New Post (62) : Privatize courts, Outsource justice.
"Privatization" and "Outsourcing" are the 2 mantras that anyone in Govt and/or business would swear by.
The courts are inundated by cases. Swamped over. Flooded by a surging backlog of cases.
Justice delayed is a crime unto itself.
Fiction may "surprise". But, the facts on the dispensation of justice are simply "shocking" !
So why not---do the obvious. Privatize and outsource.
Charlie Brown
Monday, November 29, 2010
Cyber age wars
New Post (61) : Cyber age wars
The attack of the Bots…
If a rogue wants to bring down a country's information infrastructure and he doesn't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
Using rented bot nets, he can launch hundreds of thousands, even millions of info bombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability.
A full-scale assault lasting days or weeks could bring an entire modern information economy to its knees.
The rogues are feeding off of advances in (science and) technology---that are intended for good use.
One can only hope that no nation or nations will choose to “orchestrate”---The attack of the Bots…
The consequences could be devastating beyond imagination !
In an X-treme Scenario : 21st century minds thrown back in a flash to a middle ages world of savagery would just not know how to cope.
Charlie Brown
The attack of the Bots…
If a rogue wants to bring down a country's information infrastructure and he doesn't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
Using rented bot nets, he can launch hundreds of thousands, even millions of info bombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability.
A full-scale assault lasting days or weeks could bring an entire modern information economy to its knees.
The rogues are feeding off of advances in (science and) technology---that are intended for good use.
One can only hope that no nation or nations will choose to “orchestrate”---The attack of the Bots…
The consequences could be devastating beyond imagination !
In an X-treme Scenario : 21st century minds thrown back in a flash to a middle ages world of savagery would just not know how to cope.
Charlie Brown
The Capture of Adolf Eichmann
New Post (60) : The Capture of Adolf Eichmann
An interesting record of how with sheer perseverance the Jewish state went about tirelessly, bringing to justice the perpetrators of the holocaust.
See: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/eichcap.html
Is there a lesson in it for the USA that suffered a 9.11 and for India that suffered a 26.11
The search for the perpetrators and their abettors must never be called off. Justice must be delivered.
No extraneous considerations must be allowed to interfere with this end-Objective...
The Americans and the Indians too can achieve what the Israeli’s have achieved. Justice for it’s people.
Charlie Brown
An interesting record of how with sheer perseverance the Jewish state went about tirelessly, bringing to justice the perpetrators of the holocaust.
See: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/eichcap.html
Is there a lesson in it for the USA that suffered a 9.11 and for India that suffered a 26.11
The search for the perpetrators and their abettors must never be called off. Justice must be delivered.
No extraneous considerations must be allowed to interfere with this end-Objective...
The Americans and the Indians too can achieve what the Israeli’s have achieved. Justice for it’s people.
Charlie Brown
Sunday, November 28, 2010
My GOD
New Post (59) : My GOD
GOD has scripted nothing…
GOD has only created the actors.
Man is the script writer.
Man has only himself to laud or to blame.
While man performs, GOD is in the audience !
Charlie Brown
GOD has scripted nothing…
GOD has only created the actors.
Man is the script writer.
Man has only himself to laud or to blame.
While man performs, GOD is in the audience !
Charlie Brown
Honour killings in Afghanistan
New Post (58) : Honour killings in Afghanistan
A film you might want to “watch”…
“ACT of DISHONOUR”.
-the film, tells the story of a young Afghan bride-to-be who comes up against her people's conservative customs when she helps a foreign film crew that arrives in her remote northern village.
-confronts this issue of honour killings in a remote village in northern Afghanistan starting to rebuild after decades of conflict.
-is partly inspired by stories about Afghan women who were beaten or killed by family members because of participating in a film.
The story…
In the film, Majgan, is an Afghanistan-born translator who is part of a small foreign film crew making a dramatic film in the village.
Majgan is going through an identity crisis about her Afghan roots and meets a young village girl, Mena with whom she develops a tentative connection.
Majgan is under pressure from the film’s director and convinces Mena, WHO NEVER LEAVES THE FAMILY HOME, into playing a small role. She entices the girl by promising to give her one of the burkas being used in the film;
Mena is betrothed to Rahmat, a gentle young man who drives the local bus, and has told Majgan she longs for a burka to wear at her wedding.
But the plan does not work out.
The anguish of Mena’s father at having to kill his daughter for her act of dishonour is devastating to watch, …although the final outcome, which involves Rahmat, suggests village culture may be slowly changing.
…A film you might want to “reflect” on.
Traditions, (good, bad & ugly) are not meant to be taken "unquestioningly" as etched into stone. Even the rock eventually crumbles to dust.
Charlie Brown
A film you might want to “watch”…
“ACT of DISHONOUR”.
-the film, tells the story of a young Afghan bride-to-be who comes up against her people's conservative customs when she helps a foreign film crew that arrives in her remote northern village.
-confronts this issue of honour killings in a remote village in northern Afghanistan starting to rebuild after decades of conflict.
-is partly inspired by stories about Afghan women who were beaten or killed by family members because of participating in a film.
The story…
In the film, Majgan, is an Afghanistan-born translator who is part of a small foreign film crew making a dramatic film in the village.
Majgan is going through an identity crisis about her Afghan roots and meets a young village girl, Mena with whom she develops a tentative connection.
Majgan is under pressure from the film’s director and convinces Mena, WHO NEVER LEAVES THE FAMILY HOME, into playing a small role. She entices the girl by promising to give her one of the burkas being used in the film;
Mena is betrothed to Rahmat, a gentle young man who drives the local bus, and has told Majgan she longs for a burka to wear at her wedding.
But the plan does not work out.
The anguish of Mena’s father at having to kill his daughter for her act of dishonour is devastating to watch, …although the final outcome, which involves Rahmat, suggests village culture may be slowly changing.
…A film you might want to “reflect” on.
Traditions, (good, bad & ugly) are not meant to be taken "unquestioningly" as etched into stone. Even the rock eventually crumbles to dust.
Charlie Brown
Saturday, November 27, 2010
What’s holding India back ?
New Post (57: What’s holding India back ?
Indian society suffers from multiple fractures.
1. Caste is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT voting for a candidate based on their caste affiliation is a weakness.
2. Religion is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT deciding who to hate and who to like based on their religious affiliation is a weakness.
3. Language (& community) is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT making decisions based on who is welcome and who is not based on their language (& community) affiliation is a weakness.
So, what’s holding India back ? (from it’s great promise)
NOT India’s diversity. It’s how Indian’s themselves interpret this diversity …and what they choose to do with this diversity...
Tragically, what is India's greatest strength has been "actively" morphed into it's worst weakness !
The youth of India can stem this rot. “Only” they can. One generation can make all the difference. Will they ? I remain an incurable optimist.
Charlie Brown
Indian society suffers from multiple fractures.
1. Caste is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT voting for a candidate based on their caste affiliation is a weakness.
2. Religion is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT deciding who to hate and who to like based on their religious affiliation is a weakness.
3. Language (& community) is neither a strength nor a weakness.
BUT making decisions based on who is welcome and who is not based on their language (& community) affiliation is a weakness.
So, what’s holding India back ? (from it’s great promise)
NOT India’s diversity. It’s how Indian’s themselves interpret this diversity …and what they choose to do with this diversity...
Tragically, what is India's greatest strength has been "actively" morphed into it's worst weakness !
The youth of India can stem this rot. “Only” they can. One generation can make all the difference. Will they ? I remain an incurable optimist.
Charlie Brown
Bye-bye Silicon. Hello Graphene.
New Post (56) : Bye-bye Silicon. Hello Graphene.
Carbon, the basis of all known life on earth, has surprised us once again.
Graphene is---The new face of Carbon
Imagine a sheet of material that's just one atom thick, yet super-strong, highly conductive, practically transparent and able to reveal new secrets of fundamental physics. That's graphene, isolated by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics.
Graphene is a form of carbon. As a material it is completely new – not only the thinnest ever but also the strongest. As a conductor of electricity it performs as well as copper. As a conductor of heat it outperforms all other known materials. It is almost completely transparent, yet so dense that not even helium, the smallest gas atom, can pass through it.
Geim and Novoselov extracted the graphene from a piece of graphite such as is found in ordinary pencils. Using regular adhesive tape they managed to obtain a flake of carbon with a thickness of just one atom. This at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable.
With graphene, physicists can now study a new class of two-dimensional materials with unique properties. Graphene makes experiments possible that give new twists to the phenomena in quantum physics.
Also a vast variety of practical applications now appear possible including the creation of new materials and the manufacture of innovative electronics. Graphene transistors are predicted to be substantially faster than today’s silicon transistors and result in more efficient computers.
Since it is practically transparent and a good conductor, graphene is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe even solar cells.
When mixed into plastics, graphene can turn them into conductors of electricity while making them more heat resistant and mechanically robust. This resilience can be utilised in new super strong materials, which are also thin, elastic and lightweight. In the future, satellites, airplanes, and cars could be manufactured out of the new composite materials.
PS: Basic fundamental research paves the way yet again for a brave new world.
Just thinking aloud........Picture this. A mobile phone that is as thin as an adhesive tape and can be slapped onto the wrist like one does a watch or much like an athletes wrist band. Amazing ??? I’d always believed that the next step forward in technology innovation could make the technology “wearable”………..What next ??? Technology that makes possible computers that are “implantable” into the nervous system ??? …….A brave new world in the making. Indeed.
Charlie Brown
Carbon, the basis of all known life on earth, has surprised us once again.
Graphene is---The new face of Carbon
Imagine a sheet of material that's just one atom thick, yet super-strong, highly conductive, practically transparent and able to reveal new secrets of fundamental physics. That's graphene, isolated by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics.
Graphene is a form of carbon. As a material it is completely new – not only the thinnest ever but also the strongest. As a conductor of electricity it performs as well as copper. As a conductor of heat it outperforms all other known materials. It is almost completely transparent, yet so dense that not even helium, the smallest gas atom, can pass through it.
Geim and Novoselov extracted the graphene from a piece of graphite such as is found in ordinary pencils. Using regular adhesive tape they managed to obtain a flake of carbon with a thickness of just one atom. This at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable.
With graphene, physicists can now study a new class of two-dimensional materials with unique properties. Graphene makes experiments possible that give new twists to the phenomena in quantum physics.
Also a vast variety of practical applications now appear possible including the creation of new materials and the manufacture of innovative electronics. Graphene transistors are predicted to be substantially faster than today’s silicon transistors and result in more efficient computers.
Since it is practically transparent and a good conductor, graphene is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe even solar cells.
When mixed into plastics, graphene can turn them into conductors of electricity while making them more heat resistant and mechanically robust. This resilience can be utilised in new super strong materials, which are also thin, elastic and lightweight. In the future, satellites, airplanes, and cars could be manufactured out of the new composite materials.
PS: Basic fundamental research paves the way yet again for a brave new world.
Just thinking aloud........Picture this. A mobile phone that is as thin as an adhesive tape and can be slapped onto the wrist like one does a watch or much like an athletes wrist band. Amazing ??? I’d always believed that the next step forward in technology innovation could make the technology “wearable”………..What next ??? Technology that makes possible computers that are “implantable” into the nervous system ??? …….A brave new world in the making. Indeed.
Charlie Brown
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