One disease everyone 'Likes'!

With millions of people 'Liking' senseless Facebook pages left, right and centre, the social network's integrity drops yet another notch. Like it or not.

Excuse us, we’re about to send in a petition of life threatening intensity to the Health Minister. Because this is an urgent problem at hand. It’s about time browsing Facebook got listed under strenuous exercise. The trauma of hitting ‘Ignore’ at all the Farmville requests, Mafia Wars invites and It-Girl requests, and actually ignoring pages filled with comments like “Like this page plzzzzzzz” makes an hour on the treadmill seem inviting. And if you’ve been patting yourself on the back for permanently disabling all games and ‘Like’ requests, we got news for you: it’s time to pop a headache pill again because spammers won’t let you scoot away that easy. There’s now a new way of irritating the s*** out of you… and that is by creating Facebook pages on EVERY possible topic under the sun and spamming every popular Facebook page with the link and a message saying “Like this page guyzzzz, galzzz, fraandzzzz”. So for every Indian anti-Justin Bieber page that makes your heart swell with pride, there are 10 pages that make you think about how jobless the country’s youth actually is to come up with this!

We pick some of the best (read worst) of this lot:

1. I Hate Facebook

Likes:  2,500. Yeah, you read that right. 2,500 people can’t stand Facebook and it never occurred to them to simply disable their accounts.  They went as far as hunting down an ‘I Hate Facebook’ page and join it AND get updates from it daily, but never to just get off of the goddamn thing!  And people wonder why Facebook has a bad name.

2. “MERE PAAS BANGLA HAI, GADI HAI , PAISA HAI.........TUMHARE PAAS KYA HAI????????...............................JAA YAAR SIR MAT KHA...............MERE PAAS KUCH NAI HAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TU KHUSH REH”

If the 58,073 people (losers!) who liked this page thought Facebook is free, they have another think coming – we’re about to charge all of them 10 bucks so that we can send Amitabh Bachchan a huge bouquet. A bouquet of love for having murdered this absolutely epic dialogue! And if the people on this page – who seemingly agree with this statement – got down to DOING something, they’d ACTUALLY stand a chance at having the aforementioned objects!

3. “YES,I HAVE AN EGO PROBLEM,AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM.BUT WATS YOUR PROBLEM WID DAT,”

Okay, so all 12,380 of you, tell us who paid you to like this page? This page reeks of Dolly Bindra through and through. Lack of netiquette: check; improper grammar: check.  Our in-house ACP Pradyuman suspects Dolly Bindra threatened you guys with a picture of her in a dark pink velour suit. It’s okay, we forgive you this one time.

4. Good friends don’t let you do stupid things

Likes : 1.9 million. Yeah, well, good friends don’t let you like stupid pages either. About time you delete all those thousands of people off your carefully cultivated friend list. If they really cared about you, they would never let you run amok with a mouse and computer liking pages all over the place. And please do not immediately start searching for a ‘No One Cares for Me’ page!

5. Agar duniya me mehnat ki Qadar hoti To GADHA sabse jyaada izzatdar hota :P,

Okay, spammers, we give up. The numbers just keep increasing. How exactly do you get people to like such stuff? We guess it’s only the truly gifted who can inspire 17,024 Facebook users to ‘Like’ stuff that makes no sense whatsoever.  We warn you, though… one click towards our profiles and we shall set Bob Biswas on you. True story.

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How does the human brain decide which memories to store?

In a year alone, we experience hundreds of thousands of small events that have the potential to become memories. Yet our brain will only store a certain number of these memories (or at least only allow us access to some of them). 

How does the brain decide which memories are stored?


The brain uses a number of automatic mechanisms to determine what information to retain. Everything else naturally fades away.

The brain's overriding principle, given to it from millions of years of evolution, is to retain whatever is likely to be useful later for long-term survival. Since the future utility of information is impossible to predict, the brain uses a number of heuristics that have been honed over the millenia.

Here are some of the most well studied:

repetition -- Things that happen repeatedly are either highly significant or irrelevant. However even if they are irrelevant -- like the background noise that you tune out -- they must be identified so that they can be removed from perception. When studying for a test, students often use repetition to activate the brain's importance circuits.

primacy and recency -- Things that happened first are often more important because they predict what comes later. And things that happened most recently are often the most relevant because they are closest to the present. Things in the middle tend to get forgotten. This is why so many presentations start and end with an overview of the key points.

surprise -- Anything that is unusual stands out. This can include an uncanny coincidence or an event that led to something unpredicted. An entertaining science teacher will ask students to guess what will happen and then show that the opposite happens. Setting up the experience of surprise increases retention. If you are thinking of calling someone and the phone rings and its them, you will remember that for a long time because the coincidence is so unusual, while forgetting all the times you thought of calling them and the phone didn't ring.

emotional impact -- Emotions are one of the ways the brain prioritizes perception and action. Emotions are a way of assessing and categorizing situations according to their role in our instinctual survival program. A moment correlated with a strong emotional state will be retained for a long time, which is why, for example leading up to a car accident, people have the memory of time slowing down and noticing every detail. Time didn't actually slow down -- it's just that a lot of detail got recorded and so the event is remembered this way.

leads to positive or negative outcome -- The systems in the brain that learn behaviors and habits are especially tuned to the eventual outcome of an action or perception. This is why addictive activities such as gambling can be so tenacious. With a slot machine, most of the time nothing happens, but sometimes the bells ring and the sign flashes "winner!". Each dose of "reward" ensures that more quarters go into the machine. Addictive drugs like nicotine and cocaine activate reward circuits directly, causing everything that led up to taking the drug to be given automatic priority by the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter central to signaling reward and activating procedural memory formation. When something leads to a strongly unpleasant outcome, emotional circuits label the preceding events as fearful.

( Content from : http://www.quora.com/Neuroscience-1/How-does-the-human-brain-decide-which-memories-to-store?__pmsg__=+OFRnRngtRXFsNk5qNGpTNXdWbzg6YS5hcHAudmlldy5wbXNnLmFsbC5Mb2dnZWRJbkZyb21MaW5rOltbMzgzODI5OF0sIHt9XQ**#ans1124882 )

How To Block Failed Login Attempts In Windows 7

Even if you put a password on your computer, that doesn’t stop someone from breaking in by using a brute force password guessing technique.  Although more of a problem for Laptops than your home desktop, I’m going to show you a trick used by almost all corporations who run Windows.  Essentially what were going to do is run a command that will lock your login account for a specified amount of time after a specified number of bad login attempts (wrong password).  By doing this an attacker won’t be able to use an application to try a few million passwords per minute against your computer to break in since every 10, 20, 30 etc. attempts will lock the account for a few minutes thus killing any attempt to break in.  Here, let me show ya.

Step 1 – Launch CMD as an administrator

Click the Start Menu Orb and Type cmd into the search box.  Under the programs list that appearsRight-Click cmd.exe and Select Run as administrator from the context menu.

Step 2

In the command line, Type in the following command:

net accounts /lockoutthreshold:10

You can replace the number 10 with any number you like, this will determine how many incorrect password attempts can occur before a lockout is initiated.  Personally, 20 or even 30 should be fine but 10 is a good number for most people even if you commonly fat finger your password….

Step 3 – Set the account lockout duration

By default, when your account is locked due to the X failed attempts you set above, your account will be locked out for 30 minutes.   I personally think that’s a bit excessive.  My recommendation is you change it to something like 3 or 5 minutes so even if you fat finger your password, you only need to wait a few minutes to try your password again.  You can change this using the following command:

net accounts /lockoutduration:30

The lockout duration can be set to any value between 1 and 99,999 minutes.*  If you set it to 0, the account will be locked until an Admin unlocks it… Don’t do that.

*This range varies depending upon which version of Windows 7 you are running.

Done!

Now whenever someone attempts to break into your computer by guessing your password Windows will lock them out!

Facebook Spam – “See who has been stalking you / See who is visiting your profile ”

As more and more people are getting online on the popular social networking websites like the Facebook , spammers are creating new bait to spread spam . Some times it is the links like “Verify your account to prevent Spam” or “You have been tagged ”  and recently the “Watch the OSAMA shoot down video”  . The spam links points to fake videos or spammy websites or Facebook spam spreading apps .

Today I saw the “see who has been stalking you” (pic above) link posted by a friend of mine on my Facebook wall . She had actually curiously clicked on the same link when she saw it on her Facebook wall .And after the click , it got posted on all of her friends wall . Of-course everyone is interested in knowing “who has viewed my Facebook profile” but many of us do not know that it is not possible on Facebook (Yes , it is possible on Orkut) . Read the below faq from the Facebook :

How to block access to certain drives in Windows 7 ultimate/premium

I usually store all my important files and documents in one separate drive on my laptop and I always wish that no one else could touch them without my permission. And when I give my laptop to other people I always fear that the person using my lappy might access my personal files. If your computer is accessed by many people then you may want to restrict access to certain drives on your computer for other users.
To block access to drive go to Computer and right click on the drive and select properties. In the properties window click on ‘Security’ tab. Select the user account you want to restrict and click on edit.

Change the permissions according to your need for user groups or a particular user and click Apply and then OK.  It will not work for users with admin account as even they have the same rights as you so they can revert all permissions. You will need an admin account to perform this task.This trick is for Windows 7 ultimate and premium edition users.

How to install windows 7 from USB drive/Pen drive.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 1GB RAM and 16GB Hard disk space
• 1GHZ processor.
• Windows 7 iso file.
• Pen drive/ usb drive with 4GB space.

You can download windows 7 iso file from the direct download links given below.


Windows 7 beta (32 bit version)

7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Windows 7 beta (64 bit version)

7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO

Or just get a windows 7 DVD from somewhere if you can.

I assume that you have managed to get the Windows 7 DVD somehow by now. If you have the Windows 7 DVD in your hand then read on.

Follow the steps given below to install Windows 7 from USB drive.

1. Insert your USB thumb drive.
2. Open command prompt. If you are using vista open it with admin rights.
3. Type diskpart and press enter.
4. Type list disk.
5. You will see all the disks connected to your system. If you don’t have any other disk than your Hard disk and pen drive then your pen drive will be Disk . You can guess your pen drive by it’s size also.
6. If it’s disk 1 then type Select disk 1.
7. Now before moving ahead take backup of your important data from pen drive as we will have to format the pen drive.
8. Now go back to CMD and type CLEAN.This will remove partition or volume formatting from the 

   

   current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors
9. Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY and press Enter. This will create a primary partition of length size and a starting address offset on the current drive.
10. Type SELECT PARTITION 1 and press Enter.
    
11. Type ACTIVE. this will mark the currently selected device as active.
12. Now type FORMAT FS=NTFS and press Enter.This process may take some time. Wait for this process to end.This will format your USB drive.
13. Type ASSIGN and press Enter. Then type EXIT .
14. Now insert your Windows 7 DVD in the DVD drive. I will assume that your DVD drive is at D and USB drive is G. Look in your MY computer to know the drive letters for your PC.
15. Now open new windows of CMD and navigate to your dvd drive using cmd. If your drive name is d then type D:
16. Now type CD boot and press enter. Then type bootsect /nt60 H: (H is your usb drive letter).
17. Now copy all files to your pen drive.
18. Now the most important step: Reboot your PC and press F2 when the system restarts. This will take you in to BIOS Menu. Under the advanced bios options set the Primary boot device to your Pen drive. Now you are all set to install Windows 7 from USB drive.

Send free sms up to 2,048 characters to any mobile phone in the world for free with cellity freeSMS mobile app

Yes , its really true because with cellity freeSMS installed on your Java MIDP1 and MIDP2 enabled phone you can simply send a free sms up to 2048 characters via gprs to any mobile phone number in the world.

cellity freeSMS, which is available now as a freeware! can be used to send sms to any mobile number with any network in the world.

Are you worried about the Sms Charges ?

Sending and receiving short messages results in no fees through cellity.

Your provider will not charge anything for SMS if you use cellity freeSMS tool

But the cost of data traffic (via GPRS) if any at your mobile connection.

Why it rocks ?

Because it works all over the world, with any cellphone company .so you don’t need to use No new phone number, no new SIM card, no new contract required!

Cellity Ping Free

If your receiver’s cellity freeSms tool is not open then he will immediately receive a unanswerable ping call free of charge! so he knows that a new SMS is waiting and can be directly picked up when starting his cellity freeSMS.

Installation of Cellity Free Sms Tool

• Download the messenger software from here or visit www.cellity.com
• after download it will ask you to install the application, so please do so.
• now verify your identity typing in your phone number including the international telephone prefix code for your country (i.e. +91XXXYYYZZZZ for india)
• You will then receive a traditional SMS stating your password.
• so now you can send freeSMS to all your friends now and If they do not have the freeSMS application then: The message is stored on our server and a traditional SMS is sent to reciever, informing him about the new product and offering him to download the file.
• If you are not actively using the application, then put it to “minimize“; but do not turn it off. So now you can still receive new messages, even when the application is running in the background.

Compatibility:

Works on all the Java MIDP1 and MIDP2 enabled phone, which means it also works on most of the Symbian and Windows Mobile phones

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