The World's First Fully Sustainable,Zero-Carbon,Zero-Waste City.-Masdar.

 

Masdar  is an ecological project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.It will be the world's first carbon neutral, zero waste and fully sustainable city.The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC).Started in 2006, the project will cost US$22 billion and take about eight years to build(first phase).Final completion is scheduled to occur between 2020 and 2025.

 The city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology.A multitude of green technologies will be utilised - including a solar power plant, rooftop photovoltaics, wind farms, geothermal sources and a hydrogen power plant. The city's water needs will be fulfilled by a solar-powered desalination plant. 

Automobiles will be banned within the city; travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city

How Torrent Websites Work?Everything about torrents.

  
Who Owns Torrent Websites and Why is it hard to catch Torrent owners?

Common people own torrent sites, and it is not them distributing the material. It's the users. Most of the users do not have any sort of permission to distribute or even use the material, so it's all illegal. Nobody cracks down on them, though, since torrents are not just from one source; bits and pieces of the file comes from every hard-drive of anyone who downloaded the torrent. When you open the torrent, the program has to receive the file from perhaps thousands of different places. This makes it harder to trace and to find the origins of the original torrent. That's why no one does anything about the illegal downloads.

Bittorrents (also known as "torrents") work by downloading small bits of files from many different web sources at the same time.

How torrent networking started?

Torrent networking debuted in 2001. A Python-language programmer, Bram Cohen, created the technology with the intent to share it with everyone. And indeed, its popularity has taken off since 2005. The torrent community has now grown to millions of users worldwide in 2009. Because torrents strive to screen out dummy and corrupt files, are mostly free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is still growing fast. By straight gigabytes of bandwidth used, bittorrent networking is the most popular activity on the Internet today.

How companies catch torrent owners/sharers/downloaders?

Often they(companies)place fake files, called honeypots, that people want to download. Pricey packages like adobe cs3 or the latest top 40 mp3. When you attempt to download the files, they are given your IP Address when you first connect. They can use that address to check what files you are making available and your location.

There are specialized groups at most major companies whose job is to monitor pirated software outlets. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and especially the RIAA (music industry) and MPAA (movie industry) all have people that actively monitor popular torrents to see who is seeding. They usually download enough from you (appearing to be just another user) to prove you are distributing their content then they will determine your ISP and send them a "scary legal letter" hoping to get your subscriber information (which has worked on some ISPs in the past). Then they can sue you.

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A women fined $1.5 million for downloading 24 songs illegally from internet.

This is probably the most bizzare and insane case i have ever heard about piracy.Jamie thomas-Rasset,a mother of four from minnesota has been penalized $1.5 million for downloading 24 songs illegally from internet.She downloaded those 24 songs from peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006.She was ordered to pay 62,500 dollars for each of the 24 songs, a total of 1.5 million dollars. It's a heavy penalty considering the 24 songs would only cost approximately $24 on iTunes, which was Thomas-Rasset' argument, too.

 In her first trial, in 2007, the jury demanded she pay $222,000 for violating the copyright law.Thomas-Rasset maintained she wasn't the computer user who did the file sharing, and her legal team cited an error in jury instruction to secure a second trial in 2009 that ended with a much harsher result: an astronomical fine of $1.92 million. However, later in 2010 U.S. District Court judge found the $1.92 million penalty against Thomas-Rasset to be "monstrous and shocking" and "gross injustice" before lowering it to $54,000, or $2,250 a song. Thomas-Rasset and her legal team has decided to appeal this decision, too.This story has the potential to drag on well into the next decade -- when for $1.5 million, all of Thomas-Rasset's four kids could finish law school and take up the fight on her behalf.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), was pleased by the most recent decision, even if it has no intention to collect the $1.5 million from Thomas-Rasset. "Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset's willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions," the RIAA said in a statement. Earlier, the RIAA offered Thomas-Rasset the opportunity to end the legal battle for $25,000 and an admission of guilt; Thomas-Rasset declined. 

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A True Story/Incident that Happened in America/USA.

An Indian man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan
officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to India on
business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of
security for the loan, so the Indian man hands over the keys to a new
Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank.
He produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer
agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the
Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000
loan.
An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank's
underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the Indian returns, repays the $5,000 and the
interest, which comes to $15.41.

The loan officer says, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your
business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely,but we are a
little puzzled.
While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a
multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow
"$5,000"

The Indian replies: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for
two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'"=)) :P

The name of that indian-Vijay mallya.

A True story/incident that happened in india.

This happened about a month or two ago near Lonavala and even
though it sounds like something from an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
it's real!

This guy drives from Mumbai to Pune and decides not to take the new
expressway as he wants to see the natural scenery.

The inevitable happens and when he reaches the ghats his car breaks
down - he's stranded miles from nowhere.

Having no choice he starts walking on the side of the road, hoping
to get a lift to the nearest human habitation. It's dark and
raining and pretty soon he's wet and shivering. The night rolls on
and no car goes by, the monsoon rains are so strong he can hardly
see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he sees a car coming towards
him.

It slows and then stops next to him - without thinking the guy
opens the car's door and jumps in. Seated in the back, he leans
forward to thank the person who had saved him when he realizes
there is nobody behind the steering!!!

Even though there's no one in the front seat and no sound of any
engine, the car starts moving slowly.

The guy looks at the road ahead and sees a curve coming (remember,
this is in the hills and there is a steep,steep drop beyond the
curve).
Scared almost to death he starts to pray, begging the Lord for his
life. He hasn't come out of shock, when just before he hits the
curve, a hand appearsthrough the window and moves the steering! The car makes the curve
safely and continues on the road to the next bend.

The guy, now paralyzed in terror, watches how the hand appears
every time they are before acurve and moves the steering wheel just
enough to get the car
around each bend.Finally, the guy sees lights ahead. Gathering his
courage he wrenches open the door of the silent, slowly moving car,
scrambles out and runs as hard as he can towards the lights.It's a
small town.
Wet and in shock goes to a roadside dhaba, which is open, and asks
for a drink.They find some hooch and give him a shot. And he starts
telling whoever is in
the dhabba about the horrible experience he's just been through.

A silence envelops everybody when they realize the guy isn't drunk,
and is really frightened - he's crying and shaking. So they give
him more hooch and
talk about what they should do, whether to call the police or find
a priest, or what.
But just then two guys walk into the dhaba. One says to the other
"Look, - that's the guy who got in our car when we were pushing it

Fastest Internet Connection In The World

Sigbritt Löthberg

 A 75 year old women Sigbritt Löthberg's  from karlstad,Central swizterland  has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.

But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.

The secret behind such high speed connection:-

The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.

With such high speed she can download a full HD movie in just two seconds :p

The green wall of china to be completed in 2074.

The Green Wall of China is the greatest and biggest ecological project in the human history .Under the project about  4,480km (2,800 mile) long shelterbelt of trees will be planted across the republic of china to stop the expansion of the gobi desert.It will be completed around 2074.

So why is the green wall of china being built?

Each spring, the dust from China's northern deserts is swept up by the wind and whipped eastward, blasting into Beijing. A choking blanket of particles coats houses, cars, and people, and the city's hospitals become flooded with patients suffering from respiratory ailments. The dust clogs machinery, shutters airports, and destroys crops, forcing thousands of rural Chinese off their lands. Clouds of it blow throughout Asia, carrying pollution and potentially infectious disease. In Korea, the government recently considered declaring the dust storms a natural disaster.
The Green Wall project was begun in 1978.As of 2009 China’s planted forest covered more than 500,000 square kilometers (increasing tree cover from 12% to 18%) – the largest artificial forest in the world.However, of the 53,000 hectares planted, a quarter has died and of the remaining many are dwarf trees, which lack the capacity to protect the soil. In 2008 winter storms destroyed 10% of the new forest stock, causing the World Bank to advise China to focus more on quality rather than quantity in its stock species