India's love affair with Charles Dickens 6 February 2012Last updated at 00:34 Nearly 65 years since the end of British colonial rule in India, the works of Charles Dickens continue to be read, loved and taught from generation to generation across the sub-continent. The topics which he wrote about in England in the mid 19th Century - bureaucracy, social injustice and poverty - just happen to be some of the problems facing modern day India. Marking 200 years since his birth, BBC World Service explores India's love affair with the classic books. Continue reading the main story Dickens and India - Mutual Friends can be heard on the BBC World Service between Monday 6 February and Sunday 12 February 2012. Broadcast times subject to regional variations. You can listen to the programme via iPlayer here or download a podcast here. Audio and images by Nicola Barranger. Related: BBC History - Charles Dickens More audio slideshows: Exploring Hogarth's House The books that shaped history What was life like in Scott's base camp?
Researcher shows how to hack ATMs with &Dillinger& tool Using tools dubbed Dillinger and Scrooge, a security researcher showed how to hack an automated teller machine in front of a crowd of hackers and security professionals today. Barnaby Jack showed a live demonstration of how he hacked two different Windows CE-based ATMs on stage during a talk this afternoon at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Jack was scheduled to give the talk a year ago, but it was canceled after an ATM vendor objected to his then-employer, Juniper Networks. This year, Jack switched jobs to IOActive. The ease with which he hacked the machines should be a wake-up call for banks. Jack showed how you could walk up to an ATM, break into it using a common universal key, and then use a universal serial bus (USB) stick to load a rootkit, or hacking software, that could compromise the machine’s security. The crowd laughed and applauded throughout the attack. “They were developed without secure principles in mind,” Jack said.
Home page The Manuscripts Like most of us, Dijkstra always believed it a scientist’s duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. Although most of Dijkstra’s publications began life as EWD manuscripts, the great majority of his manuscripts remain unpublished. The original manuscripts, along with diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other papers, are housed at The Center for American History of The University of Texas at Austin. Indexes Each manuscript file is accessible through either of two indexes: 0. 1. EWD-numbered documents (This index gives an approximate correspondence between manuscripts’ EWD numbers and the year in which they appeared.) You can find a table relating EWD numbers to publication years here. Many of the privately circulated manuscripts collected here were subsequently published; their copyrights are held by their respective publishers. Transcripts and translations Summaries
Masters in Computer Science & The Top 50 Computer Science Bloggers 24 Nov, 2010 | Written by admin | under Computer Science, Resources If you are involved with computer science, you probably spend most of your time on the computer, whether for your job or school. While online, you might as well check out the various bloggers who write about computer science and related subjects. Student Bloggers Jason’s Computer Science Blog This blog follows a student who is enrolled in a doctoral program, runs his own IT consulting firm, writes papers for professional journals, and also works as a web developer on the side. How-To Blogs Steve’s Blog The short, to-the-point title says it all. Blogs for Professionals, by Professionals Computer Science Department Blog This is attached to Virginia Tech’s CS department, and mostly features commentary by faculty members. More Than Just Computer Science Specialty Blogs Geek in Progress The professional who runs this site appears to specialize in all things Java.
Jason’s Computer Science Blog - OpenGL Console Library for Blackberry Native SDK (Playbook) semicomplete.com - Jordan Sissel Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5] Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. Early years Tesla's baptismal record, 28 June 1856 Working at Edison A move to the US
Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs We're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet connection. Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs. You can also search for document files you've uploaded or that have been shared with you just like you do with your Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. To learn how businesses can take advantage of this new functionality, check out the post on the Enterprise Blog.
3+ Sites To Chat With A Random Stranger When none of your friends are online or you’re tired of chatting about the same old stuff, try finding someone else to talk to. Talking to a random stranger can bring exciting variety. Besides, you never know whom you might run into. Should your chat partner turn out to be an idiot or plain boring, you can quickly, but politely end the conversation and move on to another random stranger. Here are a few websites to get you started. [Editor's note: Please exercise caution when conversing with strangers online.] Omegle Omegle is very simple and straightforward site with online free chat rooms to meet strangers. It may take a couple of tries until you find someone interesting to talk to. [NO LONGER WORKS] OnlyChat OnlyChat is different from Omegle in that you can specify your gender and choose with what gender you would like to be matched for a chat. I mostly ran into teenagers. AnybodyOutThere Here we have the most advanced site to match you up with a random stranger.
Your Age on Other Worlds | Exploratorium - StumbleUpon Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman
Apostrophes & Boggleton Drive - StumbleUpon Something I’ve been noticing more and more lately is the gross misuse of apostrophes in people’s writing. I’m going to break this one down into the three most common errors: 1) Using an apostrophe with the third person singular form of a verb (WHY?!) and with plural nouns. With main verbs, the ONLY time there is EVER an apostrophe involved is with “let’s”, which, as everyone knows, is a contraction for “let us.” So when people inexplicably use an apostrophe with the third person singular form of a verb (e.g. For example, take a look at this incorrect sentence: My friend jump’s for joy. Here’s what is intended: Here’s what I read: Our friend jump us for joy. And this is what I imagine (despite the subject/verb agreement error): Similarly, apostrophes on nouns are NEVER used just to indicate plurality. The crazy neighbour owns 27 cat’s. <— INCORRECT The crazy neighbour owns 27 cats <— CORRECT 2) Creating a possessive noun that is incorrectly singular or incorrectly plural Alternatively: 3) It’s / Its
Indian History Two important cities were discovered: Harappa on the Ravi river, and Mohenjodaro on the Indus during excavations in 1920. The remains of these two cities were part of a large civilization and well developed ancient civilization, which is now called by historians as 'Indus Valley Civilization', or 'Saraswati Civilization'. Later Harappan (Sarasvati) civilization 3100-1900 BC shows massive cities, complex agriculture and metallurgy, sophistication of arts and crafts, and precision in weights and measures. They built large buildings, which were mathematically-planned. The city planning in those ancient cities is comparable to the best of our modern cities. This civilization had a written language and was highly sophisticated. The year 4500 B.C. marks Mandhatr's defeat of Druhyus, driving them to the west into Iran. 4000-3700 B.C. was the Rig Veda period. David Frawley and other modern scholars propose: Golden period of Indian History The Mauryan Empire : Kushan Dynasty : Harsha Vardhana :