gin

How messaging app Reliance JioChat makes a mark; check out the top 6 features

A key feature is the peer-to-peer money transfer facility within the app.




gin

As customers demands turn challenging, here is how Maruti Suzuki is looking to stay ahead

The new dealerships will be known as ARENA and will be well equipped digitally to cater to the demand of the tech savvy customers.




gin

Development of engineering exports segment dampening actual steel use

On a similar note, India is trying hard to develop indigenous capacity (Make in India) for machineries and equipment required for, say, new steel capacity augmentation. Otherwise, the large scale of imports of capital goods in the form of machines and equipment for steel plants would have to continue by spending huge foreign exchange and make India import dependent.




gin

Analyst Corner: Valuations of AIA Engineering will remain rich – IDFC Securities

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.




gin

Lower output, price rise to hit cotton yarn margins

India’s cotton production is expected drop by over 5% in cotton season 2019 (the CS is usually from October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019) due to low water availability and inadequate south-west monsoon in key cotton producing states and higher incidences of pest attacks.




gin

Across The Aisle: Imagination is everything in war against reality

On May 3, the governments would have got 40 days time to do those things; the question is, do governments need more time?




gin

Marketing Is Aging Like a Fine Wine [Infographic]

The discipline is projected to mature into a rich blend of social media and mobile engagement.




gin

Aarogya Setu app helped govt in identifying 300 merging hotspots! Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant praises app

Kant has said as many as 69 million people in the country have opted for a self-assessment test in the app which takes the adoption rate of the app to 71 per cent.




gin

Stability analysis Phase margin and loop gain

Hi,

I am designing a resistive feedback TIA which needs a capacitor in its feedback loop for stability.

I would like to know the effect of a feedback capacitor on the phase margin to determine the optimal capacitance value.

My plan is to add it to the results after the stb analysis by using the direct plot>main form > phase margin (add to outputs).However it not getting added to my results list.

What could be a problem? Is there a way to add phase margin to the results using the calculator? 

I also find that the gain from the stability analysis(the closed loop gain) is different from that of the gain obtained for the closed loop simulation in AC analysis. Why is the difference, how is it computed in stability analysis?

Thanks,

-Rakesh.




gin

RTL Compiler Beginner’s Guides Available on Cadence Online Support

With shrinking design nodes, a significant portion of the delays are contributed by the wires rather than the cells. Traditional synthesis tools use fan-out-based wire-load models to provide wire delay information, which has led to significant differences...(read more)




gin

ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus 4.5 Build 4521 Administrative Access

ZOHO ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus version 4.5 Build 4521 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability.





gin

Researcher Raids Browser History For Webmail Login Tokens




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.10

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache(ARP,NDP), IP address(IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.11

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache(ARP,NDP), IP address(IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.20

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.21

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.22

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.23

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.3.0

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.4.0

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.5.0

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the rtnetlink socket, and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.5.1

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the netlink socket and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules, and traffic control.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.6.0

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the netlink socket and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules, and traffic control.




gin

NIELD (Network Interface Events Logging Daemon) 0.6.1

Network Interface Events Logging Daemon is a tool that receives notifications from the kernel through the netlink socket and generates logs related to link state, neighbor cache (ARP,NDP), IP address (IPv4,IPv6), route, FIB rules, and traffic control.




gin

Disk Pulse Enterprise 9.0.34 Login Buffer Overflow

This Metasploit module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Disk Pulse Enterprise 9.0.34. If a malicious user sends a malicious HTTP login request, it is possible to execute a payload that would run under the Windows NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM account. Due to size constraints, this module uses the Egghunter technique.




gin

Wave and Tidal Energy in 2015: Finally Emerging from the Labs

Technologies to harness wave and tidal power have been under development for over 40 years, but up until quite recently the center of technology development has been in Europe, where the resource intensity is greater than the United States’ coasts. However, in an effort to nurture the country’s sector, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Program has invested in a broad portfolio of technologies and Alison Labonte, DOE Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology Manager, revealed that it has recently increased its focus on “innovative, game changing technologies that utilize the most abundant marine resources and that have the greatest potential for achieving economic viability.”




gin

Engineering Possibilities Versus Practical Implementation: Utility Portfolios and Business Models

Europe’s utilities are re-evaluating their business models due to the energy transition. Members of POWER-GEN Europe’s Advisory Board consider how a reliance on fossil fuels is no longer politically desirable, forcing utilities to transform their portfolios to adapt to radical change.




gin

Managing the Risks of Renewable Energy Projects in Developing Countries

Driven by rapid expansion in developing countries, renewables are becoming a significant source of the world’s power.  According to the United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP) 9th “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2015,” investment in developing countries was up 36 percent in 2014, totaling $131.3 billion.




gin

Marubeni Begins Geothermal Survey in Japanese National Park

Marubeni Corp. began a geothermal survey of Daisetsuzan National Park on the northern island of Hokkaido that will continue through February in the hopes Japan will discover more clean-energy sources.




gin

Latin America Report: Gauging Mexico's Wind Energy Market

The U.S. market for wind energy is something of a contradiction: it's one of the world's larger markets and fastest growing with its own supply chain, yet it's still heavily reliant upon a production tax credit, which was renewed at the last minute last December (yet late with enough uncertainty to chill many projects in the pipeline), and this time its renewal is even less certain.




gin

US and China Join Paris Agreement, Bringing it Much Closer to Taking Effect

The United States and China on Sept. 3 formally joined the Paris Agreement in a ceremony in Hangzhou, China, ahead of the G20 Summit. President Obama and President Xi both deposited their country’s official instrument with United Nations Secretary, General Ban-Ki Moon.




gin

UK Discrimination Law Review: Changing terms of employment: indirect age discrimination

Imposing changes to terms and conditions of employment is rarely a straightforward exercise.  As well as dealing with issues such as collective and individual consultation, the risk of unfair dismissal and breach of contract claims, and (in som...




gin

Accessing foreign investment protection for international construction and engineering projects

In 2015, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimated that foreign direct investment for the construction of greenfield projects in developing economies had jumped from US$22 billion in 2013, to US$42 billion in 2014 wit...




gin

Packaging with a view….prize!

The text version of this document in not available. You can...




gin

The beginnings of a “value-for-money” duty under the SMCR?

The FCA has yet to consult on the extension of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime. However, in its Asset Management Market Study: Final Report, MS15/2.3, the FCA signalled its intention to impose a “prescribed responsibility” u...




gin

HR e-briefing 520: Changing terms and conditions; a question of balance

In difficult economic times employers will inevitably look to reduce the costs of employment. However, achieving this in practice can be fraught with legal, practical and also emotive issues. In some circumstances contractual change may be achieved ...




gin

Chill wind of pandemic ravaging economies everywhere

More and more indicators are spelling out the scale of economic damage being wreaked by Covid-19 and the containment measures taken to tackle it, writes Robert Shortt.



  • Analysis and Comment

gin

New coronavirus strain more contagious than original - study


The strain was originally seen spreading in Europe, after which it spread to the rest of the world and is currently the most common strain.




gin

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein: Conversion therapy must begin at very young age


The rabbi claimed that conversion therapy is a necessary procedure between ages 13 and 15 in order to rid people of their homosexual tendencies.




gin

The Chinese chameleon reimagined in the age of Covid-19

The West’s perceptions of China hold up a mirror to its own preoccupations. More nuanced analysis is much-needed

The post The Chinese chameleon reimagined in the age of Covid-19 appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.




gin

Sanders surges in West Virginia, as one-time favorite Clinton falters

Close watchers of the presidential primary say Clinton's ties to Obama hurt her chances to win in the Mountain State




gin

Facebook engine censors iconic photo with Soviet flag raised over Berlin

MOSCOW: Facebook seems to have taken issue with an iconic photo that symbolises the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorised version of it, foreign media reported...

[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]




gin

Facebook engine censors iconic photo with Soviet flag raised over Berlin

MOSCOW: Facebook seems to have taken issue with an iconic photo that symbolises the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorised version of it, foreign media reported...

[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]




gin

Work on Forces School begin

Rawalpindi : The foundation stone laying ceremony of Forces School’s flagship campus was held at Blue World City, one of its kind lifestyle community project, which offers unique leisure and entertainment opportunities of international standards, says a press release.Forces School is an...




gin

SpaceX, Blue Origin land contracts to build NASA's astronaut moon lander

The two companies, plus the space firm Dynetics, will share $967 million from the space agency.





gin

Imagine Being Pulled Off Death Row and Then Being Put Back on It

In 1994, Marcus Robinson, who is black, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 killing of Erik Tornblom, a white teenager, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He spent nearly 20 years on death row, but in 2012 his sentence was changed to life without a chance of parole. He was one of four death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by a judge who found that racial discrimination had played a role in their trials.

The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole when defendants were able to prove racial bias in their charge, jury selection, or sentence.

"The Racial Justice Act ensures that when North Carolina hands down our state's harshest punishment to our most heinous criminals," former Gov. Bev Perdue said when she signed the bill into law, "the decision is based on the facts and the law, not racial prejudice."

At 21, Robinson was the youngest person sentenced to death in North Carolina. When he was three, he was hospitalized with severe seizures after being physically abused by his father and was diagnosed with permanent brain dysfunction. However, those weren't the only troubling aspects of his case.

Racial discrimination in jury selection has been prohibited since it was banned by the Supreme Court in its 1986 Supreme Court decision Batson v. Kentucky, but Robinson's trial was infected with it. The prosecutor in the case, John Dickson, disproportionately refused eligible black potential jurors. For example, he struck one black potential juror because the man had been once charged with public drunkenness. However, he accepted two "nonblack" people with DWI convictions. Of the eligible members of the pool, he struck half the black people and only 14 percent of the nonblack members. In the end, Robinson was tried by a 12-person jury that included only three people of color—one Native American individual and two black people.

Racial discrimination in jury selection was not uncommon in the North Carolina criminal justice system. A comprehensive Michigan State University study looked at more than 7,400 potential jurors in 173 cases from 1990 to 2010. Researchers found that statewide prosecutors struck 52.6 percent of eligible potential black jurors and only 25.7 percent of all other potential jurors. This bias was reflected on death row. Of the 147 people on North Carolina's death row, 35 inmates were sentenced by all-white juries; 38 by juries with just one black member.

Under the Racial Justice Act, death row inmates had one year from when the bill became law to file a motion. Nearly all the state's 145 death row inmates filed claims, but only Robison and three others—Quintel Augustine, Tilmon Golphin, and Christina Walters—obtained hearings. In 2012, Robinson's was the first. At the Superior Court of Cumberland County, Judge Gregory Weeks ruled that race had played a significant role in the trial and Robinson was resentenced to life without parole. North Carolina appealed the decision to the state's Supreme Court.

An immediate outcry followed the decision. The North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys issued a statement saying, "Capital cases reflect the most brutal and heinous offenders in our society. Whether the death penalty is an appropriate sentence for murderers should be addressed by our lawmakers in the General Assembly, not masked as claims (of) racism in our courts."  

The ruling attracted lots of publicity from across the country and North Carolina lawmakers were outraged. "There are definitely signs in the legislative record that there were some [lawmakers] that really wanted to see executions move forward," Cassandra Stubbs, the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project who also represents Robinson, says. Legislative staffers circulated talking points for lawmakers with arguments that the RJA turns "district attorneys into racists and convicted murderers into victims," describing the law as "an end-run around the death penalty and an indefinite moratorium on capital punishment."

The day Judge Weeks resentenced Robinson, the Senate president pro tempore for the state Legislature, Phillip Berger, expressed concern that Robinson could be eligible for parole. He suggested Robinson—who had just turned 18 when he committed the crime and would not have been considered a juvenile—would be ineligible for life in prison without a chance of parole, citing a US Supreme Court ruling that prohibited juveniles from receiving life sentences without parole. "We cannot allow cold-blooded killers to be released into our community, and I expect the state to appeal this decision," he said. "Regardless of the outcome, we continue to believe the Racial Justice Act is an ill-conceived law that has very little to do with race and absolutely nothing to do with justice."

The state Legislature took on the challenge and voted to repeal the Racial Justice Act in 2013. This made it impossible for those on death row to even attempt to have their sentences reviewed for racial bias, but it left the fates of the four who had been moved to life imprisonment unclear. "The state's district attorneys are nearly unanimous in their bipartisan conclusion that the Racial Justice Act created a judicial loophole to avoid the death penalty and not a path to justice," Gov. Pat McCrory said in a statement at the time.

Even though the law was still in effect when the four inmates' sentences were reduced, they weren't safe from death row just yet. Robinson's sentenced had been legally reduced, but the legal battle was just beginning.

In 2015, after nearly two years from the initial hearing, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered the Superior Court to reconsider the reduced sentences for Robinson, Augustine, Golphin, and Walters, saying the judge failed to give the state enough time to prepare for the "complex" proceedings.

This past January, Superior Court Judge Erwin Spainhour ruled that because the RJA had been repealed, the four defendants could no longer use the law to reduce their sentences. "North Carolina vowed to undertake an unprecedented look at the role of racial bias in capital sentencing," says Stubbs. But now, "the state Legislature explicitly turned from its commitment and repealed the law."

Robinson is back on death row at Central Prison in the state's capital of Raleigh. In the petition to the state Supreme Court, Robinson's lawyers point out that the Double Jeopardy Clause—the law that prevents someone from being tried twice for the same crime—bars North Carolina from trying to reimpose the death penalty because the 2012 RJA hearing acquitted him of capital punishment.

"He's never been resentenced to death," Stubbs says. "They have no basis to hold him on death row."



  • Politics
  • Crime and Justice
  • Race and Ethnicity

gin

Lisa Lazareck-Asunta, IEEE’s Women in Engineering Chair, Is Just Getting Started

One of her goals is to make speaker panels and conferences more inclusive




gin

Preventing AI From Divulging Its Own Secrets

A masking defense could stop neural networks from revealing their inner workings to adversaries