Protest SOPA & PIPA ACT - protect the Internet

Why you should read this is because you should know what are you protesting and why?


Probably the largest online protest in history of Internet, many websites are blacked out today.

The reason is to protest the proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). A quick update on this, some of the regular websites changed their skin to protest..

Wikipedia 

Wordpress

TechCrunch

I am no lawyer, i am a programmer, and if any programmer in my team would have written code like this rotten bill, i would fire him on spot. Honestly i haven't read the whole bill but some part of it which is scary ...For those who want to read it, here is the full text of the bill, as of Jan 15, 2012

Read on ...
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), better known as PIPA was introduced into the Senate by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). The act’s goals were described by its sponsors as protecting intellectual property and punishing foreign sites who post copyrighted material. If a site was discovered doing so, the U.S. attorney general could order U.S. based Internet service providers, search engines, payment systems and advertising networks to suspend doing business with the website.
Pathetic..!!


Do you understand what above act will do ... It give the AG(Attorney General) of America power, because of which...

• Internet service providers will be required to block your access to the site (section 102(c)(2)(A)(i)) within five days.
• Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) will be forced to remove all references to the offending sites from their indexes (section 102(c)(2)(B)).
• Ad providers (Google AdSense, Federated Media, etc.) will be required to stop providing ad service to the site.
• Payment providers (PayPal, Visa, etc.) will be required to terminate service to the site.

I hope u read SOPA and PIPA and understand it, and know why it is bad. I know it is bit difficult to read it and understand, but if you care of Internet and Freedom of it, you should also join and protest this act.

इन्कलाब झिंदाबाद !!!

Lenovo unveils first Android television set

The world's first television based on Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system has been announced by Lenovo. The TV set, however will initially only be for sale in China. Available in 42" and 50" versions, the device is unusual because it is not using Google's TV software, which is based on an earlier version of Android, codi-named Honeycomb!!

The K91 Smart TV will join a host of other 'smart TV's that are set to be announced at the Counsumer Electronics Show(CES)' in Las Vegas. Those made by LG are already confirmed as using Google TV, and they are expected to be joined by models from Sony and Samsung.

GigaOm reports that the Lenovo set will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running at 1. GHz, as well as offering 1GB of Ram , SD card storage and a 5mp webcam. The remote control will feature a touchscreen and an integrated microphone for voice control.

A key theme  of CES is set to be TV that increasingly blur the line between computers and televisions, while their remote controls increasingly resemble smartphones. Apple is also reported to be working  on a TV of its own. Lenovo additionally announced the IdeaTab S2, a tablet with a keyboard dock that is similar to the award wining Asus Transformer Prime, as well as laptops that include the company's first bid to take on the 'ultrabook' market of new thin and light computer. The U310 and U410 will initially sell in america for just $699, but are slightly heavier than their more expensive rivals.

The prices marked manufactures attempts to differentiate their products in this new category of devices primarily through price. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps had previously observed that at $1000 ultra books would  be too expensive for mainstream consumers.

Kudoz ... to people who contributed to Technology

2011 has being a great year for technology.  iPad, iPod to Aakash Tablet, Android, Ice Cream Sandwich Operating system, every one of them has changed how we see or think of technology. They have bought a new change in technology. But while all this happening, on the other side the people who bought these changes in technology were leaving this world.. This post is dedicated to all those people who have made this happen…

1] Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple Inc.)

The one who bought biggest change, father of Apple Inc Steve Jobs died on 5 October, he was suffering from cancer. He made people to look at technology from another view through products like iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad… and such more products showed a different direction to technology.



2] Dennis Ritchie (Founder of The C language and The UNIX Operating System)

He was an American scientist who helped shape the digital era. He created the C programming language and with his longtime colleague Ken Thompson the UNIX operating system. He received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Though he was not popular amongst common people (the non-programmers :P)  it would not have being possible to see all those software’s we use in our day to day life for sure.

3] Paul Baran (Founded the Internet)

Paul Baran in 1960 started a project which included “Data Packet Switching” which later evolved into ARPANET which further increased to matrix of networks which we call it “The Internet”.
Baran died in Palo Alto, California  at the age of 84 on March 26, 2011,[1][20] due to complications from lung cancer

4] John McCarthy (Father of Artificial Intelligence)

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), invented the “Lisp” programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI.
McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems. He received the Turing award for his major contributions to the field of AI, and many other accolades and honors, including the United States National medical of Sciences.

5] Jean Bartik (one of the original programmers of ENIAC)

Jean Bartik (first from left)

She was one of the original programmers of ENIAC (the first computer). She was supposed to be first lady programmer. She quit her program and left this world on 23 march of this year. 

6] Jerald Lawson (Video game maker)

Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, creator of the first cartridge-based videogame console, died Saturday morning in a Mountain View, California, hospital, Wired.com has learned. Lawson was 70.
As an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, Lawson designed the electronics of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, later renamed the Channel F, in 1976.
A lifelong engineer and tinkerer, Lawson was born in 1940 and grew up in a federal housing project in Queens, New York. As a kid, he operated a ham radio; as a teenager he earned money by repairing his neighbors’ television sets.
One of his Quotes
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it,’” he told the San Jose Mercury News last month. “I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and do it.”
At 6:15 a.m. Saturday, Lawson died after apparently suffering a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter. The family is planning a memorial service in mid-May.

7] Robert Galvin (contributed in finding Cell phone)

Robert Galvin (first from right)

 Robert Galvin, who over nearly three decades as Motorola's CEO transformed the maker of police radios and TVs into one of the world's leading electronics companies, has died. He was 89.
Galvin died Tuesday night in Chicago of natural causes, his family said.
Galvin oversaw Motorola's pioneering efforts in the cellular industry, including the creation of the first commercial cellphone in 1973 and the construction of the first cellphone network in the early 80s.

And many more like these... they will always be remembered and cherished.