KOLKATA: Reliance Communications on Thursday announced the launch of Coolpad CDMA handsets based on Android 2.1 OS tagetting the data traffic in the eastern region.
Mitash Chatterjee, circle head of RCom in Kolkata, said this was the first launch of Chinese Coolpad handsets in the country, which would be followed by other cities soon.
Hong Kong-listed Coolpad CommunicationsManaging director Sami Al-Lawati said the company was expecting sales of 1 lakh handsets per month in India.
He said the company was planning to set up a R&D centre in India at a cost of Rs 100 crore.
"Depending upon the market response, we can think of setting up a manufacturing unit in the country," he told reporters here.
He said the proposed R&D centre would not only cater to Indian requirements but also help in the global expansion footprint of the company.
MADURAI: In view of the blast in Delhi high courtcampus which shook the entire nation, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court will implement several security measures in its premises from Monday.
The decision was taken after a security review meeting chaired by Justice P Jyothimani with judges, office-bearers of all advocates' associations, additional advocate general, K Chellapandian, Madurai Rural superintendent of police, Asra Garg and other police officials, on Thursday.
After the meeting, Justice P Jyothimani said it has been unanimously agreed that strict security measures should be enforced inside the high court complex and it is resolved to adopt the comprehensive security system, which was evolved earlier.
"Entry of outsiders and vehicles into the high court premises will be strictly monitored and only those persons and their vehicles with valid authorisation, issued by the advocates concerned regarding the purpose of the visiting the court, will be allowed inside the compound," Justice Jyothimani said.
It was also resolved that "no person, except advocates and parties in litigation who are appearing in person will be allowed inside the court hall during and after the court proceedings. It is also unanimously resolved that security measures will be taken care of by local police and their men will be used for the security arrangements."
During the meeting, Garg said that adequate security measures would be taken by providing security personnel inside the court premises.
It was also resolved to conduct regular checks in the main entry by providing adequate mechanism like metal detector apart from the periodical check up through sniffer dogs by the security personnel.
All the office-bearers of the associations agreed to give particulars of their cars and two-wheelers and three-wheelers along with their name by tomorrow evening in which event, the High Court shall issue necessary pass to be affixed at the vehicles.
Meanwhile, the advocates staged a protest in the court demanding speedy action against the culprits who were involved in the bomb blast at the Delhi high court.
Delhi High Court in an explosion at the gate Wednesday morning, killing 11 people, while at least 76 people were injured. Some of them are in critical condition. Blast outside the court room was crowded. Shock of the blast has been on high alert across the country.
was. Many lawyers were also present at that time.
Attack: Home Minister P. Chidambaram 'high intensity' of the blast that 'terrorist attack' is reported. The explosion at the blast site was three to four feet deep crater.Chidambaram said the group behind the attack which, it is not possible to identify.Union Home Ministry sources said the blast death toll is 11. 15 of the seriously injured.
NI examine the government to investigate the blast, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is handed over. NIA chief SC Sinha said that the 20-member team led by DIG for investigation has been made.
Site of the blast confusion - panic: The powerful blast in the capital's main center for lawyers and clients in the blood soaked clothes back and forth was running. The sound of the explosion was so strong that it was heard within a kilometer. After the explosion to be heard from some people had complained to the ear. Site of the blast went Lothde organs and meat. In addition there were scattered pieces of glass.
were standing in line waiting to get close.
After the bombings, the court hearing was adjourned for a while. However, work has started again within a few hours. The High Court premises at 10 am on May 25, 2011 was a blast. That day was Wednesday. Although not yet found out what person or organization was behind the blast.
Delhi Police seek suspect's car: After the explosion, police are looking for a suspect's car. Huda police looking for car No. DL-9 CA 6064 and police believe that the big bang is to use somewhere in the car. The car was stolen last week.
Prime Minister visited the hospital to see injured: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived late evening to learn about the welfare of victims of RML. Prime Minister's visit to Bangladesh and returned to the airport directly to the hospital.
JAIPUR: After the blast at Delhi High Court killing 12 people, security was beefed up in and around the state on Wednesday. Senior home department officers met police officers in the wake of the blast and directed them to take no chances in terms of the security especially in the border districts, pilgrim towns, including Ajmer and Ramdeora, and other public places.
On directives from the Airport Authority of India in Delhi, security at the International terminal of theJaipur airport was also beefed up on Wednesday. Strict vigilance was enforced in and around the airport, according to CISF sources.
Meanwhile, B L Soni, commissioner of police, Jaipur, circulated wireless messages to all police stations and officials concerned to beef up security in and around shopping malls, bus stands, railway stations and temples, especially Moti Doongari temple.
"Dog squads were sent to various places and men with metal detectors were asked to search the bags of all customers coming to shopping malls," said a senior police officer. A special vigil was kept on the vehicles plying in and out of Pink City.
In Ajmer, a high alert was sounded in and around the dargah and the pilgrim town Pushkar. "Police in plainclothes was deployed at vulnerable areas, including bus stands and railway stations to keep a watch on activities of suspicious persons," said a senior police officer.
In the border districts especially Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Barmer police searched hotels both big and small.
According to North Western Railway sources the security of the famous Thar Express has been intensified. "The train runs between India and Pakistan from Bhagat Ki Kothi railway station every Saturday. All passengers who would travel to Pakistan would be thoroughly checked," said a railways official.
A Northern Ireland father is suing Facebook over suggestive photos posted of his 12-year-old daughter on the social networking site.
He said the material, put on the internet by his daughter, has put her in danger from child sex abusers.
The site requires members to be over the age of 13, although it does not use any checks.
The father's solicitor, Hilary Carmichael, said the company was unable to uphold its own policy.
"It relies on children stating their correct age and it doesn't have any checks in place," she said
"My own personal view is that Facebook isn't suitable for under-18s, but the company isn't even able to uphold its own policy of keeping under-13s out
"An age check, like asking for a passport number would be a simple measure for Facebook to implement."
Ms Carmichael said the images posted were "sexually explicit".
"She appears heavily made-up, she appears in a provocative pose and she appears much older than her 12 years," she said.
'Guilty of negligence'
As well as posting sexually explicit material, the girl also gave personal details including where she lived and the school she attended.
The writ lodged in Belfast High Court on Monday alleged that Facebook had been "guilty of negligence" and had created "a risk of sexual and physical harm" to the child.
The case could see the company facing a large compensation payout if it is successful.
Ms Carmichael explained that the girl was personally responsible for posting the images and continued posting on a new page after her father shut the original down.
As the 12-year-old was in the voluntary care of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust when the images were posted, the writ also names the trust as a defendant.
Child protection expert Jim Gamble said Facebook's age policy was difficult to check.
"Under-13s create a real problem because it is absolutely impossible in the current set of standards to be sure about the age of anyone because children will lie," he said.
He said this particular case would be interesting for a number of reasons.
"It is a complex set of relationships because, of course there is a duty of care for the company, a clear duty of care for parents and a clear duty of care for anyone in whose care a child is put," he said.
He added although Facebook had come "a long way", he did not believe its system worked as well as it could and said he would be following the case closely to see if the site and the trust were brought to account.
Google will spend the next few months killing off ten products that just weren’t successful or can be put to better use through integration with existing Google services such as search and Chrome.
As CEO Larry Page noted in a recent earnings call, Google has “a few small speculative projects happening at any given time,” but spends the vast majority of its money and staff on its core technologies. To avoid clutter and the appearance of wastefulness to shareholders, Google has to trim the list now and then.
“Over the next few months we’ll be shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features,” Google Senior Vice President Alan Eustace wrote in a blog post last week. The products to be shut down are Aardvark, Google Desktop, Fast Flip, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki, and Subscribed Links.
While some of the products will disappear completely, others will live on in one form or another. Google Web Security was part of the Postini acquisition in 2007, and is pitched to enterprise IT customers as having the ability to block malware and integrate with directory services for “granular enforcement and reporting.” While it will no longer exist as a standalone product, the technology that powers Google Web Security will continue blocking malware in the Chrome browser, which didn’t exist when Google purchased Postini.
The e-mail security portion of Postini seems poised to live on as a separate brand, and Postini services are also integrated into the Google Apps suite of office applications. Aardvark, meanwhile, was a startup acquired by Google in 2010 to boost “social search,” in which questions are answered by fellow Google users rather than Google algorithms. The concept is similar to Quora, but seems to have failed at Google. Instead of promising to integrate Aardvark into other products, Eustace merely writes that “we’ll continue to work on tools that enable people to connect and discover richer knowledge about the world.”
The Google Desktop product has been around since the ancient times of 2004, and gave users a desktop widget that displayed news and could search for files on their computers. With the new emphasis on cloud-based computing, Google says this product is no longer necessary, and all support will be discontinued on Sept. 14.
The Google Maps API for Flash move could be disruptive for some developers. The tool “was launched to provide ActionScript developers a way to integrate Google Maps into their applications,” Google notes, referring to the Adobe ActionScript programming language. Existing customers of the Maps API Premier service will continue to receive support, but Google will shift development effort to the JavaScript Maps API.Regarding the other Google products on the chopping block, Fast Flip is a news-reading tool designed to make online articles look more like print ones; Google Pack is a downloadable set of software tools from Google and third parties; Image Labeler is a tool for exploring and labeling images on the Web; Notebook was a notes service similar to Evernote; Sidewiki is a browser extension that let users add content to any webpage; and Subscribed Links is targeted at developers who wanted to create specialized search results.For Notebook, Sidewiki and Subscribed Links, users will be given some time to download their content. In the case of Notebook, all data will also be automatically exported to Google Docs.
NASA and Russia have about two months to decide whether to abandon the International Space Station (ISS) and possibly have ground controllers run the research outpost remotely from Earth.
NASA mission managers in Houston, Texas, are currently working on contingency plans, as both Russiaand the U.S. have said that temporarily abandoning the $100 billion ISS is a possibility.
Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, two Americans aboard the ISS, told reporters in a video press conference from space that they've started minimal preparations.
The space station, a joint project of the U.S., Russia, Canada, Europe and Japan, has been continuously staffed since November 2000. Six people ‑- three Russians, two Americans and one Japanese astronaut ‑- typically staff the research station on six month rotations.
"We haven't started anything specific up here pertaining to that except for maybe documenting some of the things that we do on video so we that can use video products for part of the training for the next crew," Fossum told the media. "The teams in Houston are in the preliminary stages of deciding everything from what ventilation we are going to leave running, what lights we are going to leave on... every tank, every valve, every hatch."
But the astronauts on board may need to temporarily abandon the research facility this fall after the Soyuz rocket recently failed to send a supply ship into space.
The unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 44 malfunctioned shortly after its Aug. 24 launch, and the ship crashed in Siberia. It was supposed to carry 2.9 tons of supplies to the orbiting lab.
Russian space vehicles are the only means of transporting crews and supplies to the station now that the U.S. space shuttle program has ended. The U.S. space shuttle flew its last mission in July.
Fossum said it is possible that the station will be without people for hopefully a short period of time, as reported by the Agence France-Presse.
Russia has said that a malfunctioning gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket's third stage engine has been identified by members of the emergency commission as the reason the supply ship didn't make it to the ISS.
The Russian Federal Space Agency had established a commission to assess the root cause of the failure, to develop a plan of corrective action and to determine any implications for the launch of crews to the station on similar Soyuz rockets.
New Delhi: The Tihar Jail is once again the centre of attention. Glamour quotient is at a high in Tihar Jail as it has never seen so many VIPs together and it now houses 2G accused A Raja, Sanjay Chandra, DMK MP Kanimozhi along with CWG accused Suresh Kalmadi and now cash-for-votes scam accused Amar Singh.
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is the sixth MP and the latest VIP entrant in Asia's largest prison, the Tihar Jail.
Amar Singh's new address will be Jail No. 3 and as neighbours, he will have for company former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and Mohammad Afzal who are lodged in the high security zone of the same jail.
Amar Singh is the 6th MP to be lodged inside Tihar prisons after Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, former telecom minister A Raja, sacked CWG OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and former Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav.
But unfortunately Tihar's five star guests will not quite get a five star treatment. This is what Amar Singh's life is going to be behind the walls of Tihar.
- At 5:30 in the morning, it is time for a headcount.
- An hour later, it is breakfast, not served by servants, but a meal that has to be collected standing in queue. The menu is two slices of bread and a cup of tea.
- By 9 am, he will have to be bathed and ready.
- Lunch, that has rotis, rice, dal and just one vegetable, has to be collected by 9 am.
- At about noon, visitors are allowed.
- Till about 3 pm they are locked in, but Amar can read or watch TV in his cell.
- Tea time is at 3 pm where he can have a cup of tea and two biscuits.
- By 6 pm, dinner has to be collected after which he will be locked up in his cell.
From fancy meals to 'jail ki roti' and from comfortable beds to just a blanket on the floor, this is one outing Amar Singh will remember for the rest of his life.
Student bodies demand principal's ouster Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 06 2011: Holding the principal of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Yaralpat responsible for the chaotic situation besieging the educational institution and accusing the Vidyalaya's parents/guardians' association along with Imphal East Deputy Commissioner of abetting the situation, Kangleipak Students' Association (KSA), Manipuri Students' Federation (MSF) and Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) today demanded transfer of the principal.
speaking to newspersons at a joint media briefing held at the KSA office today, functionaries of the student organisations contended that the principal had been conniving with certain members of the parents/guardian's body to effect transfer of some teachers who tried to bring to the notice of the principal problems afflicting the Vidyalaya.
with regard to the accusation against the Imphal East DC, they opined that as Chairman of the Vidyalaya's managing committee, the incumbent should have initiated appropriate measures in order to ensure the students pursue their goal in a congenial environment.
Reiterating that transfer of the principal should be effected by the Deputy Commissioner within 10 days, the student bodies said along with intense agitation on the demand, investigation would be launched to ascertain veracity on various other problems as had been pointed out by the students.
Some of the students, who talked to the newspersons described the Principal as not only inefficient but questioned his integrity with the allegation that he (principal) indulges in playing cards and consuming alcohol inside the Vidyalaya campus with nonteaching staff members.
Contending that teachers often ring the bell for the care-takers (chowkidars) are utilised in other non-school activities, the students further blamed the principal for various inconveniences faced by the hostellers.
It is also alleged that the Principal had been indifferent to development of the School and denying the students opportunity to excel, academically, for related informations are not conveyed to the them in time.
Strictness of the principal is displayed only in the presence of parents/guardians, they maintained while contending most teachers are reluctant to highlight problems afflicting the Vidyalaya due to apprehension that the principal will single them out for ill-treatment or punitive action.
Analysis of dolphin communication with Information Theory has shown it to be surprisingly intricate and possibly second only to human communication in terms of complexity on Earth. CREDIT: Wild Dolphin Project.
How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, suggested that intelligence wasn't just the acquisition of technology, but the ability to develop and improve it, integrating it into our society.
By that definition, a dolphin, lacking limbs to create and manipulate complex tools, cannot possibly be described as intelligent. It's easy to see why such definitions prove popular; we are clearly the smartest creatures on the planet, and the only species with technology. It may be human hubris, or some kind of anthropocentric bias that we find difficult to escape from, but our adherence to this definition narrows the phase space in which we're willing to search for intelligent life.
Technology is certainly linked to intelligence – you need to be smart to build a computer or an aircraft or a radio telescope – but technology does not define intelligence. It is just a manifestation of it, perhaps one of many. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Astrobiologists see intelligence a little differently. The dictionary defines intelligence as the ability to learn, while others see it as the capacity to reason, to empathize, to solve problems and consider complex ideas, and to interact socially.
Intelligence in the universe
If we take these characteristics to be a broad working definition of intelligence, our view of intelligent life in the universe suddenly looks very different. No longer are we confined to considering only life that has technology.
To be fair to SETI, at this moment in time it cannot search for anything other than beacons – the vast distances across the cosmos coupled with our own baby steps into the Universe mean that we don't have the capability to search for any other form of intelligent life other than those that can deliberately signal their presence. However, what a wider definition of intelligence tells us is that we are not alone, not even on our own planet Earth.
Professor Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist from the University of Oxford, was one of the first to put forward the theory that the evolution of intelligence is driven by social factors, allowing animals to survive, interact and prosper in large and complex social groupings. These include notions of reciprocal altruism (I scratch your back, you scratch mine), politics (forming sub-groups and coalitions within the larger group) and understanding the emotions of others (empathy, which in turn relies on theory of mind, the ability to be aware of one's self and others).
Looking at it that way, modern social networking on media such as Facebook may just be a symptom of what helped drive us to become intelligent in the first place, many tens of thousands of years ago.
Here's the trick – to be social, you must be communicative. Staying quiet is anti-social. Personal interactions require communication, of some form, and the more complex the interaction, the more complex the communication. So if intelligence and social behavior is linked – and many people agree that it is – then the best place to start looking for intelligence is in animals that like to chat with one another.
And that brings us to dolphins.
Ever since the 1960s, when John Lilly popularized the notion that dolphins may be cleverer than your average animal, dolphin intelligence has courted controversy, tempted us with tantalizing but thin evidence, and remained elusive. We know they are able to communicate by a variety of means, from whistles and barks to echo location, and researchers working with captive dolphins have discovered that they understand syntax, i.e.the difference between a statement and a question, or past and future tense.
As Carl Sagan once famously said, "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to 50 words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"Carl Sagan was right!" said Lori Marino, a biopsychologist from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We still don't understand the natural language system of dolphins and whales. We know a little bit more now, and there have been investigators working on this for decades, but we haven't really cracked the code."
In that case, how can we be sure they even have a language? Justin Gregg, a researcher at the Dolphin Communication Project in Connecticut, is skeptical. "Most scientists, especially cognitive scientists, don't think that dolphins have what linguists would define as language," he said. "They have referential signaling, which a lot of animals do – squirrels and chickens can actually do that, and monkeys – and they have names for each other. But you can't then say they have a language because human words can do so much more."
How smart are dolphins?
Nevertheless, some scientists continue to fight in the dolphins' corner. Referential signaling involves tagging things with names, such as having a specific whistle to identify sharks, or fishing boats, or food. "That sounds like a good definition of language to me," said Laurance Doyle, a scientist at the SETI Institute in California. "Put it this way: the first premise that I think everyone agrees on is that all animals communicate, so once you buy that the next question is, how complex is each communication system?"
It is this question that has prompted Doyle to reappraise what we define as intelligent complex communication, and what types of signals we should be looking for with SETI. He applies a statistical analysis technique called information theory to languages in order to determine their complexity. It turns out that, according to information theory, dolphin communication is highly complex with many similarities with human languages, even if we don't understand the words they are saying to one another.
Information theory was developed in the 1940s by the mathematician and cryptologist Claude Shannon, mainly to be applied to the then-burgeoning technology of telecommunications. It operates on the knowledge that all information can be broken down into 'bits' of data that can be rearranged in myriad ways. George Zipf, a linguist at Harvard, realized that language is just the conveyance of information, and therefore could be broken down too.
Think of all the different sounds human beings make as they speak to each other, the different letters and pronunciations. Some, such as the letters 'e' and 't' or words such as 'and' or 'the' will occur far more frequently than 'q' or 'z' or longer words such as 'astrobiology'. Plot these on a graph, in order of the most frequently occurring letters or sounds, and the points form a slope with a –1 gradient.
A toddler learning to speak will have a steeper slope – as they experiment with words they use fewer sounds but say them more often. At the most extreme a baby's babble is completely random, and so any slope will be nearly level with all sounds occurring fairly evenly. It doesn't matter which human language is put through the information theory test – be it English, Russian, Arabic or Mandarin – the same result follows.
What is remarkable is that putting dolphin whistles through the information theory blender renders exactly the same result: a –1 slope, with a steeper slope for younger dolphins still being taught how to communicate by their mothers, and a horizontal slope for baby dolphins babbling. This tells us that dolphins have structure to how they communicate.
Meanwhile, another feature of information theory, called Shannon entropy, can tell us how complex that communication is.
Doyle makes the analogy to marching soldiers. Imagine one hundred soldiers on parade, walking in all different directions across a field. Then they are called to attention, and form ten neat rows of ten. Prior to the call to attention, when they are marching randomly, they have maximum entropy, maximum disorder, maximum complexity. Once they are lined up structure is imposed on them; their entropy decreases as does their complexity when coupled with a corresponding increase in structure.
Language is the same. Write down 100 words on one hundred pieces of paper and throw them into the air and they can be arranged in myriad ways. Impose rules on them, such as sentence structure, and your choices automatically narrow. It is a bit like playing hangman; you have a five-letter word where the first letter is 'q', so the rule structure of English necessitates that the second letter is 'u'. From thereon there is a limited number of letters that can follow 'qu' and so you may have 'que' or 'qui' or 'qua' and you can predict that the word is 'quest' or 'quick' or 'quack'. Shannon entropy is defined as this application of order over data and the resulting predictability of that order.
"It turns out that humans go up to about ninth order Shannon entropy," said Doyle. "What that means is, if you are missing more than nine words then there is no longer a conditional relationship between them – they become random and pretty much any word will do." In other words, there are conditional probabilities, imposed by the rule structures of human languages, up to nine words away.
Dolphin intelligence tests
Doyle has analyzed many forms of communication with information theory, from the chemical signals of plants to the rapid-fire radio transmissions of air traffic control. How do dolphins fare? "They have a conditional probability between signals that goes up to fourth order and probably higher, although we need more data," said Doyle.
The problem with studying dolphin communication is being able to study them for any great length of time out in the wild, which requires patience and money. This is where Denise Herzing comes in. She is based at the Wild Dolphin Project in Florida, and has spent much of her time working with the same pod of wild dolphins for the past 27 years, documenting the complexity of their communication, acoustic signals and behavior over that time period.
"We know them individually, we know their personalities, we know their communication signals and we already do things together that seem to be of interest [to them]," she says. "What we're now trying to do is develop an interface that takes advantage of those small windows where we have their attention and they want to interact with us."
This interface, developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence specialist Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and marine cognitive scientists Adam Pack of the University of Hawaii and Fabienne Delfour at the University of Paris, is known as CHAT, the Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry device. It's a smart phone-sized gizmo that can I.D a dolphin whistle in real time. It's worn around the neck of a diver and connected up to a pair of hydrophones and a one-handed keyboard called a 'twiddler'.
By agreeing with the dolphins on a common artificial language, neatly side-stepping the problem of translation, it is hoped that CHAT will enable humans and dolphins to talk in real time. For instance, dolphins will be able to request toys such as a ball or a hoop from humans, and vice versa. Although it won't be the most meaningful conversation in the world, it will be conversation and that in itself will be revolutionary.
Still at the prototype stage, Herzing sees CHAT as an extension of all the work done in communication studies with captive dolphins over the past few decades. "To have high-powered, real-time computer technology to help us recognize specific signals that the animals make could empower us to bridge that gap and allow humans into their acoustic world," she says. The plan is to test the device this year, before getting it out into the wild in 2012.
How complex dolphin communication really is remains to be seen. We must be careful not to anthropomorphize. We know their communication has nuances that are incredibly complex, but so do other species of animal, from bees to plants. Do dolphins have language with the scope and breadth to converse about anything like we can with human language, or is it more basic? Justin Gregg would argue the latter case.
"Essentially they do behave in complex and interesting ways, but there are no great mysteries in what they do that can only be answered with language," he says.
Herzing and Doyle are more optimistic. "Dolphins have exquisite sound and they have a lot of places they could potentially encode information – we just haven't looked adequately yet," says Herzing. She has worked with Lori Marino and the SETI Institute's Douglas Vakoch on how we can recognize intelligence other than human intelligence.
Meanwhile, Doyle has suggested that SETI should search for signals with information content that has a –1 slope. We may find that an alien signal displays complexity up to 10, 15, of 20th order Shannon entropy. What would such a language be like?
To explain, Doyle highlights the example of Koko, a captive gorilla that has learned sign language and can understand concepts like "tomorrow" or "yesterday". But combine time tenses, and Koko doesn't understand.
"If you say to her, 'by this time tomorrow I'll have finished eating', Koko doesn't understand the two time jumps, that at some point in the future there will be a point in the past," said Doyle. "Now imagine an alien comes with more complex abilities. They may say, 'I will have to be have been there'. Now there's nothing wrong with that per se, but humans can't handle three time jumps or more. An alien could just think in a more complex way." So instead of double entendres, they might have triple or quadruple entendres.
What all this tells us is that intelligence is manifest in communication just as much as it is in technology and, if intelligence is truly derived from social behavior, then it may be far more prevalent than technology. If intelligence is defined as the ability to learn, then intelligence brings with it culture, which means something that is learned. We see baby dolphins learning from their mothers so, in the crudest sense, we might say that dolphins have culture and intelligence.
By escaping the assumption that intelligence must equal technology, we see that there are many other intelligences on Earth – ask Lori Marino, and she'll tell you that even the simplest multi-cellular life could be considered intelligent to a degree, thanks to its nervous system.
But it also poses a problem for SETI – if the Universe is full of intelligent, social, communicative but non-technological dolphins and the like, then there will be no radio beacons to transmit signals. The Universe could be full of life, of intelligence, and we would never know it.
Jabalpur, Sep 5(PTI)Three persons were injured when two bogies of the Bhopal-Bilaspur passenger train derailed today near Salaiya station between Damoh and Katni section of the Western Railway. The incident occurred around 08.15 am when two bogies, third and fourth from the engine derailed causing injuries to three persons, railway sources said. A relief train was soon dispatched from Jabalpur to help the stranded passengers, they said. Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Jabalpur, A K Gupta has formed a three-member committee to probe the incident. The injured were provided a relief of Rs 500 each by the railway authorities. The train resumed its onward journey by noon, the sources added.
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is expected to return to India late on Tuesday night a little more than a month after it was announced that she had gone abroad for surgery for an undisclosed illness.
The Congress rank and file are eagerly awaiting her return and although she is likely to need at least another couple of months for a full recovery, the pile in her "in" tray is overflowing. The Anna Hazare-led agitation that unfolded in her absence only added to a sense of disarray in the government and party.
There is still no word on the reason for the surgery Sonia underwent and her treatment remains a well-guarded secret.
Sonia's absence has been felt all the more keenly with the government floundering a series of testing political challenges, with party circles feeling that her presence could have been a deterrent against the apolitical approach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's troubleshooters relied on to deal with the challenge from Hazare.
The indecision in the government - as its swung between a hard and an accommodating line over Hazare - indicated poor judgment with interlocutors like law minister Salman Khurshid and science and technology minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who finally helped resolve the crisis, being brought in only at a late stage.
Among a host of pending matters that Sonia will have to pay attention to include a swift passage of the anti-corruption Lokpal bill in Parliament backed by as large a consensus as possible. She may also have to prod the government on other anti-graft measures like doing away with discretionary powers of ministries.
Apart from other politically significant bills like the proposed land acquisition and food security legislations, relations with allies will keep her occupied. Congress's ties with two of its largest allies - DMK and Trinamool Congress - need careful handling. DMK is sulking about Kanimozhi, daughter of party chief M Karunanidhi, languishing in jail in connection with the 2G telecom scam.
Relations with Trinamool are delicately poised over West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's opposition to the Teesta treaty with Bangladesh that has impacted the PM's visit to Dhaka. Her rejection of the treaty has scuttled the pact that was to be an important gain from the visit.
While ties with allies have to be handled with care, Sonia needs to step in on other crises too like the Congress-BJP standoff on Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal's appointment of a Lokayukta without consulting chief minister Narendra Modi.
BJP leaders negotiating with the government get the feeling that efforts to rescind the decision are not progressing as there is no authoritative voice to counsel the Congress state unit while there appears to be a divide in the party's central leadership. The Gujarat controversy is seen as a manifestation of the leadership vacuum as some in the government feel this was not the time to pick a fight with BJP when the main opposition's cooperation is needed to ensure passage of several bills before the monsoon session of Parliament ends this week.
Lokpal issue raked up to divert people's attention from the arrests of RSS activists
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday alleged that social activist Anna Hazare was a “mask for the RSS like yoga guru Ramdev” and was being used to divert attention from the arrest of Sangh members in terror cases.
The Lokpal issue, Mr. Singh told journalists here, was raked up “to divert the attention of the people from the arrests of various RSS activists in connection with terrorism and others in corruption cases.”
“They [BJP and RSS] formulated this plan. First they made Baba Ramdev as its mask and them Anna,” he alleged.
The Congress general secretary said, “I respect Mr. Anna Hazare as he is a Gandhian but, unfortunately, he is surrounded by the wrong people.”
On his allegation against Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal, he said, “Mr. Kejriwal is still a government employee. The government has not accepted his resignation. He is still an officer of the Indian Revenue Service [IRS].”
“Has a government employee got the right to open campaigning? Has he got the right to collect donation? If 40 lakh employees cannot do it, how can he [Kejriwal] do it?,” Mr. Singh said.
He said the government “has respected Team Anna and invited the members to the drafting committee but it was the Opposition which had a problem with them, not us.”
Meanwhile Mr. Hazare told journalists in Ralegan Siddhi that the RSS was not involved in his anti-corruption movement. He said the Congress general secretary should be admitted to a hospital for levelling such an allegation.
“I have said this earlier also that people like Mr. Singh should be put in ‘Yeravada', [a well-known place in Pune housing a government mental hospital],” Mr. Hazare said.
He said he was determined to continue his fight for the passage of a strong Lokpal Bill in Parliament to curb corruption in the country.
Mr. Hazare said Mr. Kejriwal was a “clean man” being targeted by the government.
Bhopal: Twenty one days after Shehla Masood was murdered in Bhopal, the Central Bureau of Investigation's team is trying to recreate the crime scene. Their biggest source of help, for the moment, is the version of Shehla's family members.
After looking at the scene through the eyes of Shehla's family, the sleuths then tried to figure out the direction from which she could have been shot at.
They found their first lead on Monday, the very first day of investigation, which was the pendant that Shehla was wearing on the day she was killed. CBI investigators found the pendant in her car - something that was missed by the Bhopal police when they searched the very same car.
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CBI DIG Hemant Priyadarshi said, "Our team of forensic and ballistic experts have come to the spot. They have recreated the scene. They are professional people and very soon we will have their report and then we will move forward."
Bhopal Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh had announced a CBI inquiry on August 19 itself, perhaps realising that the local police would not be able to bear the pressure if someone powerful was found to be involved.
However, now that the CBI has taken over, her family members are hopeful that the killers will be nabbed.
"The CBI has taken over the case, we are happy and we saw the way they went about doing their job. They searched the car today and and found Shehla's pendant which the district police could not find. So we are hopeful that they would get to the bottom of it," said Rajil, Shehla's brother.
Several questions that remain:
- Has the CBI gotten involved in the case a bit too late?
- What is it that the local police got out of the RTI details that were asked for by Shehla against BJP Rajya Sabha MP Anil Dave?
- Has Anil Dave really been given a clean chit by the police as is being claimed by Dave himself?
It's a case which could well turn out to be a huge embarrasement for the BJP, if its fallout is not handled properly.
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