Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:50 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 9:19:23 pm Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: >> > The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting >> > derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut >> > community. Police have i

Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Valsa Williams
That's a beautiful reminder of our core values. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:50 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 9:19:23 pm Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > > The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting > > > derogatory content about Congress party chief So

Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread ss
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 9:19:23 pm Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting > > derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut > > community. Police have identified the accused as Nithin Chkravarthi > > Does anyone here kno

Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Bharat Shetty
Not sure, but possibly a related video from a quick search of youtube: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=7p4Y_604mho Some comments mention that he had said something to Sonia's mother. But even after close observations of the video on Youtube, I couldn't figure it out. This seems to be the community w

Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Have various people file a suit against this "congress activist" for harassment? Similarly, a counter suit against any "cyber law" experts that try to comment in favor of this arrest. Havent the usual idiots like Duggal, Naavi etc chimed in yet? suresh > -Original Message- > Fro

Re: [silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Bharat Shetty wrote: [snip] > The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting > derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut > community. Police have identified the accused as Nithin Chkravarthi Does anyone here know if there is

[silk] Disturbing

2008-06-24 Thread Bharat Shetty
Very disturbing: The Pune police on Saturday arrested one more person for posting derogatory content about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut community. Police have identified the accused as Nithin Chkravarthi Suresh Sahha (22), a resident of Sharan Apartment, Begum Peth in Hyderabad.

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
> > Heh! Yeah, following attributions across the Internet is > like a game > of Chinese whispers. Which is why if I were using a quote > from the > Internet to bolster (what appears to be) a made-up story > about my > past, I would be a little more careful researching it! :) > > Venky, the Seco

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Venky TV
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:32 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 3:57:57 pm Venky TV wrote: >> So, she was not the only one who got caught out by this, eh?! >> >> >> http://www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_achievemen >> >>t.h tml > > Not by a long shot.

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread ss
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 3:57:57 pm Venky TV wrote: > So, she was not the only one who got caught out by this, eh?! > > >> http://www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_achievemen > >>t.h tml Not by a long shot. It appears that the site you linked is also in the same club 1) It is

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Venky TV
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:09 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 2:35:38 pm Venky TV wrote: >> What >> we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." > > Uncle Google lists this in pages containing quotes by Plutarch So, she was not the only one who got caught out by this,

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Venky TV
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:09 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 2:35:38 pm Venky TV wrote: >> What >> we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." > > Uncle Google lists this in pages containing quotes by Plutarch So, she was not the only one who got caught out by this,

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread ss
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 2:35:38 pm Venky TV wrote: > http://www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_achievement.h >tml Some quotes on this page (other than that attributed to Otto Rank) do not match up with the stated author. For example the quote below the Otto Rank quote can be

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread ss
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 2:35:38 pm Venky TV wrote: > What > we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." Uncle Google lists this in pages containing quotes by Plutarch shiv

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Venky TV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > You see how, if you just read this section, it looks like the "outer > reality" quote is Plutarch's? Well, the attribution is actually below > the quote! Oops! Too bad she made up the story about going to the > Class

Re: [silk] Is conflict necessary for progress?

2008-06-24 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 09:50 -0700, Thaths wrote: > I was pointing out that the argument that conflict leads to progress > is only a few steps away from the invisible hand argument of the > Libertarianism. hm? as opposed to the visible hand argument of stalinism? i think you've stepped into the Ab

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-24 Thread Venky TV
This caught my eye while catching up with old Silk posts. Interesting speech, but this particular bit sounded weird: "One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by

Re: [silk] Fwd: India's Cyber Laws

2008-06-24 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Ashok Krish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of questions from my journalist brother seeking to outsource his > leg work to the wise folks on Silk. He may be better served outsourcing his legwork to india-gii [1], which is in the throes of discussing this [2]

Re: [silk] Fwd: India's Cyber Laws

2008-06-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Yes they are outdated, they're mostly poor copies of other laws (in particular some from Singapore) that are fairly old. And the regulators / law enforcement often need more training But this is not a cyberlaw issue as such. These efforts at lawful intercept are amateurish, yes. Join the india-

[silk] Fwd: India's Cyber Laws

2008-06-24 Thread Ashok Krish
A couple of questions from my journalist brother seeking to outsource his leg work to the wise folks on Silk. Krish Raghav says - 'In the context of the Blackberry issue, would you say that its time to rethink India's Information technology laws? Are Indian Cyber Laws outdated? If they are, are