Re: [silk] Bangalore Meetup on May 16?

2009-05-12 Thread Anil Kumar
On Tue, 12 May 2009 17:01:45 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you want to see a 40+ year old woman down a pint of cheap rum in one > swig before noon, this is THE place. > > Kiran > And, that would be consumed 'neat' and not diluted; yes

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Wow. This is truly cool. And scary. > > Udhay > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hackers-can-steal-from-reflections&print=true > >  How Hackers Can Steal Secrets from Reflections Yow. Mind you, at some level not really

Re: [silk] Bangalore Meetup on May 16?

2009-05-12 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > I'm in too...and do let me know if I need to bring anything. There is a > liquor shop right opposite my house and I can usually manage to get stuff on > a dry day albeit with a markup. Let me know early enough and I can avoid the > mark

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Long
Oh my goodness, now all my top secret work will reflect off my stainless steel pans and be leaked to the world! Seriously, though, it's rather amazing technology, even though crookedly used. cf http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Dual/dual.html

Re: [silk] Bangalore Meetup on May 16?

2009-05-12 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
> So, Madhu confirms that Saturday *is* a dry day. Let's just meet up at > Crossword and drift towards Venky's place after that. Venky has kindly > offered to stash some liquor and comestibles there, and we can all pitch > in to cover costs for food and drink. I'm in too...and do let me know if I

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> Wow. This is truly cool. And scary. >> Oh my goodness, now all my top secret work will reflect off my stainless steel pans and be leaked to the world! Seriously, though, it'

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM, wrote: > Apologies for top post, blame blackberry for that one. There are polariser > based optical solution to keep prying eyes from laptops. I haven't come > across attacks on those or efficincy of counter measures (e.g. like fonts > that Marcus had developed)

Re: [silk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?

2009-05-12 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2009-05-12 12:58:08 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote: > > Does anyone else have a problem with the fora.tv server dropping the > connection every few seconds? Yes. wget -c handled it, though I had to restart it once (after it reached its "dropped connection" limit and gave up). -- ams

Re: [silk] Bangalore Meetup on May 16?

2009-05-12 Thread Amit Mittal
All, I am not that regular to the group but would like to join you guys for the meetup. Please count me in too. Regards, -Amit On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Ravi Bellur wrote: > > > > . Venky has kindly > > offered to stash some liquor and comestibles there, and we can all pitch > > in to co

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread anish . mohammed
Apologies for top post, blame blackberry for that one. There are polariser based optical solution to keep prying eyes from laptops. I haven't come across attacks on those or efficincy of counter measures (e.g. like fonts that Marcus had developed) Regards Anish --Original Message-- From:

Re: [silk] All done with mirrors

2009-05-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Wow. This is truly cool. And scary. > The new reflective screens on laptops don't help. Sit in a conference room with a window behind you, or on a train next to a window, and everyone around you gets a magnified and clear picture of your

Re: [silk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?

2009-05-12 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
2009/5/6 Thaths > > Everett spoke at the Long Now Foundation talk a month ago. The mp3 of > his talk is at: > > http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2009-03-20-everett.mp3 > Does anyone else have a problem with the fora.tv server dropping the connection every few seconds? I managed