Usually, sitting high up there, they are discharging!

...a License to Evil?

Relying on government intervention to make your business competitive rather than actually competing... yup! Thats pretty much the business model followed by the RIAA. And we all love that, don't we?

Right, because every outsourcing organisation is unethical. Sure.

The article mentions that some of the spectrum will be taken from broadcasters. So that would realistically mean spectrum somewhere between 400 and 800 Mhz (UHF). Even 200 Mhz is very useful spectrum in that band.

Freeing up of spectrum should be the easier part. What the US needs to worry about is under what terms that spectrum will be licensed. If operators can buy spectrum and sit on it, thats bad. I hope that the US takes a consumer centric approach here, and not one that restricts competition.

Standalone installers for all channels are generally available on some download sites soon after they are released.

You have not been taking a very close look at Google Chrome, have you? https is always shown. Plain old http is what is hidden.

This IS relevant. Indian election officials and even the Supreme Court of India seem to earnestly believe that the machines are unhackable. The winning parties always claim EVMs are completely tamper proof. Ofcourse, losing parties claim that tampering exists. So unless solid proof was provided, the parties that lost elections were not going to find people willing to listen to what seem like conspiracy theories.

EVMs in India often lie in sealed storage for a couple of weeks on average after voting before results are declared. The scope for tampering in that period is enormous.

This is just the kind of proof needed to make Election Commission officials and the judicial system understand that tampering is possible so that they can atleast take preventive measures if not eliminate electronic voting completely.

VCDs had completely taken over the market from VHS in Asia. They were indeed massively popular and even led to slow uptake of DVD players in Asian markets, particularly India, for a few years. Ofcourse, they were almost unheard of in the US and other western markets.

You are right. And freight won't be transported at 350 kph. Freights run at much slower speeds because the wagons are too heavy and at high speeds can destroy the track. On the other hand, passenger coaches are much lighter and can go much faster.

Well, all laptops in my organisation, even new ones, come installed with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and IE 6 even now. Upgrades to Service Pack 3 and IE 8 are done by automatic updates later. So IE6 will indeed continue to live long after it has been declared dying or dead, just like Fidel Castro! ;)

So he is Chuck Norris in disguise? Or the other way round?

Nope. This is all hogwash. We need government regulation and oversight to ensure that competition happens, just like in the telecom business.

There is an option in the Opera Preferences dialog to change Keyboard shortcuts or choose from several different sets of shortcuts. Look it up.

"Hindus believe in a cast system where certain people are just better than others.
It starts to kill the team. And that's were I see most teams today in my company. They are Hindu teams where it matters which cast you are from more than anything else."

That is just sad. It proves you are a closet bigot. Indians, especially the urban educated bunch wealthy or capable enough to make it to the US, don't really care for the caste system. Urban people hardly give a damn in India itself. There are too many other things to worry about. Besides, is this constant smugness about American Supreriority (TM) not a kind of caste system too? You believe that you are better than the others, don't you? The remarks you made only prove this.

Why do US folks on Slashdot get so insecure about competition from manpower in other countries? You'd love to have competition in broadband, telecom, operating systems, media and other services you have to pay for. But not in the US job market? How will you react if it is an Indian organisation that provides a cheaper and more reliable broadband and telephone service in the US? You won't get it because it is not American?

Is it because deep down you know that capable people exist in the rest of the world and might work for less money than you do, forcing you out of your comfort zones?

Besides, you do realise that a large number of Indians have been working in the US tech companies since the 1970s, right? They are not a recent phenomenon. Only now the numbers have increased.

I see this kind of xenophobia against India and China a lot on Slashdot, a group where one would expect to see more intelligence than in places like Digg.

The US pushed many Asian countries to open their markets to US giants hoping to profit from the massive untapped demand in those countries. In case of countries like India and China, local manufacturers actually became more efficient and capable because of this. They withstand competition from these giants and today even take them on in their own turf.

Ford, GM and Chrysler have still not been able to make a mark in India with their third rate products despite being in the country for almost 15 years now. On the other hand, Indian companies like Maruti, Tata and Bajaj have actually begun exporting cars and bikes by the millions. You already know Wipro and Infosys.

So instead of whining about (and conniving against) competition like companies you love to hate, begin accepting it. In the long term, only the capable make it to the top. So if you really are that good, there is not much to worry about if you choose to come out of your shell.