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I've read the phone is first going to be ATT branded, so don't expecr it to be open and hackable.

Oops, I got that wrong. Motorola's working on a Verizon phone, and the company internally named X devices. http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-reportedly-working-with-motorola-on-x-phone-x-tablet-308598

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-reportedly-working-with-motorola-on-x-phone-x-tablet-308598

yeah, missing the X-37 was a mistake of mine. I caught it after I hit the "submit" buttom.... but I figured that the gist of the conversation was apparent.

Regardless, it is in America where the most diversity of ideas are coming from in terms of crewed spaceflight vehicles is coming from. Two different reusable shuttle designs are coming from private industry, including the Lynx, being built by XCor and Dream chaser being built by Sierra Nevada.

I don't know what India might be doing along the same lines, but it doesn't appear to be just America either.

Perhaps NASA knows better than these other guys and that this really is a dead end technology. Then again NASA administrators are all in on the SLS program that seems to be adopting the worst aspects of the Shuttle Program and none of its advantages.

Our Minister Kapil, is a good comedian. So please dont take this seriously.
Check out what happened to his $35 laptop! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)
Our closed room scientists in CDAC will have plenty of money to play around for 5 years!
Thank god, Minister Kapil wont be there that long.

Also the same guy who wanted services like Facebook and Twitter to be unrealistically policing user content to ensure that it doesn't offend Indian sensibilities.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/kapil-sibal-on-facebook-google-don-t-want-censorship-but-content-must-be-screened-155706

He doesn't want censorship. He simply wants these sites to remove anything that could cause offence - such as posts or images critical of public figures. He's pretty clear in demonstrating two things:

1) He has no idea what censorship means.
2) He has no idea how the social media thing is working, and the impracticalities of requiring hosts to censor anything that offends someone somewhere in India.

There is a reason why these things happen. For you in the West, things are very uniform as far as cultures, traditions, behaviour and expectations go. For a country like India, there is not even uniformity within one state. It is very difficult to judge the dynamics of such a varied culture with the yardstick of the West, and sometimes even unfair. I am not justifying the violence, I'm trying to point out reasons for the hair-thin patience when it comes to communal issues. Hindus and Muslims in India have always been at loggerheads.

The series of events that led to the rumors being a big deal was this: clash between Bodos (a native Assamese, largely Hindu community) and resident Muslims over a piece of land. This was either misreported, or mistaken as a clash between native Hindus of Northeast and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. This spiked a communal issue, even though it wasn't one to begin with, between other Muslims across the nation against Hindus specifically from Northeast, resulting in the death of two. The mass rumors started going out on SMS services, social media and email about revenge against Northeasterners, which led to a massive Exodus of NE people back to their home-states. This not only hurts the economy, but overall socio-political makeup of India. It is necessary at such times to curb the trigger events, even though it may seem tyrannical to ban them. Hindu-Muslim relations in India are a silk-string my friend, not to be taken lightly. Whether you approve of it or not, communal violence doesn't need rationale justification to spark.

Oh and by the way, to make things more dramatic: Bulk of the online scare campaign comes from Pakistan, so claims the Government.

Take a look at who's behaving rabidly - the religion of peace once again:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/have-you-seen-the-rioters-who-vandalized-the-amar-jawan-memorial-254715

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hindus-from-pakistan-flee-to-india-citing-religious-persecution/2012/08/15/adf09888-e6e4-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html

So let's not always reflexively force ourselves into a game of moral equivalency. All religions are not identical, and some religions have features which pose more problems for others.

Says the pederast.

You better stay out of Australia, mate, otherwise you may find other surprises waiting for you.

There's a video interview with Shiva Ayyadurai available for those of you who can sit through a 30-second ad. There's nothing new in it that's not already been said. But it's interesting nevertheless. Incidentally, is he still a lecturer at MIT? His WP page (which comes across as a little too critical) states that his contract was not renewed.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/man-escapes-as-satellite-piece-crashes-through-roof-160651

A titanium ball of about five kg fell on to the roof of a house in Ordyn district.

Here's the specs:
--7-inch resistive touch screen = stylus, not fingers
--Android 2.2 "Froyo"
--800-x-480-pixel resolution
--366mhz cpu
--256mb ram
--2gb internal storage
--microSD
--two USB ports
--3.5mm headphone jack
--2100mAh battery that can last up to 3 hours
--does NOT have access to Android Market


Here's a dozen detailed photos of the device

It's not impressive by any means but then again it's not suppose to impress those of us with an iPhone or latest Droid in our pocket, it's designed for the 1+ billion Indians who have never even been on the internet and for first time internet usage I think it'll be fine at that.

I might question whether you are incapable of reading comprehension, but I don't know it.

You can question anything you like. There's still no doubt Microsoft knew what they were doing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/12/russia-uses-microsoft-to-_n_713653.html
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/russia-uses-microsoft-to-suppress-dissent-51505
http://www.osnews.com/story/23797/NYT_Russia_Uses_Microsoft_to_Suppress_Dissent
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Russia-Anti-Piracy-Raids-Microsoft-Piracy-Putin,11270.html
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/03/microsoft-sorry-for-bing-quake-tweet.html
http://techrights.org/2011/09/05/microsoft-mockery-of-the-chinese/

Well, they CAN explode. Just not in that way.

Famous indeed....

For years the American public has been duped into believing that our manufacturing jobs would be shipped overseas, but we would all be retrained for high tech jobs. Poor overseas workers would become richer, we'd be better trained and better paid, and everything would be a free-market utopia.

Its true. Although perhaps not quite the utopia you had in mind - as an individual you may not get retrained into a high tech job, but as a population, yes, you do.

Jesus himself, the six story version, and The movie version has been hit by lightning. My guess is Zeus got into the mead.

I think there's a difference in the encryption levels for emails (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) vs instant messaging (BlackBerry Messenger).

At least, according to the video link provided by AC, way below: http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_player.php?id=157644

So what happens is, RIM provides the decryption codes for instant messaging. The emails, however, cannot be decrypted, since RIM does not have the codes - they're stored locally on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, which are set up locally within company premises.

Or so the story goes.

No, the battle is GM vs non-GM. I will not buy GM food. Nor will many other people. How about this, have GM food labeled then see how many people buy it. Companies like Monsanto fight attempts to require labeling.

The push for profit has given us radical increase in agricultural yield over the past 80 years

One, for most of those 80 years foreign genes were not inserted into plants. Two, more than one thing accounts for increases in yield, And three, a lack of food is not the problem. The problems are political and armed conflicts. With neoliberal policies yields only went up modestly. Here's a story about millions of metric tons of wheat rotting away in a warehouse in India. Another one says how the supply chain is messed up, "Industry experts estimate more than 30% of all fresh produce is lost or spoils before it reaches the market." Many more stories like these can be found. How about in Africa? In the Democratic Republic of Congo looting of crops by armed groups and general insecurity has undermined farming. Or take Zimbabwe. Before Robert Mugabe came to power the country was a bread basket for southern Africa, ie a net food exporter. Food was the one of the biggest if not the biggest cash earner for Zimbabwe. After he came to power he forced white farmers off the farms then gave the land to his cronies, who do not know how to farm. Now Zimbabwe does not grow enough food for its own population.

Quite simply GM will not "fix" the problem of too little food. There's plenty of food so genetic engineering is not needed. To go further Infrastructure: The new gold explains how infrastructure is part of the problem. It blames the rotting food in India on the "country's creaky infrastructure".

Falcon

http://movies.ndtv.com/images/PhotoGallery/kashmir/1.jpg
http://www.kashmir-houseboats.com/
http://www.onlinepot.org/hash/_derived/guide2hash.htm_txt_kasjmirpollem2.gif

Might be slightly off-topic, but cannot help pointing out. With general elections in India round the corner, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of a prominent political party calls for elimination of Computers and English. http://elections.ndtv.com/news_story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20090090458&: "The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines." And we are supposed to compete economically along with US, EU and China.

Um, I'm reading TFA (gasp, yes, I know). What are you reading?

umm.. The Indian space program not only pays for itself, it is profitable (i.e. it returns money back to the Government). I think gross margins are 100%. Not too shabby. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/moonmission/Story.aspx?ID=NEWEN20080068200&type=SpecialReport

Seriously given the magnitude of this, /. could have come up with a more factual and informative writeup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html?ref=business

Two undersea telecommunication cables were cut on Tuesday evening, knocking out Internet access to much of Egypt, disrupting the world's back office in India and slowing down service for some Verizon customers.

One cable was damaged near Alexandria, Egypt, and the other in the waters off Marseille, France, telecommunications operators said. The two cables, which are separately managed and operated, were damaged within hours of each other. Damage to undersea cables, while rare, can result from movement of geologic faults or possibly from the dragging anchor of a ship. /snip/

One of the affected cables stretches from France through the Mediterranean and Red Seas, then around India to Singapore. Known as Sea Me We 4, the cable is owned by 16 telecommunications companies along its route.

The second cable, known as the Flag (for Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe) System, runs from Britain to Japan.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080039928&ch=1/31/2008%208:29:00%20AM

Internet service providers in India have put the disruption at 60 per cent of normal services while those in Egypt have been affected up to 70 per cent.

You can be a hysteric about Global Warming and you're the toast of the town. No one is going to attack you, and you can blame it on some cigar-chomping greedy guys in a boardroom far away.

No need to bother with more precarious issues, like writing critical things about Islam, which gets you physically attacked by Muslim members of India's legislature on a good day.

People like Taslima Nasrin have more courage then every Global Warming activist on the planet combined.

Congress and Wal-Mart

On top of all these problems, current Indian govt wants to increase reservations to some casts in higher educations !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Indian_anti-rese rvation_protests
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/decision-on-quota-is-f inal-the-chapter-is-closed/11063-4.html
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template =Education&slug=Students+slam+OBC+reservation+prop osal&id=19127&callid=0
http://alumni.iitg.org/news/show.php?id=37

Actually, Cuba has offered 1,100 medical doctors. USA has turned them down. Would be too great a loss of prestige I think.

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slu g=Cuba+offers+help+to+US&id=78273

Well, Bush has already admitted that the government response was too slow, so you can take that for what it's worth.

http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template =Aids&slug=New+HIV+strain+found+in+NY&id=68437&cal lid=1 implies that HIV is becoming stronger at a time when we want to spread it by calling it a cure. I guess if you die early of the new more virulent HIV then you don't have to worry about cancer.

The times of india.

Indian Express

NDTV news.

Sify news

Rediff News

Hindustan Times

Internet News

Cnet.com

Downtown NYC '01 or Dresden '45?
http://www.ndtv.com/images/topstories/wtcdebri.j pg for the goat-paranoid, courteousy of NDTV.com.
IndyMedia also has some news reports trickling in.

Downtown NYC '01 or Dresden '45?
http://www.ndtv.com/images/topstories/wtcdebri.j pg for the goat-paranoid, courteousy of NDTV.com.
IndyMedia also has some news reports trickling in.

Two aircraft crash into World Trade Center
NDTV Correspondent

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (New York):

Two aircraft smashed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center at 9 am (1300 GMT) today. One tower has reportedly collapsed. Television footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the buildings even as firefighters reached the spot. There have been reports that a third plane has crashed into the Pentagon.

Six people are reported to have been killed and over a thousand have been injured. Reports say all three were hijacked and one of them was an American Airlines aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration has meanwhile shut down all aircraft takeoffs in the US. People are being evacuated from the Pentagon and the White House.

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has taken responsibility for the crashes. US President George W Bush has said that the crashes were "an apparent terrorist attack on our country'' and that it was a "difficult moment for America''.

The first aircraft that crashed was a Boeing 737 and as people watched, another plane rammed into the second tower of the trade center 18 minutes later. The crashes by the two planes into each of the twin towers have raised concerns that terrorists may have launched an attack on the tallest buildings in the city. The New York airport is close to the towers and there are also rumours that the crash may have been caused due to a communication or navigation failure.

More than 40,000 people work at the World Trade Center. The downtown Manhattan complex comprises two buildings, with more than 400 firms from over 25 countries. More than 100,000 visitors come to New York's Twin Towers every day.

The New York Stock Exchange, located in lower Manhattan near the trade center where many financial offices are kept, has indefinitely suspended trading.

Look here for news updates on the crash.
Excerpt from the site: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (New York): Two aircraft smashed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center at 9 am (1300 GMT) today. The crashes by the two aircraft into each of the twin towers have raised concerns that terrorists may have launched an attack on the tallest buildings in the city. Television footage showed smoke and flames billowing from the building. More than 40,000 people work at the World Trade Center. The downtown Manhattan complex comprises two buildings, with more than 400 firms from over 25 countries. More than 100,000 visitors come to New York's Twin Towers every day.