the amazing spam email

i wonder how many people will trust it.
a spam mail as below:
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IMPORTANT!
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CARDHOLDER FORM

First Name:
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the problem is not the spam. the problem is a few days back I have sent some email from this email account to some hotel in usa regarding some issue. - and now i am forced to think how my email was leaked to this spammer guy?
1. hotel PC is infected and malware stealed my email id.. most possible - so which malware/botnet is sending these emails.

2. or way to US is infected .... :-)

analysis of learning methods

I was just thinking which learning method yields more. can we generalize. or if can even draw a graph which can be shown to a learner, I think it will be easier for learner to decide which learning path to adopt.

just see the image.
curves in the diagram indicates the learning path adopted. observe the matching color of a quadrant and learning path.

people think differently and some time bizzare

I dont know why - I keep writing on this blog. But just because I want to write.

Just refer to this news item : http://www.aol.in/bollywood-story/if-people-stop-using-slang-well-stop-using-them-bhardwaj/769389

Vishal bhardwaj is a film director who is infamous for using slang language in his movies. And now he gives an excuse- If People stop using slang, we'll stop using them. there are two ccounter logic to it.
1. everbody who has gone to watch the movie may not be a user of slang language and may have objection. An adult guy can go to watch the movie with (A) but he will also feel uncomfortable with slang language.

2. And if Vishal Bhardwaj is so impressively hurt with using slang language by some people, he can make a movie and spread Civilization by telling them better ways to communicate.

its after one year !

Its one year now, I have added something to my blog. oops ! its more of a personal diary

there is a new movie,,, Rocket Singh Sales man of the year.

I just remembered one guy-- he is salesman of year for me year 2008

my parents wanted me to marry, and hence looking for some girl..
i went to bangalore for some official work and I met brother of one girl in sight. the meeting was scheduled by parents.

after 4-5 minutes of talk, he is trying his best to sell me an ICICI Life insurance policy..

nothing i can tell more !!
he is undoubtedly no 1.

last three months

last when i posted, it was on 17.10 and today 17.01.09. today again after 3 months i had my project review meeting.

last three months, a lot of things happened: my sis got married, i got a 15 day break from office for work..

i attended AVAR: in hotel taj, delhi. i met a lot of top brass in computer security market. Chief research officer of FSEcure, kaspersky, Perry, VP global operations, symantec, and lot of researchers in anti virus.

arun lakhotia's paper was on self learning AV scanner. kaspersky put a vision on 2018's security industry. where you wont find a lot of security company as market is demanding more expertise and infrastructure. he also though of ITTP industry.
(IT threat prevention)

Two hectic days

17 october 2008

17 was my project's review meeting. You can think, whats a day it can be on 16 th.
But on 16, i attended a technology transfer function: Speakers came from both side and i was also not taking much stress in listening those. But then one speaker remarked: which actually inspired me to put this event on blog.

Actually A govt firm was tranferring its technology (in form of a product) to a private company and thats too on network security. Isn't it great.

Anyway, i attended the meeting, i gave presentation. and afterwards it was over. After getting free, i was thinking to do something which is not related to system, i thought blogging. and again i was on my system :-)

A wonderful day proceedings

I.. actually dont know what wonderful day actually mean.. becuase all day are wonderful in one or other sense..

But I see, many people putting their best day so far. So I thought to monitor and I got it today a best day in recent times. I came to office and I took a small write up assignment (yeah in project work) thats too on Windows File System Filter Driver and you guess for what :-) for Sy.. System Requirements Specification document of a Security Software.. I completed it in 1 hour, it came up very well very fast.

Anyway, I went to IIIT Hyderabad and I listened to Mr. John E. Hopcroft. He talked on Future Directions in Computer Science. I could not get much of his details, but I was able enough to understand the problem and probable and definite "probablistic" and other solutions. But alas! I could not ask him a question. Well !!
His ppt link is http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/. You will get it in Talks Sections.

1. Becuase John discussed too much maths in his presentation: One guy (senior old person) aksed him: so maths will continue to rock, and who doesnt know this much maths, he is OUT :-)

John replied: "Well.. Technology existed much before Science and Maths came into existence." and I got a feeling at that time: Technology is household but science and maths are not that much. We can see our mothers and household people to use things in a nice technical ways :-)

2. Somebody asked him something and used the word software. John told universities does talk about programs and not softwares.""

I got a feeling that: there are two things : university and industry.. whos bridging the gap...

Isnt it a wonderful day ! ! !