10 Reasons to Free Tibet

1) Replace a system of governance which is giving 12% GDP growth with a 1000 year old belief that one old guy is really a reincarnation of GOD

2) Because it is a romantic idea

3) The average Tibetan is much better economically than most other countries in Asia and Africa. Still freedom is messy- Donald Rumsfield.

4) So we can sell beer, Facebook ads, Internet Pornography to Tibetans which do not have the liberty to do so currently

5) So we can explore that area for mining and minerals

6) Damn it. We need one more ally for the free world. So we can invade more non free countries.

7)  Tibetans girls are hot.
Dalai Lama is cool. and he doesnot charge by the hour unlike other yoga Gurus.

9) We need to encircle China just like we did in the 19th Century and Opium Wars

10) So artists like Ai Wei Wei can blog freely

1 Reason not to Free Tibet

1) Tibetans want to be free. If we give them democracy- they will be disappointed to know that the bullets just get replaced by the pepper spray. How silly is that? The desire to be free- when there is no such thing as free anymore.

(This was an article in Sarcasm and meant as literary and not a pseudo-intellectual political article. I have no training in Politics. For details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

Pune Wikimedia hackathon.

Date: 10-12 February 2012
Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR) at
Symbiosis International University, Pune,India
Extremely rough event page, soon to get more details:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pune_Hackathon_Feb_2012

As you know, a Wikimedia hackathon is a chance to learn how to develop
using MediaWiki, Phonegap, and our other technologies, and to work
alongside experts. Software engineers, designers, and translators are
welcome. We’re tentatively planning to focus on internationalisation and
localisation, mobile Wikipedia access, and the JavaScript-based gadgets
framework.

Registration link: http://is.gd/rjpNOA

If you’re interested, please register to request an invitation, and feel
free to publicize.  Thanks!

1. Porters 5 forces Model-To analyze industries
2. BCG Matrix- To analyze Product Portfolios
3. Porters Diamond Model- To analyze locations
4. McKinsey 7 S Model-To analyze teams
5. Gernier Theory- To analyze growth of organization
6. Herzberg Hygiene Theory- To analyze soft aspects of individuals
7. Marketing Mix Model- To analyze marketing mix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysis

1. A Model to Analyze Industries

It draws upon industrial organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. An “unattractive” industry is one in which the combination of these five forces acts to drive down overall profitability. A very unattractive industry would be one approaching “pure competition”, in which available profits for all firms are driven to normal profit.

2. BCG Matrix is best used to analyze your own or target organization’s product portfolio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth-share_matrix

To  help corporations with analyzing their business units or product lines. This helps the company allocate resources

or

3. To Analyze Countries you can use the modified Diamond Model again by M Porter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_model

an economical model developed by Michael Porter in his book The Competitive Advantage of Nations,  where he published his theory of why particular industries become competitive in particular locations.

4.  To check which teams work and which teams done (within an organization) use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_7S_Framework

a strategic vision for groups, to include businesses,business units, and teams. The 7S are structure, strategy, systems, skills, style, staff and shared values.

The model is most often used as a tool to assess and monitor changes in the internal situation of an organization.

Related-Also by Tom Peters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_By_Walking_Around

The expected benefit is that a manager, by random sampling of events or employee discussions, is more likely to facilitate the productivity and total quality management of the organization, as compared to remaining in a specific office area and waiting for employees, or the delivery of status reports, to arrive there, as events warrant in the workplace

5. Stages in Organizational Growth

http://accel-team.com/techniques/orgGrowth.html

developed by Larry E. Greiner is helpful when examining the problems associated with growth on organizations and the impact of change on employees. It can be argued that growing organizations move through five relatively calm periods of evolution, each of which ends with a period of crisis and revolution.

• Each evolutionary period is characterized by the dominant management style used to achieve growth, while
• Each revolutionary period is characterized by the dominant management problem that must be solved before growth will continue.

6. Stages in Individuals- Motivation

What motivates people to contribute (or fail to contribute) to teams, products, organizations, nations.

From-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Herzberg

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_factor_theory

The following table presents the top seven factors causing dissatisfaction and the top six factors causing satisfaction, listed in the order of higher to lower importance.

7.  What to sell and how to sell- Marketing Mix Model

Source-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix

and a reworked version at

Ajay- Now if only I could convince someone to build an appspot application that uses XBRL and Text Mining (PMML?) to create automated graphs for many of these models for a website like finance.yahoo.com or finance.google.com

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Eat your heart out, blogspotters!!

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/07/try-bloggers-new-interface.html

On the internet- look and feel and design are the new old new buzzwords again!.

Source-

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_terms.html

Related-

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/BcxRfg96dTQ?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0

Basically under the new SOPA act (an oline version of pepper spray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act) even browsers like Firefox and Chrome would be liable for any such extension that can be used to download American Intellectual property illegally.

In the meantime – this is an interesting and creative use case of technology and sociology merging in the brave new world.

You can read about it here-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAFIAAFire_Redirector

MAFIAAFire works by downloading a list which contains the names of the “blocked” sites as well as the sites to redirect to. This list is downloaded every time Firefox starts up or every two days on the Chrome version (although the user has the choice to force an update on the Chrome version instead of waiting for two days).

When a user types in a domain name from the list of blocked domains, the add-on recognizes this and automatically redirects the user to the secondary site. Since this happens before the browser connects to the DNS server, this renders any DNS blocks useless.

Although the add-on checks for which sites are entered into the address bar every time (as it needs to check if that site is on its block list), it does not log these requests nor send these requests to any central server. In other words: it does not track the user.

or

Download it from

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnifiobpjihmmjgiokkaalgomddebhng

Interesting times indeed!

Related-

Encryption

http://poemsforkush.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/encryption/

MUMBAI-BOMBAY

OCCUPY LIKE AN EGYPTIAN

The Low Orbit Ion Cannon was a favorite tool of wanna-be pseudo-hackers who did not have technical skills, but were willing to contribute their hardware and bandwidth to multiple instances of flooding servers , primarily to the organization (?) known as Anonymous / hackers trolling at http://4chan.org/b (random)

From

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC

LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is an open source network stress testing and DoS attack application, written in C#. A JavaScript version has also been created enabling a DoS from a web browser and also a Qt edition called loiq written in C++ exists.^[1][2] LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but later it was released into the public domain.^[3]

LOIC named after a fictional weapon in the Command & Conquer series of video games. The Ion Cannon was first popularized in the original Star Wars movies. Ion Cannons were used for orbital defense against low orbit Star Destroyers on Hoth in The Empire Strikes back.^[4]

Contents [hide] 1 Use 2 Countermeasures 3 Notable uses 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

 Use

LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the server withTCP packets or UDP packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary botnets.^[5]

 Countermeasures

Security experts quoted by the BBC indicated that well-written firewall rules can filter out most traffic from DDoS attacks by LOIC, thus preventing the attacks from being fully effective.^[6]

 Notable uses

LOIC was utilized by Project Chanology, an offshoot of the Anonymous group, to attack websites from the Church of Scientology websites, then by Anonymous itself to successfully attack the Recording Industry Association of America‘s website in October 2010,^[7] and again during Operation Payback in December 2010 to attack the websites of companies and organizations

However LOIC was donated to sourceforge (open sourced) and it seems to be corrupted – atleast my anti -virus (AVG ) detected a virus when I downloaded it/ (and the mirror servers esp in VA have funny names!) (Ajay-  I download such things once a quarter- just to keep up with new kids on the digital block)

High Orbit Ion Cannon

However a spinoff seems to be called HOIC (or Amusingly) High Orbit Ion Cannon. http://hoic.99k.org/

What is HOIC?

The high orbit ion cannon has the following features:
- High-speed multi-threaded HTTP Flood
- Simultaenously flood up to 256 websites at once
- Built in scripting system to allow the deployment of ‘boosters’, scripts designed to thwart DDoS counter measures and increase DoS output.
- Easy to use interface
- Can be ported over to Linux/Mac with a few bug fixes (I do not have either systems so I do
- Ability to select the number of threads in an ongoing attack
- Ability to throttle attacks individually with three settings: LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH
and its written in a language where you can do a bunch of really nifty things
just read the RealBasic manual, ;]
also no Dependencies (single executable)

I have yet to test whether it works or is just another honey pot (or honey trap ) for amateur “occupy internet” protestors.

Of course it is illegal to test anyone else’s servers. The software is easy to install and use- the instructions are here in this screenshot-

It is originally  at a site called http://hoic.99k.org/ , but in case you want to test servers by flooding you can use this at Google Docs- (which I have made the new mirror for zip files)  at http://goo.gl/CAjm3 or https://docs.google.com/open?id=18_VByDmFXsuy1XfEOW9C918QVg-NZ52ztQMcFpU6AICo1cteHPXr9zUzipwE

(Ajay- Google Docs now allows you to store z1P files )

Note -some people prefer to use the Tor Browser downloadable from https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en  to hid their IP addresses- but combining Tor and Hoic is definitely illegal (besides overloading Tor’s network which doesnt allow Torrent downloads especially from sites like http://thepiratebay.org )

I am shortly beginning a research project -which is like a commercial version of the Tor Internet- basically pay 99 cents to join a digital internet which doesnot store your IP addresses and gives your privacy from internet ads -99.89% of which are useless!

What do you think -dear Reader? Would a mobile app that gives you a completely ad free internet be worth anything? Let me know in comments—

AO

The plot is superb, Anil Kapoor of Slumdog Millionaire does a cute scene stealing turn, and the rest of the cast is ho hum- compared to earlier movies in same series- it is much better than MI1 but not as good as MI2 (John Woo) and MI3. Lets wait for MI5 or MI6

See the following JMP add-ins which use R

http://support.sas.com/demosdownloads/downarea_t4.jsp?productID=110454&jmpflag=Y

JMP Add-in: Multidimensional Scaling using R

This add-in creates a new menu command under the Add-Ins Menu in the submenu R Add-ins. The script will launch a custom dialog (or prompt for a JMP data table is one is not already open) where you can cast columns into roles for performing MDS on the data table. The analysis results in a data table of MDS dimensions and associated output graphics. MDS is a dimension reduction method that produces coordinates in Euclidean space (usually 2D, 3D) that best represent the structure of a full distance/dissimilarity matrix. MDS requires that input be a symmetric dissimilarity matrix. Input to this application can be data that is already in the form of a symmetric dissimilarity matrix or the dissimilarity matrix can be computed based on the input data (where dissimilarity measures are calculated between rows of the input data table in R).

Submitted by: Kelci Miclaus	Initiative: All
Application: Add-Ins	Analysis: Exploratory Data Analysis

Chernoff Faces Add-in

One way to plot multivariate data is to use Chernoff faces. For each observation in your data table, a face is drawn such that each variable in your data set is represented by a feature in the face. This add-in uses JMP’s R integration functionality to create Chernoff faces. An R install and the TeachingDemos R package are required to use this add-in.

Submitted by: Clay Barker	Initiative: All
Application: Add-Ins	Analysis: Data Visualization

Support Vector Machine for Classification

By simply opening a data table, specifying X, Y variables, selecting a kernel function, and specifying its parameters on the user-friendly dialog, you can build a classification model using Support Vector Machine. Please note that R package ‘e1071′ should be installed before running this dialog. The package can be found from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/e1071/index.html.

Submitted by: Jong-Seok Lee	Initiative: All
Application: Add-Ins	Analysis: Exploratory Data Analysis/Mining

Penalized Regression Add-in

This add-in uses JMP’s R integration functionality to provide access to several penalized regression methods. Methods included are the LASSO (least absolutee shrinkage and selection operator, LARS (least angle regression), Forward Stagewise, and the Elastic Net. An R install and the “lars” and “elasticnet” R packages are required to use this add-in.

Submitted by: Clay Barker	Initiative: All
Application: Add-Ins	Analysis: Regression

MP Addin: Univariate Nonparametric Bootstrapping

This script performs simple univariate, nonparametric bootstrap sampling by using the JMP to R Project integration. A JMP Dialog is built by the script where the variable you wish to perform bootstrapping over can be specified. A statistic to compute for each bootstrap sample is chosen and the data are sent to R using new JSL functionality available in JMP 9. The boot package in R is used to call the boot() function and the boot.ci() function to calculate the sample statistic for each bootstrap sample and the basic bootstrap confidence interval. The results are brought back to JMP and displayed using the JMP Distribution platform.

Submitted by: Kelci Miclaus	Initiative: All
Application: Add-Ins	Analysis: Basic Statistics