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parimm··on 52 Places to Go in 2016
Could you please list the suggestions here or PM me? Thanks
parimm··on Making Ocean Water Drinkable
2 liters = .002 cubic meters The amazon river runs off 1300 times the drinking water of the world into the sea
parimm··on How the secret police tracked my childhood
Does a freedom of information request give you the data that the NSA collects on you?
parimm··on Turn a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter
I just rebooted my rapberripi running archlinux, It took ~2 seconds from the time I rebooted it to me being able to ssh into it.

The pi started to respond to ICMP packets in 19 seconds

http://pastebin.com/JQmCmHXH

parimm··on The New York Times Website is Down
nslookup nytimes.com

Server: 127.0.1.1

Address: 127.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: nytimes.com

Address: 170.149.168.130

Name: nytimes.com

Address: 170.149.172.130

going to http://170.149.168.130 works but going to nytimes.com doesnot work. Whats going on here?

parimm··on Amazon Is Working On A Plan To Deliver Your Groceries
I Guess this makes sense, Here in India the largest online store, flipkart has their own delivery services for the tier one cities. This happened because the private couriers were pretty bad.
parimm··on Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
I'm pretty sure that the distances are under 10 Km or 6 miles.
parimm··on Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric
IMO that rule was made to prevent the cars from going through slow corners too fast, The speed restriction only applies to cars that have the motors connected to the front wheels. The Toyota cars have their hybrid motors attached to the rear and they can use their hybrid system from 0 kmph.
parimm··on What would you build if you could hack the human body with a REST API?
I would love a simple way to measure my Heart rate, I did measure my heart rate for a few weeks 24/7, Now i need to go in an look for patterns in it
parimm··on Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells
The government gives you jobs at 2EUR a day for 100 days, this is available to everyone, Your claim that a quarter of India lives on less than 10EUR a month is wrong
parimm··on Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
A lot of operators are switching to higher frequency bands for their backhauls, I see a lot of Ubiquity airfibers popping up here in India. Airfibers are 800mbps full duplex
parimm··on How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
India uses UTC +5:30
parimm··on Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
abd-s works on 1080Mhz which should further improve range.

Rough back of the envelope calculations give a range of about 300nm for an aircraft at 37000ft

parimm··on Can India become a great power?
Can we stop having economist posts once a week on how India is going to be the next big power? These economist articles are very disconnected from the reality on the ground
parimm··on Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application
Have you tried using distcc for compiling large packages?
parimm··on TellHN: Google Search is tracking you much more than they did before
This has been happening for at least a few months.
parimm··on Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
Chrome uses Bit torrent on its installer?
parimm··on On why Indians do not buy online
I personally think that the reason that Indians don't but online is that India is a predominantly a cash based society. We Indians have a aversion to using electronic currency.
parimm··on The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook — He’s an Artist
So in theory one could make a document un scanable by putting the EURion constellation in it?
parimm··on Chernobyl's radioactive trees and the forest fire risk
You are ignoring a very important point, A dam collapse does not have any significant affect on a person living on the same land for thousands of years.
parimm··on How many people does it take to make 9 million Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphones?
The same thing is happening in the major manufacturing hubs of India, ten years ago the salary of an unskilled laborer was around $1.50/day today it is around $8 per day
parimm··on European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon
>My bank lets me creates virtual credit cards and link with my card/account.

What bank are you using?

parimm··on When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what FB sends the cops
Is it possible that a client behind a NAT logged into facebook and facebook recorded the clients local IP address?
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