Hi all,
    Its time for yet another Sardarji joke! Enjoy. But a short disclaimer first. This joke is not intended to mock sardars in real life. No offense meant to any person, community or religion! Sardars are one of the cleverest breeds of Indians!

A sardar is sitting in a bar sipping a Whiskey. He notices a gorgeous blonde sitting by herself in a corner.

As he was getting up to talk to her, the bar tender said: “Hey, don’t bother, she is a lesbian!”.

The sardar replied: “Lesbian or no lesbian, I can get them all.”

Then walking across to the blonde, the sardar said in a very sexy voice: “Hi there. Which part of Lesbia are you from?”

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Hey again all,
    Google Blogoscoped reports that Google Images has introduced 2 new search categories - facial search, and news search. Though still not available by API, these features can be accessed by appending a tiny query to the end of the Google search URL.

• Face Search - Now you can search for only faces! It seems that Neven Vision, a company acquired by Google in 2006, specializes in facial recognition, and thus adds the feature of face search to Google Images.

  A Google Images Face search can be done by appending the code “&imgtype=face” without the quotes, into the search URL. i.e. Go to Google Images, search for something, then append the URL with the code given above, and hit enter. You get a facial search done!

  eg : I searched for “rocket” using Google Images. I get the following URL -
  http://images.google.co.in/images?q=rocket
  &btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl
  =en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla
  %3Aen-US%3Aofficial

  

  Then, I appended the URL with the query &imgtype=face to make the URL -
  http://images.google.co.in/images?q=rocket
  &btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl
  =en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla
  %3Aen-US%3Aofficial&imgtype=face

  

  Check it out for yourself!

• News Search - apparently, you can search for the latest images which have come up in the news. The working is exactly the same as face search, and you can do it by appending a small query -
  &imgtype=news

  Simple and handy

    Yep yep yep Thats it from us. Yet again, Google brings in ultimate innovation! I wonder when Gmail starts giving Face Recognition Passwords

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Hi all,
    Google launched, last week, a security blog. Titled Google Online Security Blog, this weblog is intended at fighting malware and spyware, and making people aware of the security threats online.

Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic and we’ve been looking for a way to foster discussion on the topic and keep users informed. Thus, we’ve started this blog where we hope to periodically provide updates on recent trends, interesting findings, and efforts related to online security. Among the issues we’ll tackle is malware, which is the subject of our inaugural post.

Malware — surreptitious software capable of stealing sensitive information from your computer — is increasingly spreading over the web. Visiting a compromised web server with a vulnerable browser or plugins can result in your system being infected with a whole variety of malware without any interaction on your part. Software installations that leverage exploits are termed “drive-by downloads”. To protect Google’s users from this threat, we started an anti-malware effort about a year ago. As a result, we can warn you in our search results if we know of a site to be harmful and even prevent exploits from loading with Google Desktop Search.

Unfortunately, the scope of the problem has recently been somewhat misreported to suggest that one in 10 websites are potentially malicious. To clarify, a sample-based analysis puts the fraction of malicious pages at roughly 0.1%. The analysis described in our paper covers billions of URLs. Using targeted feature extraction and classification, we select a subset of URLs believed to be suspicious for in-depth investigation. So far, we have investigated about 12 million suspicious URLs and found about 1 million that engage in drive-by downloads. In most cases, the web sites that infect your system with malware are not intentionally doing so and are often unaware that their web servers have been compromised.

    The basic advices are the same -

• Keep software updated
• Avoid visiting untrustworthy websites
• Use antivirus programs, and keep them up to date
• Never give out personal information on the net

    I believe that this blog will serve as a basement for all future Google security updates. Its a great initiative by the company, and very much on time!

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Hi all,
    The Nintendo WiFi service which allows Nintendo DS users to play wirelessly against each other has hit 5 million users, reports Cnet.

    The engine has over 5 million users, and more than 200 million games have been played already.

    Cnet reports that though there has been a rush of next generation video game systems like Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360, Nintendo DS is still the best selling of all game consoles, having sold 4,70,000 units in April!

    You got a DS?

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Hi all,
    Found this at Digg. A cool ad on www.grou.ps calling for career oppurtunities for PHP coders in their company. It can be found here. It goes like this -

PHP Engineer (ref #001)

$q1 = Are you a master PHP Ninja?
$q2 = Excel at object oriented PHP, MVC pattern, Smarty template engine, caching
practices and PEAR?
$q3 = Familiar with CSS, Javascript,  XHTML, MySQL?
$q4 = Experienced with Zend Studio, Subversion, wikis?
$q5 = Love open source? Aware of RSS, XML-RPC, web services, memcached and all
other geeky stuff?

$q6 = Keen to learn much more?
$q7 = Ready to move to Silicon Valley?

if ( $q1 && $q2 && $q3 && $q4 && $q5 &&
$q6 ) {

    echo “YOU SHOULD <strong>JOIN</strong> US! drop
your resume to contact@grou.ps <br />”;
    echo “please include some php and javascript code snippets or
refer us to an open source project you’ve”;
    echo “already made. tell us our coding mistakes in this call
and let us know what you know about”;
    echo “the new javascript 1.7, mysql 5.2 and php 6. thanx,”;

    exit;
}
else {
    die(”maybe next time…”);
}

    Heh heh heh

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