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Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that “center” had been added to Google’s robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage... though logging in fails right now. According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators... and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid. In that regards, the service is in the field of sites like Click2Translate.com (a service by the company which Tony works for, incidentally, and which I’m often using for some of my sites).

Here’s what’s printed as a description on the service’s frontpage:

<<Request translations and find translators
Upload your document and request translations into over 40 languages. [*]

Translate and review translated documents
Create and review content in your language through Google’s free, easy-to-use, online translation tools.>>

And these are the sample screenshots Google shows off in their product introduction:


The project creation page. You can provide fields like project name (e.g. “FAQ page”), description, due date and owners. You can set the source and target language, upload a local file to be translated, and assign a translator and a reviewer. “If a translator accepts, you should receive your translated content back as soon as it’s ready,” Google says (note the “if” part, a potentially important difference to paid-only translation services).


This is what Google calls the translator inbox in their screenshot file name. It looks like the overview page for those approaching the Google Translation Center as a translator. Google says, “Passionate about bringing content into your language? Browse through Google Translation Center to find open translation requests into your language. Accept translation requests and use Google translation tools to provide quick, high-quality translations.” In this view, you can find out the number of assignments, and the completion status for each.


The part Google calls the translator workbench. In this view, the translator sees the source text and the translation in progress side-by-side. An option on top toggles auto-saving. A third column offers a couple of helper tools for the translation, like a revision history, a glossary, or a history of previous translations.

More than an all-in-one stop for paid translations as some of the competing services in this field, the Google Translation Center looks like it aims to be a marketplace coordinator and tool provider. Just how Google could make money with this is another question. Google often goes for ads; in this system, one might think getting commissions for paid jobs would be an option, but there’s a part in the terms and conditions of the service which makes me wonder if there will be such a thing – Google says (my emphasis):

<Google is not involved in such dealings>>

I’m also curious if volunteers will get paid, too, as one might think it’s not like everyone is waiting to do free translations... unless they identify with a site or some content re-use is allowed (like an open source project, perhaps, or a Creative Commons licensed article). If Google decides to provide a rating system, though, then volunteering for projects may have the side-effect of increasing one’s status within the service.

Another interesting aspect is how Google will handle the service’s feature to match current translations with previous ones. Tony says, “This sounds like what the industry calls a ’Translation Memory’. Usually, the client would pay for a translation memory and own it since they paid for the translations.” Tony adds that if Google may plan to add something like a “global Translation Memory,” then this could raise the questions whether or not customers end up paying for pro translators to find their translation memory be re-used by other companies. Another issue of discussion will likely be the translation quality, by and large; just imagine someone volunteering to sneak in insults or spam. From Google’s FAQ on this:

<<Does Google provide guarantees on the quality of the services provided by Google Translation Center?

No. Translations created in Google Translation Center are purely between the translation requester and the translators.>>

And as the terms of service argue, “Google will not” be “involved in resolving any disputes between you and any third party participant(s) related or arising out of your use of Google Translation Center”. But let’s wait and see. Judging from my past translation jobs as a webmaster – give the service a data file containing all your content strings, plug it back in later on and suddenly have a multi-language website – this is definitely an interesting and highly useful field. Right now, according to the FAQ, “Google Translation Center is in limited release through Google’s Trusted Tester Program” which gives “friends and family members of Google employees a chance to test-drive our early beta, prior to release. Later, anyone can sign up to request and provide translations through Google Translation Center.”

Do you know that we can cross the earth in just 42 mins, no matter which place you start and end...

Watch this video and know more about it...




Some interesting facts about our planet

Here you will find a listing of essential facts about the planet earth, the home to all of humanity:

Human Population of the Earth: 6,660,000,000 (6.66 billion) as of April 2008

World Population Growth: 1.14% - 2006 estimate (this means at the current rate of growth, the earth's population will double in 61.4 years)

Countries of the World: 195

Earth's Circumference at the Equator: 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)

Earth's Circumference Between the North and South Poles: 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)

Earth's Diameter at the Equator: 7,926.28 miles (12,756.1 km)

Earth's Diameter at the Poles: 7,899.80 miles (12,713.5 km)

Average Distance from the Earth to the Sun: 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km)

Average Distance from the Earth to the Moon: 238,857 miles (384,403.1 km)

Highest Elevation on Earth - Mt. Everest, Asia: 29,035 feet (8850 m)

Tallest Mountain on Earth from Base to Peak - Mauna Kea, Hawaii: 33,480 feet (rising to 13,796 feet above sea level) (10204 m; 4205 m)

Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth - The peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m) is farthest from the center of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.

Lowest Elevation on Land - Dead Sea: 1369 feet below sea level (417.27 m)

Deepest Point in the Ocean - Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean: 35,840 feet (10924 m)

Highest Temperature Recorded: 135.8°F - Al Aziziyah, Libya, September 13, 1922 (57.7°C)

Lowest Temperature Recorded: -128.5°F - Vostok, Antarctica, July 21, 1983 (-89.2°C)

Water vs. Land: 70.8% Water, 29.2% Land

Age of the Earth: 4.5 to 4.6 billion years

Atmosphere Content: 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water

Rotation on Axis: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 04.09053 seconds. But, it takes an additional four minutes for the earth to revolve to the same position as the day before relative to the sun (i.e. 24 hours).

Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 days


Chemical Composition of the Earth: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium
Mysterious Places

Natural phenomena can hardly be explained, especially if they are dangerous. Some of the geographic names on the map are terrifying: the Hill of the Dead, the Devil Bog, the Gorge of Death...

More>>

Tiahuanaco, Misteries on the Andes
Tungus Marvel
The Bermuda Triangle
Stull Cemetry
Nazca Lines
Stonehenge
Tiahuanaco, Bolivia
Antelope Canyon
The Stone Spheres
Silbury Hill
Avebury
Geomancy
Uffington White Horse
Ancient and Once Hidden Geometry of Brazil
Healing Stones
The Utah Mountainside of Mystery
The Seven Wonders of the World
















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When I was browsing through the Internet, I always walk through sites that may give me some tips about loans, clearing debt, making money online and something of that sort ... I was seaching about how to make money other than PAY PER CLICK methods(display Ads in your site, which may be clicked by visitors and will fetch money - something like Google Ads) I came across two marvelous websites. These are the two companies that will pay you for posting their ads on your sites - no need to worry about PPC or affiliates or anything else, just a set amount each month for posting their adverts.

No worries about your payment methods and no worries about dollars or sterling or pounds because they pay through a PAYPAL account, Create a Paypal account here...

The first one pays you £5 for banner ads per month, and the other will pay you £3 per advert. Both companies have rules about how many ads you can have per site, but whats to stop you throwing up 2 dozen sites? This really is a passive income!


This is absolute gold and has earned me a pretty good monthly income, for doing not very much.

The Secret is to build free sites using hosts like http://www.weebly.com/ . Any free host will do, but Weebly is good because they make it so easy. Make your sites about finance or insurance or debt or dating, that way the companies will be able to find companies that want to advertise on your site. The content doesnt need to be that good, but make it keyword heavy so that the companies can tell the subject matter. In Weebly , you gotta make your own site and they do have a flexible sites, that helps you create a blog of your own style.

Then register for these companies by clicking here for banner ads and by clicking here for regular ads. Once they have picked up ads for you then all you need to do is copy and paste the html code onto your site.

This will surely provide you with a good start for monetizing your blog... And its for sure it will clear your debts to some extents... I really do have some time today, so i'm gonna write more about making money online and ways to clear your debts... And at times this may help you stop getting loans too..

Can u believe that u can charge u mobile(battery with no power) without your charger. Its very strange but its true, Very True.

I've tried this out many times personally...

First Method: Using Peepal Leaf...


Now, you do not require any mobile charger to charge your mobiles. U gotta use only green leaf of peepal tree and after some time your mobile will get charged.. No soon the people came to learn this development, they tested it and found encouraging results. If your mobile has been discharged and you are inside a jungle then you need not to use any charger.

All u do is this, jus pluck two peepal leaves and your work would be done..
It is very good idea and easy to charge your mobile. You would have to open your mobile battery and connect it with peepal leaf. After that without shaking mobile set you should set the battery in your mobile set. U'll see that ur mobile gets charged, that too full charge...

Though it is unbelievable but as soon as the residents of Chitrakoot came to know about the discovery they could not believe the news. But when they saw it practically then the incident proved true.
Now hundreds of mobile holders are using this technique and charging their mobiles. Whereas according to the botanists, it is just changing mutual energy into electrical energy power can be saved in battery. Similarly, it is also possible. They said that, its a new subject for research.




Step by Step guide to charge your mobile battery using peepal leaf

1- Open your mobile cover

2- Take out your battery

3- Take two to three fresh leaves of peepal/pipal/ ashwattha tree

4- Touch the stub of these leaves on your mobile battery terminal(as shown above) for a minute

5- Clean the mobile battery terminal with the soft cloth

6- Put your battery again in your mobile and switch it on

7- Now you can see the result

8- If required repeat the process with fresh leaves



Second Method: Using Neem leaf

Itz a very common tree that can be seen in any part of the world... It really helps u very much in the case of emergency...

This i wat u gotta do with the neem leaf..

1) Jus take out your mobile battery..

2) Now take a neem leaf, with its thin tender stem..

3) Cut it to some 3 - 4 mm piece, one piece will do...

4) Now insert ur battery back into the mobile, by inserting the neem stem piece that u've cut, it shud be placed in between
the battery terminal and your mobile terminal where u place the battery as shown below...



5) Swicth On your cell phone, If it says SIM not inserted please switch it off and On once again, this not only works with one brand of cell phone, it works in all brands...

Please try it out in case of emergency, coz there is no guarantee for the battery's life...


Do you know where your credit card comes from -- beyond the return address on the envelope from your card issuer? The approximately 2 billion credit cards in use today across the globe have an interesting history. The idea of a credit card is not new. In fact, mentions of credit cards can be found from 1890, when some European merchants offered a credit card as a perk to better customers. Still, the origin of the first wide-use charge account dates to the late 1940s, and is attributed to New York businessman Frank McNamara.

The story goes that in the fall of 1949, McNamara went to pay the bill after entertaining a client at Major's Cabin Grill, only to realize he had left his wallet in another suit.
Luckily for McNamara, his wife was able to save him from potential embarrassment. But he continued to think about what happened and began to consider why a businessman could not freely spend what he could afford instead of just the cash in his wallet.


Fast forward a few weeks, and McNamara was sitting down with his lawyer, Frank Schneider, to discuss the details for a relatively simple idea -- a club of diners who would be able to sign for their meals at certain restaurants and then settle the bill at a later date. As his idea became a reality, McNamara enrolled 27 establishments in his plan, also offering $3 memberships in his diner's club to 200 friends and acquaintances. McNamara and Schneider became the first diners to say "charge it" when they sat down to a February 1950 meal at Major's. The credit card industry recognizes the importance of this meal even though the Diners Club card was not technically a credit card, since Diners Club members were expected to settle their bills each month. With 20,000 cardholders by the end of 1950, the Diners Club was an instant success.

By 1952, franchises has been set up on Canada, France and Cuba, and in 1955, Western Airlines became the first air carrier to take payment by the Diners Club card.
On the heels of Diners Club, American Express introduced a card in 1958 for paying entertainment and travel costs. The next year, Bank of America issued a "revolving credit" card that could be used for a greater range of purchases and paid off over a longer period of time, with interest. But due to federal banking regulations, the card was only valid in California. In 1966, Bank of America started forming licensing agreements with other banks that allowed cardholders in different states to charge purchases.

The same year saw 14 other banks unite to create Interlink, a bank card processing agreement that allowed them to share credit card transaction information.
One year later, in 1967, four California banks established the MasterCharge program. Twelve years later, the program was renamed MasterCard to compete with the BankAmericard program (which was itself renamed VISA in 1977).


In 1981, the Diners Club was purchased by Citicorp. Still, the origin of the credit card industry can be traced to Frank McNamara's innovation, which allows members to make payment for a purchase at a later date.


Do u know how to search in Google?? Well tats not a relevant question...

Do u know how to give your search keywords while u search in Google... Am sure that most of us dunno wat our search keywords mean to the Search Engine, I mean how the Goolge SE takes when we search something... Here are a few samples...

(colors i've used Keywords - Search Results )

Google Search Keyword Format --> Google Search Engine takes it this way

1) urcognizance blog ----- The words urcognizance and blog

2) sailing OR boating
----- Either the word sailing or the word boating

3) "love me tender"
----- The exact phrase love me tender

4) printer -cartridge
----- The word printer but NOT the word cartridge

5) Toy Story +2
----- Movie title including the number 2

6) ~auto looks up
----- The word auto and synonyms

7) define:serendipity
----- Definitions of the word serendipity

8) how now * cow
----- The words how now cow separated by one or more words

9) + addition;
----- 978+456

10) - subtraction;
----- 978-456

11) * multiplication;
----- 978*456

12) / division;
----- 978/456

13) % of percentage;
----- 50% of 100

14) ^ raise to a power;
----- 4^18 (4 to the eighteenth power)

15) old in new (conversion)
----- 45 celsius in Fahrenheit

16) site:(search only one website)
----- site:websearch.about.com “invisible web”

17) link:(find linked pages)
----- link:www.lifehacker.com

18) #...#(search within a number range)
----- nokia phone $200...$300

19) daterange:(search within specific date range)
----- bosnia daterange:200508-200510

20) safesearch: (exclude adult content)
----- safesearch:breast cancer

21) info: (find info about a page)
----- info:www.websearch.about.com

22) related: (related pages)
----- related:www.websearch.about.com

23) cache: (view cached page)
----- cache:google.com

24) filetype:(restrict search to specific filetype) zoology filetype:ppt

25) allintitle: (search for keywords in page title)
----- allintitle:"nike" running

26) inurl:(restrict search to page URLs)
----- inurl:chewbacca

27) site:.edu (specific domain search)
----- site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.org, etc.

28) site:country code (restrict search to country)
----- site:.br “rio de Janeiro”

29) intext:(search for keyword in body text)
----- intext:parlor

30) allintext: (return pages with all words specified in body text)
----- allintext:north pole

31) book(search book text)
----- book The Lord of the Rings

32) phonebook:(find a phone number)
----- phonebook:Google CA

33) bphonebook: (find business phone numbers)
----- bphonebook:Intel OR

34) rphonebook:(find residential phone numbers)
----- rphonebook:Joe Smith Seattle WA

35) movie:(search for showtimes)
----- movie:wallace and gromit 97110

36) stocks:(get a stock quote)
----- stocks:ncesa

37) weather:(get local weather)
----- weather:97132

I think now u how to search in Google...

Creating a battery from a lemon is a common project in many science text books. Successfully creating one of these devices is not easy.


Batteries consist of two different metals suspended in an acidic solution. Copper and Zinc work well as the metals and the citric acid content of a lemon will provide the acidic solution.Batteries like this will not be able to run a motor or energize most light bulbs. It is possible to produce a dim glow from an LED.The picture at the top of this page shows a basic lemon battery, a lemon, copper penny and zinc coated nail.

The lemon : A large, fresh, "juicy" lemon works best.
The nail : Galvanized nails are coated in zinc. I used a 2" galvanized common nail.
The penny : Any copper coin will work. (Canadian pennies from 1960 - 2001 all worked)


Creating the battery: Insert a penny into a cut on one side of the lemon. Push a galvanized nail into the other side of the lemon.

The nail and penny must not touch.


This is a single cell of a battery. The zinc nail and the copper penny are called electrodes. The lemon juice is called electrolyte.

All batteries have a "+" and "-" terminal. Electric current is a flow of atomic particles called electrons. Certain materials , called conductors, allow electrons to flow through them. Most metals (copper, iron) are good conductors of electricity. Electrons will flow from the "-" electrode of a battery, through a conductor, towards the "+" electrode of a battery. Volts (voltage) is a measure of the force moving the electrons. (High voltage is dangerous!)


I have connected a volt meter to our single cell lemon battery. The meter tells us this lemon battery is creating a voltage of 0.906 volts.Unfortunately this battery will not produce enough current (flowing electrons) to light a bulb.


To solve this problem we can combine battery cells to create higher voltages. Building more lemon batteries and connecting them with a metal wire from "+" to "-" adds the voltage from each cell.


The two lemon batteries above, combine to produce a voltage of 1.788 volts. This combination still does not create enough current to light a small bulb. Note the red wire connecting the batteries is joined from "+" (penny) to "-" (galvanized nail).


Four lemon batteries create a voltage of 3.50 volts. We should be able to light up a small device like an LED (Light Emitting Diode).

Note the connecting wires go from "+" to "-" on each battery.


LED
To turn on an LED you must determine the "+" and "-" connections. If you look closely at the red plastic base of an LED you will notice a "flat" spot (indicated by arrow above). The wire that comes out beside the flat spot must connect to the "-" side of a battery, the other wire to the "+" side.

Important information about LEDs: LEDs are designed to work at very low voltages (~ 2V) and low currents. They will be damaged if connected to batteries rated at over 2 volts. LEDs require resistors to control current when used with batteries rated at over 2 volts. Lemon batteries produce low current. It is OK to connect an LED to a lemon battery.


In the above image, electrons flow from the "-" (nail) end of our lemon battery through the LED (making it glow) then back to the "+" (penny) end of the battery. This is an electronic circuit. The LED glows dimly with this configuration.

Improving your battery.


The quality of the copper and zinc can be a problem for a battery like this. Pennies in particular are rarely pure copper.

Try substituting a length of 14 gauge copper wire (common house wire) for the penny. Experiment with different lengths and configurations of electrodes. Other sources of zinc and copper may be found in the plumbing supply department of a hardware store.

The first battery was created in 1799 by Alessandro Volta . Today batteries provide the power for an amazing variety of devices, everything from flashlights to robots, computers, satellites and cars. Inventors and researchers continue to improve the battery, designing batteries that last longer and that are more friendly to our environment.

Understanding how batteries actually work requires a knowledge of chemistry. The most important factor in battery design is the electrical relationship between the two metals used in the battery. Some metals give electrons away while other metals accept extra electrons. Chemists have investigated metals and created an "electric potential" table comparing different metals.

Regards,
DJ

Hi friends,One week ago my system started acting funny ,the hidden files where always hidden even if we change the file settings in it & the hard disk partition's didn't open up correctly and i was not even able to explore them by right clicking on it.The only way it can be accessed was using direct explore from my computer or some other tools.I checked my all ongoing process on that time and found a process called as amvo.exe

I tried to get it out but wasn't able to by just removing it from msconfig startup,then i searched the net and found out the way to remove it & here it is

Go to command prompt by running cmd in run
Go to c:\Windows\System32 folder

Delete the amvo.exe file in it by using

del /f/ah amvo.exe

check if there are anyother dll by the same name like amvo0.dll or amvo1.dll
u will not be able to remove those files now,don't worry about that.Now remove the amvo.exe from startup and restart your system.

After Restarting your system goto command prompt and delelte those dll files in the system32 folder by using the same command

del /f/ah amvo0.dll
del /f/ah amvo1.dll

these files ll be present only sometimes

then goto back to c:\ in command prompt and remove the autorun.inf file by using the same command

del /f/ah autorun.inf

do this for all the partitionson your system.
Don't open anyone now,restart the system then access them .

If u wanna check whether they are gone,use dir in command prompt for hidden files to view it

dir /ah

Nowadays Everybody have their hands full of Credit Cards coz it is safer to use and makes ones lifestyle better... But I think, almost 90% of credit card users doesn't know how it works... Here is a stuff that explains how it works..


What Credit Card Numbers Mean??

Although phone companies, gas companies and department stores have their own numbering systems, ANSI Standard X4.13-1983 is the system used by most national credit-card systems.



Illustration by Rosaleah Rautert
The front of your credit card has a lot of numbers -- here's an example of what they might mean.

Here are what some of the numbers stand for:

* The first digit in your credit-card number signifies the system:
o 3 - travel/entertainment cards (such as American Express and Diners Club)
o 4 - Visa
o 5 - MasterCard
o 6 - Discover Card

* The structure of the card number varies by system. For example, American Express card numbers start with 37; Carte Blanche and Diners Club with 38.

* American Express - Digits three and four are type and currency, digits five through 11 are the account number, digits 12 through 14 are the card number within the account and digit 15 is a check digit.
* Visa - Digits two through six are the bank number, digits seven through 12 or seven through 15 are the account number and digit 13 or 16 is a check digit.
* MasterCard - Digits two and three, two through four, two through five or two through six are the bank number (depending on whether digit two is a 1, 2, 3 or other). The digits after the bank number up through digit 15 are the account number, and digit 16 is a check digit.

The stripe on the back of a credit card is a magnetic stripe, often called a magstripe. The magstripe is made up of tiny iron-based magnetic particles in a plastic-like film. Each particle is really a tiny bar magnet about 20-millionths of an inch long.


Illustration by Rosaleah Rautert
Your card has a magstripe on the back and a place for your all-important signature.

The magstripe can be "written" because the tiny bar magnets can be magnetized in either a north or south pole direction. The magstripe on the back of the card is very similar to a piece of cassette tape (see How Cassette Tapes Work for details).

A magstripe reader (you may have seen one hooked to someone's PC at a bazaar or fair) can understand the information on the three-track stripe. If the ATM isn't accepting your card, your problem is probably either:

* A dirty or scratched magstripe
* An erased magstripe (The most common causes for erased magstripes are exposure to magnets, like the small ones used to hold notes and pictures on the refrigerator, and exposure to a store's electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag demagnetizer.)

There are three tracks on the magstripe. Each track is about one-tenth of an inch wide. The ISO/IEC standard 7811, which is used by banks, specifies:

* Track one is 210 bits per inch (bpi), and holds 79 6-bit plus parity bit read-only characters.
* Track two is 75 bpi, and holds 40 4-bit plus parity bit characters.
* Track three is 210 bpi, and holds 107 4-bit plus parity bit characters.

Your credit card typically uses only tracks one and two. Track three is a read/write track (which includes an encrypted PIN, country code, currency units and amount authorized), but its usage is not standardized among banks.

The information on track one is contained in two formats: A, which is reserved for proprietary use of the card issuer, and B, which includes the following:

* Start sentinel - one character
* Format code="B" - one character (alpha only)
* Primary account number - up to 19 characters
* Separator - one character
* Country code - three characters
* Name - two to 26 characters
* Separator - one character
* Expiration date or separator - four characters or one character
* Discretionary data - enough characters to fill out maximum record length (79 characters total)
* End sentinel - one character
* Longitudinal redundancy check (LRC) - one character

LRC is a form of computed check character.

The format for track two, developed by the banking industry, is as follows:

* Start sentinel - one character
* Primary account number - up to 19 characters
* Separator - one character
* Country code - three characters
* Expiration date or separator - four characters or one character
* Discretionary data - enough characters to fill out maximum record length (40 characters total)
* LRC - one character

For mo re information on track format, see ISO Magnetic Stripe Card Standards.

There are three basic methods for determining whether your credit card will pay for what you're charging:

* Merchants with few transactions each month do voice authentication using a touch-tone phone.
* Electronic data capture (EDC) magstripe-card swipe terminals are becoming more common -- so is swiping your own card at the checkout.
* Virtual terminals on the Internet

This is how it works: After you or the cashier swipes your credit card through a reader, the EDC software at the point-of-sale (POS) terminal dials a stored telephone number (using a modem) to call an acquirer. An acquirer is an organization that collects credit-authentication requests from merchants and provides the merchants with a payment guarantee.

When the acquirer company gets the credit-card authentication request, it checks the transaction for validity and the record on the magstripe for:

* Merchant ID
* Valid card number
* Expiration date
* Credit-card limit
* Card usage

Single dial-up transactions are processed at 1,200 to 2,400 bits per second (bps), while direct Internet attachment uses much higher speeds via this protocol. In this system, the cardholder enters a personal identification number (PIN) using a keypad.

The PIN is not on the card -- it is encrypted (hidden in code) in a database. (For example, before you get cash from an ATM, the ATM encrypts the PIN and sends it to the database to see if there is a match.) The PIN can be either in the bank's computers in an encrypted form (as a cipher) or encrypted on the card itself. The transformation used in this type of cryptography is called one-way. This means that it's easy to compute a cipher given the bank's key and the customer's PIN, but not computationally feasible to obtain the plain-text PIN from the cipher, even if the key is known. This feature was designed to protect the cardholder from being impersonated by someone who has access to the bank's computer files.

Likewise, the communications between the ATM and the bank's central computer are encrypted to prevent would-be thieves from tapping into the phone lines, recording the signals sent to the ATM to authorize the dispensing of cash and then feeding the same signals to the ATM to trick it into unauthorized dispensing of cash.

If this isn't enough protection to ease your mind, there are now cards that utilize even more security measures than your conventional credit card: Smart Cards.

Know more about CC here

VoIP is a protocol (Voice-over-Internet protocol) which is designed to optimize the transmission of audio through the Internet. Most people refer to VoIP as the act of sending audio through a network, rather than the protocol itself. The protocol evolved from a 1973 protocol known as the Network Voice Protocol, which was one of the first attempts at sending speech over the Internet.

Despite the NVP's early origination date, it was not until 1996 that VoIP became widely available to consumers. Even then, the protocol and network structures had a long way to go, and the system was relatively inefficient. As technology has evolved and advanced, VoIP has become a realistic cost-effective solution to consider.

Currently, the chief alternative to VoIP is the PSTN, or public switched telephone network, which utilizes the traditional structure of circuit switching. The PSTN is a world network, much like the Internet, and includes household and mobile phones. When VoIP first came out, it was incompatible with PSTN, meaning users could only connect to other people with VoIP. Many early complications such as this have since been overcome, making VoIP much more viable than it was a decade ago.

What can VoIP do that the PSTN cannot One feature is the ability to add multiple phone lines without incurring additional costs, as it is possible to transmit several phone calls over the same connection. Other features that normally cost extra for a PSTN phone are free on VoIP; this includes attributes such as call forwarding, call waiting, caller ID. When encryption is employed, the security of the network is strong and hard to break in to.

The most popular security protocol used with VoIP is the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP). Many other services can be integrated with a system, including file exchanges, video conversation, and conference calls. Advanced services which would usually be difficult to implement are much easier to do in a VoIP system, and this ease also reduces the cost of installation as well.

Despite the many breakthroughs that have been made through the years, VoIP still faces many challenges. Audio is essentially large streams of data, and whenever data of that size is transferred through a network, problems can occur. Receiving nodes must restructure every bit of information that comes in, so if the data is obtained too quickly, the decapsulation process can be negatively affected.

Jitter, another data transfer conundrum, can also occur frequently if proper precautionary measures are not taken. All of the data transfer troubles, if not tended to, can result in a low quality of service. When packets are not received or they are scrambled, this translates into drop-outs of voice for the end users.

Reliability is another important thing to consider, especially for home use of VoIP. With regular telephones, if the power goes out, you can still use your phone. However, because VoIP works directly through the Internet, and a modem that uses household electricity, if the power goes out, your phone goes out.

Although VoIP can be made secure through encryptions, most of the software on the market today does not support that function. While SRTP is available for business applications, it rarely is accessible to the average consumer. For users who do not have any encryption mechanism, they can still rely on security by obscurity, which is usually fine enough for non-business uses.

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Imagine doing a 250-km journey in a car that will cover the distance in just one-litre of petrol (just over $1)!

That's exactly what students of a Technical Institute in Punjab - the Rayat Institute of Engineering and Information Technology near Ropar - claim to have developed.

"It is a rare solo car which can generate a mileage of up to 250 km per litre. Our team of students have not only achieved this feat, but are going to showcase it at a world super-mileage competition in the United States next month," Gurvinder Singh Bahra, vice chairman of the Rayat and Bahra group of institutes, told media persons here as he unveiled the 'wonder car' with the team.

Though the students' team claims that the car will cost Rs.500,000, its research and development cost over Rs.2.13 million to the institute.

The car, having a 92cc engine, has been developed by a seven-member team of students from the sixth semester of the institute's mechanical engineering course. The team is led by Gaurav Aggarwal as captain and other members are Mayank Tyagi, Bhavuk Makkar, Arun Salaria, Rahul Kumar, Ramandeep Singh and Navneet Kumar. The team had Jujhar Singh and Rajesh Chaudhary as faculty advisors.

It took them one year to develop the car, said Bahra.

The team is now headed for the world super mileage competition to be held in Michigan, US, next month. The competition is organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers in the US.

"We have modified the engine as per rules supplied by the competition organisers. The frame of the 65-kg car has been developed by using special grade aluminium. It has hydraulic disc brakes and a modified carburettor and fuel supply system. The car has a lightweight outer body shell with an aerodynamic structure.

"All safety and ergonomics features have been taken into account. The car even has a self-designed battery re-charging system," said Aggarwal.

The Rayat team will be the second Asian team to participate in the 28-year-old contest that will have competitors from 35 countries.

Friends we have to be very proud of this as Indians. Letz encourage them in all aspects and let them find more luxurious car with same mileage...

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Yum is a very powerfull package manager. yum will resolve dependencies for you and makes installing applications a breeze. yum also searches, removes, and lists packages for you.

 Usage: yum [options] <>

Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, --tolerant be tolerant of errors
-C run entirely from cache, don't update cache
-c [config file] config file location
-R [minutes] maximum command wait time
-d [debug level] debugging output level
-e [error level] error output level
-y answer yes for all questions
--version show Yum version and exit
--installroot=[path] set install root
--enablerepo=[repo] enable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
--disablerepo=[repo] disable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
-x [package], --exclude=[package]
exclude package(s) by name or glob
--obsoletes enable obsoletes processing during updates
--noplugins disable Yum plugins
--nogpgcheck disable gpg signature checking
--disableplugin=[plugin] disable plugins by name

From a first look this can look rather intimidating, but this is rather easy.

Examples given below:
  • To seach for a application

Yum will search all your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from

yum search application_name     
  • Yum can list all available packages from your enabled repos and tell you where you can obtain the package from:
yum list available
  • To find out more info about some package
yum info application_name
  • Installing applications

Inastalling is as easy as

yum install application_name
  • Listing rpms

yum can list installed rpms for you from the repos you have enabled

yum list extras
  • Removing rpms

Yum can remove a application and the dependenciesit installed with tat application. it will not remove depenencies if another application installed needs them.

yum remove application_name
  • Updating the system

Yum can update the system for you with out user interact if you want it to.

yum update
  • Not sure if you have upates?
yum check-update
  • Local install

downloaded a rpm and cannot install it with rpm because of dependencies?

yum localinstall /path/to/the/rpm
Happy yumming...

Have u ever heard about LPG gas cylinder's expire date. I also didn'tknow.

How to find LPG cylinder's expiry date

Very important information.
Most of us do not know this. I came to know today from the gas
stockist, because here one accident occurred.
Do you know that there is an expiry date (physical life) for LPG
cylinders?
Expired Cylinders are not safe for use and may cause accidents. In
this regard please be cautious at the time of accepting any LPG
cylinder from the vendor.

Here is how we can check the expiry of LPG cylinders:

On one of three side stems of the cylinder, the expiry date is coded
alpha-numerically as follows A or B or C or D and some two digit
number following this e.g. D06.

The alphabets stand for quarters -
A for March (First Qtr),
B for June (Second Qtr),
C for Sept (Third Qtr), &
D for December (FourthQtr).
The digits stand for the year till it is valid.
Hence D06 would mean December qtr of 2006.

Please ask ur frenz to visit the blog and share this message with everyone you know, UR kind cooperation will save life of many people and create awareness among the public.

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DJ

CHECK THE MANUFACTURER AND QUALITY OF YOUR MOBILE
Press the following on your mobile *#06#. The-international mobile equipment identity number appears


IF the digit number Seven & Eight is 02 or 20 that mean it was assembled in the Emirates which is very Bad quality

IF the digit number Seven & Eight is 08 or 80 that mean s it was manufactured in Germany which is not bad

IF the digit number Seven & Eight is 01 or 10 that mean it's manufactured in Finland which is Good

IF the digit number Seven & Eight is 00 that means it was manufactured in original factory which is the best Mobile Quality ....

IF the digit number Seven & Eight is 13 that means it was assembled in Azerbaijan which is very poor quality and potentially very dangerous to your health!!!

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DJ