The Ten Leading Banks of India

Hi all,

Its been quite some time since my last post

Business Today, one of the most widely read Business Magazines of India, published the annual Business Today-KPMG Survey of the best banks in the country.

Here is the listing of the top 10 banks in the country.

1. HDFC Bank

2. HSBC

3. Indian Overseas Bank

4. ABN AMRO

5. Axis Bank

6. Standard Chartered

7. State Bank of Hyderabad

8. Union Bank of India

9. ICICI Bank

10.Indian Bank

Makes for interesting reading doesn't it?

Till next time ciao.

Freaky Genious

Cops plan to nab cyber crooks

Cops Plan to Nab Cyber Crooks :
13 Aug 2007, 0507 hrs IST, TNN

I happened to read this article (link above) on the Times Of India online yesterday. I was really amused to read what the Mumbai Police is up to, now a days.

If we apply even a little thought to it, we will realise how futile the efforts of the police are....

As almost everyone who has a bit of a knowledge of the Internet shall know that even now the bulk of the Internet users in India are on dynamic IP addresses provided by a DHCP server on the network[1].

Only a minuscule percentage of the users opt for a static IP address whose details may be readily available with the ISP. So a CD containing the IP Address details of the customer will be futile as every time a user switches off his modem / router and switches it back on he'll be assigned a new IP address. In that case the CD that they use will be outdated even before it reaches the DCP (Crime Prevention's) office :D .

Instead if it is allowable under-law, what I think they should do enable quick detection is to give the cops a CD containing the details of all the user names they have registered under them.
They will still need to verify every time from the ISP as to, to which user name that particular IP address was assigned at that particular time. Then of course they could look up the user name in their CD, and quickly find the address of the user name they find. The entire process given if the officer making the call has the authority, should not take more than what say, ten minutes.

This goes on to show the state of apathy of the Police Force. And while we are speaking of the police force isn't it the work of the Cyber Crime Department to investigate crimes of this nature, rather than the Crime Prevention Department. so shouldn't it be the Cyber Crime Cell that should be liaising with the ISPs rather than the CPD.

Hope I Have Given You Some Food For Thought. And I must add here that I would love to hear your views on it.

Tejas

The world's largest Cargo Ship.

World's Largest Cargo Ship Get a load of this ship! 15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew size (13) for a ship longer than US aircraft carriers, which have complements of 5,000 men and officers. Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it was NOT designed for the Panama or Suez canal . It is strictly transpacific. Check out the "cruise speed". 31 mph means the goods arrive four days before the typical container ship traveling at 18 to 20 mph on a China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive when carrying perishable goods.This ship was built in three, perhaps as many as five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. It is named Emma Maersk. The command bridge is higher than a ten story building and has eleven rigs that can operate simultaneously.

Additional Info:

Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 mi/h
Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people
First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

The silicone paint applied to the ship's bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year!!!

Now that is what I call really big.... I mean its humongous.....

Have some food for thought.

Tejas

Tragedy in Virgina

Tragedy in Virginia

I express my shock, disgust, and sorrow at the events that unfolded today at Virginia Tech. After fatally shooting 32 people in a senseless, murderous rampage, the lone gunman turned the gun on himself. This, for many, was the sole source of consolation from today's atrocities.

We wish to offer our deepest condolences to the friends and families of the victims. They will most certainly be in our thoughts and prayers.

Inhuman Dolphin Slaughter (I Just lost my apettite.)

Hey everyone..Check the video and If u feel the pain then for sake of humanity please sign the petition at

http://www.petitiononline.com/golfinho/

Video Warning: The video link below contains many graphic images, that may not be suitable to children or sensitive viewers. Your discretion is required... (personally I think all fish eaters should see this, to know what torment the fish go through to be your food.) Its pretty unbearable to see them suffer like that......

Video link: http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

Thank you,

Tejas.

And ya.. some more info if you guys wanna read..

A US anti-whaling group trying to stop dolphin killing has released video footage of a recent hunt out of the small Japanese fishing town of Taiji that shows blood-filled coves and dead dolphins in boats.

The tape, shot by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, graphically captures the end of a hunt, in which fishermen pound on the water, causing waves that confuse the mammals' sense of direction, and then corral dolphins into small coves where they can more easily be killed.

Though subject to government-set quotas, the hunts are not banned under Japanese law and are not subject to international regulations because they are done near the shore.

In the footage, several dead or dying dolphins can be seen on the boats, bleeding profusely.

"It's a wholesale slaughter, which results in immense suffering for these animals," said activist Nik Hensey. "It's a sight that one just can't imagine."

Requests for comment from the mayor were denied and other town officials declined to comment.

A fisherman's union representative, who demanded anonymity, said the kills are conducted as humanely as possible, and noted that dolphin hunts have been part of local culture for 400 years.

Hunting dolphins is not banned by the International Whaling Commission, which has maintained a moratorium on commercial whaling since 1986.

Fishermen in the western Japanese town regularly conduct dolphin hunts during the October to April season.

They've caught more than 60 striped dolphins so far this year under the government quota system. The meat is usually canned and sold in supermarkets.

But because of international pressure for an end to the killing of dolphins and the bloodiness of their hunting method, fishermen there have tried to keep out of the public eye.

They do not permit videos of their hunts, refuse on-the-record interviews and have even erected barriers along the shoreline to discourage cameramen.

The Sea Shepherd activists said they managed to get the video by camping out in town for several weeks. They provided Associated Press Television News with a copy of their footage.

Three activists from the conservation group, which is based in Malibu, California, were briefly detained by Japanese police after allegedly trying to stop a dolphin hunt and scuffling with a fisherman earlier this month.

The activists - a Briton, a Canadian and an American, all in their 20s - were taken in for about nine hours of questioning before being released. They weren't charged with any crimes.

Japan is one of the few major fishing nations that continues to support the hunting of whales and dolphins.

Officials there say the populations of many of the marine mammals have recovered enough to sustain limited catches, and have argued that pressure to quit killing them is based more on cultural bias than on science.

Under a special IWC allowance, Japan is also allowed to kill hundreds of whales a year. Critics say the catch is commercial whaling in disguise because most of the meat ends up being sold in markets and restaurants.

Tokyo counters that the kills are done as part of a research program needed to study whale populations and migration patterns.

© 2003. The Sydney Morning Herald.

Microsoft Windows 1.0

the firs windows! Guys n galls check out Steve Ballmer Selling Windows 1.0 Cool Man.

The last refuge of the truly bored

FUDDRUCKER Vs Briggster

The last refuge of the truly bored.


This is a must read for all those idiots who think they can get away with anything.. If you plan to become a sysadmin one day, you better learn to use your brains as well.

Or you'll find people like Mr. dirigibles who will make you feel really sorry for doing so.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Freaky Genious

UPDATE: Blogger now available in India

Hi Ppl,

Just seen it... it seems as if the Bans' been finally lifted... Hurray Fellow Countrymen (Bloggers to be more specific) we kicked sum a**.

The ISP's have had to eat their own words.... The word out is that the DoT never ordered to block the entire IP range of blogger.com which these morons went on to do.

Instead they should have complained to blogger instead about the offensive nature of the posts in the respective blogs... I'm sure blogger like most other major websites does put restriction the kind of content you're posting on you're blog. Almost all major websites have a comprehensive policy specified in their terms of use that forbids any racist or anti-national, anti-community kind of comments that are not in good taste and are written with the specific intention of causing trouble.

We'll all said and done, what matters is that the collective initiative of the Indian Bloggers which minced no words or actions to put things on the right track.

Kudos to the Blogger's Collective Group which left no stone unturned to have this victory. Right from filing RTI's to getting in touch with the top level babus involved in the matter their timely action is commendable.

But I must add a word of caution here.....

We have just won the Battle, the War is yet to be conquered.

Lets just not stop this fight here. Lets continue this and make them answereable. Let us come to know as to why this happened in the first place... let the guilty be punished... lets not let them go scott free this time....

This is all I have to say. This is all I expect from them. And if in the course of this battle if they ever feel the need. I shall be at their beck and call. Just buzz me.

Blogger Buzz: Blogger in India

Tejas Thakker
a.k.a Devil's Advocate

My Blogs' Been Blocked...

Hi ya ppl,

If you can see this then you definately don't live in india. Or maybe you do ... (hint: inblogs.net, pkblogs.com etc..)

The crux off all that blabber is that my blogs been blocked.. haven't been able to access it ....

Welcome to the real world, Neo. (a la Matrix). My due respects to the wachowski (or whatever it is!!!) brothers.

This is the begning of internet censorship in india..... or am I in china? chinese chow chow any one. ;)

Lets see where this will take us....

Till any further update, this is the Devil's Advocate signing off.

Ciao.

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