Dimension Called Lie

I finally got myself some time off from work and thought of catching a movie in that given time(space). My friends and I went over to watch a movie called " Invention of a lie". A rather straight forward movie, a place where there are no lies told, people just speak out what comes to their mind. This one guy, finally lies because of a really bad situation he is in.

This got me thinking. Look at the people in that world. Take a good look. They do not know what a lie is all about. Lying is like a really new thing!. Totally new as a concept, it goes to the extent that, in the movie, they do not know what a lie is neither do they know what to call a lie.

Tangentially, these people do not know what a lie is. Its a new concept for them. So, when we think that we have covered all the possible knowledge that is there to absorb... think again. We might not even know that there is an other dimension. And that dimension might not be understandable by the science of the present day.

The Password

The biggest problem arising from the 20th and 21th century account hacking methodology is that, the passwords that were used to handle those accounts were weak. Now to prevent this, stop it ,even before the "hack of an account" takes shape,how would one setup a password that does work?

The first thing you do is stop typing in your name. I am sure the sites themselves say that out loud. "You cannot use your name as password". So, that's one way. The next is to choose something, construct something in your mind that is really complicated, something with a lot of characters and Symbols. " How do I do this?", You ask. Well, for that get back to what all you learn't in your elementary school. THINK HARD.

On the other hand, Do you know the problem with having a password that has got lot of characters and symbols? Its always easy to break that with Brute Force, as it does not need any HUMAN-PSYCO-INTOSPECTION.

Have fun.

Patel Point

The concept of Patel Point might not be new. It might not even be so old that its used often in a conversation. But it has a lot of meaning, when you are an Indian, or trying to be an Indian outside India, you know you are going to, or have heard of these words.

So, It all started long long time ago ( if one were to visualize time in seconds) when I was in Boston. My friend, Swaroop, nice kid a bit Whacky, never then less Nice. So, Swa (Swaroop) and some friends ( Last known and Identifiable geographical location of these people are unknown) and myself had this idea that every weekend or so to speak, even weekdays were to be spent having fun.

The fun was defined as follows. We get into to Swa's car and drive. Do not ask me where! We just used to drive, like those fresh of the market PU guys who have just got bikes, well yeah the same way. We used to drive all the way down to New Jersey ( Indian Hub) and return to Boston. While we used to do that, there would always be locations where you could stop and take a photo. Well, the photo was inclusive of the people on that specific trip. East coast is known for Indian tourists, at least that's what I assume.

So, When ever we used to get a snap done at a certain famous location we used to see a lot of Indians taking a photo at the same point. One example was the Bull in NY. Damn, To get a clean shot of you alone and the bull is just next to traveling to the moon in your own private vehicle. Anyways we got the shot and right after that we saw a lot more people who happened to be our "Distant" cousins swarming and settling around the bull to get shots. That's when my dear friend spoke the golden words, " Woah, This is a Patel point for sure dude". And so was the word "Patel Point" coined.

Disclaimer:No offense intended to any of the Patels. If it still seems offensive then redirect your comments .... http://likeicare.damn/var/comments.txt and after that please run this script to ensure that we read it. ./flushcomments.pl

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I live it, hence "I" am.

Your Data in Public Space.

OK, so I am online trying to read the only free newspaper that is available from India; The Times of India - Bangalore Edition. I read an article and Bham! I am stunned. To give you an idea about the article lets travel back in time and also see if we can be stupid. (Key Word: Stupid).

So let’s say you are watching some regional movie. Well most of them that I have watched are either Kannada or Tamil and at times Telegu, Oh, of course, how can we forget Hindi; The proponent of "Crazy love" movies. So let’s say you are watching Darr. How would Darr be+ the article I just read+ the same fear and "Crazy Love".

You are born and brought up in Bangalore. A typical B'Gudi or a M'waram resident. You parents attend the twemple every day (yeah Twemple). You have a curfew; 8Pm. So you are driving back home from your friends place. There is a lone psycho (Who am I kidding? Psychos are alone) who has been watching you for a few days now. He likes you. No no, he likes you in the Darr-movie way, not the "oh-lets-live-together-for-two-years-and-then-think-of-settling" way. He is just obsessed about you. He wants more information about you. Just then he reads the article that I just read, He pops out his mobile phone after he sees you drive away to safety and then enters your car number. His phone beeps and Bham! No really, Bham! He gets your complete address, Name, Phone Number and may be Age.

Scene 2. So you are a well settled Project manager in a decent IT company in India. You make about 18 Lakh a year, you have nice trips to the US or EU now and then on work. Your neighbour the typical Government Officer is curious. About what, you say? Well about your life style. He knows you and your first circle well as he talks nicely to all when they come over to your place. So he reads the same article I just read, pops out his phone and enters your car number. He smiles like the front desk of the Plaza Hotel in Home Alone 2. You ask why? Well, he just found out that your new Skoda Superb is a gift from your uncle and not from your sweat.

Welcome to SMS based Vehicle registration information retrieval. ( Link to Article )

So what this basically does is it provides Vehicle registration information- On demand. All you need to do is follow a guide and then the vehicle registration number and in your hand is the information of the vehicle you just entered.

It definitely is a good system aiding in Hit-and-run cases, it is also good to find out that the car your friend has was actually owned by someone from Dubai/Prague/Moscow. You know what I mean. But seriously do we need that kind of information in the hands of general public? Think again. It is more damaging than possibly the very accident itself. Additionally, the job of getting vehicle information is only to be the held by the authorities.

I realize that we need to go ahead, in the field of Information technology, implement it in many aspects of our life to enhance and make things easier. But this is definitely not the way to go. Just because you have free clock cycles does not mean you run porn or a fraudulent credit card server.

So have a nice evening, sleep tight and welcome to the Information Ab-use Age.

Whats your Mother Tongue Beta? Its English, yeah English!

Yes, Our country India is making advances be it Leaps, bounds, Jumps, Crawls, tunneling, what ever means you can think of.But there are certain aspects of our country that one must be proud,one of them is the language. This I Must say.... is just going the other way.

So, I stand in a mobile phone retail store, I stand and watch the numerous phones that are on display, they all look magnificent, look really worth the money that one would be paying for it. considering the economic rise in our country I could definitely vouch that any phone is buy able by any one these days. My friend comes up to me and asks if a certain phone she is holding in her hand is worth the money. A gizmo geek that I am, I am usually the guy people call up for help .. when ever they are buying certain things from the electronic store., Yeah so .. she comes up to me and checks with me if the money is worth that phone and if the features are up-to-date. I take a look at it... its a Samsung something.... .and I do confirm that its one of the best the money could buy-with the features-at that point of time. Boom! and then I hear some kind of a shout from a lady mostly about 28-32 years. She is shouting " Charan, No!! I don't have time for your right now,no Charan I am busy now, do ur thing!

"awaaaaaaaaaaaaaa awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa %%@#%@%@%@%@#%@$%@%#%@#%@%@$%@%@#%%@#$%%&*(*^%*@%@$
%@$%@%@%@%@#%@%@%@%@%$%$#@%@#%#@%@#$%#@%@#%@%@%@%
#@%@#%@#%$@#%%^%&^*&*%^&*" Yeah thats exactly what the kid said! the kid tried to speak to its mother in its mother tongue... and well the mom ignorant of the fact that her kid could hardly comprehend English... went about talking in a foreign language..

Seriously .. nothing against mothers... or the Mother Association of India... ( I better cut short before the International United Abused Mothers by Smart Children Agency take a punch at me), but it goes to the fact that people back in India are losing their core values, Ohh.. ok not to the extent that Bollywood at times turns into the C-Grade Porn production unit where " Wave Stopping, Flower Blooming , Spilling Milk after Boiling means U-KNOW-WHAT". The core values, something that our people are trading for public opinion or public perception about themselves. I mean c'mon from when have the Indian people talked about how you talk to your kid? It only goes to say that people have become selfish to an extent. Frankly, if this lady could not see that her son did not understand 'SHIT' of what she said.. and is trying to talk back to her in his MT(I can write Mother Tongue all the time!) then its imperative that she does realise that and talk to him in the same dilect.

Unfortunately we are not so technologically advanced that we come with in-built interpreters, a thing that we do tend to see a lot often in which aliens are featured. U speak to them in english and they understand its "English"! So... All that kid might need is a Whack. do give that. But yeah .. Do it ... and do it in your Mother Tongue :)

Fresh of the Market, Mostly likely city market.

In the recent past Msn has been one of the best websites that people have visited. Well, Msn took it a step further. They introduced spaces. It was a beautiful concept of virtual real estate which was handed out for free to all those cyber junkies and for those of the lesser "Junkie" kinds.
Then they went a step too far, They threw green radio active juice on my space, the one i dearly loved. My space on Msn was http://cyberbaggage.spaces.live.com, at first it looked like a clipping right out of a star wars movie. After the Msn make over ( an invasion) it looked like it was the dump site for Chernobyl .
Well considering that i spend about 22 hrs in front of my comp and at least about 21.5 hrs on the Internet. I hardly like the idea of their make over ( but i still love MSN).

So here i am on Blogspot to attain spiritual escalation for a make over.... ...