"And also, a driver tweeting at a red light is still a driver not paying attention."
But it is NOT illegal (in India at least, it isn't). And well, why talk about just speeding? There are hundreds of other offences that a pedestrian can capture!
The potential for misuse is not as great as would appear at first sight. This is a techie forum so guys tend to think from a techie perspective - hence the 'photoshop fear'. Just think, on an average street in any country, how many guys would know how to photoshop images? Hell, even I, being a 'techie' have never bothered to learn photoshopping till date - I'm just not interested.
Among that miniscule minority who actually do know how to 'photoshop' images, how many would actually bother to do something like that? How many would have the time for that? How many would have enemies whom they'd want to get into trouble with the law?
And finally, if there is indeed some jerk who tries to misuse the system, the person who gets the ticket isn't going to sit quiet - he's going to protest. And then, the police will, in case of such a dispute investigate the person who posted the complaint (it's facebook, remember). And after that, the jerk is in BIG trouble. I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the guy who tried to pull that stunt of framing an innocent man
And why, exactly do you assume that the persons who photograph other drivers should necessarily be drivers? Ever heard of 'pedestrians'? Or maybe, drivers waiting at a red light?
You'd need the same make of car, same color, same dents and bruises on the car body (if any), and so on. I doubt if traffic violators would bother to take the trouble.
Stuff like this is the only way to get indisciplined Indian drivers to fall in line. In Indian cities like New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai around 1000 new vehicles are added on the road EVERYDAY (and that's in each city). Imagine the tremendous pressure on the cops to maintain order. Given the statistics, it's a wonder that traffic even runs normally on the roads!! I am all for this extremely innovative use of tech.
Ugh.. how is this modded troll? It is remarkably on-topic and shows by example, why the Indian context is different from the American one in aspects such as communications monitoring!
May the lice of a thousand camels infest the fuckwit mod who modded this troll.
Actually, the TATAs underestimated the demand (don't ask me how and why - I don't know), AND had to move out of their planned manufacturing plant in the East Indian state of West Bengal. They threfore, have just one factory in the North Indian state of Uttaranchal to cater to countrywide demand. However, a new factory in West Indian Gujarat is almost complete, and once Nanos start rolling out of there, the waiting list will disappear:-)
"Actually the US would just bomb Mexico back to the stone age"
No, that they wouldn't. Not if Mexico had nuclear weapons, with a history of selling nuclear technology to countries like North Korea.
Yeah, Indian policy through the decades has been rather pussy-ish w.r.t. this Pak-terror business. But the USA in a similar situation wouldn't dare to take the risk of losing Phoenix or Los Angeles. What I'm saying is, asymmetrical warfare has its own set of rules.
Observe that most Indians who have commented on this post support the move by intelligence agencies to monitor blackberry. And that's not because we enjoy having our conversations snooped upon - we just think it is a necessary tradeoff. And like I said, anyway the intelligence agencies are least interested in my conversations with my girlfriend or grandmothers exchanging recipes!
This is the second time that the (Indian) government has threatened to block the operations of BlackBerry. In the earlier instance, tensions were defused after RIM agreed to provide its encryption code to security agencies burdened with having to monitor the chatter among increasingly tech-savvy terrorists.
The fresh confrontation comes after reports that RIM was ready to set up a server in China to address Chinese security concerns.
Officials here believe that if the Canadian company can take care of China's concerns by reportedly setting up a server there, it can do the same for India which is an equally big market for BlackBerry.
I want to see the American reaction if Mexico were to suddenly turn into a terrorist sponsor state with the Al-Qaeda operating from Mexican soil. Imagine that tomorrow, Mexico becomes a country which churns out madarssa 'educated' men by the droves who are unemployable and have only one goal in life - Jihad against America. And in addition, imagine that Mexico constantly disputes the ownership of Arizona and sends men into Arizona to lob grenades and detonate bombs near railroads and bus stations.
The above situation pretty accurately describes Pakistan. India has been experiencing Islamic terrorism long before most current-generation Americans were born. I do not mind the Government monitoring suspected blackberry communication (Remember, India is HUGE - it is simply NOT possible to monitor ALL blackberry communication). I don't want even one more ISI-trained terrorist to enter my country and detonate a bomb. And anyway, as if the RAW even cares about my blacknerry conversations with my manager, girlfriend and sundry others!
The annual salary in India per capita, on a PPP basis is close to $3000 per annum in PPP terms. In nominal terms too, it's around $1050. Check : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India
Which is still pretty bad, but not as bad as generally perceived:-)
Well, this might sound paradoxical, but actually, even 'less developed areas' in India have cellphone connectivity. Those backward areas have patchy electricity supply - the power goes off for almost 10-15 hours per day, on average, in some backward areas. But there is hardly any part of the country that is not covered by GSM cellphones. Sounds paradoxical, but that's how it is - almost everyone carries a phone. Given that, I guess they'll browse through the GSM signal...
Tell me something - does the same thing happen when you access google.cn from within China? I mean, this whole business of having a huge clickable image to get around censorship seems extremely long winded! By any chance is it our non-Chinese IPs that are causing that page to be displayed? Does anyone have access to a proxy server within mainland China (VPN or something)?
Exactly my thoughts! I wonder how much coverage this will get in the mainstream media!! I hope there is a huge outcry about this! Put Google between a rock and a hard place and see what they choose.
Hackers, in general, tend to detest interference and authority. Hard to think of hackers in a top secret Government agency taking orders and working 9AM to 5PM, in an extremely straitjacketed environment. More importantly, I'm guessing the wages wouldn't be great
All one needs to do is come up with some microorganism that attacks that kind of bacteria and kills it. Just imagine moving around with a spray gun filled with that microorganism and threatening to spray your adversary with it! Think of the possibilities that it provides to muggers!!!
How are the search engines capable of doing this on their own? It needs to be remembered that almost 80% of internet users (in India at least), use dynamic IPs. Most ISPs here charge extra for static IP and most users just don't bother - what use would the average layman user have for a static IP? I'm assuming that's how it is in most other places too. Correlating searches and search patterns with demographic details needs active cooperation from all ISPs, isn't it?
And oh, thanks to the submitter for reminding me that Yahoo has a search engine too:-)
I get quite angry about this book banning spree too. Satanic verses was banned because of fear of Islamic fundamentalists, the Da Vinci code movie was banned because of protests by some christians (when predominantly Christian nations had done nothing about it!), the Shiv Sena and co. riot at the smallest pretext, and so on.
However, the important thing is almost all instances of censorship are linked to 'religious sentiments' and similar idiocy. India is still a nation that criticizes its politicians louder than anyone else. All incidents of censorship are linked to either 'religious sentiments being offended' or 'moral policing' (e.g. HBO). The possibility of censorship being brought in as a general policy looks extremely bleak! Hopefully someday soon the religious nutters will be shown their place!
With all due respect, that's a load of nonsense. Based on your statement, I'm sure you know next to nothing about the political situation in India. If I could get a dollar for every abuse that is hurled against not only the PM, but various politicians of various political parties and ideologies, I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
India has a million faults, but 'censorship desires' are certainly not among them. And for your information, read up about the 'National emergency in India' of 1975 if you can - that'll dispel any doubts about India's 'competence' w.r.t. censorship.
By the way, tell me what was the basis for your comment? Does it have any basis at all or is it just something you manufactured out of the back of your head? I'm guessing it's the latter.
Well, in China, the communist government actually pays people to trawl the internet for anti-China stuff and spam message boards with pro-China and pro-Communist Party propaganda!
And the worst part is, due to the extremely effective Chinese censorship, what we get to hear about the horrors that China inflicts on it's people is just one tenth of what they really do.
Just FYI - it's not just China and the middle east countries (Saudi Arabia and co.) that are 'Asian'. India, Japan, South Korea, Israel - are all Asian countries, to name a few. Your comment on 'Asia' is akin to saying that 'American countries' are full of drug lords and cocaine factories.
Just FYI - hope you're aware that the number of people called 'Mary' in India is probably more than the number in Australia. A 3% christian population out of 1.2 billion is a hell of a lot in absolute numbers. Of course,its almost certain that the lady who called you was faking her name...
As a concept, this AI thingy to 'predict' manhole explosions sounds cool - but can anyone explain why they don't just change the 'decrepit wiring'? First time I'm hearing of exploding manholes, and on top of that, a cool technique to 'forecast those explosions'!
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"And also, a driver tweeting at a red light is still a driver not paying attention."
But it is NOT illegal (in India at least, it isn't). And well, why talk about just speeding? There are hundreds of other offences that a pedestrian can capture!
The potential for misuse is not as great as would appear at first sight. This is a techie forum so guys tend to think from a techie perspective - hence the 'photoshop fear'. Just think, on an average street in any country, how many guys would know how to photoshop images? Hell, even I, being a 'techie' have never bothered to learn photoshopping till date - I'm just not interested.
Among that miniscule minority who actually do know how to 'photoshop' images, how many would actually bother to do something like that? How many would have the time for that? How many would have enemies whom they'd want to get into trouble with the law?
And finally, if there is indeed some jerk who tries to misuse the system, the person who gets the ticket isn't going to sit quiet - he's going to protest. And then, the police will, in case of such a dispute investigate the person who posted the complaint (it's facebook, remember). And after that, the jerk is in BIG trouble. I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the guy who tried to pull that stunt of framing an innocent man
And why, exactly do you assume that the persons who photograph other drivers should necessarily be drivers? Ever heard of 'pedestrians'? Or maybe, drivers waiting at a red light?
You'd need the same make of car, same color, same dents and bruises on the car body (if any), and so on. I doubt if traffic violators would bother to take the trouble.
Stuff like this is the only way to get indisciplined Indian drivers to fall in line. In Indian cities like New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai around 1000 new vehicles are added on the road EVERYDAY (and that's in each city). Imagine the tremendous pressure on the cops to maintain order. Given the statistics, it's a wonder that traffic even runs normally on the roads!! I am all for this extremely innovative use of tech.
Ugh.. how is this modded troll? It is remarkably on-topic and shows by example, why the Indian context is different from the American one in aspects such as communications monitoring!
May the lice of a thousand camels infest the fuckwit mod who modded this troll.
Actually, the TATAs underestimated the demand (don't ask me how and why - I don't know), AND had to move out of their planned manufacturing plant in the East Indian state of West Bengal. They threfore, have just one factory in the North Indian state of Uttaranchal to cater to countrywide demand. However, a new factory in West Indian Gujarat is almost complete, and once Nanos start rolling out of there, the waiting list will disappear :-)
"Actually the US would just bomb Mexico back to the stone age"
No, that they wouldn't. Not if Mexico had nuclear weapons, with a history of selling nuclear technology to countries like North Korea.
Yeah, Indian policy through the decades has been rather pussy-ish w.r.t. this Pak-terror business. But the USA in a similar situation wouldn't dare to take the risk of losing Phoenix or Los Angeles. What I'm saying is, asymmetrical warfare has its own set of rules.
Observe that most Indians who have commented on this post support the move by intelligence agencies to monitor blackberry. And that's not because we enjoy having our conversations snooped upon - we just think it is a necessary tradeoff. And like I said, anyway the intelligence agencies are least interested in my conversations with my girlfriend or grandmothers exchanging recipes!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BlackBerry-server-in-China-India-wants-a-monitoring-unit-too/articleshow/6230540.cms
Extract from the article:
This is the second time that the (Indian) government has threatened to block the operations of BlackBerry. In the earlier instance, tensions were defused after RIM agreed to provide its encryption code to security agencies burdened with having to monitor the chatter among increasingly tech-savvy terrorists. The fresh confrontation comes after reports that RIM was ready to set up a server in China to address Chinese security concerns. Officials here believe that if the Canadian company can take care of China's concerns by reportedly setting up a server there, it can do the same for India which is an equally big market for BlackBerry.
I want to see the American reaction if Mexico were to suddenly turn into a terrorist sponsor state with the Al-Qaeda operating from Mexican soil. Imagine that tomorrow, Mexico becomes a country which churns out madarssa 'educated' men by the droves who are unemployable and have only one goal in life - Jihad against America. And in addition, imagine that Mexico constantly disputes the ownership of Arizona and sends men into Arizona to lob grenades and detonate bombs near railroads and bus stations.
The above situation pretty accurately describes Pakistan. India has been experiencing Islamic terrorism long before most current-generation Americans were born. I do not mind the Government monitoring suspected blackberry communication (Remember, India is HUGE - it is simply NOT possible to monitor ALL blackberry communication). I don't want even one more ISI-trained terrorist to enter my country and detonate a bomb. And anyway, as if the RAW even cares about my blacknerry conversations with my manager, girlfriend and sundry others!
The annual salary in India per capita, on a PPP basis is close to $3000 per annum in PPP terms. In nominal terms too, it's around $1050. Check : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India
Which is still pretty bad, but not as bad as generally perceived :-)
Well, this might sound paradoxical, but actually, even 'less developed areas' in India have cellphone connectivity. Those backward areas have patchy electricity supply - the power goes off for almost 10-15 hours per day, on average, in some backward areas. But there is hardly any part of the country that is not covered by GSM cellphones. Sounds paradoxical, but that's how it is - almost everyone carries a phone. Given that, I guess they'll browse through the GSM signal...
Someone mod parent up!
Tell me something - does the same thing happen when you access google.cn from within China? I mean, this whole business of having a huge clickable image to get around censorship seems extremely long winded! By any chance is it our non-Chinese IPs that are causing that page to be displayed? Does anyone have access to a proxy server within mainland China (VPN or something)?
Exactly my thoughts! I wonder how much coverage this will get in the mainstream media!! I hope there is a huge outcry about this! Put Google between a rock and a hard place and see what they choose.
Hackers, in general, tend to detest interference and authority. Hard to think of hackers in a top secret Government agency taking orders and working 9AM to 5PM, in an extremely straitjacketed environment. More importantly, I'm guessing the wages wouldn't be great
All one needs to do is come up with some microorganism that attacks that kind of bacteria and kills it. Just imagine moving around with a spray gun filled with that microorganism and threatening to spray your adversary with it! Think of the possibilities that it provides to muggers!!!
How are the search engines capable of doing this on their own? It needs to be remembered that almost 80% of internet users (in India at least), use dynamic IPs. Most ISPs here charge extra for static IP and most users just don't bother - what use would the average layman user have for a static IP? I'm assuming that's how it is in most other places too. Correlating searches and search patterns with demographic details needs active cooperation from all ISPs, isn't it?
And oh, thanks to the submitter for reminding me that Yahoo has a search engine too :-)
I get quite angry about this book banning spree too. Satanic verses was banned because of fear of Islamic fundamentalists, the Da Vinci code movie was banned because of protests by some christians (when predominantly Christian nations had done nothing about it!), the Shiv Sena and co. riot at the smallest pretext, and so on.
However, the important thing is almost all instances of censorship are linked to 'religious sentiments' and similar idiocy. India is still a nation that criticizes its politicians louder than anyone else. All incidents of censorship are linked to either 'religious sentiments being offended' or 'moral policing' (e.g. HBO). The possibility of censorship being brought in as a general policy looks extremely bleak! Hopefully someday soon the religious nutters will be shown their place!
With all due respect, that's a load of nonsense. Based on your statement, I'm sure you know next to nothing about the political situation in India. If I could get a dollar for every abuse that is hurled against not only the PM, but various politicians of various political parties and ideologies, I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
India has a million faults, but 'censorship desires' are certainly not among them. And for your information, read up about the 'National emergency in India' of 1975 if you can - that'll dispel any doubts about India's 'competence' w.r.t. censorship.
By the way, tell me what was the basis for your comment? Does it have any basis at all or is it just something you manufactured out of the back of your head? I'm guessing it's the latter.
Well, in China, the communist government actually pays people to trawl the internet for anti-China stuff and spam message boards with pro-China and pro-Communist Party propaganda!
And the worst part is, due to the extremely effective Chinese censorship, what we get to hear about the horrors that China inflicts on it's people is just one tenth of what they really do.
Just FYI - it's not just China and the middle east countries (Saudi Arabia and co.) that are 'Asian'. India, Japan, South Korea, Israel - are all Asian countries, to name a few. Your comment on 'Asia' is akin to saying that 'American countries' are full of drug lords and cocaine factories.
Just FYI - hope you're aware that the number of people called 'Mary' in India is probably more than the number in Australia. A 3% christian population out of 1.2 billion is a hell of a lot in absolute numbers. Of course,its almost certain that the lady who called you was faking her name...
As a concept, this AI thingy to 'predict' manhole explosions sounds cool - but can anyone explain why they don't just change the 'decrepit wiring'? First time I'm hearing of exploding manholes, and on top of that, a cool technique to 'forecast those explosions'!
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