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From: john sanco <john.sanco12@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Subject: How are you today,
To: vaibhav.kadian@gmail.com

Good Day,   I know you may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally. Hence the necessity of my introduction. I am john Sanco,The first son of late Dr jimmy sanco, who was killed by rebels of opposition party in my country  Liberia.                                                         Because my late father was a political struggler, and he died on the struggle.  Before he died, review to me and my mother that he deposited a consignment box in a security company in Ghana for security reason. That the box contain $15,000,000,00 USD (fifteen million united state dollars).Which all the documents my name was on it as the next of kin handover to me by my late father before he died,   When myself and my mother now came to Ghana to look for the security company knows as worldwide insurance and security company LTD. For the manager of the security company told me and my mother that, the consignment box cannot be release to us. He as well made us to understand that, at the time my father was depositing the consignment box, he made an agreement with them that the box should not be release to any of his family member without a foreign beneficiary. That was why it was mandatory for me to contact you to assist us claim the consignment box as my late father foreign beneficiary.   For your information the security company did not know the content of what is inside the consignment box, because my father told them at the time of depositing the consignment that he contains family precious items. , The company did not know that it is money that is inside the consignment box. This top secret I am revealing to you now. Because if they should know, the officials of the company might decide to raise there eye brows on the fund. Which is dangerous so, keep it confidential to yourself four both of us success in this transaction.    In your next mail kindly forward your direct telephone number and fax number so that I will feed you with more information about this transaction also I will feed you with all document covering this fund,   Please in the name of God keep this transaction top secrete you know secrete go with success, kindly get back soon.                                  Regards john sanco,

Micrograms - god of rock

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Secure - Crack Easy

People try to make this more secure (“try”). What they forget is sometimes the more the secure the easy the crack ……..he he he

 

Here is a blogpost (http://www.shadrik.co.uk/index.php?blog=2&title=circumventing_windows_media_player_11_pr&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1) which gives us a ridiculously easy way to crack WMP 11.

 

 

Subservient Chicken

Finally, somebody in a chicken costume who will do whatever you want. Check it out: http://www.subservientchicken.com

We knew the web was big...

Thoughts about - How many web pages are there on the web?

After reading the article, i think its not relevant to say that web has infinite web pages. fact is we cant count it. Nothing is infinite - its just our inability/incompetency to count.
Btw the example too was not satisfactory for me. a calender page should be seen as a single page rather then a page with multiple states. But the fact that identifying such pages would be difficult for a web spider.

 

 

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We knew the web was big...

via The Official Google Blog by Karen on 7/25/08

We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day.

So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer.

We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.

To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.

As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search.

Posted by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team

 

 

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I Love BJ's

Original Post : has the real stroy behind it .............BJ's "Buffalo Joe's" - a kayaking company

Crazy Ride!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting Pictures of an Irish

July 1 2008 - Canada Day

Movies

The Garden State
- nice paced movie. its a story but a boy who doesn't have memory of his life thanks to his father prescription to drugs(medicine). During the movie, you realize that everyone has some sad story to tell which now a part of there life. No body is lucky and no body is unlucky, its just a matter of time. And sometimes you have to take sides/steps in life which might not be right but are for good.

No Country For Old Men(2007)
- true to its name. its violent yet sensible. its not like a everyday movie where in the end everything is turns out to be good. This story tells me that, if you are ruthless then be it, but if you have heart you it all the way and don't leave any stone's unturned, because one unturned stone may haunt you and can decide the course of your life (a character in the movie, had to give a guy water, he forgot it while thinking about money, when he realized he had to do it, he went back and got himself into a mess. which took his and his wife's life).

The Bank Job(2008)
- different style of robbery....by the way there is no style to it, its just plain lucky. But what ever happens after the robbery is more interesting. Robbery is just a ground built up for the mayhem. Has a good end to the story not that everyone got out of it but someone who went all the way were saved by the script writer .....lol

Founders At Work (book)

Author@Google Video

good to see

Bike : Sleak but Crazy

Tiger terror

Steve Yzerman Top Ten

Nice Magic Trick

Freaknomics leads to

The first ever novel/writting I finished is 'Freaknomics by levitt and dubner'
Loved it by gut. The most inspiring example is the 'drug dealer'

This book has moved my interest into similar studies.

Cold Reading

A deceptive art called 'Cold Reading'

After reading material online about the topic, I realized that one should not react instantly and should answere only when required or asked to.

Read these articles

The first example in the article is quite impressive.
James Randi- 'Art of Cold Reading'

Cold Reading


Extracts from wikipedia


Cold reading is a technique used to convince another person that the reader knows much more about a subject than they actually do. Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person's body language, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. This technique is also called offender profiling.[citation needed] Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses.


Extracts from skepdic.com/coldread.html

Cold reading refers to a set of techniques used by professional manipulators to get a subject to behave in a certain way or to think that the cold reader has some sort of special ability that allows him to "mysteriously" know things about the subject. Cold reading goes beyond the usual tools of manipulation: suggestion and flattery. In cold reading, salespersons, hypnotists, advertising pros, faith healers, con men, and some therapists bank on their subject's inclination to find more meaning in a situation than there actually is. The desire to make sense out of experience can lead us to many wonderful discoveries, but it can also lead us to many follies. The manipulator knows that his mark will be inclined to try to make sense out of whatever he is told, no matter how farfetched or improbable. He knows, too, that people are generally self-centered, that we tend to have unrealistic views of ourselves, and that we will generally accept claims about ourselves that reflect not how we are or even how we really think we are but how we wish we were or think we should be. He also knows that for every several claims he makes about you that you reject as being inaccurate, he will make one that meets with your approval; and he knows that you are likely to remember the hits he makes and forget the misses.

Thus, a good manipulator can provide a reading of a total stranger, which will make the stranger feel that the manipulator possesses some special power. For example, Bertram Forer has never met you, yet he offers the following cold reading of you:

Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others' opinions without satisfactory proof. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.

Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a strong need for other people to like you and for them to admire you.

Here's another reading that you might find fairly accurate about you:

People close to you have been taking advantage of you. Your basic honesty has been getting in your way. Many opportunities that you have had offered to you in the past have had to be surrendered because you refuse to take advantage of others. You like to read books and articles to improve your mind. In fact, if you're not already in some sort of personal service business, you should be. You have an infinite capacity for understanding people's problems and you can sympathize with them. But you are firm when confronted with obstinacy or outright stupidity. Law enforcement would be another field you understand. Your sense of justice is quite strong.

The last one was from astrologer Sidney Omarr. He's never even met you and yet he knows so much about you (Flim-Flam!, 61). The first one was taken by Forer from a newsstand astrology book.

Qoutations

LIFE


You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi

People are always blaming their circunstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them.
George Bernard Shaw


LOVE/GIVING


If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-tzu

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless

“Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances” (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)

Live Life

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Intresting Blogs

http://komal-friendlyghost.blogspot.com/

Good Old Times

There are times when everyone feel sad and alone, but there are always some sweet memories to help us out of those situations.

I had my times but what I remmeber most is that I also do have some sweet memories to live with and many more to come. Life is painfull but it brings along some joys too.

Not intent on arriving

long back I went to a trip to Leh by road, which till date is the best and adventurous trip I ever had. Adventurous because, it was not very well planned.
It all started with a stupid talk about the places we can go for a two-three day trip. Suddenly it became all serious and some good places came up. At last we decided a five -six day trip to Leh . Next day, I along with 5 of my friends started of from delhi in bus and I didnt told my folks that I am going to Leh, instead I said I am going to Chandigarh(punjab).
It took us 5 hours to reach Chandigarh, a stop not the destination in our trip. From there we took a nother 6 hour bus ride to Manali. From Manali to Leh, u can hire car with a descent 1000 bucks per head, which is good considering a two day trip depending upon time you leave manali.

The best part is the travelling from Manali to Leh. Site seeing is mind-bogbling. At one point I thought why not spend the rest of my life here, but thats just a thought not reality. Nobody can explain the beauty of the place, you have to see it yourself. Its worthwhile travelling once.

As we were unplanned, we were stuck up in Leh, because there a single site seeing place takes one day to get the permission and another day to travel and come back. Point being if you want see 5 sites take 15 days of trip. That was the reason we left the next morning back home.

But I will go there once againg sometime, but better planned, even if its a unplanned trip.