I already moved from AT&T to Packet8 VoIP service. Not only am I saving money but also taking away business from AT&T. Keep up the sniffing AT&T - soon you won't have any customer traffic to sniff!!
Further, Baazee alongwith several other online indian stores have been summoned by the police in Bombay over the matter of listing fake watches (ones that use the brand name of global watch manufacturers) and other illegal wares on their site for sale. The issue is not just porn, it is selling illegal stuff that they are being pulled up for.
About time the police cracked down on these guys.
Other than that, this will lead to these guys cleaning up the content on their sites. Been to Baazee? Almost every section has listings of "X-ray vision" crap. Proof that no one at Baazee reviews what being posted for sale. Tonnes of illegal software is offered for sale alongwith porn and warez.
Baazee's CEO is not being held for selling porn!! Nor is this about moral standards in India!!
First, read the law. The IT Act 2000 says:
Section 67
=========== Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form
Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstance, to read see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees.
79. Network service providers not to be liable in certain cases
For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no person providing an service as a network service provider shall be liable under this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder for any third party information or data made available by him if he proves that the offence or contravention was committed without his knowledge or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence or contravention.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this section,-
(a) "network service provider" means an intermediary;
(b) "third party information" means any information dealt with by a network service provider in his capacity as an intermediary;
Baazee(eBay India) published the sale of the child pornographic material and benefitted from such sale by means of commissions earned. Since they benefit from the sale of the material they should be held liable for the material sold through them. Also, it unlike AT&T which does not intend to benefit from the usage of their service for illegal purposes. In this case, allegedly, Baazee did not remove the porn sale item even after being informed, thereby indicating that they had no qualms from benefitting from such sale.
First, identify who votes for Bush and who votes against him. Then eliminate the people against and put more people who are pro. Now you have control of the armed forces. Everything else falls in line after that easily.
I don't know about the US but in India the mass of the IT *pros* are in it only for the money. They have no real enthusiasm for technology or IT. Even most students take up IS/IT engineering courses here only because it pays so well and not because they really wanted to know anything about computer science or IT. The so called IT companies (Wipro/Infosys) also hire programmers from all engineering courses - civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation. All graduates (that is undergraduate for you) except fine arts and commerce are hired as programmers in India!!
Why not allow cameras in your house? Its not like you break the law, right? Or, why not let them implant a chip in your brain to monitor all your activities? Nothing you do is criminal, so nothing to hide. Right?
The guy ran the *test* without informing Gmail people and his *promotion* resulted in Gmail receiving 70-80K 5MB mails in 10-15 minutes. Isn't that tantamount to a DDoS? Shouldn't the guy be booked for something?
Microsoft is clueless as to what to do with the piles of cash they have. They don't seem to have any bright ideas on deploying this cash to reap more returns.
Anyone who takes control of your PC will also use it to punch open holes through your firewall to allow spam to go out through the modem/router/whatever!!
Hahahaha!!!
For once, being in a third world country feels great. No big brother watching while you pirate to your heart's content!!:))
Law enforcement in countries like China/India is especially more difficult given the HUGE populations and meagre resources/understanding/moral (read corruption) at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies to go after the culprits.
This will force the music and software companies to sell there wares for cheaper and more reasonable prices. If they don't, then won't sell at all, like now where most of us simply pirate all the stuff!!
Three cheers for poverty and bad law enforcement!!
Use the electronic voting machines used in India. Proven to have no backdoors/bugs. But its not *e* - that is, it is not networked.
- Conduct one elections with these machines.
- Before the next elections, figure out a way to network these machines
The point is for something so critical and important, don't experiment!! Use the stuff that works and make small quantifiable changes!!
I think the age discrimination is in place at Daksh because the management believes that the younger employees are not responsible enough to handle customers and business.
Most younger (16-21) employees, typically, are studying and take up working in call centres just to add some more rupees to their pocket money. They don't care a damn about the customer or the business they are supposed to be answering calls for.
The result, as I found out, is that customer care people are indifferent to customers' rants. Even the threat of withdrawing business from the company doesn't seem to ring a bell in their brains.
I guess older employees are supposed to be more responsible as working at a call centre is their primary source of income and they wouldn't want to be fired.
Btw, India has firm minimum wage laws in place. And as far as I know, call centre employees are paid well above the minimum wage level.
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Could not resist this. Who sells windows to Microsoft? Lowe's or Home Depot, maybe!!
I already moved from AT&T to Packet8 VoIP service. Not only am I saving money but also taking away business from AT&T. Keep up the sniffing AT&T - soon you won't have any customer traffic to sniff!!
Further, Baazee alongwith several other online indian stores have been summoned by the police in Bombay over the matter of listing fake watches (ones that use the brand name of global watch manufacturers) and other illegal wares on their site for sale. The issue is not just porn, it is selling illegal stuff that they are being pulled up for.
About time the police cracked down on these guys.
Other than that, this will lead to these guys cleaning up the content on their sites. Been to Baazee? Almost every section has listings of "X-ray vision" crap. Proof that no one at Baazee reviews what being posted for sale. Tonnes of illegal software is offered for sale alongwith porn and warez.
Baazee's CEO is not being held for selling porn!! Nor is this about moral standards in India!!
First, read the law. The IT Act 2000 says:
Section 67
===========
Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form
Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstance, to read see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees.
79. Network service providers not to be liable in certain cases
For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no person providing an service as a network service provider shall be liable under this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder for any third party information or data made available by him if he proves that the offence or contravention was committed without his knowledge or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence or contravention.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this section,-
(a) "network service provider" means an intermediary;
(b) "third party information" means any information dealt with by a network service provider in his capacity as an intermediary;
Baazee(eBay India) published the sale of the child pornographic material and benefitted from such sale by means of commissions earned. Since they benefit from the sale of the material they should be held liable for the material sold through them. Also, it unlike AT&T which does not intend to benefit from the usage of their service for illegal purposes. In this case, allegedly, Baazee did not remove the porn sale item even after being informed, thereby indicating that they had no qualms from benefitting from such sale.
RFID can be read from a maximum distance of maybe three feet. So its no good unless you plan to have satellite hovering over each car!!
First, identify who votes for Bush and who votes against him. Then eliminate the people against and put more people who are pro. Now you have control of the armed forces. Everything else falls in line after that easily.
And pray tell me, what use does a geek have for a knife? Geeks and Rambo have nothing in common.
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Ease of use does not mean it has to be insecure!! Strong passwords and patched applications do not make usage difficult!!
I don't know about the US but in India the mass of the IT *pros* are in it only for the money. They have no real enthusiasm for technology or IT. Even most students take up IS/IT engineering courses here only because it pays so well and not because they really wanted to know anything about computer science or IT. The so called IT companies (Wipro/Infosys) also hire programmers from all engineering courses - civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation. All graduates (that is undergraduate for you) except fine arts and commerce are hired as programmers in India!!
Just my two paise worth
Why not allow cameras in your house? Its not like you break the law, right? Or, why not let them implant a chip in your brain to monitor all your activities? Nothing you do is criminal, so nothing to hide. Right?
In McIntelsoft-Motors US of A, computer crashes choose the president!!
The guy ran the *test* without informing Gmail people and his *promotion* resulted in Gmail receiving 70-80K 5MB mails in 10-15 minutes. Isn't that tantamount to a DDoS? Shouldn't the guy be booked for something?
PS - I RTFA
What business consultants? The same ones that valued dotcoms based on eyeballs?
Btw, what business of Microsoft generates profit other than Windows and Office?
Microsoft is clueless as to what to do with the piles of cash they have. They don't seem to have any bright ideas on deploying this cash to reap more returns.
Anyone who takes control of your PC will also use it to punch open holes through your firewall to allow spam to go out through the modem/router/whatever!!
I am Joe Sixpack, you insensitive clod!!
Hahahaha!!! :))
For once, being in a third world country feels great. No big brother watching while you pirate to your heart's content!!
Law enforcement in countries like China/India is especially more difficult given the HUGE populations and meagre resources/understanding/moral (read corruption) at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies to go after the culprits.
This will force the music and software companies to sell there wares for cheaper and more reasonable prices. If they don't, then won't sell at all, like now where most of us simply pirate all the stuff!!
Three cheers for poverty and bad law enforcement!!
Sheesh, no M$ bashing in this article. Nothing to see here, move on.
Use the electronic voting machines used in India. Proven to have no backdoors/bugs. But its not *e* - that is, it is not networked.
- Conduct one elections with these machines.
- Before the next elections, figure out a way to network these machines
The point is for something so critical and important, don't experiment!! Use the stuff that works and make small quantifiable changes!!
And who'll guard the cameras?? ;)
I, for one, welcome our new SP2 overlords!! :)
In India, discriminating on the basis of race, gender, religion or *anything* would land you in jail!!
What about the number of nodes trying to simultaneously trying to speak to the SMSC?
I think the age discrimination is in place at Daksh because the management believes that the younger employees are not responsible enough to handle customers and business.
Most younger (16-21) employees, typically, are studying and take up working in call centres just to add some more rupees to their pocket money. They don't care a damn about the customer or the business they are supposed to be answering calls for.
The result, as I found out, is that customer care people are indifferent to customers' rants. Even the threat of withdrawing business from the company doesn't seem to ring a bell in their brains.
I guess older employees are supposed to be more responsible as working at a call centre is their primary source of income and they wouldn't want to be fired.
Btw, India has firm minimum wage laws in place. And as far as I know, call centre employees are paid well above the minimum wage level.