Recursion with Google :)

I found this out few minutes before.

1. Go to www.google.com
2. Search for 'recursion'

It'll ask you: Did you mean: recursion
No matter how many times you keep on clicking on it, it will still give you the same message :)

Is google doing this purposely or is 'recursion a keyword of their system?

Saptha writes about himself :-)

My name is Saptha. I am 92 years old. I am very tall. Small kids call
me uncle. I had a car. It was red and it had four wheels. I used to
drive it all the time with Sinhala hip-hop playing in my car audio. I
am now in Sri Lanka. People over here say its a land like no other but
I don't like to live here. I love Australia. I have a Akka. She has a
RAV4. She buys me toys from McDonalds. I love to play with them. I go
to the shop for the current govt but I am very sad because they never
help me :-(. I have a little brother. His name is Sathyajith. He's
going to be a doctor very soon. I will go and get medicine from him
very soon. Some people say I hurt them with the things I say but I
really don't mean anything I say. I love my friends alot. They are
very hot and sexy :-). They will always help me when I'm in need. I
have a mac book. It has an Apple in the back side but now its broken.
My dream car is BMW. Those cars are very hot. They can go fast. When I
was in New Zealand I used to drive them. Windows Vista sucks. I hate
it alot. It has soo many bugs. Microsoft is running at a loss cause of
Vista. Someday I will teach Bill Gates how to run a business. This's
all I know about my self. If I remember anything more I'll write it on
my next essay.
- Saptha Wanniarachchi

If You’re Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield

If youre not the one then why does my soul feel glad today?
If youre not the one then why does my hand fit yours this way?
If you are not mine then why does your heart return my call
If you are not mine would I have the strength to stand at all

I never know what the future brings
But I know you are here with me now
Well make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with

I dont want to run away but I cant take it, I dont understand
If Im not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

If I dont need you then why am I crying on my bed?
If I dont need you then why does your name resound in my head?
If youre not for me then why does this distance maim my life?
If youre not for me then why do I dream of you as my wife?

I dont know why youre so far away
But I know that this much is true
Well make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with
And I wish that you could be the one I die with
And I pray in youre the one I build my home with
I hope I love you all my life

I dont want to run away but I cant take it, I dont understand
If Im not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

cause I miss you, body and soul so strong that it takes my breath away
And I breathe you into my heart and pray for the strength to stand today
cause I love you, whether its wrong or right
And though I cant be with you tonight
And know my heart is by your side

I dont want to run away but I cant take it, I dont understand
If Im not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows

to install malicious software on visitors' machines.

The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in IIS servers, but at the time it noted that it wasn't aware of anyone trying to exploit that particular weakness.

On Thursday, Spanish anti-virus vendor Panda Security said that it had alerted Microsoft that a flaw IIS was the cause of all the break-ins. When I asked Microsoft whether they'd heard from Panda or if the hundreds of thousands of sites were hacked from a patched or unpatched flaw in IIS, a spokesman for the company didn't offer much more information.

"Microsoft is currently aware of and is receiving reports regarding public claims of attacks on IIS Web servers," said Bill Sisk, a security response manager at Microsoft, in a statement e-mailed to Security Fix. "While we have not be [sic] contacted directly regarding these reports, we will continue to monitor all reports either publically [sic] shared or responsibly disclosed and investigate once sufficient details are provided. We have not yet determined whether or not these reports are related to Microsoft Security Advisory (951306) released last week."

According to Finnish anti-virus maker F-Secure, the number of hacked Web pages serving up malicious software from this attack may be closer to half a million.

Dancho Danchev, an independent security analyst, has a decent write-up on signs that Web site owners can look for to tell whether their site has been hit by this attack. Danchev said all of the hacked sites appear to have Javascript coding adding to their page source that silently pulls down malware from a few domains in China, namely nihaorr1.com, and haoliuliang.net.

Needless to say, if you run a Google search for these sites you will find tens of thousands that contain the script that redirects any visitors to these malicious sites. I would strongly urge people to steer clear of those sites: I mention them here so that Web site owners can more easily search the HTML code in their pages for these domains.

There are indications that this attack is coming in waves, with the bad guys swapping in new malicious downloader sites every few days. According to posts on an IIS user forum, Web site administrators first saw signs of this attack on April 17, the day before Microsoft issued its initial advisory on the IIS vulnerability.

If you run your site with IIS, please take a moment to consider applying the workarounds in the Microsoft advisory for your version of IIS. Also, that IIS.net post I mentioned earlier has some great tips to help administrators lock down their systems.

These types of attacks that infiltrate legitimate, trusted Web sites are precisely the reason I so often recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer. There is a great add-on for Firefox called "noscript," which blocks these kinds of Javascript exploits from running automatically if a user happens to visit a hacked site. Currently, there is no such protection for IE users, and disallowing Javascript entirely isn't really an option on today's World Wide Web. True, you can fiddle with multiple settings in IE to add certain sites to your "Trusted Zone," but that option has never struck me as very practical or scalable.

By Brian Krebs | April 25, 2008; 8:00 AM ET
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How to buy Happiness...!!!

Bad news for the luxury goods market: Spending money on tchochkes doesn't make you happier, but giving money away just might.

That conclusion, in a study published Thursday in the journal Science, flies in the face of what most people--and, certainly, advertisers--typically believe.

It's far easier to measure income than happiness. Even so, researchers around the world have reported that even though real income has surged around the globe, reported "happiness" levels have stayed relatively flat. That spurred Elizabeth W. Dunn, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to explore the ways that more money might lead to more happiness.

Working with graduate student Lara B. Aknin and Harvard Business School assistant professor Michael I. Norton, Dunn began by asking 632 Americans from across the U.S. to rate their general level of happiness, as well as to report their income, how much they spent on themselves and how much they donated to charity.

As researchers sifted through the numbers, they found that happiness didn't correlate with personal spending but, rather, with how much they gave away.

Not that anyone was giving very much away. Personal spending--for pleasure and out of necessity--topped donations by a factor of 10. The typical income of participants in the study was modest, roughly ranging from $20,000 to $50,000.

The researchers figured it was worth trying to test the hypothesis a bit further. They found a group of 16 people in the Boston area who were due to receive a profit-sharing bonus at work. A month before getting the bonus, the researchers asked them to rate their happiness. Then, six to eight weeks after the workers received their $3,000 to $8,000 bonuses, the researchers asked what they did with the money and how they felt.

Once again, giving away money seemed to nudge many people up the happiness scale, increasing the number of people who said that they were happy "most of the time" rather than just "some of the time," Dunn reports.

Then the researchers put their results to a test: On the Vancouver campus, they handed out sealed envelopes containing $5 or $20 to 46 people. They instructed half the people to spend the money on themselves--either on necessities or indulgences--and then told the other half to give the money away, all by 5 p.m.

Once again, those who gave the money away were happier by the end of the day--and just as happy whether they gave away $5 or $20.

Dunn said it was hard to speculate whether the results would have been different had she handed out thousands of dollars instead of $5 or $20.

So why don't people dig into their pockets a bit more? Dunn said most people figure they will be happier spending money on themselves.

Dunn's team asked a group of 100 university students what they thought would make them happier: spending or giving. No surprise here. Most figured they'd be happier spending the money on themselves--and that the more they'd spend, the cheerier they'd be. That's a double wrong in Dunn's book.

Dunn has been checking on the status of people's happiness for a number of years. She earned her doctorate in psychology in 2004 for an award-winning study that suggested when people are charming and pleasant--even if they're just putting on appearances--they genuinely feel better later.

She eventually refined that idea, documenting that a quick way long-time couples can bring the spark back into their romance is to pretend that they're strangers.

So next time you want to brighten your day, trying giving away that fiver instead of buying a latte--and do it with a smile.

source: Forbes
Author: Elizabeth Corcoran

The Rasmus - Not like the other girls

No more blame I am destined to keep you sane.
Gotta rescue the flame.
Gotta rescue the flame in your heart.

No more blood, I will be there for you my love.
I will stand by your side.
The world has forsaken my girl.

Should have seen it would be this way.
Should have known from the start what she's up to.
When you've loved and you've lost someone
You know what it feels like to lose.

She's fading away, away from this world.
Drifting like a feather she's not like the other girls.
She lives in the clouds and talks to the birds.
Hopeless little one she's not like the other girls I know.

No more shame, she has felt too much pain in her life.
In her mind she's repeating the words.
All the love you put out will return to you.

Should have seen it would be this way.
Should have known from the start what she's up to.
When you loved and you've lost someone close to you
You know what it feels like to lose.
(you know what it feels like to lose)

She's fading away, away from this world.
Drifting like a feather she's not like the other girls.
She lives in the clouds and talks to the birds.
Hopeless little one she's not like the other girls I know.

Flash on iPhones!!!

A love-hate relationship is brewing between Apple and Adobe, as Steve Jobs has taken some jabs at Flash.

At an Apple shareholder meeting, the turtleneck-loving Jobs was quick to say that Adobe's Flash player for mobile platforms, the Flash Lite Player, isn't advanced enough for use on the iPhone. He continued to say that "proper" Flash "performs too slow to be useful," on the iPhone, which leads to believe Flash on the iPhone was at least tested.

Tech giant Robert Scoble has a different take on the matter. His sources believe that the Flash player runs fine on the iPhone, and Apple is just reluctant to use Adobe's PDF renderer.

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