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Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:28AM (#15273781)
I have not seen or used the app. Having the labels in non-English languages can be very helpful. Typing vernacular languages on keyboard with just English alphabet is complicated to say the least.
Re:Aadhaar: Ushering in a Commercialized Era of Surveillance in India on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:51AM (#14969571)
If online verification is used, issues of no-connectivity/poor-connectivity/latency can cause problems. Polling units are sent to remote corners of the country.

Loading the polling unit with aadhar database can be one approach. Very few know (relative to the number of personnel involved in the polling process), as to which polling unit will go to which polling station. Trying to load constituency specific database into polling unit will increase the surface area of the people who have to know which unit goes where. Loading the aadhar database of full constituency into polling units might not be technically feasible.

Re:Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Report on Users Owning the Twitter... on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:13AM (#14085281)
To go slightly off tangent, will it make sense for Twitter to enter into the micro payments landscape? All (almost?) bloggers, people working on open source projects have twitter account; even if they don't have one, creating one is easy. Donors can get some kind of acknowledgement on their (and receivers) twitter feed and the content creators will get some money.
Re:Doctors issue warning about effects of LED streetlights on health on Thursday June 30, 2016 @10:10AM (#12008635)
You saved my eyes!! And that is not an exaggeration. I too recommend gtk-redshift if you are on Linux.
Re:ClearTax (YC S14) helps India file tax returns in ‘less than five m... on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @05:42AM (#10505670)
This year they have come up with something called netbanking verification. With that you don't have to mail any documents even if you don't have digital signature. If I remember correctly, there are other means of verification in addition to netbanking.
Re:PHP compiler for JVM on Monday March 24, 2014 @07:20AM (#7457624)
How does this deal with the load-all-discard-all-per-request approach of PHP? With everything in the JVM, does it keep eating up the memory on a per-request basis?

I don't know anything about language design or compiling something for JVM.

Re:Why PHP continues to thrive in the age of the PaaS on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:54PM (#6863303)
And Drupal, Joomla, Magento, SugarCRM, CiviCRM, WebERP .....
Re:PostgreSQL: Don't use CHAR or VARCHAR on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:45AM (#6773248)
Doesn't the use of check constraints add an overhead and possibly negate the slight performance advantage that was gained by using text instead of varchar/char?
Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:50PM (#6759343)
What is generally spoken is a mix of Hindi and Urdu (Hindustani, as Mahatma Gandhi would have liked to call it). We rarely come across anyone speaking "Shuddh Hindi" or "Khalis Urdu" these days. English words permeate almost all regional languages.

Dialogues of bollywood films used to have a fair sprinkling of Urdu words until late nineties. Film titles too used to be shown in three languages - Hindi, Urdu and English. Now a days we don't find much of that.

Re:Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012) on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:27AM (#6487355)
Maximum packet maths came from the wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking . First two paragraphs under the "Benefits" section.
Re:Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012) on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @10:26AM (#6482552)
Each value is a 16-bit number, with a size of two bytes, or equal to two ASCII characters or one Unicode character. Port knocking examples generally do not run to more than three packets, which means that the minimum amount of information a prospective attacker would need to get right in order to gain access is six bytes, equal to six ASCII characters or three Unicode characters.

Is the brute force effort being simplified too much? Wikipedia entry says this about brute force attack on port-knocking: As a stateful system, the port would not open until after the correct three-digit sequence had been received in order, without other packets in between.

That equates to a maximum of 655363 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening, in the worst case scenario. That's 281,474,976,710,656 or over 281 trillion packets. On average, an attempt would take approximately 9.2 quintillion packets to successfully open a single, simple three-port TCP-only knock by brute force.

Re:New Rust runtime turned on. What next? on Friday August 09, 2013 @02:21AM (#6184031)
What if someone wants to write a kernel with Rust? This might be a very naive question taking into account my ignorance of language and kernel design.
Re:The Drone that Killed my Grandson on Thursday July 18, 2013 @04:08AM (#6062410)
So, it is okay if Denmark or India drop a bomb on wherever David Headley is in USA, killing him and whoever is with him. And, it is also okay if Headley's child is killed in another drone strike on US soil. As per Mr. Gibbs, the child's father should have been more responsible.
Re:Video shows plane's moment of impact at SFO on Monday July 08, 2013 @02:16AM (#6005426)
"Allahu Akbar" is "Allah is great" not "Oh my God".
Re:No Patents on Seeds on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:25AM (#5994403)
I have no clue how granting patents on plants and animals is supposed to diminish biodiversity. Won't new plants and animals increase biodiversity? I mean yes, without the patents you could crossbreed and remix GM and other plants more freely which would boost the increase even further, but even a small increase is still pretty much the opposite of a decrease and dismantles the argument.

With the proliferation of patents and the marketing blitz by these companies, we'll have only a handful of varieties that are sterile. There will be no new varieties coming out of natural cross pollination because we are left with sterile patented varieties.

Ecosystems are not static, they are extremely dynamic and never balanced.

Exactly. The viruses, bacteria and pests are evolving naturally; they are increasing their resistance to the existing pesticides. With the sterile varieties, there is no evolution, no adaptation to the changing environmental conditions and the changing pests.

Re:Edward Snowden has not entered Russia - Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @09:23AM (#5939217)
" ... The consequences of this could be rather serious. A diminished USA is going to leave a vacuum which, regardless of the current behaviour of the USA government, is not going to be a good thing as Russia and China rush in to grab what they can. ... " And what makes you think that Russia and China will be worse than USA? Each country acts to protect it's own interests; some may do it with kid gloves, some may do it with iron fist. Difference, if any, would be of degree, not of kind. Some may assume a moral high ground for USA, not everyone would subscribe to that world-view.
Re:Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:45AM (#5780681)
Possibly off topic, but any idea as to what they are going to do with presto?
Re:The 3.9 kernel is out on Monday April 29, 2013 @09:07AM (#5625847)
I remember seeing 2.6.42 on my ubuntu 10.04. May be it was kind of an alias for some 3.x version.
Re:The 3.9 kernel is out on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:31AM (#5625676)
Am I the only one who feels that the kernel releases have been more frequent during recent times? Or is it that they have changed the version numbering like firefox?

About an year or so ago, it was something like 2.6.x. Then, it jumped to 3.0 and now it is at 3.9.

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