Re: [silk] Interesting.

2011-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This lot is not phish. Its plain old spam advertising everything from a shop selling handbags to various money making mlm schemes. Never mind standard or non standard techniques - there's no content filtering on this box, so .. None of it is getting past the filters I run at work, as far as I

Re: [silk] Interesting.

2011-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Care to share that bounce? Offlist will do Madhu Menon [10/08/11 20:05 +0530]: On 10-08-2011 20:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: There's at least one overactive thai spammer who is hitting a ton of other traps on hserus.net True story: a member of one of the mailing lists I run mailed

Re: [silk] Interesting.

2011-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Spamcop is a bit aggressive. I like it, like the people behind it but would probably not use it in production. Madhu Menon [10/08/11 21:02 +0530]: On 10-08-2011 20:14, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Care to share that bounce? Offlist will do Sent off-list. But here, check this out: http

Re: [silk] Interesting.

2011-08-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl [10/08/11 17:48 +0200]: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:44:00AM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Spamcop is a bit aggressive. I like it, like the people behind it but would probably not use it in production. RBLs should only be used for spam scores, not hard bounces anyway

Re: [silk] John Julius Norwich's The Popes

2011-08-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Seen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_P%C3%A4pstin_%28Film%29 yet? Highly recommended On Monday 08 August 2011 05:09 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: This is the second history of the popes I'm reading in two months. And I

Re: [silk] Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts

2011-08-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I shared this on youtube months back and it was old even then. Amazing, just amazing music. And as the blurb in the clip says, Dave Brubeck loved it. On Monday 08 August 2011 06:53 PM, Xxxrum wrote: and then this Brubeck tribute…do see all the the videos

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

2011-08-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
And why is that a bad thing? --Original Message-- From: ss Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy Sent: Aug 9, 2011 06:32 On Monday 08 Aug 2011 5:04:43 pm Charles

Re: [silk] Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts

2011-08-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eh. It is not all that new a concept as you know very well when you're not trying to be laboriously sarcastic ss [09/08/11 06:52 +0530]: On Monday 08 Aug 2011 6:53:46 pm Xxxrum wrote: Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts The rich strains of eastern music have for

Re: [silk] Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western?charts

2011-08-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [09/08/11 09:00 +0530]: On Tuesday 09 Aug 2011 8:31:30 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Eh. It is not all that new a concept as you know very well when you're not trying to be laboriously sarcastic assume goodwill trolls dont rate goodwill, hth hand

Re: [silk] Assuming goodwill

2011-08-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Assuming goodwill Sent: Aug 7, 2011 09:12 On Saturday 06 Aug 2011 10:24:13 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Shiv, Anand, if you guys You addresssing me? I seem to recall that you are able to live with not hearing my views. I think its

Re: [silk] Assuming goodwill

2011-08-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
In other words, screw the right wing trolling, the pseud-intellectual trolling etc etc etc? Fully agree. Shiv, Anand, if you guys have any sort of remotely useful point to make in periodically winding people up with chaddiwala and chomsky arguments please do enlighten us. Else, start making the

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

2011-08-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [04/08/11 09:20 +0530]: In India, when a man with a Hindu name like Subramanyam Swamy writes a rabid article attacking the holy cow of Indian secularism, the counter arguments in India must come from other Hindus. Counter arguments from non Hindus don't cut it in India because there is an

Re: [silk] Information. We want Information.

2011-08-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [01/08/11 21:46 +0530]: You know, back in the forty-niner days, every gold mining town in California had a nerd with a scale, Avi says. The assayer. He sat in an office all day. Scary-looking rednecks came in with pouches of gold Extremely erudite bullshit, I'm afraid. Nerd

Re: [silk] Information. We want Information.

2011-08-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
dollars worth of it into a saddlebag. So there was no point in go anywhere near the nerds. Suresh Ramasubramanian [01/08/11 09:41 -0700]: Udhay Shankar N [01/08/11 21:46 +0530]: You know, back in the forty-niner days, every gold mining town in California had a nerd with a scale, Avi says

[silk] thunderbird conversation view

2011-07-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thunderbird looks and feels like gmail with this turned on :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/ srs

Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan...

2011-07-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [22/07/11 07:21 +0530]: On Thursday 21 Jul 2011 11:53:28 pm another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote: We need somebody from Pakistan in here. Ideas? I have been on a wildly jingoistic, largely right wing Indian defence forum which is very popular. About a decade ago there were similar calls on

Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan...

2011-07-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan... Sent: Jul 22, 2011 09:28 On Friday 22 Jul 2011 7:57:22 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: but how relevant is a forum full of indian assholes + pakistani chutiyas As relevant as your words

Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan...

2011-07-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I'll live with that. ss [22/07/11 10:24 +0530]: On Friday 22 Jul 2011 10:03:27 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: That still doesn't answer my question at all If you cite two individual fora of jingoistic racists as evidence that pakistanis aren't all that proficient in english, that just

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

2011-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Father Hated India Sent: Jul 19, 2011 22:36 On Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 8:11:46 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: The sangh parivar is making the same sort of circular reasoning you make when you say muslims do x vs pakistanis do x. The difference is about circular arguments on silklist versus burning

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

2011-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
:49 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Let us just assume I don't choose to carry my argument on further Your choice is sacrosanct, as is mine. Let me get this right. You think that the bjp/rss follow hate Pakistan politics and not hate Muslims. For that reason you said: the bjp rss crowd

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

2011-07-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bharat's point is that the bjp rss crowd are indistinguishable from the pakistanis in their tactics of hate politics I agree --Original Message-- From: ss Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

2011-07-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [19/07/11 06:50 +0530]: 1. If Pakistani politicians hate India, is there anything wrong in Indian polticians hating Muslims? Are they not valid political viewpoints that must be put to vote? Pakistanis have reasons to hate India and Indians have reasons to hate Muslims. Well, lets put it

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

2011-07-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
the following sentence: Bharat's point is that the bjp rss crowd are indistinguishable from the pakistanis in their tactics of hate politics On Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 7:22:47 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: after that, there's the two wrongs dont make a right and that pakistanis being stupidly

Re: [silk] Mumbai blasts again

2011-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Yes. The mumbai spirit is simply nothing happened to me or mine, so I don't care a shit That city stinks as much for its attitude as much for its squalor --Original Message-- From: Vinayak Hegde Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net

Re: [silk] samsung 8.9 tablet

2011-07-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sidin Vadukut [14/07/11 11:11 +0100]: Yes. I've never used Honeycomb though. And I've never really struggled with the iPad on the first two counts. Though I read everything on a Kindle if it is lengthy. best of both worlds = the kindle app on the ipad (and on my PC) I do wish a linux version

Re: [silk] Mission: Bangalore silk meetup - Thu July 14

2011-07-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
might fix the url. its foodtravelbangalore.wordpress.com without the www :) Suman Bolar [12/07/11 17:20 +0530]: +1 to Thulp. Because I wrote that pizzeria review. And Thulp is next to my house. -- Suman Bolar The FTB Blog http://www.foodtravelbangalore.wordpress.com

Re: [silk] In Go(l)d we trust

2011-07-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The Lord gives us, A Raja taketh away Cursed be the name of A Raja 0.76 lakh crore rupees to go ss [06/07/11 08:02 +0530]: http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Gold-treasure-at-India-temple-could-be- the-largest-in-the-world-40475-3-1.html Copy paste follows, fonts and all: NEW DELHI

Re: [silk] Plus by Google

2011-07-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [01/07/11 18:10 +0530]: Seems to me as if G+ is just a whole lot of work adding the same family, acquaintances and friends to yet another network and keeping up with them...can someone tell me what the unique benefits are? Frankly, I took it on just because it is a Google product,

Re: [silk] Plus by Google

2011-06-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Get born to a baap brahmin -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Xxxrum xxx...@yahoo.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:23:48 To: silklist@lists.hserus.netsilklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc:

Re: [silk] Plus by Google

2011-06-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I've had early accounts on quite a lot of sites, junked 99% of them except for gmail, linkedin and fb. Twitter - timesink Wave - didn't grab my interest Dopplr - travel came to a screeching halt in 2009 etc etc So thanks but no thanks re early adopter invites :) --Original Message--

Re: [silk] Plus by Google

2011-06-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
And yet another - possibly short lived - one http://www.fastcompany.com/1763820/shortmail-twitter-for-email-has-500-character-limit-forces-conciseness?partner=rss --Original Message-- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist

Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin?

2011-06-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Nobody takes right wing jokes as jokes, unfortunately --Original Message-- From: ss Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin? Sent: Jun 28, 2011 09:22 On

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2011-06-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Drown it in a butt of malmsey. Or at least a glass or three of scotch Get drunk enough and we might actually enjoy being AM's guinea pigs in this null cascade -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2011-06-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@manikutty - you've now completed whatever experiment you intended when you asked me to approve this post [which didn't need approval anyway ..] Venkat Mangudi [22/06/11 08:11 +0530]: -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2011-06-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Is john cage on silk? -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:33:26 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] (no

Re: [silk] Delhi University cut-offs reach record high; 100% for B Com at SRCC

2011-06-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Might ask BITS Pilani, they've used nothing but the secondary school results for the last several years now. Of course with weightage for which syllabus you score your 95, 100 or whatever in .. an ICSE 85 would rank about as much as a 97 in a state board +2 On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:42 AM,

Re: [silk] Delhi University cut-offs reach record high; 100% for B Com at SRCC

2011-06-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is a cut off for SCIENCE STREAM people. Basically a way to keep out candidates who take a commerce seat as a fallback and dump it as soon as they get into an IIT / BITS etc, leaving the college stuck with unfilled seats. On Thursday 16 June 2011 07:42 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mahesh Murthy [12/06/11 17:47 +0530]: Considering that the Dalai Lama is at #1 on the list and others like Sanjay Gupta of CNN, Lata Mangeshkar and Aamir Khan (all of whom have tweeted a fraction of the number of times some of us have) are in the top 20, I think that's a somewhat easily

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
to be prone to attacks ( now wearing research hat on). At times it is called gaming the system to gain competitive advantage :) Anish Mohammed Twitter: anishmohammed http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed On 12 Jun 2011, at 13:21, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: well look at all

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [11/06/11 21:07 +0530]: On Saturday 11 June 2011 08:46 PM, Thaths wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: mahesh murthy is a silklister .. As is Jace. As are Sidin, Gautam (gkjohn) Deepak Shenoy. though .. twitter != social

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
in India Sent: Jun 12, 2011 01:45 On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: though .. twitter != social networking .. I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on twitter in India, isn't he? Cheeni -- srs (blackberry)

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [12/06/11 07:46 +0530]: On Sunday 12 Jun 2011 1:45:55 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on twitter in India, isn't he? No need. Atul Chitnis is there. Silklisters are in august company. [choke]

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [11/06/11 08:10 +0530]: Nothing as cool as Charles or Eugen, I got started during my B.Sc. Quickly found out that I could easily write programs with a reasonable amount of competency to teach the lab assistants a thing or two. Learnt started out doing the usual basic, cobol,

Re: [silk] fish^N

2011-06-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venky TV [03/06/11 12:52 +0530]: Oh, you *can't* have missed that! Seriously?! Let me pitch in too. Think the whole thing is a load of carp. Not a single bong weighed in so far? Or a mallu (except for maybe Anand)? Not even samanth subramanian, avid fish follower? :) Anand's fishing for

Re: [silk] fish^N

2011-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Things do evolve! There were badgers .. and mushrooms .. http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ Anand Manikutty [01/06/11 02:23 -0700]: There has been a discussion on the Internets on Buffalo Buffalo ... ever since Paul Krugman posted about the sentence on his New York Times blog. Brad DeLong

Re: [silk] seeking Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) contact info.

2011-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Does it even exist or is it, like such a lot of ngos, either defunct or merely existing as a shell company for some corporate interest or the other? . [02/06/11 05:25 +]: Hi, Does anyone know where the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) society is located and/or how they can be

Re: [silk] A cure for cancer?

2011-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 19 May 2011 06:55 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Wow. this is a wild claim, which I'm not in a position to evaluate. Thoughts, from those in a better position to comment? Pretty much widely debunked as a hoax

[silk] Interesting thoughts on unix UI that deserve to be /.ed, silked ..

2011-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit I like the way this guy is going

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:41 PM, Sidin Vadukut wrote: However whenever I go to a cafe or a pub I use Sunny. Or Rahul. It just makes things simple. If you wanted a random north indian first name, I thought 'Amit' was de rigueur :)

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:05 PM, salil tripathi wrote: I ask you - since I live in London, am a desi journo, don't think london is capitalist mecca, and don't think desi journos are left-leaning - hence my query! Mostly the ones who write for The Hindu [I'm not counting ganashakti,

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:26 PM, salil tripathi wrote: And the only ex-Hindu journo I know in London is Praveen Swami, diplomatic editor at the daily telegraph, and anything but a lefty! Plenty of non lefties around. But yes, the pests N.Ram keeps around to recycle every single of comrade

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Yep. I've written about this, and many people have suggested that Tor is a way around that: see http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security/ That's called a pipe dream. 1. Tor nodes get sniffed and monitored, a

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 04:51 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: I know what you mean about those German geeks, but there's plenty of British ones too - they tend to be the tall, thin ones with ponytails! Eh - not as many encryption is the silver bullet types as the germans :) And good points - just

Re: [silk] anyone near Coimbatore?

2011-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 19 May 2011 09:19 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: Have you moved from Kanchipuram? No. The factory is technically in Thiruvannamalai district. The two towns are not more than 100 km apart if I don't miss my guess I'll probably be in kanchipuram too, technically speaking - most of

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 11:04 +0100]: It means the current bounty for finding a flaw in the cryptographic basis of bitcoin is about $209 million :-) you don't need to find the crypto basis of bitcoin as much as just take over a few zombied pcs that are bitcoin users, I guess?

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 11:06 +0100]: Ah, the limit isn't done like that. 50 bitcoin are generated about every 10 minutes, period. The more CPU time you put in, the larger a *share* of that you get, but the global rate remains the same. the more CPUs you put in?

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 11:58 +0100]: If you take control of somebody's PC you can steal their bitcoins by nabbing their private keys... Sure. I was thinking more along the lines of stealing their bitcoins AND generating more and more bitcoins using those stolen PCs. Then maybe just use

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alaric Snell-Pym [17/05/11 12:09 +0100]: In practice, the miners (people who set out to win blocks) don't use CPUs; they use GPUs (as found on video cards). Certain brands of GPU (ATI ones, it seems) are good at the maths required for SHA-256, so they put loads of graphics cards into their PCs

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [18/05/11 07:18 +0530]: What does your name mean? that type of malayali name tends to take one initial from each parent and string them together .. binand, gabin, subin, sidin etc.

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 05/16/2011 04:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a global power behind it. Nu-uh .. all they need to worry about is how many carders, botmasters etc like the

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peer to peer currency generation is something that botnets will love to game - artificially generate cash by using other people's computing power And the protocol itself might lend itself to such attacks. For example http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=823 Easy way to debase a currency

Re: [silk] anyone near Coimbatore?

2011-05-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If she cares to drop by bangalore or chennai, both a nights train ride / an hour by air away from coimbatore, that might be easier? You'll find that power cuts are a regular feature in industrial areas around india, most companies compensate by buying diesel generators --Original

Re: [silk] Using an X-Box Controller as a PC text input device

2011-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You need to talk to Arun Mehta - who developed this - http://www.skid.org.in/ arun.me...@gmail.com Aadisht Khanna [04/05/11 15:23 +0530]: Hello, someone I know just passed a query on to me, and I thought people on silk would probably be able to help. He knows two school-age children with a

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Friday 22 April 2011 06:33 PM, Ashwin N wrote: Sweetening milk and other food is required for certain Indian preparations. When the preparation of that food item cannot be avoided (due to the insistence of the person or the occasion), I was wondering if the other sugar alternatives (brown

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Saturday 23 April 2011 08:06 AM, ss wrote: Avoid high risk work. Like driving in India. Mining. Deep sea diving, Avoid sickness, or if sick, avoid doctors because medical errors seem to be killing a lot of people. Avoid sleeping too, far more people die peacefully in their sleep than

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 21 April 2011 02:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: How come you sign ABS rather than ASP? 'coz I'm Alaric Blagrave Snell-Pym :-) Could you put me up for the Drones Club, old bean? Alaric was the Duke of Dunstable - so maybe the Senior Conservatives?

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 21 April 2011 02:45 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Alaric was the Duke of Dunstable - so maybe the Senior Conservatives? Was he? I didn't know that! You don't read PG Wodehouse? :) The original alaric was a rather bloody minded goth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaric_I Blagrave

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 17, Issue 23

2011-04-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 21 April 2011 07:16 PM, Dave Long wrote: Also Udhay, who routinely does 7 tasks at once, cannot belong to the Drones. Also Udhay, who has not only married but even produced an heir, could be blackballed for rather more serious violation of the Drones' ethos ... Dont remember

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 02:56 PM, ss wrote: These are people who eat all the things that are praised as being good by some people . Complex starch as opposed to sugar. Plenty of vgetables. Shiv is right. Lots more complex starch than vegetable. Very little fiber (milled rice has next

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 04:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm currently at about 32 km/day work commute, takes about 100 min total. Mostly through forest, meadows, fields, and such. Much cleaner air too that way. Lucky you, you'll outlive all of us Out here, cyclists get used as target

Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls?

2011-04-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Haryana minus Gurgaon? Punjab minus Chandigarh? On Wednesday 20 April 2011 05:28 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I'm more interested in the definition of economically backward, since AFAIK Haryana beats all the states on the above economically advanced lists on GDP per capita, and Punjab ranks

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wednesday 20 April 2011 10:49 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2011-04-20 17:56:40 +0100, ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: ABS Alaric Snell-Pym How come you sign ABS rather than ASP? Double barreled surnames count for only one initial I guess? Or is a bangla + malayali double barreled

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I'll agree. I know a lot of health faddists who'll eat organic this, organic that, no fish because there's mercury, no sugar because it is fattening and artificial (or for the vegan faddists, because it is processed through bone charcoal) .. etc etc The hell with it, as long as it tastes good.

Re: [silk] Fwd: iPad2 -- 3g question

2011-04-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sms act 3g to 111 and you get 3g on vodafone. Coverage outside the metros is invariably edge Airtel has 3g, and 3g connectivity in smaller cities too -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [silk] Fwd: iPad2 -- 3g question

2011-04-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
, yes, that's how you sign up for the trial. To continue with 3G, you'll need to sign up for one of their 3G plans afterward. Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:13 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk

Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls?

2011-04-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It is - if and only if that was the only reason such tests were deployed. And even then there's nothing that stops the doctor from doing the determination and then advising the mother to, say, abort, or prepare herself for a child with special needs. ps: Just in time to restart this thread, we

Re: [silk] fax spammer with webmail at Hotdak.net/Chandigarh

2011-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl [05/04/11 08:32 +0200]: I'm getting European Stock Report fax spam with a contact address of abmel...@hotdak.net The email address is throwaway I guess. Not much use you'll see getting that killed. Hotdak seems to be some no-name freemail - email the whois contact and see if that

Re: [silk] fax spammer with webmail at Hotdak.net/Chandigarh

2011-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tarun Dua [05/04/11 12:37 +0530]: Give a shot to incid...@cert-in.org.in they have amassed a lot of legal powers by virtue of their head of org. being designated as a cyber-appellate officer. We'll find out if legal powers translate into actual abuse desk effectiveness :-) no point

Re: [silk] Madras silkmeet Saturday?

2011-03-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [31/03/11 13:22 +0530]: Am pondering a weekend trip to Madras tomorrow. Any takers for lunch/dinner on Saturday? har har .. i'm flying out saturday afternoon to hyderabad. late breakfast or early lunch on saturday maybe?

Re: [silk] Privacy, By Design

2011-03-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Good catch! Two or three people I wish were in India for this – and are there any IAPP regulars from India at all? Nuala O’Connor Kelly Anne Mitchell Ray Everett-Church From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net]

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Way overbroad generalization Where the germans had black uniforms and swastikas we have brown shorts and orange flags .. Where we have swamijis and astrologers, the US has tele-evangelists You can get just as drunk on single malt as on cheap booze Self help books are popular on pavement

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
. Some of them are definitely not bite size platitudes -Original Message- From: Srini RamaKrishnan [mailto:che...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 March 2011 14:15 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:45 AM

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cheeni suffers a bit from the india sucks because of the mediocrity, indian crab syndrome etc, hits most guys after a few years working abroad --Original Message-- From: divya manian To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Srini RamaKrishnan Subject: Re: [silk

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Treat you to a great crab dinner somewhere when you're next in chennai, to compensate --Original Message-- From: Abhijit Menon-Sen Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] A crisis of

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
India is hardly the only country where self help books, get rich quick in 30 days books etc proliferate. I can only put it down to the number of charlatans, and their access to publishing facilities, being roughly equal across most countries. suresh ss [30/03/11 07:11 +0530]: On

Re: [silk] Privacy, By Design

2011-03-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
? Off the top of my head, and restricting myself only to members of this list, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Nandakumar Saravade, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. Malavika is already involved in this project, or I'd have put her name in as well. :) Add my name as well - would like to attend if possible. Udhay

Re: [silk] Savita

2011-03-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is very sad, and I will miss her posts --Original Message-- From: Udhay Shankar N Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: Silk List ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Savita Sent: Mar 27, 2011 22:00 Some of you knew that silklister Savita Rao

Re: [silk] ancient Indian thought

2011-03-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Anand Manikutty [27/03/11 16:04 -0700]: considered generally speculative. The ideas in mathematics and linguistics are, however, well grounded and rightfully acclaimed. and rightly so - but then mathematics and linguistics are much more scientific, certainly far less abstract, than philosophy

Re: [silk] Hacking Frequent Flyer programs

2011-03-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vinayak Hegde [26/03/11 23:14 +0530]: Just saw this small 5 minute Ignite talk about hacking frequent flyer programs. http://anarchogeek.com/2011/03/24/ignite-oscon-2010-hacking-frequent-flyer-programs/ There are quite a few people on this list that travel a lot. Wanted to know if there are any

Re: [silk] Pseudopregnancy

2011-03-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If you think a walled compound will keep horny dogs out or your chi in ... :) Now what do you do with the pups? -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: ss cybers...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:06:44 To:

Re: [silk] Pseudopregnancy

2011-03-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Your local blue cross chapter would be glad to assist in vasectomizing the mutt --Original Message-- From: Indrajit Gupta Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Pseudopregnancy Sent:

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-03-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Julian Philips [05/03/11 18:25 +0530]: Thanks to Udhay for helping me identify and track down the ingredients and for applying the necessary diligence during QA. We need to have a cookout for our next silkmeet

[silk] Anybody coming back from abroad

2011-02-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Can some kind soul coming back from stateside / the asiapac stop by a pharmacy or a whole foods / trader joes type store and buy me a large (1000 pill) bottle of fish oil? (not cod liver oil, this is oil from the whole fish, typically from deep sea fishes) I'm running out of stock and don't

Re: [silk] Anybody coming back from abroad

2011-02-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 24 February 2011 05:43 AM, mark seiden wrote: I sense an interesting business opportunity here, generally speaking.:-) and in the opposite direction, too, there are a few things hard to find in the bay area. Silklist Courier Services, LLC coming right up, capitalized by your

Re: [silk] Anybody coming back from abroad

2011-02-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Except markups, shipping and handling etc add substantially to the cost using 20 north. http://www.20north.com/Kirkland-Signature-Natural-Fish-Oil-Concentrate-with-Omega-3-Fatt/product/?mid=1pid=B$@!00$@!0EQW3ZA$@!src=search List Price Rs. 1389 (21% OFF) Product price service charges Rs. 1110

Re: [silk] Anybody coming back from abroad

2011-02-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:00 AM, mark seiden wrote: i like a specific flavor of large size soap made by roger-gallet, a french company. not imported to the US in that size, and a lot more expensive too than in france. Oh lord. Horrifically expensive even in france and my favorite when I

Re: [silk] Anybody coming back from abroad

2011-02-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:19 AM, mark seiden wrote: the two fragrances i urge you all to check out are vetyver eoe US controls on bringing plant material into the country .. you can buy vetiver leaves quite easily at herb / vegetable stores here in chennai. Usual recipe for ice cold

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Nagercoil Mutton Biryani. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGmZjWWmfIkfeature=relmfu

Re: [silk] New Hottest Chili

2011-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Because udhay likes acquiring hot chilies and soaking them in vodka -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:21:03 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To:

Re: [silk] Biryani Recipes

2011-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Julian, you dont need to understand malayalam - just see the video Nagercoil Mutton Biryani. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGmZjWWmfIkfeature=relmfu Suresh Ramasubramanian [09/02/11 09:17 -0800]: Next silkmeet in bangalore = get together and cook up biryani, mirchi ka salan and double ka

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