On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen
this 'cavendish'.
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
Bananas aren't about to be swept from the face of the earth by a
deadly pestilence
On 6/19/08 4:58 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the end of the
banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by americans is dying
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest. i have never eaten or seen
this
Gautam John [19/06/08 10:14 +0530]:
I remember reading a piece that indicated that the sole surviving hope
for the banana was a hundred year old tree in Calcutta or some such.
Long Mista Tallyman, Tally Me Banana ... one more reporter to point to
snopes.com I guess.
On Thursday 19 Jun 2008 2:27:21 pm Biju Chacko wrote:
the Cavendish is the only banana we see in our
markets. It is the only kind that is shipped and eaten everywhere from
Beijing to Berlin, Moscow to Minneapolis.
How true is this in India? I see several different varieties [1]
available
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that
its the end of the
banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by
americans is dying
out because of the botanical equivalent of incest.
I thought all bananas don't undergo sexual reproduction; all members of a
variety are clones.
Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How true is this in India? I see several different varieties [1]
available here. From that perspective, this article seems
unnecessarily alarmist.
India has a wide variety of bananas available because they don't have
to be shipped long distances. Here in
Shyam Visweswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the article is a bit presumptuous to assume that its the
end of the banana simply because a variety of banana eaten by
americans is dying out because of the botanical equivalent of
incest.
I thought all bananas don't undergo sexual
Deepak Misra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So how is this done ? By hacking passwords ?
Typically that is unnecessary. Most system admins are bad at avoiding
versions of software with security holes.
Perry
Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm no expert, but sometimes badly written code and over-abundant
advertising can both make your page seem suspicious.
No, that's not an issue.
Also, it's quite common for Google to throw up false positives.
No, Niels Provos and his colleagues are
Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to
your PC - like make it a repository for child porn.
There's a very interesting paper by Provos too..
http://www.usenix.org/event/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf
The Ghost in the Browser - An analysis of
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I feel deprived. I have never tasted any banana other than a
Cavendish, and I'm reliably told that they're really not very tasty
compared to most other types.
I've also very little experience with real mangoes -- the
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] My favourite are the red ones -- any idea what they're called?
I only know of it by its name in Tamil, where it has the rather
obvious name of red banana.
I feel deprived. I have never tasted any banana other than
Suresh Ramasubramanian said the following on 19/06/2008 18:46:
Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to
Wow, Suresh, top-posting? So tell me, Gmail or Outlook? I'm too sleepy
to look at the headers.
Ram
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, Suresh, top-posting? So tell me, Gmail or Outlook? I'm too sleepy to
look at the headers.
Outlook
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if, for example, aging is cured in the next 20 years and the
population decline halts because of that? What if by 2050 we have
robots as capable as people capable of managing most of society's
needs? What if we
Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if, for example, aging is cured in the next 20 years and the
population decline halts because of that? What if by 2050 we have
robots as capable as people capable of managing most
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:14:19AM -0700, Thaths wrote:
What is the current thinking among Singularitarians about how the
world will be powered post-Singularity? Considering recent
The Singularity is a prediction horizont. About the only thing you can
say what's post it is that it will be
Ramakrishnan Sundaram [19/06/08 22:54 +0530]:
Suresh Ramasubramanian said the following on 19/06/2008 18:46:
Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to
Wow, Suresh, top-posting? So tell me, Gmail or Outlook? I'm too sleepy
to look at the headers.
Outlook.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 6/20/2008 6:06 AM]:
Outlook. Which actually handles imap better than a lot of other clients,
for some reason.
In my subjective opinion (i.e, I haven't attempted to quantify this)
kmail seems to be the best at dealing with IMAP, among the various MUAs
I
Udhay Shankar N said the following on 20/06/2008 06:36:
Maybe someday I will rouse myself to poke Sirtaj hard enough that he'll
do something about it. :)
Hey, leave him alone. He's, as they say in these parts, hardly working
on something else.
Ram
For the perusal of silk-listers,
I don't know if this article has been posted earlier on this lists. But, if
the statistics, references in this article are true and accurate, then this
article makes sense, I think.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
-- Bharat
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