Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip in the US

Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie “Transformers” that she wanted to show to her little brother. She now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie ClipSejas was celebrating her 19th Birthday with her boyfriend in a local theater in Arlington. A few minutes after she taped the short clip the police came rushing in and took her into custody on the charges of “being a pirate”.

Sejas and her boyfriend were promptly escorted out of the movie theater, still confused about what just happened. “I was crying, I’ve never been in trouble before.”, she later said in a response to the trip to the police station.

Of course Sejas had no intention to sell the 600 millisecond clip, she wasn’t even planning to put it on YouTube. The only thing she wanted to do was show it to her 13 year old brother, who was dying to see the movie himself. Unluckily theater owners just introduced their new zero-tolerance policy since everyone can be a pirate.

Kendrick Macdowell, a representative National Association of Theater Owners said in a response: “We cannot educate theater managers to be judges and juries in what is acceptable. Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing.”

Good and bad stealing? Nuts!, the guy obviously has no clue what he’s talking about. If all theater owners treat their customers like this they will start to lose even more money than they already do now. And guess who they will be blaming? Right, Pirates.

Sejas will go to trial later this month for recording a motion picture without permission, and is facing up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Seriously unbelievable.

Timepass Tips

Got time to kill? Got an unlimited-usage broadband connection? Welcome to Time and Bandwidth Wasting...

Today, so many of us have unlimited, always-on connections with speeds between 64 and 256 Kbps that the phenomenon described above is more commonplace. I asked around and found I’m not special (as in “He needs special schooling!”), and hordes of people are doing exactly the same thing with their connections.

Warez
We all know that many of us are downloading illegally using P2P clients. Of course, most of it really isn’t a waste of time and bandwidth, but very often, especially for people with 256 Kbps unlimited connections and above, you soon run out of things to download—you already have all the latest movies, you have all the music you like, now what? Some of the people I spoke to claimed to just start downloading whatever everyone else was downloading—especially the torrent users. “The advantage with torrent sites is that they list the latest uploads as well as the most popular ones, so all I do is choose a nice big file that interests me and set it to download,” said a college student from Mumbai on condition of anonymity.
“What if you already have those files?” I asked. “Then there’s always enough porn to download,” he replied.

One of my best buddies from college is a Warez freak..You can view his blog here.

Pornography
It didn’t surprise me when most of the people I spoke to said they downloaded porn when not downloading anything else. Then there was a student from a well-known college in Bandra, Mumbai, who said, “Well, actually, my bandwidth is used mostly to download porn, but when I’m not doing that, I surf casually looking for interesting software or a good print of a movie.”
Pornography was such a popular choice, I almost didn’t feel like adding it to this list of Timepass Tips—it seems more of a primary use for broadband! Anyway, one thing is clear, a lot of people (almost all male) spend a lot of time using their bandwidth to enhance their knowledge of the private lives of the birds and the bees.

Open Source Psychopaths
It’s really no secret that there are thousands of open source supporters who feel compelled to have Anti-Microsoft feelings. If not Microsoft, these people generally dislike all the big corporate software companies -Symantec, Adobe and the like. So it should come as no surprise that some of them spend all their free time plotting to take over the world from those they think have taken over the world!
One such friend of mine uses FreeBSD as his OS. He’s in the US, but I have an account on his box. Imagine my surprise when I saw that he had queued up almost every trial version Microsoft has on offer for download at Microsoft.com. “Converting to Windows?” I asked. I should have known better: “Nah, just putting my 3 Mbps connection to some good use and doing my bit towards wasting some of Microsoft’s bandwidth.” Turns out there are a group of 30 or so of them, all of whom use open source operating systems, and all of whom set up scripts to download anything available at Microsoft.com when they’re not doing anything—and oh, they all have 3 Mbps connections or faster! So if you’re trying to download something from Microsoft and aren’t exactly getting blazing speeds, you have my friends to thank for that!

Online Gaming
Gaming is turning out to be a very popular use for broadband. Though most of us are more likely to go to places like Yahoo! games, an increasing number of Indians are getting addicted to online MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). If not that, then it’s multiplayer First Person Shooter (FPS) games—Counter Strike is the clear winner here for India. Most of the people I spoke to were obsessed with Counter Strike, and wanted even more servers to play on. Broadband connections bring with them a wonderful “value-added service”: the local LAN setup you get within your neighbourhood! With a population density ants would be proud of, Indian metros are generally divided into areas of dominance by ISPs. So chances are that the ISP you have a broadband connection from is also supplying everyone in your local area, which translates to a nice LAN setup for gaming—with blazingly fast ping times and the opportunity to be famous amongst peers you actually meet!

Multimedia
With broadband, no longer do we need to avoid pages that contain the word “streaming”, as in streaming audio or streaming video. An increasing number of people are now able to watch video or listen to Internet radio. One such person is Anurag Bhateja, MD of Bhateja Computers in Chandigarh and a self-confessed Net freak. “I love funny Web sites and videos. I watch online trailers and read about the entertainment industry in my free time. I also love sites such as StumbleUpon.com.” He says he’s been inspired by the articles of Pawan Duggal, noted cybercrime lawyer: “I am totally against piracy and pornography, and am working on a site that will educate people about Internet crime.”
Another Digit reader (and another Anurag) is Anurag Patel, an IT Professional from Mumbai, who has an always-on connection. “I feel like my bandwidth is being wasted if I am not doing something with it. I recently upgraded my Ubuntu installation, which took almost two days. When I am not doing anything like that, I spend time on YouTube.com, or look for developer documentation. I also waste a lot of bandwidth downloading from RapidShare.de, from links that other Digit readers on Yahoo! Messenger keep providing—even though most of them are useless for me, because I’m on Linux.” For those of you who don’t know about it, RapidShare has become a popular place for people to share almost any sort of file with their friends.
Another popular way of using bandwidth is Internet radio, especially from within programs such as Yahoo! Messenger or Winamp. A Digit reader from Delhi, a college student who asked not to be named, uses Winamp for streaming video. “Since I have a computer that my sister and father also use, I cannot really use my broadband to download the things I want, because they might find it on the hard drive. Instead, I use Winamp’s Internet TV Library, which has everything from music videos to porn. I also visit adult sites that offer free streaming video.”
“We save water, we don’t waste food, and we suffer in the heat to conserve energy—why can’t we conserve bandwidth the same way? After all, what’s more scarce in India than bandwidth?”
Now that’s food for thought!

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving backwards and forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionally, some interpretations of time travel suggest the possibility of travel between parallel realities or universes.Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation in the theory of relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel. Any technological device, whether fictional or hypothetical, that is used to achieve two-way time travel is known as a time machine.

Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of spacetime, or specific types of motion in space, might allow time travel into the past and future if these geometries or motions are possible.[9] In technical papers physicists generally avoid the commonplace language of "moving" or "traveling" through time ('movement' normally refers only to a change in spatial position as the time coordinate is varied), and instead discuss the possibility of closed timelike curves, which are worldlines that form closed loops in spacetime, allowing objects to return to their own past. There are known to be solutions to the equations of general relativity that describe spacetimes which contain closed timelike curves, but the physical plausibility of these solutions is uncertain.

Physicists take for granted that if one were to move away from the Earth at relativistic velocities and return, more time would have passed on Earth than for the traveler, so in this sense it is accepted that relativity allows "travel into the future" (although according to relativity there is no single objective answer to how much time has 'really' passed between the departure and the return). On the other hand, many in the scientific community believe that backwards time travel is highly unlikely. Any theory which would allow time travel would require that issues of causality be resolved. For example, what if one were to go back in time and kill one's own grandfather?
Time travel to the past in physics

Time travel to the past is theoretically allowed using the following methods:

* Traveling faster than the speed of light
* The use of cosmic strings and black holes
* Wormholes and Alcubierre 'warp' drive

The equivalence of time travel and faster-than-light travel

If one were able to move information or matter from one point to another faster than light, then according to special relativity, there would be some inertial frame of reference in which the signal or object was moving backwards in time. This is a consequence of the relativity of simultaneity in special relativity, which says that in some cases different reference frames will disagree on whether two events at different locations happened "at the same time" or not, and they can also disagree on the order of the two events (technically, these disagreements occur when spacetime interval between the events is 'space-like', meaning that neither event lies in the future light cone of the other).If one of the two events represents the sending of a signal from one location and the second event represents the reception of the same signal at another location, then as long as the signal is moving at the speed of light or slower, the mathematics of simultaneity ensures that all reference frames agree that the transmission-event happened before the reception-event.However, in the case of a hypothetical signal moving faster than light, there would always be some frames in which the signal was received before it was sent, so that the signal could be said to have moved backwards in time. And since one of the two fundamental postulates of special relativity says that the laws of physics should work the same way in every inertial frame, then if it is possible for signals to move backwards in time in any one frame, it must be possible in all frames. This means that if observer A sends a signal to observer B which moves FTL (faster than light) in A's frame but backwards in time in B's frame, and then B sends a reply which moves FTL in B's frame but backwards in time in A's frame, it could work out that A receives the reply before sending the original signal, a clear violation of causality in every frame. An illustration of such a scenario using spacetime diagrams can be found here.

It should be noted that according to relativity it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate a slower-than-light object to faster-than-light speeds, and although relativity does not forbid the theoretical possibility of tachyons which move faster than light at all times, when analyzed using quantum field theory it seems that it would not actually be possible to use them to transmit information faster than light,and there is no evidence for their existence.

Special spacetime geometries

The general theory of relativity extends the special theory to cover gravity, illustrating it in terms of curvature in spacetime caused by mass-energy and the flow of momentum. General relativity describes the universe under a system of field equations, and there exist solutions to these equations that permit what are called "closed time-like curves," and hence time travel into the past.The first of these was proposed by Kurt Gödel, a solution known as the Gödel metric, but his (and many others') example requires the universe to have physical characteristics that it does not appear to have.Whether general relativity forbids closed time-like curves for all realistic conditions is unknown.

Using wormholes

Wormholes are a type of hypothetical warped spacetime which are also permitted by the Einstein field equations of general relativity, although it would be impossible to travel through a wormhole unless it was what is known as a traversable wormhole.

A proposed time-travel machine using a traversable wormhole would (hypothetically) work in the following way: One end of the wormhole is accelerated to nearly the speed of light, perhaps with some advanced propulsion system, and then brought back to the point of origin. Due to time dilation, the accelerated end of the wormhole has now aged less than the stationary end, as seen by an external observer; however, time connects differently through the wormhole than outside it, so that synchronized clocks at either end of the wormhole will always remain synchronized as seen by an observer passing through the wormhole, no matter how the two ends move around. This means that an observer entering the accelerated end would exit the stationary end when the stationary end was the same age that the accelerated end had been at the moment before entry; for example, if prior to entering the wormhole the observer noted that a clock at the accelerated end read a date of 2005 while a clock at the stationary end read 2010, then the observer would exit the stationary end when its clock also read 2005, a trip backwards in time as seen by other observers outside. One significant limitation of such a time machine is that it is only possible to go as far back in time as the initial creation of the machine; in essence, it is more of a path through time than it is a device that itself moves through time, and it would not allow the technology itself to be moved backwards in time. This could provide an alternative explanation for Hawking's observation: a time machine will be built someday, but has not yet been built, so the tourists from the future cannot reach this far back in time.

According to current theories on the nature of wormholes, construction of a traversable wormhole would require the existence of a substance known as "exotic matter" with negative energy. Many physicists believe that negative energy may actually be possible due to the Casimir effect in quantum physics.Although early calculations suggested a very large amount of negative energy would be required, later calculations showed that the amount of negative energy can be made arbitrarily small.

In 1993, Matt Visser argued that the two mouths of a wormhole with such an induced clock difference could not be brought together without inducing quantum field and gravitational effects that would either make the wormhole collapse or the two mouths repel each other.Because of this, the two mouths could not be brought close enough for causality violation to take place. However, in a 1997 paper, Visser hypothesized that a complex "Roman ring" (named after Tom Roman) configuration of an N number of wormholes arranged in a symmetric polygon could still act as a time machine, although he concludes that this is more likely a flaw in classical quantum gravity theory rather than proof that causality violation is possible.

Microsft word fun

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

and see the Magic...!

When you need to type some text into a Word document for test purposes, don't waste your time--let Word do the job for you. Let's say that you would like to type in a single four-sentence paragraph. Just click at a blank line in your document, type =rand(1,4) and press Enter. Word will automatically type:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The first number inside the parentheses is the number of paragraphs and the second number is the number of sentences in each paragraph. So, for 22 paragraphs of 22 sentences, you'd enter =rand(22,22).

Speed up your hard disk

To speed up your hard disk speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk.

This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.
Follow these steps:

Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.

Expand the system.ini file window.

Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].

Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

Irq14=4096

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.

Done!!!

Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

Locking a folder in Windows XP

Trick to lock particular folder on Windows XP
To lock a folder ::: Simplest WaY !!!
Hi friends try this..

first select a folder for example i'll use a folder name movies in D drive D:\movies\

in the same drive u create a text file and type

ren movies movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

and save it as loc.bat

again u type in a notepad as

ren movies.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} movies

and save it as key.bat

now in D drive u can see two batch files loc and key.. when u double click loc the movie folder will change to control panel and whn u double click key the control panel will change to normal folder..

Try this out .....

ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!