AirAsia QZ8501: 'Big objects' found in fuselage search

Search teams scanning the Java Sea for the main wreckage from AirAsia flight QZ8501 have found "four large objects", the search chief says.


Bambang Soelistyo said the biggest of the objects was 18m (59ft) long and he believed they were parts of the plane.
The Airbus A320 vanished with 162 people on board en route from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore last Sunday.

So far 30 bodies have been recovered with most of the remaining bodies thought to be trapped in the fuselage.
Indonesia's weather agency believes bad weather was the "biggest factor" behind the crash, in which no survivors were found.


The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes at the forward operating base in Pangkalan Bun says it seems this could be the breakthrough search teams have been hoping for.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. Specialist equipment has arrived to the search for the plane's "black-box" flight recorders, though officials say no signals have been picked up yet.

'Confident'
Sonar from an Indonesian navy ship detected one large object on Friday night with the other three found on Saturday, Mr Soelistyo announced.

"I am confident these are parts of the missing AirAsia plane," he said. According to the Associated Press news agency, he also gave the width of the largest object found, saying it was 5.4m. Another was said to be 10m long.

Mr Soelistyo said an ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) was being lowered into the water to get an actual picture of the objects, which were at a depth of 30m.

He warned that the height of waves was hampering the search effort at sea. The waves were four to five metres high, he said.

Another official, Supriyadi, said earlier that poor visibility was hampering the work of the ROVs.

Nation's progress linked to science: PM Modi at Indian Science Congress 2015

MUMBAI: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Saturday morning inaugurated the 102nd edition of the Indian Science Congress hosted by the Mumbai University.

Modi called for the need to rekindle the love for science and technology and the relaxing excessive regulations and cumbersome procedures for our universities to give a boost to research.

"Our scientists should be able to explore the mysteries of science and not get stuck in government procedures," said Modi. He added that our research is restricted to central agencies but it must be made broad based. "We have to place the university system at the cutting edge of the research and development activities in the country," he added.

Speaking about the great work of Indian scientists, Modi said, "Just as children see sportsmen as role models, scientists should also be the same. Parents should feel pride in their children becoming scientists." He also lauded the work by ISRO for putting Mangalayan in the mars orbit in the first attempt..


PM Narendra Modi at the inauguration ceremony of 102nd Indian Science Congress 2015. (PIB photo)

Google calls on FCC to mandate line-sharing, pits itself directly against Comcast and other ISPs

In the ongoing battle between net neutrality advocates and the ISPs, one of the hot-button issues that’s emerged is whether or not ISPs should be regulated as common carriers. Such regulation under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 would require that carriers share access to their lines and fiber networks. Now, Google has weighed in on the issue, reminding the FCC that reclassifying companies like Comcast would serve the public interest and advance the deployment of high speed Internet.

What common carrier classification does and does not do

It may be helpful at this point to revisit what a common carrier is. The concept is ancient, dating back at least as far as the Roman Empire. At various points, governments have placed limits and strictures on professions that were deemed to act in the public interest. An innkeeper might be ordered to serve all customers, as were other individuals with public customers as opposed to private patrons. Common carriage laws were widely applied to railways and other transportation/distribution mediums.

FCC chair Tom Wheeler

Common carriers were historically understood to provide many benefits, including substantial economic ones. One of the most common complaints from the telcos and cable companies is that the cost of building fiber networks (or, in the case of the proposed T-Mobile/AT&T merger, 4G LTE networks), is that it costs too much to be economically viable. AT&T has made and broken repeated promises about network rollouts, often citing cost (Ars Technica has a summary of the shenanigans there over the years). Verizon stopped deploying FiOS citing construction costs and the difficulty of ramping the service in new markets.

Two years ago, an excellent piece by Bruce Kushnik skewered these claims by showing that Verizon’s total construction costs were dropping year-by-year, even as it claimed that FiOS was costing it more and more money. Despite securing additional money specificallyfor FiOS upgrades, the company never spent more cash in real dollars — it just used the state funding it received to pay for fiber, then cut the money it would’ve spent on other networks to allow them to degrade. In Verizon’s case, it actively turned to tearing them out.

This kind of bait-and-switch is what makes complaints that regulation represents unfair intrusion into the free market so damned egregious. For decades, the telecommunications industry has collectively gone running to Congress, crying about the need for a greater slice of the tax revenue and service fee pie, yet simultaneously resisting oversight. It has paid for legislation in nearly half the states that prevents municipalities from building or funding their own broadband services, even in areas the carriers themselves don’t want to service. Comcast saw nothing wrong in telling Congress it had to buy NBC to protect itself from Time-Warner in 2009, only to argue five years later that no, it didn’t compete with Time Warner Cable at all. In fact, the two were actually complementary providers.

Requiring that broadband internet access (BIAS) providers register as common carriers would actually help defray some of the capital costs that the telcos and cable companies whine about on a regular basis. Line sharing makes it easier for new competitors to emerge by reducing barriers to entry. Recent actions, like Comcast’s decision to arbitrarily charge more for modem rentals, illustrates the alternative scenario — this is what happens when consumers are locked into systems that they can’t opt out of, because there’s one (two at the most) games in town.

Google’s argument essentially rests on the idea that as a would-be competitor itself, access to these pre-existing networks would allow it to deliver substantially better rates and lower prices to its customers. Historically, that’s been the case — and the currently situation in which America faces a dwindling number of carriers and even fewer opt ions is serving no one. Tech companies are lining up on both sides of this one, with other major firmsstanding against the FCC’s proposed plan.

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5: Kit Harington Speaks Out About ‘Awful’ Deaths In HBO Series

"Game of Thrones" actor Kit Harington speaks out in defense of the show's gratuitous violence ahead of the Season 5 premiere.

With “Game of Thrones” Season 5 right around the corner, it seems like everyone is ready for more highs and lows from this roller coaster HBO drama. To gear up for what's new, Kit Harington (Jon Snow) is taking time to look back on the series so far - particularly the violence.

Since it premiered in 2011, “Game of Thrones” has been highly criticized for its graphic portrayal of gratuitous sex and violence. The 27-year-old actor, who just finished filming the show’s fifth season according to The Hollywood Reporter, is speaking out about the gruesome fate many characters have met along the way.

“I don't see a problem with it because you mostly always feel the consequences of that person dying," Harington told Radio Times. "In Thrones, it's war, and awful, awful things happen, as we see on the news daily. And if we've got an appetite for watching these things on the news, then you can't shy away from it on cable drama."

Last season alone saw the end of [SPOILER ALERT] several key characters including Joffrey Baratheon, whom viewers watched succumb to a bloody poison at his own wedding. The character was one of the most hated fiends on television, but his death was so brutal and graphic that it allowed many to empathize with him in a way that a faster execution would not. This sentiment rings true for other graphic deaths like Prince Oberyn Martell or Rob Stark (pretty much the whole Red Wedding, actually). The more gruesome the loss, the more that character's absence is felt by fans.

As A.V. Club notes, the violence in the series is often meant to heighten the empathy felt toward a dying character rather than desensitize the public to all things bloody. Sure, graphic violence can be entertaining to some, but "Game of Thrones" seems to pride itself on never doing it for its own sake. It's a tool in the storytelling tool belt rather than a crutch.

“Song of Ice and Fire” author George R.R. Martin has defended the show’s violence in the past -- particularly with regard to the sexual violence -- by arguing that to avoid such human drama, in a relatively historical show, would be dishonest and irresponsible.

While fans and cast alike have to defend the show’s bloodiness, viewership of “Game of Thrones” doesn’t seem to be impacted by the controversy. According to Variety, the show’s Season 4 finale averaged 7.1 million viewers, making it one of the most watched shows on television. Year-after-year it continues to be one of the most pirated shows online as well.

Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” is currently scheduled to air on HBO sometime in the spring of 2015. Only fans of the book series have an idea of what gruesome deaths and bloody violence lies in wait for the characters of Westeros. Show watchers will just have to wait and see.

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WALKIN INTERVIEWS FOR FRESHERS ON 5TH JAN 2015

Mphasis Walkin Interviews for Freshers on 5th Jan 2015.

Job Description:- Mphasis are Conducting a Walkin fresher’s Drive on 5th Jan 2015 for Software Engineers for more education qualifications details find below the Details and schedule.

Company Name:- Mphasis

Job Type:- Walkin,

Education Qualification:-
B.com,BBA, BBM,
Regular passed out with 60%, No-Backlogs
Good in Subject knowledge
Good in Communication skills

Desire Candidate Profile:-
-Candidate Must have more than 60% Marks in overall Graduation without any backlogs and remarks
-Candidate Should have Ability to do work with any inconvenience
-Candidate must have responsible and analysis with his team members
-Candidate should have the leadership quality skills to maintain his team.

Salary:- 3, 00,000 to 4, 50,000 Per Annual(Negotiable)

Interview Process:-
> Written Test
> Group Discussion
> Thinking and Logical or Reasoning Skills
> Technical Round
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Experience:- freshers 2014 Pass out

Working Location/Area:- Bangalore,

Apply Information:- Direct Walk-in

Interview Schedule:-

Important Date:- 05th Jan 2015

Last Date:- 05th Jan 2015

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