tanveer1979 - Slashdot User

Submission + - I am currently sitting

Submitted by tanveer1979 on Friday August 20, 2010 @06:18AM

tanveer1979 writes: 0-100m above MSL
100-500m above MSL
500-2000m above MSL
2000-4000m above MSL
4000+m above MSL
I reside in Heaven
I burn in Hell

Submission + - Indian Scientists decode TB Genome, and Opensource (in.com)

Submitted by tanveer1979 on Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:09AM

tanveer1979 writes: Indian scientists have decoded the Tuberculosis genome, and released all data under open source. Anybody in the world can use the data and develop the drug based on it.
From the Article
"OSDD is a completely new formula across the world. Here we are making all our progress available to public. Anyone can take advantage and develop a drug based on our research. The aim here is not patents but drug discovery for a neglected disease"
Hopefully, this will pave the way for new age drugs for this neglected disease which kills millions every year.

Submission + - Should Internet forums be liable for defamation (team-bhp.com)

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @05:10AM

tanveer1979 writes: "The story itself is pretty mundane. User buys car, is conned at some point. This has happened to many, and thousands of forums all over the internet have such complaints.

Often the user goes to courts, but along with that also goes to various internet forums, and posts his/her grievance for all to see. Lot of people reply, and there are many comments, like "Boycott" etc., etc. This could have been a simple story, user unhappy with Skoda, user posts thread. This thread could have been like those countless threads. Skoda could have kept quiet, life would have gone on.

However someone, somewhere in the corporate ladder thought this should stop, and they should threaten. So in come the big guns and the lawyers, and put up a threatening post. So what happens then. Everybody cows down? Obviously Skoda India had never heard of Streisand effect and trouble starts. The Forum refuses to bow down, and a new thread is created dedicated to this thread. In just a few days it has 86000+ views. and the first results on google for Skoda India point to this blunder. Other forums also link to the same article, because the question is very relevant. Its the freedom of expression of a dis grunted customer which is at stake. What do slashdotters think? Does a company has the moral right to threaten a customer who posts a negative review. Legally corporations have enough muscle to do as they please, and the whole episode shows that you should never underestimate the power of the internet."

Submission + - India Scientists develop ~ 2000$ artificial heart (indiatimes.com) 1

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Thursday March 19, 2009 @02:22AM

tanveer1979 writes: "Indian Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur(IIT-KGP), have developed an artificial heart which costs just 2000$, a fraction of the 60,000$ heart available in the market currently.

The research team says trials of the prototype lab--constructed heart have been successful on small animals and the gadget is being perfected on goats. The institute has applied for permission to conduct human trials. The development of this heart took 4 years, and scientists say that they have bettered the reliability of the existing artificial heart at a tiny fraction of the cost, and very soon this heart could be in the reach of the common man."

Submission + - JAL makes first Boeing BioFuel flight (google.com)

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Friday January 30, 2009 @03:46PM

tanveer1979 writes: "Japan Airlines made the first successful test flight of a Boeing airplane run on Biofuel. The Fuel in this case was a blend of traditional ATF(Kerosene) and a Bio fuel made of Camelina which is a non food energy crop.

In this test one of the engines of the Boeing 747-300 aircraft was running on the cocktail. The flight lasted 90 minutes. According to JAL, when Biofuels are sufficiently abundant and readily available, they hope to be the first ones to start using them. Apart from Camelina, which is the primary ingredient, the the fuel contains algae and jatropha."

Submission + - India sets record, 10 satellites on one rocket (ndtv.com)

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Monday April 28, 2008 @01:56AM

tanveer1979 writes: "India's ISRO has set a world record by injecting 10 satellites into space with one PSLV rocket. PSLV weights 230 tonnes.

Out of the 10 satellites eight were foreign, and two were Indian. The satellites also include the high resolution mapping satellite CARTOSAT 2A. Full news coverage here"

Submission + - No DL in Michigan for non permanent Legal resident (michigan.gov)

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:20AM

tanveer1979 writes: "Michigan has passed a law, wherein to get a Drivers License you need to be a Permanent Legal resident. Though this move is to prevent illegal immigrants from getting a Drivers License, this will also affect thousands of H1/Student/L1 etc., VISA immigrants who are legally in the state.

These people can drive in Michigan with their home country drivers license, so apparently it will have no effect. But the question now arises, what will these people do when traveling to states which require a US drivers license? What if these people are unable to travel to their home country when their DL expires? Traveling overseas is a huge expense. Moreover, carrying a DL is very important as its an important identity document, not everyone will be comfortable carrying their passport around at all time!"

Submission + - Patent granted for Sports photography

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Thursday November 15, 2007 @03:27AM

tanveer1979 writes: "It cannot get any stupid than this. Photocrazy has been granted a patent for shooting events photography.
The gist of the patent is
Do you shoot participants in sporting events?
Do you associate a unique identifier (such as bib number, name or time) with each image?
Do the participants find the images using a unique pre-determined identifier?
By default cameras will assign an unique image name, and the EXIF data will have unique data/time. Your clients will use either image name, or tag name(of participant) to search for photographs.

And do not think its not enforceable. Many Photo companies including Smugmug, Printroom etc., have been sued. Printroom has already caved in, and as per a response on dgrin, even smugmug has partially caved in. The settlement with printroom is posted below

Printroom user now have an option in a gallery to participate in the printroom sports license program.
Printroom paid Peter Wolf a substancial fee to license for the technology/workflow, and as part of the agreement now Printroom sellers, can select this option if they feel they fall into the area covered in Peter Wolf's license.
Printroom has three questions:
* Do you shoot participants in sporting events?
* Do you associate a unique identifier (such as bib number, name or time) with each image?
* Do the participants find the images using a unique pre-determined identifier?
If your answer is yes to all the above printroom suggests you enable the licensing within that gallery.
Any image sold will have an additional fee of $1.50 added to the end user (customer buying the a print or prints from one image). (excluding photographer orders, and ordering all images in a gallery).
Just some information I received tonight from my contact at PR."

Submission + - MS trojans Linux Asia 2007

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @05:08AM

tanveer1979 writes: "Being a Partner for Linux Asia 2007 may be a great move by Microsoft, but the Linux India community, esp the are not happy about MS trojan horse in the event.

Allegations are flying thick with explanations being demanded from the Organizers(FOSSI). Their official response on the list has not gone down well with the members of the community who equate the move to having KFC sponsor a vegetarians conference. The biggest gripe is that having Microsoft as "Interoperability partner" led to the entire OSS spectrum at the event being overshadowed by them, and also prompted many key figures of the Indian OSS movement away from the event."

Submission + - Microsoft Linux asia causes Furore in LUG circles

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Sunday February 04, 2007 @02:19AM

tanveer1979 writes: "New Delhi, India was host to the Lunux Asia 2007 event from Jan 31 — Feb 02. While most LUGs would have a reason to celebrate the event polarized the Delhi LUG.

The issue? Microsoft is a partner of the event, they had the best stall with the biggest eye candy, and probably Linux Asia peddled VISTA more than LINUX! The gory details can be read in the ILUGD mailing list archives. For specific threads are here and here. Allegations are flying left right and center with some saying that our weakness is money, and others saying that we are too willing to please everyone. That said the event was more a matter of embarrassment than pride for the OSS community of Delhi in Particular and India in general."

Submission + - Only 10 years to reverse Global meltdown

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Monday January 29, 2007 @03:49AM

tanveer1979 writes: "In a new study being prepared by scientists, the world has just 10 years to reverse climate change before its too late to prevent Global meltdown.

The stark warning comes from scientists who are working on the final draft of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The report, due out this week, will draw together the work of thousands of scientists from around the world who have been studying changes in the world's climate and predicting how they might accelerate. Previous predictions have been talking about a 25-50 year timespan, but this new study predicts that extremely hot summers, destruction of amazon rainforests, migration of millions from coastal areas is inevitable in the next 10 years unless something is done to prevent it."

Submission + - A DIY climate control system

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Friday September 29, 2006 @05:56AM

tanveer1979 writes: "A thought came to my mind on building a car climate control system, the likes of which are found in high end cars. All that is needed is a dual temparature switch. for example if temparature set is T degrees, at T-1 degrees heater should be activated and at T+1 degrees AC should be activated.

I googled, checked out automobile systems websites, forums etc., but most modders are of the opinion that it is very complicated to do and very expensive too, thats why its found on more expensive cars. I disagreed. Such a switch cannot be very expensive. Even if you use 2-3 sensors on different corners of the car and use an algorithm to determine AC or Heater activation, or fan speed, how expense can it get.

Can I be pointed to a circuit diagram, an DIY help page etc.,. parts needed to construct such a thing which I can connect to Heater/AC and Fan speed switches? On High end cars, such a system translates to about 200-300$ extra in the cost of the car, but it is hard to believe that the manufacturer is actually having to spend this much extra for such a system. My estimates say that for a complex system with Microprossor control and sensors in 3 different places in the car, the cost should not exceed around 80$.

What gives me faith is that I was able to construct a camera wired remote for 2$ when the list price was 20$.

So in this case too such a solution may exist. so asking for your help slashdotters"

Submission + - Howto overcome the firefox hurdles?

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Friday September 15, 2006 @05:17AM

tanveer1979 writes: "I recently converted a few people to firefox from IE on windows. Only to see them go back after a couple of days. The reason : On "live" sites like gmail, firefox would often hang for a few seconds while typing, while opera/IE would show not problem.

So, as a test, I took one of those PCs tried every anti-spyware(Lavasoft, MS, Spybot), couple of antivirus like AVG/Avast etc., and tried gmail. Same problem. Hang in firefox, and during that period you cant even move the mouse. Tried opening the Task manager to see usage, but same problem. Hang. So no updation. So now I have 3 people who went back to IE, because firefox is not just usable. Any ideas how to go ahead and tackle the problem? Where to start debug?"

Submission + - 75 US scholars claim 9/11 a hoax

Submitted by

tanveer1979

on Thursday September 07, 2006 @07:28AM

tanveer1979 writes: "A newly formed group of scholars from USA, calling themseleves "Scholars for truth" are calling 9/11 a hoax and saying that the whole attack was orchestrated by war mongers inside the adminstration.

Their iconoclastic positions have drawn wrath from rightwing radio shows and caused upheaval on campuses, triggering letters to newspapers, phone calls from parents and TV cameras in lecture halls."

Submission + - Quantas has new rules for dell

Submitted by on Thursday August 24, 2006 @07:28AM

tanveer1979 writes: If you are going to be taking your dell laptop on a Quantas flight, be prepared for new rules
One is to remove your battery and move up to first or business class and power your computer via power supply.

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