Pakistani authorities on Friday banned access to the popular video-hosting website YouTube for allegedly featuring blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.
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America, Europe, and Africa will witness a Total lunar eclipse today (20.02.08) from 7:01 p.m. PST. The eclipse will the moon will be completely under Earth's shadow for about 50 minutes A long wait will be needed for the next eclipse because it will be only on December 2010.
During the eclipse, the moon won't be completely obscured because of indirect light coming from the Earth's atmosphere. But the moon will appear to change colors from light gray to orange or deep red. The shade depends on the amount of dust and clouds in the Earth's atmosphere
Credit: NASA
During the eclipse, the moon won't be completely obscured because of indirect light coming from the Earth's atmosphere. But the moon will appear to change colors from light gray to orange or deep red. The shade depends on the amount of dust and clouds in the Earth's atmosphere
Credit: NASA
Indian Railways is considering a proposal to test coaches with slightly higher heights in the non-air conditioned segment in order to accommodate more berths per coach. These coaches would have three side berths along the length of the coach as against two side berths along the coach length.
This will be done in regular and air-conditioned sleeper berths. Currently, a three-tier sleeper coach has only two side berths along the corridor. This allows both passengers to sit in separate seats facing each other without blocking the aisle. While a non-AC sleeper coach has total 72 berths, an AC three-tier coach has 64 berths.
However, the railway ministry is now working towards adding nine berths in non-AC sleeper coach and eight berths in AC three-tier coaches on the side by raising the upper berth and fit another berth in the middle.
Currently those with more than 5.5 feet tall is finding it difficult to sleep in the side upped and side lower berths because their legs will remain outside the berth
This will be done in regular and air-conditioned sleeper berths. Currently, a three-tier sleeper coach has only two side berths along the corridor. This allows both passengers to sit in separate seats facing each other without blocking the aisle. While a non-AC sleeper coach has total 72 berths, an AC three-tier coach has 64 berths.
However, the railway ministry is now working towards adding nine berths in non-AC sleeper coach and eight berths in AC three-tier coaches on the side by raising the upper berth and fit another berth in the middle.
Currently those with more than 5.5 feet tall is finding it difficult to sleep in the side upped and side lower berths because their legs will remain outside the berth
Findings of a survey of IT managers in 450 organisations across five cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad prove that the employees of top IT companies spent more than 5 hours a week in browsing the internet during their worktime.
The capital topped the list with employees spending a maximum of 12.35 hours every week on surfing sites not related to their work.
The survey was conducted by Internet security firm Websense and research firm Nielsen.
The respondents to the survey said the most popular websites were those on banking and finance (74 per cent). The employees also spent a lot of time on checking emails or in chat sites (62 per cent) and surfing news (53 per cent). Close to 32 per cent of the IT managers said they felt their employees were checking free software download sites.
The Nasdaq-listed Websense said the survey assessed the impact of Internet at work and gauged awareness of Net security risks among IT managers.
The respondents included IT managers from large, small and medium enterprises.
According to the survey, the IT managers believed employees sending work documents to personal email IDs, clicking on links sent by unknown sources and sending official emails to wrong IDs posed great security risk to their companies.
However, close to 31 per cent of the managers in Chennai and 26 per cent in Delhi did not seem concerned about employees engaging in any of these activities, Websense said.
About 42 per cent of the IT managers believed their organisations were well protected against Net security threats, while 26 per cent described their security measures as average.
Over half the IT managers (57 per cent) said they conducted weekly or monthly security assessments, while 95 per cent had deployed anti-virus solutions.
A majority of the IT managers (67 per cent) agreed to put an Internet usage policy for employees in place. However, over a quarter (28 per cent) admitted they had no way to enforce such a policy.
According to the survey, 53 per cent of the IT managers believed they would be held responsible if employees were found leaking confidential company information. Employees accessing restricted data on the Internet emerged as the second most important reason (37 per cent) why IT managers believed they could lose their jobs.
The IT managers admitted that 480 security breaches had occurred in 116 organisations in the past year. The highest was in Bangalore, where there were 182 breaches in 29 organisations, followed by Mumbai with 100 instances in 31 organisations.
Source: telegraphindia
The capital topped the list with employees spending a maximum of 12.35 hours every week on surfing sites not related to their work.
The survey was conducted by Internet security firm Websense and research firm Nielsen.
The respondents to the survey said the most popular websites were those on banking and finance (74 per cent). The employees also spent a lot of time on checking emails or in chat sites (62 per cent) and surfing news (53 per cent). Close to 32 per cent of the IT managers said they felt their employees were checking free software download sites.
The Nasdaq-listed Websense said the survey assessed the impact of Internet at work and gauged awareness of Net security risks among IT managers.
The respondents included IT managers from large, small and medium enterprises.
According to the survey, the IT managers believed employees sending work documents to personal email IDs, clicking on links sent by unknown sources and sending official emails to wrong IDs posed great security risk to their companies.
However, close to 31 per cent of the managers in Chennai and 26 per cent in Delhi did not seem concerned about employees engaging in any of these activities, Websense said.
About 42 per cent of the IT managers believed their organisations were well protected against Net security threats, while 26 per cent described their security measures as average.
Over half the IT managers (57 per cent) said they conducted weekly or monthly security assessments, while 95 per cent had deployed anti-virus solutions.
A majority of the IT managers (67 per cent) agreed to put an Internet usage policy for employees in place. However, over a quarter (28 per cent) admitted they had no way to enforce such a policy.
According to the survey, 53 per cent of the IT managers believed they would be held responsible if employees were found leaking confidential company information. Employees accessing restricted data on the Internet emerged as the second most important reason (37 per cent) why IT managers believed they could lose their jobs.
The IT managers admitted that 480 security breaches had occurred in 116 organisations in the past year. The highest was in Bangalore, where there were 182 breaches in 29 organisations, followed by Mumbai with 100 instances in 31 organisations.
Source: telegraphindia