Sunday, September 9, 2012

What can Google do with its data (Big Data)?

I read a recent post by a famous database architect highlighting the same question in SIGMOD blogs.

Google now has the data of all its users (suppose its 90% of all the net users)
According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm, the total internet users in the world are around 2.2 billion of the total 6.9 billion population as of last december (2011).

It means google has the data of around 1/3rd of world's population. 
What data google has?
Lets suppose a person A has been using Google for the past 7 years.
Now google has the following information about this person A

1)How many times A searched google
2)What are the topics A searched in google for the past 7 years with all the statistics per each topic; now this information is a very critical part of the analytics, by viewing the results you can easily find out what kind of a person A has been for the past 7 years.
does he like sex? does he like movies more? does he like technical stuff more etc etc
3) At what times of the day A does his searches? this information shows how many hours A spends on google, though we can't determine by this whether he is employed or sitting at home (of course this info we can find out by checking the source ip from which A is doing his search)
4) what are the likes and dislikes of A?
5) Does A hate someone?
6) Who are A's family, you can easily get this by linking his facebook/twitter and other accounts as most of the accounts have gmail as the user id
7) whether A wants to commit suicide? is he depressed or frustrated? does he want to kill someone?
8) how popular is A; you can get this info by checking how many friends he has, how many likes he get in his social network site.

There are so many things you can do with this data; you can check if A wants to buy something this weekend? what are his plans for the weekend? his outings etc etc

If we consider all this, then its not a wise decision to store all our data in google or facebook.
Its good to keep it in our hard disks and share it only with our close friends and relatives when necessary. Ofcourse if its a sensitive thing then donot ever put it online ( especially something about your past relationships :)  )

what happens when this vital data about you is stolen and falls into a terrorist organization or Police department.
what happens if this information is percieved seriously by the Crime branches?
There is a serious threat to all if we continue to share our information and be part of Big Data.
These are definitely worrisome signs. 
This is just a tip of the iceberg.
If you combine all of your mobile (phone) voice data, internet data,  social networking data and google (search engine) data then you are just left with nothing to hide.
There won't be a single thing that you can hide from the Big Data.

What does all this indicate? 
This is definitely leading to another world which we humans created and that's what people say the cyber world. 
So by the end of 21st century, humans created a pseudo world called "internet" and dumped all their data into it and spent all their lives in this pseudo world and slowly started forgetting the real world.

Where is the real world that we live? no where?
we spend 8-10 hours of a day in office, 1-2 hours on phone, 1-2 hours on the internet and then we eat and sleep; there is just no time for us to live in this real world.
We created two days for ourselves called "saturday" and "sunday" and started to feel that these two days are the real days to spend quality time with our families and with the nature.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

nuvvu naaku nachchav comedy scene is a direct copy from "Meet the parents"

I just saw one of the comedy scenes of Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller starrer, "meet the parents" released in the year, 2000.
The scene is how Ben prays to god on the dining table and how De Niro reads a poem about his mother.
Now the sad part is this scene is just copied in our telugu movie, "nuvvu naaku nachchav", starring venkatesh and aarti agarwal; directed by k.vijay bhaskar released in 2001.
the complete comedy scene is just a word to word translation from english to telugu.

This telugu movie was one of the highest grossers and became a huge hit due to the comedy in the movie and the director vijay bhaskar became very popular. Till now I wasn't aware that this has a copied scene and now I lost all the respect for Mr. vijay bhaskar.
Our telugu movie makers are proving the same thing again and again that they are the best at copying.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

I haven't seen God but I did see Charlton Heston

Its an honor to watch you in the movies and its an honor to know about you Mr. Will Penny

Thursday, August 9, 2012

my guppies in my apartment started breeding

we saw 4 little mini guppies in our fish tank day before yesterday.
i guess our female guppy started delivering babies on wednesday.
now the males are continuously harassing the female and hence I separated the males and put them in a bucket.

anyhow its delivery time in my house now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cleared my MCTS 70-432 exam

yes finally.
After 8 years of experience on SQL Server I've attended Microsoft Certification exam today and cleared it.

So now I am a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in SQL Server 2008.

My next levels which I may attempt are:

70-457 - Transition MCTS to MCSA SQL Server 2012 Part 1

70-458  - Transition MCTS to MCSA SQL Server 2012 Part2

The next question is - Is 206 AUD worth for each certification?
I might give them a go later.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

plagiarism at its best - chandramukhi's original(manichitrathazhu) is a copy of Kudrat (chetan anand's classic)

Its sad that many of our indian movies are remakes of some other movies in different languages.
What saddens me most is when our own indian movies plagiarize our own movies of a different language.
This was what happened with the great Malayalam movie, Manichitrathazhu (shobhana, mohan lal, suresh gopi; written by Madhu Muttam and directed by Fazil and released in 1994


This movie was later remade into "chandramukhi" starring rajani kanth, prabhu and jyothika which was a huge success.


The fact is that the original version of Manichitrathazhu is a copy of the Hindi classic called "Kudrat" written and directed by the master director, Chetan Anand; rajesh khanna, hema malini and vinod khanna are the actors in this movie. this was released in 1981.


I just watched Kudrat and the performances by rajesh khanna and others are too good and by the time the interval is over I came to know that this is similar to Chandramukhi.
In fact hema malini's character name in the movie is Chandramukhi.

I am not sure if the original writer, Madhu Muttam gave credit to our great Chetan Anand or he just copied the story and made crores. 
Anyhow I wanted to highlight this to the people to know that Chandramukhi's original is not a master piece but infact a copy of Chetan Anand's classic.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Big business; Outsourcing a Country's Democracy

This perfectly suits Indian Democracy, looking at the current state of affairs.
Murders, Rapes, crimes, Mafia, corruption, rising prices, poverty,  "babudom", inefficient bureaucracy and so many unsolved problems still exist.

Then the next question comes to who would be the most eligible organization to take over this mammoth task.
I strongly feel no other company matches the skills and the past successes of East India Company (UK).
Hence I urge the UK government to pitch in and look out for this business option.
How about a 100 billion Pounds for this deal?? 
I know we, Indians have enough money for this; even if we pledge 5% of our country's gold that is more than enough to convince Britishers to accept this lucrative offer.

There is no other nation which has such a strong military order, a highly efficient bureaucracy and a commanding presence other than the UK.

Dear MR. David Cameroon,
       Can you please accept my sincere request to bid for an outsourcing deal with India and save all of us Indians from further grief? we would definitely rethink to renew the 5 year contract to a 10 year one after the first term ends.