Working Through Screens
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Hats-off Chiba San!
At Toyota Kirloskar’s 10th anniversary do, a Japanese employee does the late Shankar Nag proud in the land of his birth, in the language of his life. [link]
Aside:This is an Ilayaraja number, which makes it more special.
Hindutva Logic
“I do not know Pragnya Singh at all. But I know she is not a terrorist.” “No Hindu can be a terrorist.”- Praveen Togadia, leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
Are we, the average citizens, morons? At least, that’s the impression I get from speeches of the Thackerays and the Togadias.
Wrap-rage!
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta: Are these people for real?
An e-mail from MSDN says:
Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers.
However, browsing with this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended. This creates a call to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8. As such, we’ve provided a meta-tag which can be added on a per-page or per-site level which will instructs Internet Explorer 8 to render
Finnish e-voting fiasco
The good old ‘human error or bad design’ debate resurfaces.
Today, the Ministry of Justice revealed that due to a usability issue, voting was prematurely aborted for 232 voters. The pilot system was in use in three municipalities; this amounts to about 2 per cent of the electoral roll. Seats in the municipal assemblies are often determined by margins of only a couple of votes.
It seems that the system required the voter to insert a smart card to identify the voter, type in their selected candidate number, then press “ok”, check the candidate details on the screen, and then press “ok” again. Some voters did not press “ok” for the second time, but instead removed their smart card from the voting terminal prematurely, causing their ballots not to be cast.
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Canon India’s Website is an Attack Site?
So I went to http://www.canon.com/ and selected the Canon India site from the Worldwide Site list:
Webmaster of Canon, could you please wake up and smell the coffee?
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SimplyMarry.com is a Spam Site
Out of the blue I started getting mails about ‘matches’ for my profile in SimplyMarry.com, A IndiaTimes site. I never registered on the site. So I followed instructions and sent a mail to unsubscribe@simplymarry.com. Even that didn’t stop the spamming. So I called their Call Center and the staff their told me that ‘Someone must have registered on your behalf. I will send your password. You tell me the password and I will delete your profile.’ He also explained that he can’t see my password hence he is having the site send it to me. When asked ‘what is the point of having an ‘unsubscribe’ feature, he obviously did not have an answer. He told me that he has deleted my account and I won’t be getting mails after ‘a week’.
Either people at IndiaTimes think people are More...