Review: Shrek 3

"Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas are back in their cartoon avatar, albeit voices in Shrek The Third, offering plenty of fun to both kids and adults. Anyone who has gone through the process of becoming a father will identify with the lovable ogre as fatherhood claims another victim in this third installment of the popular animated adventure."

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Alert! Wireless Identity Thieves on the prowl

"According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), the seeds of the nation's largest identity theft operation involving customers of TJX Companies (owners of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and other discount stores) began in the parking lot outside a Marshalls discount clothing store in St. Paul, Minnesota. Criminal hackers, using a directional antenna, sat in their car and eavesdropped on wireless communications within the store. Over an unspecified period of time, the thieves were able to capture everything from the use of wireless handheld price-checking devices to wireless cash register transactions. But it was the wireless network for the store's main computers that ultimately allowed the criminal hackers into TJX. Once inside that network they were able to download millions of credit card numbers, some which have shown up on carder networks in eight different countries."

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Dream roadtrip?

"The 434 km National Highway 1D, which connects Srinagar with Leh and is the only road that connects Ladakh with the Kashmir valley, was reopened on May 1.

Ladakh, comprising Leh and Kargil districts, remains cut off from rest of the country for nearly six months as the Srinagar-Leh highway is closed from November to May every year due to heavy snowfall at Zojila Pass and adjacent areas.

The only other road to Ladakh, the Leh-Manali highway, too remains buried under snow through most of the year.

The Zojila Pass, which is at an altitude of 3,505 metres above sea level, is the gateway from lush Kashmir to the cold desert region of Ladakh, which, geographically, is part of the Tibetan plateau.

Besides the Zojila, two other mountain passes on the Srinagar-Leh highway are the Namikala (3,719 m) and the Fotula (4,094 m)."

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