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Mumbai Bomb Blast

Incident #1
Bomb blast in BEST bus no. 340 at Ghatkopar, Mumbai on 30 July 2003.

Incident #2
BJP - SHIV SENA calls off a BANDH on 29 July 2003(close).

“Democracy & peace is killed twice. Terrorism rocks!”

Relatives will be paid the ‘compensation’.For next few days Police, Politicians, Media and farters will be very buisy. Some 60+ active, young & energetic ex-legal experts will get a new job in new commission de invetigation. Few insects responsible(?) for the blast will be caught. Human rights organization will raise their voice as to how these insects and people around them are tortured. blah!…blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!…

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History repeats itself, only dates change.

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Indian Mobile Telecom Subscriber Base

Facts & Source , Anup Jayarm, Business World Magazine, 28 July 2003.

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Azim Premji in Fortune’s Top 25 Business Leaders outside US

Azim Premji is amongst Fortune magazine’s list of 25 most powerful business leaders outside the United States.

Premji, ‘who has turned technology company Wipro into the largest publicly traded company in the most dynamic sector of India’s economy,’ has been ranked 17th on the list.According to a Fortune statement: “The survey takes a broad look at the world of big business and reveals that the business leaders who rule the global boardrooms work in countries as diverse as Switzerland and South Korea and in industries ranging from food to finance.”

Wipro is ranked as 7th best software services company in the world by BusinessWeek (Infotech 100, November 2002),serves over 300 global leaders including Boeing, Nationwide, Ericsson, Toshiba, Cisco, Seagate, Putnam Investments, United Technologies, Best Buy, Digital, Friends Provident, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Thames Water, Transco and Sony.

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EDWARD DE BONO

Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written 62 books with translations into 37 languages and has been invited to lecture in 54 countries. He is the originator of lateral thinking which treats creativity as the behaviour of information in a self-organising information system - such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking, parallel thinking etc.

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G for Google

Google Search: g Have you discovered “G” is for google on google.com

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Taj Mahal News Update

Experts say that Taj Mahal has got marble cancer due to increase in pollution and sulphur dioxide emmissions in the atmosphere released by various industries around it.

The U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will send a team of experts to India to review damage to the famed Taj Mahal monument due to illegal construction activity near the World Heritage site which a recent phenomenon in UP. Mayawati Jindabad, UP Government JIndabad

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Theft in Microsoft

A former Microsoft worker has been caught stealing $6 million of software from Microsoft’s internal store in the third case of its type in recent months.

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‘India can overtake China as economic power’ - The Times of India

Can India overtake China

“Not only is entrepreneurship thriving in India, entrepreneurs have become folk heroes. These success stories would never have happened if India lacked the infrastructure needed to support Narayana Murthy and other would-be moguls. But democracy, a tradition of entrepreneurship, and a decent legal system have given India the underpinning necessary for free enterprise to flourish,”Noted by Yasheng Huang, associate professor at Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tarun Khanna, professor at Harvard Business School in a study in the recent issue of Foreign Policy.

“If India can achieve 6 per cent growth with a ball and chain around its ankles, then think what could be achieved with proper government reforms,” says Suman Bery, head of the National Council for Applied Economic Research, a leading thinktank in New Delhi. IN Why India is singing in the rain By Edward Luce and Ray Marcelo

Many people have posted negative comments in response to TOI article. Just one note to them, “India is never a priority or never a compeition because of Politicians who always act as hurdle in the development. They don’t bring reforms, the reforms have to rise on their own because they no longer can be kept burried deep inside. India will become a India of our dreams because of Indians. Indian not as in politics & indian not as in religion, but indian as in ’spirit’” - Santoshkumar

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Nigeria 419 Scam /Advance Fee Fraud

Mala Bhargava, Cyber media (India) and editor of Living Digital is a regular writer in Business World weekly’s feature - That’s IT. In the latest issue of the Business World she has written worderful article on internet email scam appropriately titled “BEWARE! NIGERIA CALLING”. If you are on the internet and have even a single pathetic email id, you must be already aware about this phenomenon. Some smat ass in Niegeria has loads of money which he wants to save from his government due to various political, military and civic reasons. And god knows why you are the choosen one?, the lord of the ring. He wants you to become the medium to transfer his millions and get cool 3/4 million for yourself. Now like myself and lot’s of other have deleted these types of mails right away and flushed the trash. But there are many air heads in this world who really felt that they are really the choosen ones. Don’t think that the story ends here and this mail things end after making you virtual april fool. These things go beyond the net and after series of mail exchanges you are duped to the tune of few thousand dollars and may be worst than that which is still unknown to us. It has become the multi-million dollar business(?).

Mala Bhargava along with friends and colleagues M Jayashankar, Shubhendu Parth, Nisha Kurien followed the trail of scamsters and their victims across India, China, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hongkong, US, UK and the Netherlands. She has given the entire working of how these scamsters operate. It was found that these scamsters have pseudo virtual online fake banks and offering ‘telebanking’. These group of reporters have created an awareness webpage on the Nigerian scam at www.dqindia.com/nscam - Nigeria 419 Scam /Advance Fee Fraud… A Resource Guide . Great Job.

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Bloggers Opening Western Eyes

Katie Dean writes in Bloggers Opening Western Eyes on Wired…

Marta Schaaf is one of eight summer interns affiliated with the Advocacy Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington that works with Non-Government Organizations, or NGOs, around the world Schaff. Schaaf writes about her experiences with the Bosnian women, her fellow interns are posting accounts of their work on the prevention of illegal trafficking of women and children in Nigeria, advocating for Roma (gypsies) in the Czech Republic and social justice in Nepal. Each intern, who assists advocacy groups in Bosnia, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Kosovo, Italy, Nigeria and the Czech Republic, has her own weblog. The Advocacy Project is using the blogs to raise awareness about its work and to present an inside look at its projects.

“These blogs can provide a picture of what the tragedies that Westerners see on the news mean to the people who live here,” Schaaf says.

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Microsoft Vs. Linux

Austrailian IT Conducts a discussion Your Say: Microsoft vs Linux Opinion from AustralianIT.com.au’s readers.

MS takes Linux fight to partners by Kate Mackenzie mentions :

“Resellers and services providers were told of improvements to the Microsoft partner program in a Sydney briefing today, and given CD-ROMs with information on how to deal with the appearance of Linux in their customers’ accounts. The CD, titled “Competing with Linux” gives partners detailed information on how to deal with customers who are interested in, or already using Linux and other open source software.

“Open source software can be an emotionally loaded issue, especially for the technical staff in your accounts,” the CD says.“

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Inside Open Source

Inside the open-source development model | CNET News.com. The article is a special imput from Harvard Business School’s HBS Working Knowledge. The discussion; about the hackers in the opensource community and the introduction of large businesses supporting the opensource.

“Programmers contribute to free software and open-source projects for many reasons–some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills and others for a paycheck.”

Harvard Business School professor Siobhan O’Mahony discusses her research in the article.

“No community-managed software project wants to be “taken over” or co-opted by one firm.”

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Time Magazine & Alex Perry take a twist ….tsiwt

(Via Indiacause.com)

Time Magazine and their writer Alex Writer take a twist. But that does not mean I am pro BJP. That does not mean I am pro Congress. India should be without politicians and must have some leaders like Mr.Kalam, Mr.Shourie, etc. See I have to use etc. as the third name I could think of.

June 2002 - Asleep at The Wheel?

“As India and neighbor Pakistan put up their nukes, is an ailing and frail Vajpayee the right man to have his finger on the button? He drank heavily in his prime and still enjoys a nightly whiskey or two at 74. India’s leader takes painkillers for his knees ”

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020617-260747,00.html

July 2003 - Top of His Game

“While it may stretch the limits of adolescence to anoint a 78-year-old as Asia’s new comeback kid, there’s little doubt that India’s once fading leader has returned with a bang. Abroad, he’s never been so well received”

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030714-463134,00.html

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Kargil Part 2, The begining

Mid-Day | The bridge(?) bewteen the two nations is built again. Last time the result of Delhi-Lahore Bus was KARGIL was, but there was no fun in it since cricket matches were going on. Right now there is no cricket season going on, so watching Indian Soldiers die will be a great fun on TV.

“Dozens of rain-soaked passengers jostled onto the luxurious golden-coloured Delhi Transport Corporation bus flagged-off from Ambedkar Nagar terminal here at 6:10 am by Union Surface Transport Minister B C Khanduri, restoring the service snapped on December 31, 2001, 18 days after Pakistan-backed terrorists attacked Parliament.”

“Body and luggage searches awaited them at the border, and in India, 1,000 police were put on alert along the 450-km road between New Delhi and the border checkpoint, while two vans of policemen were to escort the bus, said Satish Sharma, inspector-general of the Border Security Force in Punjab.He said police were on the lookout for attacks by militants who have sometimes waged assaults when steps are made toward peace.”

Read again the last sentence please we call them militants and not terrrorists. Congratulations we have changed the definition of terrorism

Dear Nishita I think you are wasting your time by saying…

“No award, no matter how big, is worthy of those brave men who fought for their motherland on the icy peaks of Kargil. I salute those selfless and dedicated men who lost their lives in order for us to live happily in a safe environment. We, a country of 9 million, owe them our lives and independance, it is a debt that can never be paid off.”

(13 yr old Nishita Jha pays her tribute to the martyrs)

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Mobile Blogging : MoBlogging

OJR article: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism: “Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism” - by Howard Rheingold OJR Online Journalism Review. On July 5, a few dozen mobile bloggers — Web publishers who post photos, video and text to the Web from cell phones and other mobile devices — gathered in Tokyo for the First International Moblogging Conference. Futurist Howard Rheingold says the ultimate democratization of the media will not be about technological advances; rather, it will entail upholding old-fashioned standards to earn viewers’ trust. Find out more about History of MoBlogging & SmartMobs. A wonderful quote from the same article…

… the most important remaining ingredient of a truly democratized electronic newsgathering is neither a kind of hardware nor a variety of software, but a species of literacy …

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LINUX TORVALDS : The Coolest One / Hot Inside

Stephen Shankland of CNET NEWS interview LINUS TORVALDS. The interview covers the questions related to the SCO lawsuit, his new job at OSDL & his views on Linux. Linus Torvalds seems to be cool in his reactions but actually he may not be very pleased to witness these kind of issues happening with LINUX. His answers on the patent issue raised by SCO on IBM which is affecting LINUX….

“Finding patent infringement has always been a responsibility of the patent holders. I didn’t put it there…It is a fact that I do not encourage engineers to look up patent information, for example. You ask any lawyer about it, and they will tell you that I’m right. It’s not the job of an engineer to try to find out about other peoples patents, since that just taints them, exactly something you do not want to happen.”

Ofcoure, Linux has great a great shape over the years and many open source are running into the blood of mainstream IT and Business sector. Innovative programmers and visionaries like LINUS must be really upset over the issue since in certain ways it is affecting the opensource and the linux community.

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CONCERNS : Humans vs. Robots vs. Cyborgs vs. Humans

My entire point of writing Humans vs. Robots vs. Cyborgs vs. Humans was my concern towards the issue since I was shocked by the possibilities. I quickly updated my thoughts on my blog, but then I asked myself this whole issue must be a within many people’s mind. I tried searching the net and I was guilty that there are many people who had better views to offer than mine. I was not the first one to get this ’shock’.

Tom Woods in a news group writes …

“I’m not totally up on the fine distinctions of the terminology, but it is my understanding that a “cyborg” is a human that has been enhanced by non-organic parts. Metallic skeletons, computer enhanced brains, that sort of thing. So a cyborg would still be subject to the same motives that any human might experience, they would just be able to act upon those motives with greater ability. And therein lies the story….”

The original discussion was started by AliasMoze with the subject “Stephen Hawking protects us from robots”. Alias has posted in reponse to Stephen Hawkings recommendations & views in OBSERVER artcicle Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking: Nick Paton Walsh. The Gaurdian also maintain a page on issue related to genes; the devlopment and the ethical issues.

From the same discussion thread I also obtained a link to Wired Article Why the future doesn’t need us through the same discussion. The article is written by Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, was cochair of the presidential commission on the future of IT research, and is coauthor ofThe Java Language Specification.

The Concern :

“Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species” - Bill Joy

Bill in his article quotes Ray Kurzweil author of The Spiritual Machines

“If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines.” AND

The original author of these thoughts is Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber. His bombs killed three people during a 17-year terror campaign and wounded many others. Download his manifesto

Bill Joy again quotes George Dyson from Darwin Among the Machines,

“In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.”

There are many such examples, quotes and concerns in the brilliantly written Wired article. Bill Joy has written an excellent piece of work. I now remember that he had also appeared in the documentary on Discovery Channel by which I was shocked. Please have a serious look at the article cos the CYBORG IS IN THE MAKING

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Animatrix & the Laws of Robotics

Deepak Jois provides this excellent information in reponse to my last entry Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”

“It was formed as part of a series of robot short storis called ‘I Robot’, and it is a great read on the possible ramifications of machines becoming more and more a part of our day-to-day life. Great book if youhave the time and inclination to read.”

2.One of the episodes in the Animatrix has a story of how machines actually took over the during the time before the Matrix was born. I think they have made it freely downloadable now.

- Thanks Deepak

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Humans vs. Robots vs. Cyborgs vs. Humans

THE PET ROBOT:

The advancements in the field of Robotics and AI are very fast. Honda has trying to develop a robot which can exactly mimic human movements and Sony has already successfully launched artificial electronic pets which can also mimic few emotional states. The technology is advancing very fast, right now the race is to pick up the attributes of the living beings and deliver them with perfection. Most of these attributes are related to the flawless replication of the human movements from the mechanics. But few scientists are trying hard to add the ‘emotional intelligence’ in to these robots by the way of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Right now we have to take care of these robots because they are highly dependant on us for their existence. But in the near future it is very much possible that these robots can surpass the humans in strength and intelligence. The robots right now cost same as a sports car but can become as cheap and as available as a personal computer. They are supposed to help humans in their daily life and enhance the quality of the life; they can be your electronic maid/servant/nurse/friend/escort and so on. But still they will be dependant on you for their maintenance because they would still be ‘somewhat human like robots’.

HUMAN vs. ROBOTS

By 2050 it is guessed that these robots will become more intelligent and tougher than humans. There will be so many robots that they will be able to take their own care, that is they will form an equivalent of a species. A time will come when the usage of these robots can be against the humans in war and politics. Right now all the evil humans are the result of wrong genes and circumstances. But the evil robot could be a result of a ‘program’. Some robots could be programmed as ‘killers’ and some as ‘savers’. The possibility of Humans becoming a ‘sub-species’ and the robots becoming a ‘dominant species’ cannot be denied as we are the successful example of how we are dominating the primates of this planet.

CYBORGS vs. ROBOTS

When the robots will become supreme how are we supposed to conquer them? By becoming half-robot. Half human and half robot termed as ‘Cyborg’. Cyborg will be the choice of the next human race. I have used a wrong word ‘choice’; it would be the only ‘option’. Cyborgs will have the intelligence and flexibility of the human and extra powers & dimensions of a robot. These cyborgs may be fitted with many additional chips which will be ‘senses’ enhancing. That is, these chips ‘inside’ us will provide us the extra powers by increasing the capability of seeing, hearing, feeling, communicating, and so on. Chances are that in the near future you wouldn’t chat with your buddy you would simply broadcast your thoughts. The humans will become the sub-sub-species and will hold no dominance and value on this planet. The robots and the cyborgs would rule the world. The issue would be between the cyborgs and the robots, they would be the main species on the earth, the fight would be between them and humans would be counted as minority community and almost like slaves. The cyborgs and the robots would be so advanced that we the humans would be treated as ‘chimps’. Yes chimps, may be the next generation humans = chimps would be visited by the children of cyborgs & robots in the Zoos on weekends. Robots and cyborgs may complement each other or they would also fight for the dominance. It’s very hard to say right now, but it is a surety that humans won’t have nay part to play in that; humans would have already played their ‘wrongful’ part in the past of tomorrow i.e. today.

CYBORGS vs. HUMANS

Since the major war would be between cyborgs and robots, humans as mentioned above would be reduced to chimps. When the cyborgs that would be half human, would start considering them special they will find that humans are ‘nothing’. Robots and cyborgs would have so much ‘extra’ that they would feel exactly the same as we feel about the chimps. But since these robots and cyborgs are related to humans and would be the advanced versions of humans, they are very much likely to pick the quality of the humans i.e. violence. The beauty of the disaster would be that this violence and all the negative qualities would be ‘programmable’ and with ‘perfection’.

THE DISCUSSION WILL CONTINUE

Now you must be really wondering how am I able to know about our ‘future’. I don’t know a shit. Few days back when I was lazily channel surfing; I came across this documentary on Discover Channel. The words sub species and humans becoming chimps are not mine. They have come out of some real great scientists and intellectuals. One mister Warwick who is I guess and if I could remember properly is one of the few examples of living cyborg and one of the first humans to get a chip planted in his body. In his interview he had used the word ‘chimps’ which would be the future name for humans in the future. This left me shocked, if I have to survive respectfully in the future, I have only one option; to upgrade myself and become a cyborg; otherwise I am a god damn chimp. The advance science of today is still discovering new things about humans, the most hidden part being the human mind and the human behavior. But we would jump fast and skip the process of becoming better humans and jump to become cyborgs. Cyborgs & Robots with human-like mental capabilities (AI) would carry the ‘negative’ of humans magnified, glorified, horrific and with superfast perfections. Today we are making a huge fuss over the recent, but can you imagine a future with MWPS = Million Wars Per Second or Million WMDs Per Second and imagine this; Mb/MB won’t be Mega bits/Bytes, MB would be MEGA BUSH. Now you are serious!

JOIN THE DEBATE

This month I would publish more blogs on the same topic and I’ll continue this discussion “Humans Vs Robots Vs Cyborgs Vs Humans” on my blog SanSpeak.BlogSpot.com. I would discuss how it would exactly matter the human race, what points we are missing in mad race for advancement. I would request everybody of you to mail me your thoughts against or for this advancement in technology on my email id sanspeak@rediffmail.com. Think About It.

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President Kalam on Dhirubhai Ambani

It is very entertaining to hear and political person since he has all the masala like a typical Indian film. But it is very hard to find any intelligence in such speeches. Prime Minister of India, Mr. Vajpai is believed to be great orator, but he according to me doesn’t carry any hope for the youth of India. He chooses his word smartly, disarms his opposition effectively, uses floral language and great Hindi. But his words do not make an honest impression and deliver the intelligence. His words are only good for the political House and don’t carry any hope for the citizens of this nation.

On the other hand, the speech made by Indian President Mr. Kalam as Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Lecture made a great impression on me. For the first time I felt that at least there are some people in this country who are where they deserve to be. Mr. Kalam was very honest with his words and carried excellent and extraordinary simplicity. While delivering the lecture he made references, gave credits, cited real life examples, generated enthusiasm, got his audience motivated and most important of all admitted his mistakes so that young can learn from his experiences. He gave a real example of the launching of satellite for the first time in India, how his decision lead to failure and how Mr. Satish Dhavan took the entire responsibility of the failure in front of everybody and when exactly after one year the project was successfully executed Mr. Satish asked Mr. Kalam to take the successful stand in front of everybody. Mr. Satish is an example of some extraordinary people who take the failure on them and give the credit of the success to everybody. Mr. Kalam even admitted that at the time of his failure one journalist even asked him “Did we invest 20 crores to let it go in Bay of Bengal”. How many leaders can give you examples of their own mistakes in the past? Mr. Kalam took this opportunity to inspire young Indian entrepreneurs to think ‘big’ by quoting late Sri Dhirubhai, “Not aiming high is a crime.”

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Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani

18-12-1932 – 06-07-2002

Late Sri Dhirubhai Ambani was among the very few people in India who think big. Born in a middle class family, he aimed very high and realized very big dreams with this great vision. It is very hard to find successful examples like Dhirubhai in India; just recently we have started seeing the successful individual achievers and entrepreneurs after the advent of IT in our country. All the successful industrialists today have born with a silver, golden or even platinum spoon and they belong to third or fourth generation in the inheritance chain. But Dhirubhai is the only example who has built everything on his own without any inheritance. He didn’t have any IIT or IIM degree to back him up and for that matter not even a full formal education. He was the man of pure guts and spending vision, he worked with his observation & instincts. After his death now his sons Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani and working hard to take his dream forward and entering into the diverse fields through Reliance Life Science, Reliance Infocomm & Reliance Entertainment to name the few. Reliance Infocomm is one such ‘big dream’ and Reliance dreams to become one of the top 10 telecom companies in the world. Dhirubhai is not just name to be remembered as a great successful example of an Indian industrialist. He is ‘hope’ for all the budding entrepreneurs in this country and example of a person who truly understood the meaning of VISION.

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Taj Mahal News Updates

Although Taj is suposed to retain its beauty monsoon rains & the recent construction could pose threat to Taj Mahal. The government has halted construction, but experts say that what has already been done has hemmed in the Jamuna River, and it could rise and flood the gardens of India’s greatest architectural marvel, just 300 meters (330 yards) away.

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WMD News Updates

Larry Johnson from freelancestar in his article - No WMD? Hold Bush accountable writes that “Not only did Bush and his gang deceive us all, but he’s also apparently using the same strategy to further his agenda in the Middle East, possibly to attack Iran, Syria, Jordan, maybe even Korea.” His comments were in response to the letter published by Elaine Kozora, who think what might be the reason still the action on Iraq was justified. I think he has summed up the entire thing in few lines very beautifully, who ever thinks that we all are making fuss over WMD and this anti-war thing is just a cool fashionable thing ‘must’ read his article because it doesn’t use pages to describe the things. Just read the following comments and understand it for yourself:-

If we don’t hold this administration accountable right now, then we deserve the scorn of the rest of the world. Not because we have so much, but because we once had a democracy and let it slip away. - Larry Johnson

Thanks Larry, Sorry Mr.Bush

Search for WMD Finds ‘Bomb’ on Internet : The site, which is designed to look like a genuine error message — replete with “bomb” icon — is the top result when “weapons of mass destruction” is entered into search engine < a href="http:/www.google.com">Google. When you click the first link on this search result page, you get a error page saying that, “These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed”. A must see for all of us including Mr. Bush.And mind you this “WMD JOKE WEBSITE IS MASSIVE HIT”

But US president Mr. Bush is still at war because “The United States will not stand by and wait for another attack or trust in the restraint and good intentions of evil men.” And somebody else is also feeling the heat in UK. Read Economist for the article The government, the BBC and WMD

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Linux News Updates

Darl MCBride, CEO - Sun will visit Japan to meet the founder members of CE Linux Forum and to show them code samples in which the Linux open-source operating system allegedly violates SCO’s Unix patents.- EETIMES
and read one more story about the lawsuit Legal battle brews over IBM’S use of Linux system

Is Linux the biggest thing since the Internet? Linux is having many similarities with the Internet; it’s openness, the free usage, the fast growth, the cost effectiveness and the endless opportunities it offers. It is the fastest growing operating system on the planet today. Linux has become a sort of ’swiss knife’ for programmers and it professionals around the world. Whatever application you can think of , you can find it on the net and moreover you can ‘modify’ and ‘customize’ it without exceeding your budget, absolutely free with the help of over enthusuastic and highly dedicated programmers who make their projects available through sites like SourceForge, Freshmeat and many others.

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Patent Battles Between Individuals & Corporations

Inc magazine has maintained the archive of a very interesting article about the famous patent battle fought between inventors and the corporations that stole their patented ideas - Patent Fending. This article had appeared in their December 1977 issue but still it is a very interesting read. One of the interesting read is battle between Microsoft and Stac Electronics, a small software company, who was awarded $120 million by Microsoft for infringement of its patent for data-compression technology.

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Greatest Disovery Of the century, still 97 years are left for this century, but I am showing my extra respect for CIA & Pakistan & Bush & Lashkar & Qaeda

CIA NOW blows a whistle that - terrorist group al-Qaeda was working with former scientists of Pakistan’s nuclear establishment to produce crude weapons of mass destruction, the CIA has said in a new report. USA recenlty has bombed Iraq on the suspicion of WMD, what they are going to do on the confirmation of WMD only Mr. Funny Bush can tell.On the other hand US implicitly backed Lashkar : Cohen, a lawyer for defendant Randall Todd Royer, told US District Judge Leonie Brinkema that the US government has essentially supported Pakistan and its intelligence agency in its dispute with India over the Kashmir territory, despite an official position of neutrality.Cohen further stated that the Pakistani intelligence agency has supported Lashkar-e-Taiba, and that he will be demanding classified reports from the US government to support his contention.The friendly nation Pakistan and it’s over friendly innocent agency ISI backing Lashkar for global strikes : Pakistan has been extending covert support to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to carry out subversive activities globally after Taliban and its militant outfit al-Qaeda fell to the US-led War against Terror, according to a Indian home ministry report. Mr. Bush is no doubt very intelligent person to support Pakistan & reward them with billion dollars ( for wrong reasons) because after the onset of War against Terror by the US-led forces, the ISI and the Pakistani regime made a complete U-turn against Taliban and attempted to create an image that it was against the use of its soil by terrorists and Mr. Bush and supower US completely overlooked & ignored it.The result is that Mr. Musharraf can now proudly says Nuclear programme is our strength and Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri says No US pressure to freeze Pak nukes and ofcouse there can be no compromise on Kashmir.

Thanks Mr. Bush.

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MUNIR KOTADIA :Microsoft open-source NT: Linux’s nemesis?

Munir Kotadia on ZDnet.co.uk suggests a very strange solution - “Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it should now release its source code to the open-source community in order to fight off the challenge from Linux ” According to him -

” However much the software giant would like us to forget that NT ever existed — and push everyone into a Windows Server 2003 upgrade — there are thousands of developers out there who would love to have the opportunity to turn the ageing OS into a masterpiece. So why not let them have a go by releasing NT 4.0’s source code into the open-source community? He further adds that “The developer community regularly moans about the inefficiencies of ‘Micro$oft bloatware’ and Microsoft has no love for the open-source community. But for the first time, Windows — albeit a very old version — would receive some constructive feedback as the code is scrutinised by people that have not been assimilated into the Redmond collective.”

That’s what I call a really sentimental writing, Opensource is great…no doubt, but Bill Gates is not a fool to committ this suicide/harakari. If he does god save his soul. And I know many people are eager to fathom Windows Codes but not for making a contribution towards it. If the same time is ’saved’ and ‘invested’ in opensource software it would be a much greater thing to do. Microsoft is in IT Business and had to deliver things ‘at the speed of thought’ so had to committ mistakes for competition, monopoly , dominance, time to deliver and etc. But when Opensource has already proved to be a serious tool, why do we need to dig the past for a ’so called great learning experience’.

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