Google, Facebook Briefly Caught in Danish Child Porn Filter

Residents of Greenland and parts of Denmark awoke last Thursday to find they couldn't access Google, Facebook, or almost 8,000 other popular websites. Instead, users were greeted by the Danish child pornography (CP) “STOP” page, warning them the page they were trying to access contained offensive material prohibited from viewing. The message read, “The National High Tech Crime Center of the Danish National Police [NITEC], who assist in investigations into crime on the internet, has informed Siminn Denmark A/S, that the internet page which your browser has tried to get in contact with may contain material which could be regarded as child pornography.” Denmark’s controversial CP blocking program came under fire again, as the mistake exposed a number of flaws in the way the service is managed. That a single clerical error could result in the blocking of thousands of innocent websites is worrisome for many. AK Zensur, the German Working Group Against Access Blocking and Censorship, has been fighting the Danish block list for years, condemning the act of domain blocking by DNS hijacking as “looking away instead of acting.” In 2010, the group showed that with just a few emails, they could have entire sites, even those hosted in the U.S., taken down. In a sternly worded statement at the time, AK Zensur said, “Internet blocking does not fight abuse, in practice it only serves to conceal the failures of politics and police.” NITEC manager Johnny Lundberg told Danish media after last week’s three-hour shutdown that a police officer had been using a colleague’s computer in his investigation of over 8,000 domains on the list. He accidentally copied the file to the wrong directory, resulting in Google, Facebook, and others landing on the CP list. "We're obviously very bad with it. We think it is a very important service we have with this blocking filter, and therefore it is something bad when something happens and we will of course apologize for the inconvenience it has caused,” Lundberg said (translated to English). The incident raises a number of questions about the simplicity of a system with enough power to block out a substantial number of sites based on a single data input. It was the second time within a month Google has been misidentified as a threat. A Microsoft Forefront and Security Essentials update revealed an “incorrect detection” error that saw Google.com flagged as malware. sources:-http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2157462/Google-Facebook-Briefly-Caught-in-Danish-Child-Porn-Filter

Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year

**THE SECRET JOURNAL OF SANDEEP**: Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year

Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year

Today Google is celebrating Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday. It's a day which rarely comes into the calender, Google has doodled with two-in-one rare doodle that commemorates not only the leap year day but also it's a 220th birth of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.


This year is leap year and today is leap day and both are associated with frogs, the leaping amphibians, so today Goolge doodle has a number of frog on it's logo, all four of them.

Google doodles celebrate Gioachino Rossini's 220th birthday and Leap Year

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses. His mother, Anna, was a singer and a baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's musical group.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini's was the famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville,  one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).


Google doodle of Gioachino Rossini leap year is the third leap year doodle in Google's history. Before that the previous two were put up in 2004 and 2008. And before that there was no Google doodle in the year 2000.

If I am not wrong this is the 1314th Google doodle since the first ever on for the Burning Man Festival back on August 30, 1998.

What is Leap year

A leap year is the year which contain one additional day, its because of keeping the calender year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.

Code to determine Leap Year

Algorithm

Pseudocode to determine whether a year is a leap year or not in either the Gregorian calendar since 1582 or in the proleptic Gregorian calendar before 1582:

if year modulo 4 is 0
   then
       if year modulo 100 is 0
           then
               if year modulo 400 is 0
                   then
                       is_leap_year
               else
                   not_leap_year
       else is_leap_year
else not_leap_year

or as a boolean expression
is_leap_year = ( year modulo 4 is 0 ) and ( ( year modulo 100 is not 0 ) or ( year modulo 400 is 0 ) )

It was a day of Cricket and for Cricket Lovers !!

No one even thought in the early morning when Sri Lanka was batting that India will fight back and at the end Cricket will win. At the early begining of the match the way SriLankan Players(especially Dilshan and Sangakkara) were batting, it was looking like India has given up. But who knows Cricket is a FUNNY game. you can’t predict anything in Cricket. The way Indians played(especially KOHLI), they kept themself alive for the finals.
I don’t think this tournament can come in any better way, at the halfway stage, Sri Lanka would have felt they had one foot in the final, having left the India bowlers deflated after a dominating performance with the bat. And they would have been right to think that way, the Indian batting having shown little promise in the series and the team on the brink of elimination.
But Virat Kohli put a master peice of strokemaking, Kohli’s innings made a mockery of an imposing score, kept India’s finals hopes alive and left Sri Lanka having to beat Australia for a third time in the tournament to knock India out.
Hope for Reaching in Final is still Alive.. here how it possible..

Now India and SL both is having same 15 points, in this case if Sl is loosing the match against Australia then this is the way two best team is goign to decide.
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the right to play in the final match or series will be determined as follows:

•The team with the most number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the most number of wins over the other team(s) who are equal on points and have the same number of wins
•If still equal, the team with the highest number of bonus points
•If still equal, the team with the highest net run rate

In a match declared as no result, run rate is not applicable.

So comming Friday Cheers for Australia and Hope for the best for Indian Cricket.

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I Don't Expect You Soon to Love Me

I don't expect you soon to love me,
Nor are my own feelings clear.

Passion is the ornate entrance
To a world we crave and fear.
 
We cannot know where this will take us,
Nor whether we will ride for long,
But pleasure is the overture
That flows into the larger song.
 
So come with me with open mind
And heart, and we the time will prove
With laughter and with joy unfettered,
And, perhaps, someday with love.

Want to raise your web traffic? Go public!

When we think about a company going public, we think of companies raising money to fund expansion, or ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, or analysts discussing the prospects for the company on CNBC. We don’t often think of going public as a way to build brand awareness and drive web traffic.

Linkedin shows that going public could be a powerful driver of web traffic, as this chart from Compete PRO shows:

When i think about any companies going to be in public , i think of companies ringing the bell at New York Stock Exchange.

Generally, we don't ever think to going public because we think to make a brand awareness and drive web traffic. we hav a example of Linkdin , it went public on May 19th and the way it increased unique visitor from 15 million to 19 million was really fantastic.

LinkedIn went public on May 19, 2011 – almost immediately after that, they began to see an explosion in their web traffic. While prior to going public, their traffic held at an average of around 15 million unique visitors per month, as soon as they went public, they broke out to over 19 million unique visitors. Today, they have over 25 million unique visitors – a huge increase. Given that they have not engaged in a ton of broad brand awareness marketing initiatives (think Superbowl commercial), it would seem that going public, by itself, may have been a major traffic driver.

Sources:- www.compete.com