Oh, you just have to clear your NYTimes cookies.

Yes, 20 symbols. The easiest way out, if pirating subscribers knew the pdf's are watermarked (and all pirates should be suspicious), is to take 2 or more copies, then take a print-out. Jumble the pages from different versions, add a few punctuations of their own, then scan them and upload.

If its such a popular magazine, a better method would be to make the magazine free and advertize to your advertisers about the huge circulation numbers and make more money from them.

May be this is the way they want to solve their population problem. Deploy killer fem-bots...

Don't take India too seriously. If you go by their past record, you wouldn't. As per their claims, by now they should have had a scram-jet driven missile and satellite launch vehicle. Heck, they don't even have a scram jet engine so far. Heck, they don't even have a jet engine so far. Their LCA fighter "jet", that was slated for completion more than 2 decades ago is still not part of the their military. It is being built with a jet engine supplied by GE and the avionics come from Dassault/France. The composites come with Russian help. They are trying to build the pilot seats and other upholstery on their own. Why do you think they bought so many Rafale's? Their missile programs are mostly a scam. Except for the joint India-Russian Brahmos cruise missiles, where India contributed the capital and Russia contributed the technology, rest is all hot air. In fact most indigenous missile development programs have been scraped. Now Indian government has made it mandatory to only provide funding for joint development programs such as the Brahmos. Their indigenous tanks don't work, their replacement efforts for the WW II Bofors gun has yielded nothing. You want to believe this story? It's just another of their scams, which they are notoriously good at.

By any chance, are you referring to PricewaterhouseCoopers? In that case, there is a correction. They are running at 4 times the budget necessary to run the operations.

Bored?! Indian's won't get bored. India's avg IQ is 79. It's a freakin challenging job back in India.

India is soon emerging as the "global brain", catering to the rest of the world. It can deliver complex image/video processing tasks like checking if somebody is washing their hands. India can do natural language processing by understanding queries and responding to them. India is like a remote server serving up AI over the network at unheard of prices. Else where in India - scores of "engineers" are lined up for job interviews to show off their prowess at identifying if a person is wiping it properly or not.

I work for a multi-billion software products company. And here the line item 'Marketing & Sales' on the P&L statement is roughly twice as that of the 'Research & development' line item. And the wage gap between a developer and a sales guy with the same years of experience is roughly 30%. As in, the sales guys get paid 1.3 times that of a developer. And not to mention the annual sales 'kick-off' meetings held at Monaco or Bali. And the occasional free tickets to the Grand-Prix or a Euro tour for sales guys who have exceeded their sales targets, plus the hefty commissions for doing so on top of their wages. Where as, the annual R&D kick-off meetings are held on Webex and we got a leather wallet as gift because the product was selling like hot cakes, because it beat the crap out of the competition. And yeah, the CEO is ex-sales.

I guess there is too much supply of engineers in the market. So we can do nothing about it.

I would neither shop locally nor perhaps at Amazon. I would fire up a price search site like www.fetchbook.info and find the cheapest deal, then go for a walk in the near by park.
We have been inventing various things all these decades and centuries to bring in more efficiencies in what we do. Now the President want's us to throw away all those inventions and go to the local store instead!? Is the President turning Amish?

Occam's razor cuts both ways I guess.
So, Hobbes is after all real. Power to Hobbes. Ye the almighty, blessed art thee who kneels in front of Hobbes. Blessed art thou who counts to three and lobs the holy hand grenade at thy enemy.

First, Galileo was a Mathematician and a Physicist and not a satellite or meteor as the article falsely claims. His full name was Galileo Galilei. He had other minor interests in Music, Weaving, Religion and Philosophy too. He was prosecuted and persecuted, by some church people in Europe, until he died of it. He never returned back after that.

Coming to the topic of Europeans, ask me and I will tell you what I as a European feel. But please stop speculating about what Europeans think. It's the feelings that are more important than thinking and that's what's keeping the EU united. Of course, the Germans are an exception to this. And also the Italians and the Spaniards. The Catholic dominated countries are a weak link in the EU.

Certainly not Church. Because, most computer scientists are agnostic so they won't remember Church. Post? Email is faster, cheaper, and greener.

To stop buying everything is an extreme. You will have a hard time getting any supporters for it. Instead, ask people to stop buying useless trinkets. Like the iPhone's, the Android tablets, Coca-colas, Bonobos Khakis, Cadillac's, Nike's etc. My parents never had any of these things and even now they are not impressed one bit with all these trinkets. Yet, they lead a very happy and contended life. If you think about it, corporations lure you into buying supposedly "cool" stuff. They are in the business of creating the cool. Putting it out on the street and building a cult out of it. That's when you apply the brakes on your rationality and let the emotion take it on from there. And that's exactly what the B-school educated corporate managers love. Once you are in the emotion mode, they can take you on a roller-coaster drive to anywhere. That's where all the big margins and big money is. Don't succumb to emotion in materialistic matters. Hey! But that's the way wealth gets re-distributed in capitalism. Besides, if people stop buying stuff, many will become jobless. Materialism. That's the bedrock on which we have produced our sprawling populace. That is until the machines take over.

Banks: Seriously, I think all the banks should be nationalized. Bankers have no incentive to run the banks safely. They want to expand their books as fast as they can. They want to show they have a huge spread on their books. And then they want to turn the spread into profits NOW. What incentive do they have to ensure the quality of their assets? High quality assets are a low margin business. It's the low quality assets that are available in abundance and that's where all the big margins are. At least in the short term. Who cares for the long-term anyways? In the long-term we are all dead. The bankers then use jump-processes, diffusion equations, stochastic calculus, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Alice in the wonderland, "what ever shows you are dumb and they are smart" to cover up the "quality" of their assets. Profits!

That's the difference between Wall street bankers and the rest of the folks. And that's probably why Wall street bankers take huge paychecks, while the rest of the folks just pass money for "What will my so called friends and colleagues think about me?".

Now that prior art does not matter, first to file for a patent is the owner. Microsoft filed for patents for this idea that it ripped off from Mono. Also, a few years down the line, their patent for linked lists will be valid in the courts.

MSFT trading at 9 P/E.