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India's Cops Meet Technology
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."
The guy who installed my dad's IT system. We found 2 floppies stapled to a sheet of instructions on how to back up from them...
Do cops [...] arresting CEOs for their customer's crimes sound familiar?
Why yes. It sounds like torrent tracker sites, which host no files, being taken down for the crimes of their users.
Advice to the Indian Authorities:
The best way to search for Hard Disks and other media is with a large and very powerful magnet.
Make sure you download an entire copy of the Internet so you can be sure that what you find is indeed illegal.
Oh, and bounce the computer case around a little bit on the way back to the station. It'll kill any computer bugs still in the system.
your welcome.
-Teiresias
It's cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians.
You start mixing those up and no telling what might happen.
Garg
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Alumnus, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
sticker equaling shoddy quality stereotype back in the early 1960's, just before they started to kill American manufacturers.
Yeah, let's laugh at the silly Indians and their computer inexperience, while they start grabbing more and more outsourced IT jobs.
The files are in the computer?
Maybe the cops should outsource?
In other news:
Those goofy Westerns who cant even figure out how to use a non-western toilet in the rest of the world!
Video at 10:00
It's cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians.
You start mixing those up and no telling what might happen.
Add a construction worker and a sailor and you might end up ruining every school dance in the country.
What the fuck!.. Oh wait, you were trolling werent you..
Just in case you werent and are a clueless fuck, then allow me to retort..
I dont think much of the nuclear weapons program but I agree its necessary evil. I am not for another arms race which India cannot afford, but anything to keep its neighbours in arms length aint bad.
As for the space program, you understand you are talking about a program which is homegrown and sustained wholly by solid state boosters which were built in India, using its own technology because US pressured Russia in to saying no when we needed it. So we built our own. So there..
Hitech voting equipment in India is a misnomer. What we have is quite low tech, heck, it doesnt even have a touch screen, but what it has is a low cost solution which more than meets the needs of our election. And you know what, it fucking works. And we have failsafes in place if something goes wrong. What about yours?
As far as the Tsunami is concerned, India was the first one to say no when aid was offered. India had around 500$ million in the Prime Minister's relief fund and told countries offering aid to instead give it to the nations who could cope with the disaster. Now thats what make me proud of who I am. We can take care of our own.
So please, I sincerely hope you were trolling on this fine Thursday afternoon. If you werent.. well ignorance is not curable.
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