[silk] China takes capitalism by the throat | Economist.com

2007-05-30 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
This is an unusually paranoid article for the Economist: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9247909fsrc=RSS Business.view China takes capitalism by the throat May 29th 2007 From Economist.com The odd coupling of communism and private equity CHINA'S secret plan to bring down

Re: [silk] China takes capitalism by the throat | Economist.com

2007-05-30 Thread Amit Varma
Jace, it's satire! On 5/30/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an unusually paranoid article for the Economist: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9247909fsrc=RSS Business.view China takes capitalism by the throat May 29th 2007 From Economist.com The odd

Re: [silk] cyberwarfare

2007-05-30 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: So it's more like 90 GBit/s, from the sound of it. I still fail to find this remarkable. Any smallish botnet can do that. Bigger countries have been taken offline because of a pissed off script kiddie. which, when? -rishab

Re: [silk] cyberwarfare

2007-05-30 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 29/05/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 10 largest assaults blasted streams of 90 megabits of data a second That's MBit, not GBit? I got personally hit by 200-300 MBit/s, at no provocation. I parsed that as ten 90 Mbps attacks running in parallel, adding up to 900 Mbps - that

Re: [silk] cyberwarfare

2007-05-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:23:34AM +, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: which, when? A personal account either on the IRR or ACT list. I can't verify how truthful that was. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [silk] cyberwarfare

2007-05-30 Thread Anish Mohammed
More often that not, the most devastating attacks fill session tables of session-tracking firewalls far quicker than filling up bandwidth pipes I suppose - a 1000-node botnet with each node creating 1000 sessions will fry a firewall capable of 1-million sessions. This is probably what took

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-05-30 Thread Vardhini Shankar
I got this link from him : http://firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/search.asp?styp=athstxt=Ashokamitran Vardhini - Original Message From: Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:38:06 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Indian Economy's

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-05-30 Thread ashok _
there is an extremely funny description of the wife, and the circumstances of the marriage in the biographical book about naipaul Sir Vidia's Shadow... by naipaul's former protege...paul theroux On 5/29/07, shiv sastry wrote: Must be true love because they do not seem to allow personal

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-05-30 Thread Udhay Shankar N
ashok _ wrote: [ on 08:09 PM 5/30/2007 ] there is an extremely funny description of the wife, and the circumstances of the marriage in the biographical book about naipaul Sir Vidia's Shadow... by naipaul's former protege...paul theroux This might be of interest:

Re: [silk] not quite ready to eat

2007-05-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: with, and had a curious tinny aftertaste. Everything's sitting in one solid lump somewhere inside me right now. Kayam Churan to the rescue I learnt LONG back not to eat those ready to eat meals - either these, or their US equivalent (microwaveable TV dinners) Enough

Re: [silk] not quite ready to eat

2007-05-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: with, and had a curious tinny aftertaste. Everything's sitting in one solid lump somewhere inside me right now. Kayam Churan to the rescue For the non indians around - that's an old, old brand of ayurvedic / herbal laxative, mainly

Re: [silk] not quite ready to eat

2007-05-30 Thread Nishant Shah
Agreed... and seconded. The ready to eat meals, especially the MTR variety are a disgrace to the name of food and are specially designed to kill the taste buds so that the next ready to eat meal tastes uniformly palatable to the eater. Having spent eight years in different parts of India, living

Re: [silk] not quite ready to eat

2007-05-30 Thread Gautam John
Unfortunately, most retorted food from India is inedible. Some of it has to do with the process (which involves holding the finished product at a temperature of above 121 deg. C for at least 8 minutes. This pretty much cooks everything to a uniform mush, no matter how much you compensate by

[silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Moniz
Hi all, Speaking of food, I wonder, can anyone recommend good Indian restaurants in the Northern Virginia (primarily Arlington, VA) and Washington, DC area? Preferably ones you or someone whose culinary tastes you trust have dined at. I ask because earlier today in another forum, I was

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Radhika, Y.
There is a great indian place at the corner of Wisconsin and Calvert in the NW part of DC (Glover Park area). Also one of the better wine stores at that corner. enjoy. Radhika 2007/5/30, Dan Moniz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Speaking of food, I wonder, can anyone recommend good Indian

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Dave Kumar
In my opinion, your best bets in DC/Arlington are all in DC -- Rasika (6th and D downtown, near the Verizon Center), Indique on Connecticut in Cleveland Park, and Heritage India on Wisconsin in Glover Park (the original, not the newer branch near Dupont Circle). Heritage India was for a long

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Dave Kumar
P.S. For those of us who live in the US and who were ecstatic to hear that Indian mangoes are now available in the US (but haven't yet seen them in stores), Rasika has a Alphonso-mangoes-with-cardamom-flavored-ice-cream dessert. On 5/30/07, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion,

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Thaths
On 5/30/07, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. For those of us who live in the US and who were ecstatic to hear that Indian mangoes are now available in the US (but haven't yet seen them in stores), Rasika has a Alphonso-mangoes-with-cardamom-flavored-ice-cream dessert. What is the deal

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Lawnun
Oooh. I second that need. And maybe, if we get a good suggestion, a few of us can do a little DC/VA silklist meetup? Carey (who has yet to find Indian food that's worth anything out here) On 5/30/07, Dan Moniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Speaking of food, I wonder, can anyone recommend

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Lawnun [30/05/07 17:20 -0400]: Oooh. I second that need. And maybe, if we get a good suggestion, a few of us can do a little DC/VA silklist meetup? Carey (who has yet to find Indian food that's worth anything out here) I'll be in DC from July 10th night to the 14th afternoon .. 11 / 12 July

Re: [silk] Good Indian restaurants in Northern Virginia/DC?

2007-05-30 Thread Lawnun
Agreed -- I'll be back from CA by then, and would love to get together and do drinks. Who knew there were so many Silkers actually in/around the district! I'm totally all over checking out some of these restaurants -- esp. Rasika. Carey On 5/30/07, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On