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Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal

Posted by timothy on from the najayaz-paidaish-khota dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Indian website Techgoss, which offered a reward of Rs. 10,000 to get photos of Facebook founder in India, did manage to get photos of Zuckerberg attired in Indian clothes at an Indian wedding. They have followed up the success of the reward for photos of the Facebook founder with a bounty of Rs. 15,000 for the identity / details of the Google India employee who vandalized open source OpenStreetMaps in Jan, 2012. (Rs. 15,000 is one week's wages for a programmer at a top IT company in India)."

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  1. For those in the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's about $300, or roughly what a cashier at Safeway makes in the U.S.

  2. Article summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not trying to be trollish (although just by saying that I may have just pigeonholed myself) but this summary is *really* bad. I can barely follow the logic, grammar, or even the train of thought of those sentences!

    Slashdot editors, going downhill, get off my lawn, grumblegrumble....

    1. Re:Article summary by santosh.k83 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, considering that English is not a native language, I'd say we aren't doing too bad on the whole, though there's always room for improvement. I wonder how many Americans know a second language at all, never mind whether they're good or bad in it. Seriously, many of us can speak and write pretty good English. You might try easing off on the stereotyping.

  3. Re:300 bucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rs is a symbol for currencies called 'rupee' much like $ is a symbol for most currencies called 'dollar' or 'peso' or £ is a symbol for most currencies called 'pound' or ¥ is a symbol for currencies called 'yen' or 'yuan'. It's not offensive, it was the main sign for the currency (and, if you read TFA, you'll see that the Indian website in question is where it came from in the first place.)

    Apparently it was replaced in India in 2010 with a new symbol that Slashdot is filtering out (oh noes, Unicode!!), although the fact that you can approximate the old symbol with two Latin letters (it has its own Unicode code point) makes me think that the old one will never truly go away in informal typed use in English (and there are a hell of a lot of English speakers in India).