Re: [silk] Karnataka shuts down 1416 english medium schools.

2006-10-02 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 02/Oct/2006, at 4:56 AM, Nishant Shah wrote: It suddenly struck me...does this affect your parents' school as well? No, no affected. There are enough ambiguities to slip through. According to mom*, this is undoubtedly a scam to extract money from school managements, but it won't be

[silk] Quote(s) of the Day

2006-10-02 Thread Udhay Shankar N
English is the noise made by people who don't believe you can use language but want your stuff handed over politely. English is what happens when you can't decide whether the Greeks or the Romans had the better civilization, so you ask everybody they ever beat up on to sort it out. English

[silk] Interesting voting protocol from the R in RSA

2006-10-02 Thread Thaths
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/new_voting_prot.html Interesting voting protocol from Ron Rivest: Abstract: We present a new paper-based voting method with attractive security properties. Not only can each voter verify that her vote is recorded as she intended, but she gets a

Re: [silk] Hole in the wall project

2006-10-02 Thread Bharath Chari
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ At 05:20 AM 10/3/2006, Thaths wrote: Reading yet another article [1] about the Hole in the Wall project I realized that I have not heard any updates on this project in the last 4-5 years. Anyone know if further tests were conducted as part of this proejct?