong Un is insane. " Don't bet on it. Authoritarian rulers don't long survive if they're truly out of touch with reality.
Kim faces just as many risks if he meaningfully reforms domestic, economic, or social policy. Indian technology: The screen revolution. George Saunders's Advice to Graduates. It’s long past graduation season, but we recently learned that George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, and George was kind enough to send it our way and allow us to reprint it here.
The speech touches on some of the moments in his life and larger themes (in his life and work) that George spoke about in the profile we ran back in January — the need for kindness and all the things working against our actually achieving it, the risk in focusing too much on “success,” the trouble with swimming in a river full of monkey feces. The entire speech, graduation season or not, is well worth reading, and is included below. The Indian way? No way | The Hindu. During my tenure at Ranbaxy, I was surprised by the unchallenged conformity to the poor decisions of senior leadership.
Ranbaxy was my first Indian employer following my tenure at two different American corporations. Reflecting on this experience from cultural and comparative perspectives highlights the organizational peril of such behaviour. It is in our culture to respect authority. We are taught from childhood to listen and obey our elders. Asking questions My investigation into the discrepancies between Ranbaxy’s records and the data filed with regulatory agencies in 2004 showed me how wide the questionable behaviour was within the organisation. I often asked myself how was it that smart, well-intentioned people tolerated systematic fraudulent behaviour?
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It made a claim to the central vista of ‘Lutyen’s Delhi’ as a space for democratic assertion in contravention of the completely draconian, elitist and undemocratic prohibitory orders that make the heart of this republic, a zone of the death, not the life and sustenance, of democracy. From now onwards, consider the heart of Delhi to be a space that belongs, first of all, to its citizens. But do not let this stop you, or distract you. Thank you for doing this in the name of an anonymous 23 year old woman. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Target has got you in its aim Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers.
And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you have a baby on the way long before you need to start buying diapers. Charles Duhigg outlines in the New York Times how Target tries to hook parents-to-be at that crucial moment before they turn into rampant — and loyal — buyers of all things pastel, plastic, and miniature. He talked to Target statistician Andrew Pole — before Target freaked out and cut off all communications — about the clues to a customer’s impending bundle of joy. [Pole] ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before long some useful patterns emerged.
Or have a rather nasty infection… Target knows before it shows. Bold is mine. Business / Companies : The Genius of Google. One of the advantages of being a behemoth like Google is that every business decision one takes can be easily shrugged off as brand-building and marketing without being scrutinized for further motives. Take for example its latest free mobile application—‘Ingress’. Packaged as an alternate reality game, players are required to go outside into the real world to accomplish tasks. ‘Ingress’, however, is merely the latest step in a series that helped Google build its empire. As far-fetched as it may sound, the game is being used to take on Nokia’s recently announced turn-by-turn navigation for pedestrians. The game’s storyline and rules are plucked straight from the realm of science fiction, where players collect virtual energy at different locations with their smartphones and then spend that at other places ( known as portals) to unlock various missions.
It isn’t too big of a stretch when one considers Google’s past endeavors. Business Analyst, Sales Operations at Google in Hyderabad , India - Job. Sales Operations Analyst at LinkedIn in Mumbai, India, India - Job. MBA Basecamp - The best MBA Prep on the Planet. Sony's PlayStation 3 experiences its biggest hack yet | Crave. Hackers have found a way to break down one of the toughest defensive walls in Sony's PlayStation 3 software security, ensuring that those who use custom firmware can run homebrew software and pirated games forever. A group calling itself "The Three Musketeers" on Monday released a secret set of LV0 codes that can decrypt the PlayStation 3's Level 0 (LV0) security layer used by the primary boot loader.
This means that hackers should always have the ability to release custom firmware for the device any time Sony updates the console's software. Custom firmware gives PS3 owners the ability to run pirated games, homebrew software (such as retro game emulators), and even Linux. "This means that all future firmwares and all future games are decryptable, and this time around they [Sony] really can't do anything about it," Marcan, one of the players in the fail0verflow exploit, wrote in a related Slashdot thread.
CNET has contacted Sony for comment and will update this report when we learn more. Pandora battery guide to downgrade PSP to version 1.5. Many people choose to upgrade their PSP firmware to version 3.51, and with that version, there is no restrictions as to what games and applications you can run on your PSP. But in order to upgrade firmware, you have to downgrade to version 1.5 first.After that,you will need to mod your PSP battery,into the so-called pandora battery, otherwise it is not possible to upgrade your PSP firmware. Tools needed: original PSP battery with at least 50% of power, a Memory Stick Pro Duo with 1GB memory or above. I. Preparing to downgrade-Wipe and Format PSP Memory Stick In order to downgrade the firmware, you have to reformat the memory stick first 1.
Press the HOME button at the bottom left 2. 3. 4. When it is done formating, download the Pandora Battery Application Pack from here and uncompress it to the root directory of a partition, say H. II. Step 1: Do a logical reformat of your PSP. Step 3: Switch to the Game option on your PSP -> press X -> Go to "installer" and press X to run it. III. How to Jailbreak Your PS3 - PS3 Hacking for Dummies. PS3 CFW 4.31?/downgrade?/PKG's? Popular games. Play Nintendo 8-bit games online (no download required) Know Your Network, Lesson 4: Access Your Home Computers from Anywhere. LH is often about how to get things done quickly, not how to do it securely. Sometimes there's a difference, but I agree, in this case running VNC outside any sort of tunnel is a BAD IDEA.
Allowing unencrypted VNC access from the internet is a noob mistake. Gee Mom, look what I did! Unencrypted traffic, often trivial password for access to the entire machine, anyone who can see the traffic can watch all your keystrokes. How secure do we really think that airport, coffee shop or hotel wifi is? Sure, that's a great idea. Setup a VPN at home first, then tunnen VNC traffic through your VPN. . * OpenVPN for Linux Servers and Windows clients: [www.howtoforge.com] * OpenVPN: [www.grc.com] * VPN Uses: [blog.jdpfu.com] * Running Remote Applications: [blog.jdpfu.com] (NX is more efficient than VNC or RDP - perhaps 10x more efficient). ssh tunnels work, but they aren't as efficient as UDP-based VPNs like OpenVPN.
That's what LH needs - an OpenVPN Guide. "The egg" - Page 11. You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…” “Yup,” I said. “I… I died?” “Yup. You looked around. “More or less,” I said. “Are you god?” “Yup,” I replied. “My kids… my wife,” you said. “What about them?” “Will they be all right?” “That’s what I like to see,” I said. You looked at me with fascination. “Don’t worry,” I said. “Oh,” you said. “Neither,” I said. “Ah,” you said. “All religions are right in their own way,” I said. You followed along as we strode through the void. “Nowhere in particular,” I said. “So what’s the point, then?” “Not so!” I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Oh lots. “No. Four little things that shaped India: Part 1 | The Kaipullai's Vetti Thoughts : The outer playground of my inner devil. History books tell us that only events of tectonic magnitude, like say the Vasco Da Gama journey, shapes the history of the world. This post is not about events like that.
This post is about some random little incidents from Indian history. Incidents, which are inconspicuous when viewed in isolation. So inconspicuous in fact, that they were eliminated from our History books. Can’t blame the textbooks though. It is not as if these things influenced our History. No 4: Iltutmish, with a polite harmless nod, says No to Jalal ad-din Mohammad, Ruler of the Khwarezmian Empire. It all started with this A gift basket Seriously, this story started with a pretty little, 13th century style gift basket, sent by Genghis Khan.
In 1215 A.D, Genghis Khan, the ruler of Mongolia, sent a pretty looking gift basket to Ala Ud-Din Mohammad, the ruler of the neighboring Khwarezmian Empire. However, Ala ad-Din went all Gerard 300 This is Sparta Butler on the caravan. Strike One: Ala ad-din Strike Two : Ala ad-Din. The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot. Deep in the bowels of the internet, I came across an exhaustive list of interesting Wikipedia articles by Ray Cadaster. It’s brilliant reading when you’re bored, so I got his permission to post the top 50 here. Bookmark it, start reading, and become that person who’s always full of fascinating stuff you never knew about. The top 50 Wikipedia articles by interestingness 1. Marree Man 2. War Plan Red 3. Vela Incident 4. *Copybot is not responsible for the hours and hours that disappeared while you were exploring this list. Edit: If you enjoyed this list, I’ve since posted 50 more of Wikipedia’s most interesting articles.
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The subject first addressed zero-sum games, such that one person's gains exactly equal net losses of the other participant or participants. Modern game theory began with the idea regarding the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in two-person zero-sum games and its proof by John von Neumann. This theory was developed extensively in the 1950s by many scholars. Representation of games[edit] Most cooperative games are presented in the characteristic function form, while the extensive and the normal forms are used to define noncooperative games. Extensive form[edit] [edit] Presents - SNAP-SHOT (The Online MOCK SNAP Test Series)
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