Re: [silk] A new buzzphrase: procedural content creation

2014-03-04 Thread gabin kattukaran
On Mar 2, 2014 11:41 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: A little baffled by the tone of voice here. For something that is a piece of self-promotion, on their own website, why write it like a newspaper article? Perhaps this content was also created

[silk] Car rear view cams in India

2014-03-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I was shopping for car rear view cams and proximity sensors - but all the rear view cams + dashboard mounted screens on the market, at least in India, still seem to use RCA jacks for connectivity. Is there any more modern gear in the Indian market that I've missed out on? --srs (iPad)

Re: [silk] Life is a game. This is your strategy guide.

2014-03-04 Thread SS
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 11:00 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Don't agree with this observation by the Kerala HC, but the article below[1] posted by Madhu yesterday on Facebook demonstrates how ingrained playing as a team is in India. From a Hindu (also Jain and Sikh) viewpoint, team play is

Re: [silk] Life is a game. This is your strategy guide.

2014-03-04 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:08 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: The article looks at life like a single player game. Life can be a single player game or a team game in which multiple players cooperate. In India life is defined as a multiple player game in which your life is played in family and

Re: [silk] Life is a game. This is your strategy guide.

2014-03-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
A selfish organism is the very definition of cancer. I'm not sure if I agree with all that you said, Cheeni. But that last line...breathtaking in its simplicity.

[silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

2014-03-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Via Dave Farber's IP list. Ignoring many of the talking points in the rant below, the claim I am most interested in is The internet is a utility, just like water and electricity. I am really interested in the thoughts of silklisters on this, especially folks like Sunil Abraham and Pranesh

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

2014-03-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
That is probably the most, to use the same language, bs point of them all. Mostly parroted by a school of net neutrality people (Susan Crawford, Tim Wu etc) that really should know better, but that doesn't quite stop them. Come to think of it, they too like to use overblown and soundbite laden

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

2014-03-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This one too http://bennett.com/blog/2008/11/just-another-utility/ --srs (iPad) On 05-Mar-2014, at 8:55, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: That is probably the most, to use the same language, bs point of them all. Mostly parroted by a school of net neutrality people (Susan

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

2014-03-04 Thread Cory Doctorow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I pretty much totally agree. The triumverate of Internet rules we need are: * Net Neutrality (either by forcing line-sharing like in the UK, or through direct regulation of carriers on the basis that they receive a massive public subsidy in the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

2014-03-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Issues with reporting bugs is something that is a kind of side effect of the DMCA - but the vuln report community has already split into trusted / vetted groups where a lot more takes place than in public groups like full disclosure. For that part I have no dispute with you at all. Neither