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  1. Veek M

    Hathway Rs. 349 broadband plan offers unlimited downloads at 50Mbps speeds

    yeah hathway always felt fraudulent - remember many years ago when Zee was in the broadband/cable business - hathway used to run CAT5 cables to provide 10Mbps - lol! (clever sure but dodgy and duct-tape solution)
  2. Veek M

    Hathway Rs. 349 broadband plan offers unlimited downloads at 50Mbps speeds

    what's the ratio of users/total capacity? 50Mbps from where to where? Is that measured via a torrent download?
  3. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52478783 It is though the anti-virals may be more effective in the early stages, and the immune drugs later in the disease. remdesivir is not a magic bullet in this context: the overall benefit in survival was 30%." Other drugs being investigated for Covid-19...
  4. Veek M

    Beware: Avast and AVG are officially snoopware!

    yeah the rules are simple 1. don't click/run anything you don't understand well (weird apps/documents/pdf/movie-codecs) 2. keep your ports closed - you don't even need a firewall or a login once this is done 3. don't try to hide from CIA/KGB/China-whatever/etc the trouble comes when you want to...
  5. Veek M

    Beware: Avast and AVG are officially snoopware!

    no need to use an AvP.. I've used all sorts of AvPs and they only slow things down :( I dual boot from Linux so if I do need to scan a USB I just reboot into Linux and look at the USB (guess you could use the Linux scanner) Currently I use linux full time so.. been a while since I've actually...
  6. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    oh hmm.. it uses a Electrostatic dissipative layer to filter/attract dust/etc so WATER should NOT be used - interesting - thanks! (and apparently the insides reach 169Deg - honestly it sounds unbelievable given what I've encountered where temp with a pressure cooker adjusted for altitude reaches...
  7. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    Soapy water! the soap will tear apart the virus! let it dry in the sun but I'm not sure it's a good idea to leave them out for days on end - the UV will also destroy the plastic.. (if you have colloidal silver or copper that MAY help - you will note that on copper the lifespan of the virus is a...
  8. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    bats carry rabies - a virus
  9. Veek M

    Corona virus

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52413431 Faced with a loan for the house, upcoming medical bills and children's school fees, Mary is trying to find work as a cleaner in their area but the lockdown is making it much more difficult to get on top of their finances. Sunil is helping them with money...
  10. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/virus-has-mutated-into-10-types-one-now-dominant-across-regions-study/articleshow/75417399.cms study showed that A2a accounted for 47.5% of the samples. Interestingly, more persons with type A2a have no known travel history to countries outside...
  11. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    mask just prevents aerosol - not meant to protect you :)
  12. Veek M

    Corona virus

    > completely agree that the most powerful men of India should be behind the bars so you plan on locking up the middle class? How many people here have been to a consumer court, paid bribes-directly/indirectly? We all accept corruption. FOCUS ON constructive activities and DON'T LISTEN to...
  13. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    no idea.. basically there are tiny hair like structures in the lung called cilia that keep the lungs clean - without them, the lungs would be prone to infection/disease and you'd die if enough of them were damaged. What the virus seems to be doing BY MY UNDERSTANDING is to damage those cilia...
  14. Veek M

    Corona-virus: medical tips and tricks thread

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8245373/How-coronavirus-kills-silent-hypoxia-Patients-experiencing-life-threatening-oxygen-drops.html patients be monitored with a simple device called a pulse oximeter that measures oxygen levels before the dip too low they had no idea they had the...
  15. Veek M

    Any working torrent site ? All my sources are dead.. need something during lockdown.

    Well.. they usually have a website and a IRC channel and you got to know someone who'll give you an invite to register on their page. Then you use their-private-tracker-torrent server to access the peer/ip list of people seeding/downloadinh whatever torrent. Once your client has the peer list it...
  16. Veek M

    Any working torrent site ? All my sources are dead.. need something during lockdown.

    what happens if it's publicly posted. I just do site:.ru :p but it's been much time since I've used torrents.. movies are streaming now :) and books are in .ru so.. what more do you want? (porn's too gross for search but nicer stuff is available for free - just search for chick/women's porn)...
  17. Veek M

    Any Reddit fans here?

    I've used QQ - it's like a protected playground for children. Ordinary Chinese don't have a lot of exposure to foreigners and so the CCP has allowed foreign teachers in - the students say things that Indians with more exposure normally would not say. (that does not make us any less racist) Also...
  18. Veek M

    Any Reddit fans here?

    exaggeration does not substitute for competence - there is no 'case', or defense. If you rubbish something people are likely to ask you why. (your use of 'agent of CCP china' is offensive because you have no personal knowledge and are speculating). Do you have any experience dealing with the...
  19. Veek M

    Any Reddit fans here?

    Why is that a bad thing - CCP? We were Socialist kind-off at Independence. It's true that many Indians feel China is the enemy but we were ruled by the British. Also, the CCP has brought the Chinese people development and a united nation. I am not pro capitalism/communism - but Indians should...
  20. Veek M

    Prepping for Armageddon - my list of chemicals, any suggestions/modifications?

    my list got shot down by the chemical store - I explained the canning preserving bit - he got cautious - told me - No. (go for a shorter simpler list with no back-story - they don't like complexity) He wouldn't even sell me the bottles after I opened my mouth about canning/preserving...