Re: [silk] One for Satyam

2011-08-01 Thread Anil Kumar
On Aug 1, 2011, at 23:36, Chetan Nagendra wrote: > This is hilarious! > > Satyam spam from Nigeria! Just curious- has anyone received something similar? > > > >> > Namaskar, > > > My name is Radha Ramalinga,I am the wife of B. Suryanarayana Raju > Ramalinga,the younger brothe

[silk] One for Satyam

2011-08-01 Thread Chetan Nagendra
This is hilarious! Satyam spam from Nigeria! Just curious- has anyone received something similar? >> Namaskar, My name is Radha Ramalinga,I am the wife of B. Suryanarayana Raju Ramalinga,the younger brother of Byrraju Ramalinga Raju,former chairman,founder and owner of Satyam Co

Re: [silk] Information. We want Information.

2011-08-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A bit more on the weight issue. 1. Most of the miners - and most other people back then - preferred silver dollars and gold eagles ($10 each) to paper money. Even a few hundred dollars in $1 and $10 coins weighs a lot more than hundred dollar currency notes (and this went on till like the 1930s

Re: [silk] Information. We want Information.

2011-08-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [01/08/11 21:46 +0530]: "You know, back in the forty-niner days, every gold mining town in California had a nerd with a scale," Avi says. "The assayer. He sat in an office all day. Scary-looking rednecks came in with pouches of gold Extremely erudite bullshit, I'm afraid. Nerd

Re: [silk] Information. We want Information.

2011-08-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 27-Jul-11 6:29 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > The reading proceeds apace, in its own leisurely way. I read a chapter > and then lay the book aside for a week or so while I chew on it and > read other stuff. Currently, inspired by the chapter on Babbage, > re-re-re-reading _Cryptonomicon_, which I

Re: [silk] India beat Pakistan

2011-08-01 Thread Nikhil Mehra
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > The insight is that its a bad idea to have India get on top too early in a > test match. I've seen us lose (against Pakistan, both times) after we've > reduced them to 26/6 and 39/6 on Day 1. I suspect we value the heroic > struggle more tha