Importance Of INTERNETWritten by Waseem Hyder
SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT Shorts for inter network. A set of computer networks that may be dissimilar and are joined together by means of gateways that handle data transfer and conversion of messages from sending networks’ protocols to those of receiving network. The genesis of Internet was a decentralized network called ARPANET created by U.S. Department of Defense in 1969 to facilitate communications in event of a nuclear attack. Currently Internet offers a range of services to users, such as e-mail, World Wide Web, Usenet news, telnet, and others. Information research is a dedication to learning. This needs specific research skills, an awareness of research tools and gifted mind. Without knowledge of and access to relevant research worthy resources, your search will be severely limited and doubtful. Internet is only vast field of exploring which provide us source of research tools. If we give a name explorer to Internet that wouldn’t be wrong, in a sense that explorer itself means to inquire something or to examine something. Internet is widely used in field where there is a work of research. Internet is not minimize to this field only, it also provide us best source of entertainment. Internet had changed our lives in many ways, it had change way we communicate. It had galvanized or we can say demoralize postal services. However in process, it had given us tremendous sense of empowerment. And it is beauty of Internet that every web user has now become a potential publisher. At one level internet is identified with triviality and mediocrity, while at other it is best thing that have happened to mankind after invention of wheel. The most important manifestation about Internet’s revolution was its impact on communication. The days of snail-mail looked numbered, moment Internet arrived on scene. Since E-mail was accurate, reliable and convenient, it became house hold phenomena. Besides proving its utility as an effective communication tool, e-mail has also come of age as an interactive communication tool. Group users and Newsletters have now become a mean of getting one’s point of view across other person or group of people. Over Internet we deal with all aspects of data authentication, privacy, integrity, and verification for transactions. For example, credit card purchases via a World Wide Web browser require attention to Internet security issues. To ensure that credit card number is not intercepted by an intruder or copied from server where number is stored, and to verify that credit card number is actually sent by person who claims to be sending it. Internet Security and Acceleration Server software, (application from Microsoft Corporation) to increase security and performance of Internet access for businesses. Internet Security and Acceleration Server provides an enterprise firewall and high-performance Web cache server to securely manage flow of information from Internet.
| | Veerappan - The legendary bandit no more!Written by Chris N. Fernando
Known by different nomenclatures like bandit king, elephant poacher, sandalwood smuggler and much recent Robinhood of India, Veerappanthe forest brigand was finally killed in an encounter this month. This man popular for his handlebar moustache, hacked more than 120 people to death during his reign of terror spanning over four decades, felled thousands of sandalwood trees worth and sandalwood worth $22 million, and poached about 2,000 elephants for more than 88,000 pounds of ivory worth $2.6 million and what not! It took about 20 years and more than Rs 1000 crores to finally kill Veerappan, making this manhunt, Indias biggest and most expensive.In beginning there was a brigand The year was 1952, date18th January. Kuse Muniswamy Veerappan Gounder was born in Gopinatham Village in Karnataka state (India). He was lovingly called Veerappan, which means he who is brave. He started off with committing crimes at a very young age. In fact Veerappan began his career in crime as an ivory poacher and is reputed to have killed his first elephant when he was just 14. He committed his first murder at age of 17too small an age when boys his age would be falling in love. He used to operate from dense Sathyamangalam forests and used to reportedly distribute money earned from smuggling and kidnappings to villages around forests. Doing this earned him title of Robinhood of India and local people would worship him as their king. But then as they say, every coin has two sides Veerappan too had a scar face hidden behind his generous image. It is said that Veerappan used to boast about how he killed his victims, cut them into pieces and fed flesh to fishes in ponds around forest. Veerappan was notorious for his guerilla tactics, kidnappings, beheadings of his victims and killing more than 120 people of which majority were police officers and forest department officials. His fame to crime increased day-by-day, forcing two of biggest states in IndiaTamil Nadu and Karnataka to launch a massive manhunt and also form a Special Task Force (STF) for capturing Veerappan, dead or alive. Despite this, he could never be capturedin fact, only time Veerappan was put in jail was in 1986; but he soon escaped killing four policemen and paying a bribe of $2,000. The STF formed by both states had more than 1,500 officers and personnel. As if that was not enough, even Border Security Force (BSF) was assigned a task to capture brigand; though they failed miserably in it. So, how was he hunted down? Capturing Veerappan was not an easy task. He had informants in villages around forest to tip him off about any police forces entering forest to hunt him down. Reports say that his jungle hamlets were often booby-trapped and heavily mined, to keep trespassers away. Moreover, his people were in and around 6,000 sq km jungle and so it proved to be a hell of a task. And he did all this with old hunting rifles, while police forces had all latest gadgets, including AK-47 assault rifles and night vision binoculars. At one point for time, 2,000 police officers were searching for Veerappan around forests. Finally their efforts paid off on 18th October 2004 at Dharmapuri village in Tamil Nadu (India). Veerappan was killed in an encounter that had been planned over months. Police officials say that all through these years, Veerappans troupe was getting weaker and weaker and he was on a lookout to hire more youngsters into his group. The first step of their plan was deemed successful, when police officials intercepted a letter sent by Veerappan to his brother, who was then lodged in jail. The letter said that Veerappan wanted his brother to arrange for a few youngsters to join his team through his contacts with extremists. Thats when police decided to send their people instead into Veerappans group to record his daily activities. However, police did not want to send their team members, because Veerappan could get suspicious. Therefore they called for volunteersand they got volunteers in form of a few villagers and two college students. These volunteers armed with Veerappans letter, went into forest to meet brigand claiming that his brother sent them. Fortunately, Veerappan didnt have any suspicions and team of volunteers was accepted into his group little knowing that these volunteers would be cause of his death in coming days.
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