I hope they don't count linkedin as one of these social networking sites. Hiring through linkedin should not be a source of lawsuits since linkedin is a professional social networking site and personal info is hardly ever present there.

Love the new notification system (NotifyOSD)

Apple leading the way? My iPod doesn't get charged by USB. My friend's iPhone doesn't get charged by USB. But my G1 gets charged by USB, my old Blackberry pearl used to get charged by USB.

I just heard it on NPR that IBM will be paying for the move.

I'm surprised python didn't make the list.

3 hours is a lot if this was going to be a hit and run attack like done recently in Taj hotel and elsewhere. But you have the understand the complete context here. India has had attacks which were done much differently. There have been cases when the terrorists were *in* India for days and sometimes months. Some of those attacks have cost more lives (mumbai train blasts come to my mind) than the recent one. And these attacks are much more common.

So, yes, you are right if the cops are only targeting Taj Mahal sort of attacks. But thats 'not enough', as I said.

Unless this policy is applied throughout the country, the city of Mumbai getting rid of unsecured wifi access points will not solve much. A terrorist can take a 3 hour bus ride to Pune to get unsecured wifi access. Mumbai itself is too big, are they talking about only the city or the whole suburbia included? Thane? New Mumbai?

Sounds like a scare tactic to me. A publicity stunt to make people more aware of consequences of unsecured wifi.

Just to add, the famed IITs (Indian Institute of Technologies) do have exchange programs. But the living conditions in most IITs will not suit (you might call them appalling by US college standards) most americans. So choose the institute properly (IIT delhi, e.g., might be a better choice than IIT Kharagpur). But, yes, India will be a good economical choice. And almost all institutes in India have english as their medium of teaching, so language won't be a problem at all.

PS: I am from IIT Kharagpur.

But what explains the fictional author being chosen as a session chair?

This is a conference not a journal. CS journals do go through multiple revisions, conference acceptance usually don't go through any. If any, they go through atmost one, which may or may not be compulsory.

Computer Science is not just algorithms and programming :). So a list of other important books:

* Introduction to Graph Theory - Douglas B West

* Computer Architecture - John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

* Switching and Finite Automata Theory - Zvi Kohavi

* Compilers - Aho Ullman and Sethi (the dragon book)

* An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking - Keshav

And if you are going to be writing papers, don't forget to read "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk.