The war has begun

Its been quite sometime since Microsoft and a host of other software biggies have been trying to curb piracy.Infact the whole entertainment industry has been opposing Piracy since quite some time there are a few people like Bryan Adams who have agreed that piracy is a way of life.
Piracy has a good and a bad part to it.The good part being ever since piracy has been spreading like a wild part to all the parts of the world,The customer is a given a choice to choose what he wants rather than being forced to take whatever he gets.earlier if u liked one song in an album u had to buy the whole album or movie cassette to listen to it.But now if u like a given album u can just get it from a pirated CD vendor and listen to it as much as u want for less half the price u have to pay for a legal copy of the same thing.Infact peer to peer networks though they are not exactly pirated stuff enable a user to get music,videos and softwares and a large no of other media for no cost at all.Imagine getting microsoft authentic software like windows media player 11,Internet explorer 7 without validating ur copy of windows. or geting ur windows authenticated without paying for it.Piracy in a way or two does provide employment to many people and it provides them with a source to earn money.Due to piracy a large no of people can see and experience a large variety of media.Earlier we could watch only a limited no of films but now due to piracy we can watch for movies with DVD quality video for the price of one in a multiplex.
And at the same time piracy is bad because its is affecting the legal rights of the people who produce the media severely,Several record companies are having losses in billions of dollars.
The only way piracy can be curbed is by getting the prices of authentic legal media to be more or less equal to the price of the pirated media.that would help considerably but that needs to be done simultaneously with the launch of the media.If it is done after a substantial amount of time has passed after the launch the given media then the value of media would depreciate considerably.this is because the pirated version of any given media hits the market as soon as the media is launched the market or sometimes it is launched even before the media is launched.this way of curbing piracy has been adopted by Optical media giant Moser Baer.
Piracy has its affiliation with viruses,many pirated products as much as 50%or may be even more have viruses on them .So Microsoft wanted to fight both of them that led to the dvelpment of the Frtiz chip.
Fritz chip the latest tool on piracy.
Microsoft has recently formed a group of software and hardware who will or are willing to be a part or rather an ally in its war against piracy and viruses.This group has all biggies in the world od IT and electronics.Companies like Dell,HP and many other are a part of this group.To be a partof this group a certain sum approximately 7500$ has to be paid.This is not good for open source and freelance software developers because 7500$ is big money and many small time software developers may not be able to afford it.
The friz chip is a chip which will be embedded in the motherboard of PCs or in the main circuit board of any electronic item manufactured by Microsoft's allies.This chip would have the detailed information of the the systems hardware and the softwares installed in it legally.From this data the chip will generate a code which might be an alpha numeric code.this code will be used to cross check the machines compatibility with any software which might have to be installed in it.If a software has to be installed its requirements[in a coded form ]will be compared with the code stored in the fritz chip,if they do not match the software simply wont work.Microsoft may have collected a large amount of data about the individual machines of their users,by the error reports that they recieve in the event of a program not working.just imagine buying a pc and not being able to install the things u want in it.
As the old chinese symbolism of a black spot in white surroundings and a white spot in black surroundings explaines if this move is bad it will have something good to it.Or even if the move is good it will have something bad to it.And hackers will definately not give up without a fight.I hope and pray that something in everyones consideration comes out as a result of this fight for supremacy.

my first crash

Today i again went to the airport to pick up a close family pal.though today i started late and the rain was not to bee seen,I had a lot of confidence,and unlike last time when the car had an old set of wipers,This time we had an entirely new set of wipers,So i could see the road more clearly,Infact conditions were pretty ideal.And i was accompanied by a cousin who was and has always been very encouraging to me.he has always tried to guide me very well when i drive . in a way hes been a backbone all thoughout my life.
I started the car initialy the way i usually do But today i did it quite precisely.ANd there was not shruddering.i could manouvere it perfectly.And today i was quite confident that i could take it to speeda above 60 the limit that i had set for myself.And i was in the 4 th gear for a long time and i could easily remain in it.Not even once did i think of downshifting,ONly once did i miss my way,Though i should have remembered it coz i had been to the airport only 2 days ago still i took the flypver and that stretched for another 6 kms both way,Then eventually we reached the airport entrance, the road is mostly straight.,At the next junction i slowed down there was a mess at the right side near the divider and i slowly stopped the car .I was on the extreme right very close to the divider as per the rules i should have taken a right turn and i should have gone in the right direction,But till the signal was red i shut down the engine,once the green light started i just shifted the gear into a neutral by the time i had put the gear a rickshawalla sheared off the bumper, And he did it so badly that i could not believe my eyes when i saw the bumper to be cut in the left
After recieveing th person we wanted to from the terminal 2 again it was me behind the wheel but this time i knew all the roads perfectly and i was determined to drive perfectly.I started the car perfectly normally the way i always start it,And by the time we were on the western express highway the rains were lashing the car very \nbadly.But i drove it steadily knowing that this would be the last time id be touching the wheel.By the time we had crossed Sion the rain was lashing way too badly.And it was really difficult to maintain the high speed i was in considering my \nvisibility.Eventually we reached home but the sight of a crashed Ford Mondeo which was stranded on the highway sent shock waves through my heart.\u003c/div\>\n\u003cdiv\> When i came back home my cousin explained me why i should not be asking the car from anyone and i did realise that it was my fault i should have not been in the right track.But one thing was certain that i would not get the car for a second \ntime.Next morning my grandpa didnt come to know anything abt the crashed bumper but when my cousin told him about that .he didnt say anything, then when i asked him whether i could accompany him to the office he blankely refused.
side.It had been really cut so sharply.My cousin got out of the car to deal with the rickwalla,and there followed an argument,which lasted for about 10 mins.My cousin got in and he told me only one thing "Now do u realise why anyone would not like to give u his car" Soon we reached the airport and there we could not find any space to park our car,i safely backed it up,And stood waiting to find a place to park it,Eventually we did find a place to park it,And this spot was very narrow,after some high revved turns i did park it.
After recieveing th person we wanted to from the terminal 2 again it was me behind the wheel but this time i knew all the roads perfectly and i was determined to drive perfectly.I started the car perfectly normally the way i always start it,And by the time we were on the western express highway the rains were lashing the car very badly.But i drove it steadily knowing that this would be the last time id be touching the wheel.By the time we had crossed Sion the rain was lashing way too badly.And it was really difficult to maintain the high speed i was in considering my visibility.Eventually we reached home but the sight of a crashed Ford Mondeo which was stranded on the highway sent shock waves through my heart.
When i came back home my cousin explained me why i should not be asking the car from anyone and i did realise that it was my fault i should have not been in the right track.But one thing was certain that i would not get the car for a second time.Next morning my grandpa didnt come to know anything abt the crashed bumper but when my cousin told him about that .he didnt say anything, then when i asked him whether i could accompany him to the office he blankely refused.

3000Kms in 10 days........one tiresome trip

It all started when the rumour for the external Viva's was being floated around in the college.Everyone started saying that the vivas would be starting on the 10 .I was excited coz that meant i could go to my native place.i had been longing for a chance like this coz i was really the chance i had been looking for.

i alcutlly wanted to leave from the place i live i.e jal but i could not find a train from there to UD,there was a train from Bh which would go to the same state but i could not take it because i was not sure that it would stop at the station close to our district,And our village being a remote one its be a problem to go from ma station to such a remote part which still has a lot of development waiting to be happen there.
After i reached Nak i was very relaxed.It was holiday time afterall.Though i had only 5 days at hand,but it seemed to be almost a whole month.My cousins were already there .And good homely South food was what i had been longing for since quite some time.For all the five days i was there my family members followed a very simple formula to get tanked up.The made fish curry for one day and ate it for the remaining two days.There would hardly be any time weve been there and these people havent put their fishy formula to a good use.And i made my delicacies with intricacy only for my stomach to have a gourmet treat.
I and my sis both infact she is a very good photographer,Not that i am very bad,Got many pics on our cams.Infact she spotted an Owl,And she being a die hard harry potter fan was delighted at the sight of it.There were 2 Owls sitting one the leaf of a coconut Tree,and luckily they seemd to not mind that we were flashing our cam flash bulbs on them coz the sky was lit up with lightening.She got many pics a number of them were very good.But i did find her the spots.
On 2 occasions we went out for getting pics and we discovered the village like we had never done before.We went to a church a little our of the village and had a round trip all across the fields.We even found a dead snakes skull but one thing that we both got many pics was of sunsets.I regretted leaving my cams USb cord back in Mumbai and i really suspected the memory to play foul by taking only 32 pics but it was on the return journey back to mumbai via Goa did i realise its capacity to take app 300 pics and i marvelled at it but pulled my hair for being so choosy.This was the first time that my train passed through Goa during the day time and i got many pics.Some of them are pretty good.
i didnt have proper tickets for going and coming.And i did have problem while going i was quite chilled out with some cool mallu's.But while coming back i had to confine my self to one seat for 15.30 Hrs really i didnt even drink water for the fear of going to toilet silly isnt it,but after loggin 3000KMS,in 10 days after 4 hectic train journeys i feel the juice is worth the sqeeze.