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New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends

By Vauhini Vara,
May 13, 2008

(If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the curve.)

Armed with new and established Web sites, people are uncovering surprising details about colleagues, lovers and strangers that often don’t turn up in a simple Internet search. Though none of these sites can reveal anything that isn’t already available publicly, they can make it much easier to find. And most of them are free.

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Zaba Inc.’s ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates. SpockNetworks Inc.’s Spock.com and Wink Technologies Inc.’s Wink.com are “people-search engines” that specialize in digging up personal pages, such as social-networking profiles, buried deep in the Web. Spokeo.com is a search site operated by Spokeo Inc., a startup that lets users see what their friends are doing on other Web sites. Zillow Inc.’s Zillow.com estimates the value of people’s homes, while the Huffington Post’s Fundrace feature tracks their campaign donations. Jigsaw Data Corp.’s Jigsaw.com, meanwhile, lets people share details with each other from business cards they’ve collected — a sort of gray market for Rolodex data.

Some people have come across dirt on their loved ones without even looking for it. Doug Orlyk, a 42-year-old librarian in Bensenville, Ill., recently turned to ZabaSearch to find his new boyfriend’s address so that he could send him a card. Instead, he found out that the boyfriend had been lying about his age — he was 43 years old, not 35 as he had claimed to be on the dating site where Mr. Orlyk had met him. “I thought, ‘You’re a liar! You’re older than I am!,’” Mr. Orlyk recalls. His new relationship ended soon thereafter.

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The Looo…ooongest Words

Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine:

Pros: Chemical name of longest known protein

Letters: 189,819 (Phew!)

Lopado…pterygon:

Pros: Used by a Greek Author in his work.

Letters: 183

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamatea-     pokaiwhenuakitanatahu:

Pros: Longest officially recognized place name.

Letters: 85

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-                                 coniosis: 

Pros: Longest word in a major dictionary

Letters: 45

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism: 

Pros: Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary

Letters: 30

Floccinaucinihilipilification:

Pros: Longest nontechnical word

Letters: 29

Antidisestablishmentarianism: 

Pros: Longest non-coined and nontechnical word

Letters: 28

Honorificabilitudinitatibus:

Pros: Longest word in Shakespeare’s works 

Letters: 27

 

 

 

Camp X-Ray 2

Now, ya’ll will prob’ly get freaked out by these words “Camp X-Ray”, because of what it talks about:Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Phew! Place where the most wicked and ugliest techniques are used against the detainees. So, My Indian School has a bit of similar attitudes towards us. On the first day of my joining, I was made to undergo questioning (take it as interrogation) for >> not wearing the right Shoes. I even heard rumors that one of our ex-academic instructors was escorted away by POLICE for breaking a child arm AND my Dad came across a discussion about my School in which it was told by one his colleagues that aGrade-2 teacher slapped a child so hard on the face that he had to be admitted into the HOSPITAL with severe injuries on the face and suffered a partial deafness in one of his ears. I myself witnessed a guy being insulted by a tutor who used all the foul language he could. This “banging and blowing” scenes are just not being created here but perhaps in every Indian school on earth despite severe warning made by concerned departments. 

I have a feeling that the current teachers working in Indian Schools cast more terror than knowledge on the child. I read an article the other day about abuse which mentioned that if students are dealt harshly, their creativity starts to diminish. With a survey performed by some of my counterparts, we discovered that about 75% of the students in my school need “out-of-school” tutorials. The Reason: Simply because they hated the way it is presented to them @ the classroom. 

So, this time one more terrifying move by our school was all the classrooms in the campus are getting armed with cameras and intercom systems. The funny part is that the rooms have no CLOCKS and we’re going to get cameras!! I’m really happy about the fact that this is going to be my last year in this virtual prison in where no one can question the higher cheese.

Talking about Academics, we learn the stuff which were discovered or invented years back and the Indian Curriculum when compared with IGCSE can easily inflict a sensation in one’s mind that Indian Education Process really needs to evolve a great deal. (Example: In the computer curriculum we learn the functionality of DOS, whereas the other boards around the world shed light on what’s going on around the world, O.S. like XP, Vista, Mac, etc) Indian Tutors and Professionals are noted for their intellect and mastery in their concerned field, so if we have a proper consultation and a well-baked Road Map we can really hope to see every Indian being given priority where ever they go.  

PS: Be careful when ya enter our Labs, there are worth billions of Dollars, because everything in it is Antique. 

More to come on: Indian Schools