Interesting, more than one reason. I've
downloaded the first couple of books, will check them out.
Udhay
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Sales were not spectacular and fel
On Monday 10 Sep 2007 10:05 am, Venky wrote:
> Forgive me for a couple of naive questions - but just to clarify
> things - are you actually okay with the government recording the
> keystrokes of every person using a cyber cafe, and more
> importantly, do you buy the argument that national security
Works great !
Thanks
Deepak
On 9/7/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 9/7/07, Deepak Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My requirement is open FF if link clicked from thunderbird and open IE
> if
> > clicked from outlook
>
> Oh sorry. My bad. Why don't you set FF as your defau
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:18:07PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
> All the personal security measures that I mentioned cannot apply anyway in
> cybercafes. Personal security does not exist in cybercafes with or without
> government snooping. So why the angst? Anybody could snoop, even without
> tel
shiv sastry wrote [at 07:55 AM 9/10/2007] :
Udhay can you educate me on how voting with your feet or taking them to a
court in India can help if a Credit Card company employee spends Rs 100,000
on your credit card account and you get a bill 3 weeks later?
Two things, which are interconnected:
On Monday 10 Sep 2007 8:47 am, Amit Varma wrote:
> Another important distinction, Shiv: I choose to associate with any credit
> card company I deal with, and any risk I take is of my own volition. It is
> not so with the government.
Sorry if I have have caused hurt and it is a pleasure to address
Another important distinction, Shiv: I choose to associate with any credit
card company I deal with, and any risk I take is of my own volition. It is
not so with the government.
On 9/10/07, Amit Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Udhay can you educate me on how voting with your feet or taking t
>
> Udhay can you educate me on how voting with your feet or taking them to a
> court in India can help if a Credit Card company employee spends Rs
> 100,000
> on your credit card account and you get a bill 3 weeks later?
>
Shiv, since I wrote that piece, permit me to do to answer this question. T
Most of all, I can vote with my feet and use another company. (see the
"accountability" bit in the quote above, which you've - doubtless for
excellent reasons - not addressed in your rant)
Now being discussed on Slashdot.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/09/2011240.shtml
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On Monday 10 Sep 2007 6:59 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Credit card company employees are also going to
> be tempted. However, I have some kind of
> recourse, in their case. I can take them to
> court, if I suspect that they are misusing my
> details. I can create bad PR in the press for the compan
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 06:40 AM 9/10/2007 ]
"The Mumbai police, like all police in India, consists of underpaid people
given excessive powers over others, with little accountability. So how do you
expect them to behave?
Unless a policemanâs self-interest is perfectly aligned with the public
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/06/asia/AS-ODD-Nepal-Airplane-Sacrifice.php
This really gets my goat. [1]
Cheerio,
M
[1] Surprised Udhay did say this first.
--
Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk222 at cornell dt edu
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 9:13 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> There's an EU directive requiring all ISPs to log connection info
> by law (it must become law 2008). This includes which IP
> made which connection to which other IP at which time -- more
> than enough noose to hang ya.
Lovely. Lovely.
In fact
> A photograph published in the Kantipur newspaper earlier this week
> showed the two goats sacrificed in front of the plane Sunday. The
> photographer was detained for hours for taking photographs in a
> restricted area.
>
Was the photographer also sacrificed? Definitely, safety norms have been..
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:00:00PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
> Incidentally - someone somewhere and some years ago stated (to me, or in some
> list/forum) that if ISPs in the US found that you were using P2P clients to
> download MP3s regarded as copyrighted your illegal action could be reported
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 5:06 pm, ashok _ wrote:
> It wont be long before someone tries to legislate the same for a
> private connection in
> your home.
Incidentally - someone somewhere and some years ago stated (to me, or in some
list/forum) that if ISPs in the US found that you were using P2P clie
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 07:59 PM 9/9/2007 ]
Everyone is pimping information, and the citizens of this world are
cheerfully
catering to those pimps. To my knowledge, my fingerprints are not yet of any
official database. But they will get there sooner of later - when I apply for
some kind of visa
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:59:10PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
> Everyone is pimping information, and the citizens of this world are
> cheerfully
> catering to those pimps. To my knowledge, my fingerprints are not yet of any
> official database. But they will get there sooner of later - when I ap
One hopes that the sacrifice was in conformity with ISO 9002 requirements
shiv
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 6:53 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/06/asia/AS-ODD-Nepal-Airplane-Sacrif
>ice.php
>
> Nepalese airline sacrifices goats to please gods, help repair airplane
>
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 5:06 pm, ashok _ wrote:
> So what you are saying is that because there might be some unscruplous
> cybercafe operators who might be pimping my personal information from a
> cybercafe... its alright
> for the government to pimp everyones information from every cybercafe
>
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/06/asia/AS-ODD-Nepal-Airplane-Sacrifice.php
Nepalese airline sacrifices goats to please gods, help repair airplane
The Associated Press
Published: September 6, 2007
KATMANDU, Nepal: Nepal's state run airline sacrificed two goats
earlier this week, hoping i
On 9/9/07, shiv sastry wrote:
> In fact there is an element of irony in the complaint that cyber-cafes are
> going to come under big brothers eye. A significant proportion of people
> doing the complaining either do not use cyber cafes or will stop using them
> henceforth and shift to what they con
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:21:05PM +0200, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> What a large-scale invasion of privacy. To top it all, India's most
Tell that to the NSA. Or to the nitwits we call the local government,
which are pushing for government malware, aka the bundestrojan. At
the same time, outla
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 1:49 pm, ashok _ wrote:
> You are a brave man indeed. You must have utmost faith in the
> competence of the police to handle such information.
In fact there is an element of irony in the complaint that cyber-cafes are
going to come under big brothers eye. A significant prop
On 9/9/07, shiv sastry wrote:
> Does that make every one of
> us cultural Nazis?
>
> One person's security is another man's breach of freedom.
>
> shiv
You are a brave man indeed. You must have utmost faith in the
competence of the police to handle such information.
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