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India's Cops Meet Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-imagine-this-is-all-keystone-style dept.

TopherTG writes "Do cops told to seize computers to return only with monitors, stapling pirated floppies together or arresting CEOs for their customer's crimes sound familiar? It would in India. Wired is running a rather humorous article on the minglings between cops and techies."

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  1. Re:Sounds like... by skraps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As long as the staple is in a corner, it wouldn't really matter, right? If it's a 5.25 then I can't see it making any difference. For 3.5's, it should be fine as long as the window still opens.

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  2. Re:Wrong by nolife · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You need some crack? You can get it from a guy with a red hat standing on the corner of 15th and K.
    Can I now be charged with distributing also? What amount do you charge me with selling? How ever much he has with him or how ever much he sold since I told you where he was? What if I use different wording to describe the exact same thing.
    CAUTION, I saw the idiot with a red hat at the corner of 15th and K selling crack, he must be stopped, please avoid him at all costs and call the cops!!! Can I be charged for that also? I still told you where you could get it.

    The law is not as cut and dry as you think it is.

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  3. Re:The issue is not stupidity by northcat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The west is infusing money into India's economy but the money isn't really spreading to everyone, just the techno-elite.

    /me sighs
    I live in India. All Indians don't work for US outsourcing tech companies. In fact, a very small minority of us do. And we did have money before the 'west' started 'infusing money' into our 'economy'. And most people dont give a fuck about outsourcing. Most people aren't even aware of the outsourcing inudstry. And outsourcing hasn't made IT workers rich - it has just put them in the upper middle class. And the poor, lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class and the rich existed in almost the same percentages as now, before IBM created the first PC. Outsourcing is a microscopic part of our economic history.

    Or, if you just want to stay in your dream, before the outsourcing industry graced us, we were all snake-charmers riding elephants and we had never seen money or a calculator.