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Friends of Technology: The hidden beauty of airport runways, and how to d...: Almost all airport designs are governed by regulations established by the International Civil Aviation Organization to ensur...

The hidden beauty of airport runways, and how to decipher them

Almost all airport designs are governed by regulations established by the International Civil Aviation Organization to ensure pilots circling Toledo or Timbuktu remain properly oriented and deliver their passengers safely—Wellington International Airport

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Bird's eye secrets

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(Wired) -- Airports are known for rules and regulations, a reputation that applies to the runways as well. Almost all airport designs are governed by regulations established by the International Civil Aviation Organization to ensure pilots circling Toledo or Timbuktu remain properly oriented and deliver passengers and cargo safely.

Lauren O'Neil turns those strictures into art, with the help of Google Earth. The Brooklyn-based designer has made a meticulous study of airport runways and logged the results on a Tumblr called Holding Pattern. These views reveal beautiful compositions at airports that are nothing special at ground level.

"I've found even the most humdrum cities or outdated terminals can have beautiful compositions from bird's-eye," O'Neil says. "Even Cleveland rocks!"

Dozens of carefully cropped images reveal common traits among airports, and the logic and order embodied by seemingly random lines becomes clear. Here are some tips to help make sense of the mishmash of lines and symbols you might see from seat 17F.

Runway Math

Airport runways aren't numbered based on priority, but compass bearings. A runway that is 194° away from magnetic north would be simplified to 190° to prevent rounding errors, and the last digit is dropped, leaving it at 19. Fun fact: Most runways are able to be used in both directions, and when approached from the opposite side the runway's number is achieved by subtracting 18 or 180°.

Flying Fonts

Airports use a specialized font to number their runways. It's highly geometric, which eliminates confusing curves and can be reduced to simple schematics, making it easy for groundskeepers lacking typographic training to recreate. The font apparently has no name, but the numbers are called "runway designators" in pilot parlance.

These geometric numbers are used on runways due to their unmistakable shapes and their ability to be easily drawn.

Courtesy Transport Canada

Look Out!

Lines radiating like spokes around unpaved patches are common in many of O'Neil's images and act as warnings to pilots to stay off the airport's lawn. Many airports are built on soft soils, so a fully-loaded Airbus A380, weighing 230 metric tons at takeoff, will sink into a patch of sod quickly, requiring hours of recovery, repair, and rerouting.

USA! USA!

Not only does the United States refuse to get on board with the metric system and day/month notation, but we can't even agree with anyone aside from the Philippines on what to call the area of pavement where passengers get on and off the planes. From Cootamundra Airport in Australia to the Bloodvein River Airport in central Canada, this area is called an apron. Here in the states, we call it a ramp. Whatever you do, don't call it a tarmac unless it's actually got a tar surface.

Flyer's Ed

A runway, like most roads, has a center line. But there are plenty of markings unfamiliar to drivers. Eight white bars that resemble piano keys mark the threshold and give pilots an indication of where it would be safe to touch down. Two large white rectangles are the aiming points—the areas pilots should, well, aim for, followed by touchdown markers represented by four white bars. Chevrons at the end of the runway mark the direction of a given strip, but if your plane hits one during takeoff or landing know that a disaster was narrowly averted.

Lines of White? Ready for Flight! Lines of Yellow? Prepare to Mellow.

No pilots actually say this, but it's good to know that if you see white lines and markings it means you're en route to take off. If you see yellow lines and markings, you're stuck on the taxiway.

Color, and the giant yellow "TAXI," that mark the difference between runways and taxiways are to see clear in this image of Boston's Logan International Airport.

Courtesy Lauren O'Neil

About the Artist

O'Neil always has lived under the flight paths of airports--a tiny municipal airstrip in her hometown and JFK in New York City--and grew fascinated by the cadence of departures and the changing flight paths over the course of the day. During a moment of wanderlust she opened Google Earth and started contemplating runway layouts from a birds-eye perspective.

O'Neil traveled the globe, virtually, to create beautiful images based on bureaucratic design guidelines. With her art direction, Denver's broad expanses of dull grey concrete tiles became dynamic. Her crop of a runway in Wellington, New Zealand, laced with bright yellow lines became a work worthy of Joan Miró. And hidden treasures, like an inscription in honor of Amelia Earhart, was uncovered in the aesthetic wasteland that is Newark's Liberty International airport.

Each image starts with a clear itinerary, but O'Neil is open to diversions.

"I'm really drawn to the patterns, line work, and typography on the tarmac—especially as it contrasts with the geography," she says. "I was really inspired by the Madrid-Barajas airport after mapping it for Holding Pattern. Everything seemed so considered and straightforward, which lent itself to stronger compositions," she says.

Turns out, MAD is considered a textbook example of good runway design, known for maximizing the flow of air traffic in a compressed amount of space.

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Friends of Technology: Beware!!!! Its a new way to hack...: Now a days hackers are applying new technique for ransom and to do fraud with the innocent people. Example: Introduction : Mr. Raj ...

Beware!!!! Its a new way to hack...

Now a days hackers are applying new technique for ransom and to do fraud with the innocent people.

Example:
Introduction :
Mr. Raj (An innocent doctor, Not having knowledge of cyber world)
Mr. hacker (A criminal with bad mind to earn money)
Scenario :
One day Mr. Raj suddenly received a call from Mr. Hacker.
Mr. Hacker: Hello, Is this Mr. Raj.
Raj: Yes, Who is this.
Hacker: Sir i am hacker and your mobile number got hacked. If you want your number back please deposit Rs 20000 in some xyz bank account.
Raj: Hello, Hello, Hello, who is this.. who is this..How dare you done this....
(Call disconnected)
(Suddenly Raj received a call from a friend)
Friend: Hey! Raj you had given missed call to me, What happen???
Raj to Friend: Nope!!! i didn't gave you any missed call...
(Raj is in tension, Now all the relatives of Raj started receiving a missed call from Raj.)
(Raj even don't know about this, What is happening...)
End:
Let me explain you the scenario, here hacker is smart enough and doing a spam with Mr. Raj.
What kind of spam is this, How hacker is doing all this????
Hacker first installed a malware into Mr. Raj's cell phone to read all the call logs from Mr. Raj's cell phone.
Now all the numbers in dialed call list, Started receiving missed calls from hacker.
The hacker was using Mr. Raj's number to give the missed call.
Here, the hacker was using a technique called as call spoofing.
Sir, What is Call Spoofing?
With Call spoofing technique anyone can call to anyone else with any number or name.
For ex. I can call you from your father's number.
Sir, How hackers can do this call spoofing?
They either use some call spoofing applications or some websites also provides this kind of services.
For ex. http://www.spoofcard.com/ or http://crazycall.net/
Sir, How can i detect, whether it's a spoof call or a real call?
You have to check the country code of the call.
For ex. look at the image attachment.
Sir, How hacker installed this malware in Mr. Raj's cell phone?
Mr. Raj is a game lover. He downloaded some free games from internet or some free applications. With this free games or some free applications malware was attached with it. As soon as Mr. Raj installed the freeware malware installed successfully.
Note: i am not again'st of free games or applications, But i just want to make you aware about all this kind of frauds and fooling techniques.
(Share this, If you want to spread awareness.)

Friends of Technology: Windows 8: Why the start menu is irrelevant

Friends of Technology: Windows 8: Why the start menu is irrelevant: Editorial Although every product deserves healthy criticism, many opinions of Windows 8 seem to be based on misconceptions, especial...

Windows 8: Why the start menu is irrelevant

Editorial Although every product deserves healthy criticism, many opinions of Windows 8 seem to be based on misconceptions, especially when it comes to the viability of Metro as a Start menu replacement.
For the record, I don't care if you skip the update -- hell, I might pass on it too -- nor do I care if it's the most failtastic operating system in Windows' 26-year history. While certain anonymous posters might try to convince you otherwise, I have nothing to gain or lose from the launch of Windows 8.
However, I believe your opinion should be formed by facts, not irrational rhetoric parroted online by so-called power users and companies that want to sell you third-party programs. I can say without a doubt that many people who oppose the Start menu's removal haven't even used Windows 8, yet they don't hesitate to inform you about Metro's inadequacies by listing all the features it's supposedly missing. The truth is, functionally speaking, Metro is basically identical to the Start menu.
The Start menu serves as a means of quick navigation. With one mouse click or keystroke you can access a list of your most-used and pinned applications, common Windows destinations, as well as the ability to instantly search for other programs and files. All of the above remains true for Metro. By clicking the same spot or tapping the same key, you'll find a list of your most-used and pinned applications, common Windows destinations and the ability to perform a system-wide search.
The difference being Metro's fullscreen, tiled presentation, which is admittedly a little jarring until you get used to it. Aesthetics aside (I think it's ugly too), detractors insist Metro hinders multitasking because it blocks vision of the desktop -- a sound argument until it's confronted with reality. Again, we're speaking about Metro strictly as a Start menu successor and I don't know about you, but when I use the Start menu, it's a three-second affair: I open the menu and I click a program.
Metro is no different. Assuming it's used to launch programs, I don't see what you could possibly be doing in Metro for so long that it feels like an interruption. Likewise, I don't understand what you could be doing in the desktop mode that's so important it can't be covered for a few seconds. If your workload is that urgent, maybe it deserves a dedicated display so it's always visible. What's more, the very act of opening a new application suggests you're inviting a distraction or shifting tasks anyway.
In fact, one could argue that Metro improves multitasking and reduces interruptions. Live tiles show dynamically updated data, with early examples including weather, finance, and calendar apps. It also seems reasonable to expect popular utilities such as those that monitor hardware utilization and network traffic to be available. Metro can update you on a chunk of info at a glance while housing truly distracting things you might not want to see constantly refreshing in a desktop gadget or system tray icon.
Even if you don't use live tiles, the fact that Metro is fullscreen should also help, not hinder multitasking because it ought to be quicker and easier to find whatever you're looking for. The Start menu shows 10 applications by default with support for up to 30 and if your desired program isn't offered immediately, you have to dig deeper into the All Programs list. This is less likely to occur in Metro as it can hold over 100 tiles (I didn't bother counting further) with about 84 visible at once on my 1080p monitor.
It's also worth noting that you can run Windows 8 without ever opening Metro -- I haven't used it once outside testing. I also rarely used the Start menu. Both are inferior to third-party apps like Launchy. It's interesting to me that "power users" should be the most capable of adapting to life without the Start menu, yet they're taking the news harder than everyone else. Windows has never been, and likely never will be perfect out of the box. Windows 8 is no different: you'll have to tweak things to your liking.
While I'm tired of the senseless bashing, Microsoft isn't without fault. Being the biggest change in Windows 8 and part of its forward-looking strategy, the company has placed most of its marketing effort behind Metro and its mobile-oriented features, to the point where many people seem to think Metro is Windows 8. That simply isn't true. If you avoid Metro -- which, again, is very easy -- Windows 8 is essentially a refined version of Windows 7, in the same way 7 was a refined version of Vista.
For better or worse, Windows is on a majority of the world's PCs and that will include an increasing number of tablets in the coming years. Microsoft and its partners are pitching productivity-oriented slates, so it's logical to strive for a unified platform that lets mobile users tap into the full power of Windows. Metro is clearly a work in progress, but it's a substantial improvement over Windows 7's touch controls while being a sufficient application launcher for all but the squirreliest of desktop users.

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