Tuesday 27 August 2013
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Saturday 17 August 2013
New information on Princess Diana death
UK police checking new information on Princess Diana death
LONDON: British police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information's "relevance and credibility."
Scotland Yard
declined to provide details about the information, only saying Saturday
in a statement that the assessment will be carried out by officers from
its specialist crime and operations unit.
The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the
1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in
Paris.
In 2008, a British jury ruled that Diana, the Princess of Wales,
and her companion, Fayed, were unlawfully killed due to reckless speed
and drinking by their driver, and by the reckless pursuit of paparazzi
chasing them.
Scotland Yard said Saturday that it is looking into new information
regarding the deaths of Princess Diana and companion Dodi Al Fayed in
1997. Reports on Saturday said police are trying to see if it is
credible or not.Sky News reported that the information pertains to allegations as to whether Diana and others in the car were murdered. But it noted that the investigation is still in the very early stages.
“The Metropolitan Police Service is scoping information that has recently been received in relation to the deaths and assessing its relevance and credibility,” reads a statement from Metropolitan Police, published by ITV. “The assessment will be carried out by officers from the Specialist Crime and Operations Command.”
It added: “This is not a re-investigation and does not come under Operation Paget.”
The new information about her death was passed to Metropolitan Police via military sources, reported Sky. The Specialist Crime and Operations Command unit will look into the matter.
It also does not fall under the Operation Paget investigation, which looks at conspiracy theories surrounding her death. It found that those inside the car were not murdered.
In 2004, U.K. police investigated the circumstances of Diana’s death for three years. A jury in 2008 said that the accident was due to “grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes,” according to a statement from Metropolitan Police.
Diana, known as Princess Di, was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma in Paris. Before her death, she was constantly followed around by paparazzi photographers, who attempted to document her every move in public for tabloids.
Driver Henri Paul and companion Dodi Fayed were also killed in the crash.
Her death has been the object of conspiracy theories–including one from Dodi’s father Mohamed Al-Fayed, the owner of the Paris Ritz–who said the crash was planned or foul play was involved. Some said that British intelligence services were behind it.
Recently, Vanity Fair reported that Diana was secretly in love with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan in the 1990s, but he ultimately did not want to be in a relationship with her.
“Diana was madly in love with Hasnat Khan and wanted to marry him, even if that meant living in Pakistan,” Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of Hasnat’s cousin Imran Khan, tolld Vanity Fair. “And that’s one of the reasons we became friends.”
Friday 16 August 2013
Thursday 15 August 2013
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Indian IT website got hacked
Indian IT website got hacked
Indian it website got hacked by Pakistani hacked THE JOCKER on 14-AUG-2013 on the day of independence , ducatindia.com is a Leading Indian Institute in IT.
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Tuesday 13 August 2013
iPhone 5C
Apple is thought to be planning the release of two new phones on 10 September, including a much-anticipated cheaper iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 5C.
As well as an incremental update to the current iPhone 5, expected to include fingerprint-detecting technology, the iPhone 5C would be Apple's first lower-end phone. Historically, Apple has fulfilled the needs of the low-end market by offering previous years' models at cut-down prices.
Industry suppliers have been told to expect the new device in mid-September, but a leak to news site All Things D claimed the launch is set for 10 September.
At a recent earnings call, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook reiterated that plan to investors. When asked about the potential of a low-cost iPhone to first time smartphone buyers, he replied that the number attracted by the iPhone 4 was "very, very impressive. We want to attract as many of these buyers as we can".
He added that "where iPhone 5 continues to be the most popular iPhone by far, we are really happy to provide an incredible high-quality product with iPhone 4 running iOS 6 to as many first-time smartphone buyers as we can."
However, there have long been hints that the company was considering going in a different route, perhaps modelled on the iPod product line. During an earlier call in January of this year, Cook pointed to the line as the model of how it thought about low-cost devices, saying: "I think we've had a great track record here on iPod, doing different products at different price points and getting a reasonable share from doing that."
Each tier of iPod is a very different product from the others, to the extent that the iPod Shuffle and iPod Touch have barely anything in common.
Apple may have switched gears due to a weakness in Chinese sales, or a move to unify the shape of the iPhone line. In July, Cook discussed the slowdown in China, but argued that it was "continuing to invest in distribution, we're going to double the number of retail stores there for the next two years and we're continuing to lift iPhone point of sales and iPad sales, both of which are currently lower than where we would want them or need them today".
Additionally, there is a renewed impetus to unify the product line around the iPhone 5's 16:9 screen, the biggest change in form factor since the original iPhone in 2007.
Technology analyst Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis argues that although "a cheaper iPhone has been discussed almost since the original launch in 2007", costs have fallen and the market developed "to the point that it now makes sense for Apple to offer a $200-$300 [unsubsidised] model".
That change boils down to three things: for the first time, Apple could make such a phone (which would be $100 cheaper than an iPhone 4) without having to compromise its sense of design; the fact that the low end of the market in major territories is now big enough to take notice of; and the need for the company to have a critical mass of users to ensure that programmers still think of developing for iOS before competing platforms.
As with the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S, few extra features are expected for the new top-end iPhone. Instead, a speed boost and improved camera will likely be paired with exclusive software features. The major exception is the possibility of a fingerprint sensor mounted in the home button of the phone. Apple acquired fingerprint security firm AuthenTec last year, and the initial beta of iOS 7 contained settings for a sensor.
When asked for comment, Apple reiterated that it "has not announced a press conference".
Hyperloop
Hyperloop
When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Note, I am hedging my statement slightly by saying “one of”. The head of the California high speed rail project called me to complain that it wasn’t the very slowest bullet train nor the very most expensive per mile.
The underlying motive for a statewide mass transit system is a good one. It would be great to have an alternative to flying or driving, but obviously only if it is actually better than flying or driving. The train in question would be both slower, more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized) and less safe by two orders of magnitude than flying, so why would anyone use it?
If we are to make a massive investment in a new transportation system, then the return should by rights be equally massive. Compared to the alternatives, it should ideally be:
Unfortunately, none of these have panned out. As things stand today, there is not even a short distance demonstration system operating in test pilot mode anywhere in the world, let alone something that is robust enough for public transit. They all possess, it would seem, one or more fatal flaws that prevent them from coming to fruition.
Constraining the Problem
The Hyperloop (or something similar) is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. Around that inflection point, I suspect that supersonic air travel ends up being faster and cheaper. With a high enough altitude and the right geometry, the sonic boom noise on the ground would be no louder than current airliners, so that isn’t a showstopper. Also, a quiet supersonic plane immediately solves every long distance city pair without the need for a vast new worldwide infrastructure.
However, for a sub several hundred mile journey, having a supersonic plane is rather pointless, as you would spend almost all your time slowly ascending and descending and very little time at cruise speed. In order to go fast, you need to be at high altitude where the air density drops exponentially, as air at sea level becomes as thick as molasses (not literally, but you get the picture) as you approach sonic velocity.
read more at
Hyperloop-Alpha.pdf
When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? Note, I am hedging my statement slightly by saying “one of”. The head of the California high speed rail project called me to complain that it wasn’t the very slowest bullet train nor the very most expensive per mile.
The underlying motive for a statewide mass transit system is a good one. It would be great to have an alternative to flying or driving, but obviously only if it is actually better than flying or driving. The train in question would be both slower, more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized) and less safe by two orders of magnitude than flying, so why would anyone use it?
If we are to make a massive investment in a new transportation system, then the return should by rights be equally massive. Compared to the alternatives, it should ideally be:
- Safer
- Faster
- Lower cost
- More convenient
- Immune to weather
- Sustainably self-powering
- Resistant to Earthquakes
- Not disruptive to those along the route
Unfortunately, none of these have panned out. As things stand today, there is not even a short distance demonstration system operating in test pilot mode anywhere in the world, let alone something that is robust enough for public transit. They all possess, it would seem, one or more fatal flaws that prevent them from coming to fruition.
Constraining the Problem
The Hyperloop (or something similar) is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. Around that inflection point, I suspect that supersonic air travel ends up being faster and cheaper. With a high enough altitude and the right geometry, the sonic boom noise on the ground would be no louder than current airliners, so that isn’t a showstopper. Also, a quiet supersonic plane immediately solves every long distance city pair without the need for a vast new worldwide infrastructure.
However, for a sub several hundred mile journey, having a supersonic plane is rather pointless, as you would spend almost all your time slowly ascending and descending and very little time at cruise speed. In order to go fast, you need to be at high altitude where the air density drops exponentially, as air at sea level becomes as thick as molasses (not literally, but you get the picture) as you approach sonic velocity.
read more at
Hyperloop-Alpha.pdf
Monday 12 August 2013
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