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by ajays 16y ago
Jealous, much? I don't know her from Eve, but she would not survive a day in that crowd (Page, Brin, and the other top-level Googlers) if she was "unimpressive".
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by ajays 16y ago
I just saw 2 pics and they were definitely not erotic. Maybe that explains the failure.
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by ajays 16y ago
I understand that WikiLeaks is global. I also know that they have exposed leaks from Kenya, India, etc. But I think there is still room for a local "wikileaks" which is tailored to the local environment in India (which is a big enough count
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by ajays 16y ago
... and the system is setup so that getting a licensed firearm is close to impossible (and you have to pay a lot of bribes to get one).
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by ajays 16y ago
This is an interesting idea, but it needs some cachet to catch on. Don't get me wrong: India _needs_ this site, and needs it badly. Corruption and graft have become so bad that everyone from the top-most office down to the lowest level refu
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by ajays 16y ago
Then how do you explain the fact that people get sued for "lifting" just a few seconds off a track? Consider this latest case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8497433.stm Having listened to both the songs, I can honestly say they are nothing a
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by ajays 16y ago
Why doesn't the same apply to patents too then? What makes a work of art more valuable (in terms of copyright limits) than a life-saving medicine?
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by ajays 16y ago
"There is a compelling natural rights justification for intellectual property. It typically gets ignored (e.g. by people like Lessig)." No, it most certainly does NOT get ignored. What the proponents of change are saying is that IP rights s
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by ajays 16y ago
The current copyright law is a prime example of the impotence of the electorate in the face of the power of Big Money. It is in the public interest to have works move into the public domain, so that others can build upon them (I'll refrain
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by ajays 16y ago
The intention is noble, but the implementation is horribly broken. I agree with Rosie that the current system of paywalls is horribly broken. (I spent 10 years in academia, so I have some idea about the system). The example cited (the "arse
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by ajays 16y ago
Oh come on! In 2005, Facebook was barely out of colleges. Memory's fuzzy, but till about late 2004/early 2005, you could join Facebook only if you had a .EDU address. So expecting Googlers to be Facebook users is a bit disingenuous . Plus,
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by ajays 16y ago
Dated: 9 February 2010
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by ajays 16y ago
From the comments: "Not available outside of the US…" Is this true? Why would this be?
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by ajays 16y ago
An even easier way: send the email to that number on ALL carriers. Only 1 of them will have that number, and they will deliver it; the others will just drop it (or bounce it, so use a return address that can ignore the bounces).
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by ajays 16y ago
The US has 308 million people. A society this big will have outliers; Gitmo being one of them. And last I checked, Assange was _not_ in the US. And the ones who are 'actively trying to prosecute Assange' are the _Swedes_ and the Brits; not
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by ajays 16y ago
In the 80s it was "the Japanese are eating our lunch". Now it's "the Indians and Chinese are eating our lunch". In the 30s, it'll be "the Africans are eating our lunch". Every couple of decades the scare brigade starts clamoring in the US.
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by ajays 16y ago
FTA: "Munaut demonstrated the way in which GSM . . . allows anyone to determine a subscriber’s current location with a simple Internet query, to the level of city or general rural area." Is he talking about reverse IP lookup?
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by ajays 16y ago
I, for one, would like to point out to Mr. Shaw (and others) that the Swastika is a religious symbol to a lot of people ; maybe even 20% of all humanity (the Hindus, for one). Just because the Swastika was co-opted by Hitler and his cronies
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by ajays 16y ago
Facebook seems to be following the same trajectory that Google did. I remember ~10 years ago Google used to put out such puzzles; if you solved them, your chances of getting hired at El Goog went up significantly. In another, say, 5 years,
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by ajays 16y ago
If the USG wants to charge Assange with aiding/abetting Manning, then it is in their interest to not have the chat logs released. As long as the chat logs are hidden, the USG can claim that Manning admitted to Lamo that he received some hel
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by ajays 16y ago
I hear ya... but as I've matured in life, I now feel sorry for such cynics: probably life has been so tough on them that they have lost their ability to see the good that is around us.
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by ajays 16y ago
You have to understand: Spam is about economics. It's not about morals or freedoms or anything else. It's purely about money. If the amount it costs a spammer to spam is strictly less than his earnings from spam + profit, then he'll continu
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by ajays 16y ago
Any time there's a discussion of Indians or Hindus, why do people bring in caste? Do US universities admit students based on caste? Does the visa officer in the US consulate admit only people of a certain caste? Does a company hiring in the
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by ajays 16y ago
Most Hindus here are professionals. The typical path to entry into the US is via an MS/MD/PhD in a US university, followed by an H1 visa working as a engineer/scientist/doctor, followed by a green card and then citizenship. Family-based imm
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by ajays 16y ago
Thanks for sharing that. It brought tears to my eyes. Every time I read such a story, my faith in humanity is restored a little bit. I wish such stories were given more publicity; instead, we read about the latest mugging, stabbing or junki
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by ajays 16y ago
They are the countries' names in their official languages (Arabic and Chinese, respectively).
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by ajays 16y ago
I agree with you. When newbies get elected, they have a tough time navigating the corridors of power. This is where the lobbyists come in: they've seen the system (they probably were a part of it before becoming lobbyists), they know how it
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by ajays 16y ago
What does Computer "Science" have to do with programmer productivity? That's like claiming Physics is not a science because you can't measure physicists' productivity effectively.
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by ajays 16y ago
I've heard that all Microsoft employees are being given a free WP7 phone. Given that they have ~100K employees, that's a sizable number.
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by ajays 16y ago
I may sound naive here, but: if all you're doing is serving just 184 flat files, then why do you need all this RoR jazz? Can't a bunch of Apache/Nginx servers behind a load balancer (Varnish, TrafficServer, etc.) handle that just fine? Thr

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