Indian Government Threatens RIM, Skype With Ban

gauharjk writes "India's Department of Telecommunications has been asked by the government to serve a notice to Skype and Research In Motion to ensure that their email and other data services comply with formats that can be read by security and intelligence agencies, or face a ban in India if they do not comply within 15 days. A similar notice is also being sent to Google, asking it to provide access to content on Gmail in a readable format."

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But if students in India can't access Google,

[sconeu]

How will they post their homework problems on comp.lang.c++ for us to solve?

Re:But if students in India can't access Google,

[Revotron]

"please for help with homework, i give problems below. for all grade, please showing steps. due tomorrow."

1) P=NP?

2) List and explain three one-way functions.

3) List five rhymes for the word "orange".

Re:But if students in India can't access Google,

[Jhon]

"1) P=NP?"
P="BOB"
NP="BOB"
if P=NP then write("TRUE!")

"2) List and explain three one-way functions."
Birth (just try to go back the other way)
Sex (Well, this is kind of an while/endwhile or some other type of loop)
Death (see Birth)

"3) List five rhymes for the word "orange"."
Door Hinge
Beer Binge
Infringe
Dope Syringe
Spine twinge

Re:But if students in India can't access Google,

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean, if you pronounce it like: "or-wrench"?

Re:But if students in India can't access Google,

[neonKow]

It does if you cock your hat to one side and saunter a little.

Re:And I want a pony!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, we just did.

We don't see you getting what you want, but hey; you don't have a market with ~1 Billion potential customers to threaten anyone with.

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[0123456]

Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?

It's not easy for a bank robber to escape on a duck.

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[dunng808]

Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?

Fair enough. How about this:

Bank robbers usually duck when police shoot at them, so we should kill all ducks and serve Canard a l'Orange in prison.

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[XSpud]

It's not easy for a bank robber to escape on a duck.

Are you sure? AFAIK no bank robber has ever been caught when escaping on a duck.

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[Anonymous Coward]

Orange you glad you chose a car for your last heist?

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Why is it always cars for the analogies?

It's easy to make a car analogy that sounds right, so you get modded up. Then the guy that actually understands how digital technology works can correct you and then HE gets modded up. If a good metaphor was used, only one guy would get modded up. It's a win-win!

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[DittoBox]

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen duck?

Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks

[FatdogHaiku]

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen duck?

Is that an African duck or a European duck?

oh, please can I take that call google?

[CFD339]

Hello? Yes, this is technical support for gmail applications. Am I having talk with government of India?
Yes. I understand that you are having difficulty with reading emails of your populations.
Have you been plugging your monitor into the plug on the back of the computer?
Excellent. I am so very sorry you are still having the problems. We are checking now your network cables......

Etc....

countersuit pending....

[Anonymous Coward]

Skype, RIM and Google are contemplating a counter-suit against India's Department of Telecommunications asking it to provide tech support in an understandable format. HP has yet to weigh in on the matter citing a possible conflict of interest. Carly Fiorina said the Delta water crisis is a "huge piece of my platform," - as she passed out cake.