Re: [silk] Fwd: Yahoo + iPhone = replay attacks

2007-07-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:57:01AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: What is going on with Yahoo mail, in re: proprietary back ends etc. Bored to tears already.

[silk] The Guardian: Tata chemicals factory may destory natural wonder

2007-07-20 Thread ashok _
Curious to know how this story ha been covered by the indian newspapers ? Tata chemicals factory may destory natural wonder http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2124251,00.html Tata Chemicals, part of the giant Tata industrial group in India, plans to construct a soda-ash

Re: [silk] The Guardian: Tata chemicals factory may destory natural wonder

2007-07-20 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
--- ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious to know how this story ha been covered by the indian newspapers ? AFAIK, it hasn't been covered at all. With luck it'll make the news briefs in Down to Earth next fortnight. Pavithra

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 20 Jul 2007 9:45 am, Biju Chacko wrote: Shiv, Do you mind not shaking a virtual fist at everyone that disagrees with you? It's getting tiresome. thanks, I think you are being unfair to me. It is one thing to disagree with what I say, but expressing that disagreement by

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Haynes
On 7/20/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 Jul 2007 9:45 am, Biju Chacko wrote: Shiv, Do you mind not shaking a virtual fist at everyone that disagrees with you? It's getting tiresome. thanks, I think you are being unfair to me. It is one thing to disagree with what I

[silk] YouTube - TN State success story of Suse linux migration

2007-07-20 Thread ashok _
I showed this video to the people in my office (mixed demographic, some govt. staff) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc most people found the video fascinating not just for its content but for the dramatic style, background music, special effects and the way people appeared and spoke

Re: [silk] hindu approach to education

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Haynes
On 7/20/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps we should all become calvinists. What, you don't like Hobbesianism? -- Charles

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 6:40 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: On 7/19/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] A classical example is the state of Rwanda. Thanks for taking the trouble. I presume you have been to Rwanda - because that is the thing required for credibility isn't it?

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Haynes
On 7/20/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for being frank. I will be frank too. It appears to me that you were disinterested even before you said this because you do not seem to have read what Ashok said about me and my not having travelled to Pakistan. That in fact is what

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 20 Jul 2007 4:13 pm, Charles Haynes wrote: Ad hominem in response may be emotionally satisfying, but it does not advance the discussion in any useful way. Fair enough. I accept that and I really should not say anything more than apologise for acting like an axhole. Unfortunately my

Re: [silk] YouTube - TN State success story of Suse linux migration

2007-07-20 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 7/20/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I showed this video to the people in my office (mixed demographic, some govt. staff) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc most people found the video fascinating not just for its content but for the dramatic style, background music, special

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
--- shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to test the boundaries any opinion or possible fact posted for inconsistencies and that is what makes me so irritating - usually to the person whose post i am testing. Well, maybe there is a more non-irritating way to do it. Otherwise, the

Re: [silk] YouTube - TN State success story of Suse linux migration

2007-07-20 Thread ashok _
On 7/20/07, Thaths wrote: 4. The video, and the fact that it as been uploaded to youtube gives me great hope for government in India. We may not be into non-gaudy production values yet. But we are definitely on the road. The glass appears to be a quarter full. I rather liked the animated

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-20 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 20 Jul 2007 5:25 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: One observation is that Hinduism is often said to be more a way of life than a religion. I have never been quite clear what this means. Other religions also provide rules and percepts to live your life by. Another observation is that