This kind of setup would be god-sent for people like me who live in Florida! Freaking old people take hours to checkout. And then they have to chat with the checkout person and use thousands of their coupons even in the 10 items or less line too! Grrrr.....

What if that female TSA agent turns out to be Rosie O'Donnell? You really want to take that chance?

Arjun MBT is one of the finest tanks in our part of the world. The problem with its development is not because of just DRDO. It has to do with the govt policy, the army constantly changing its requirements and finally the penetration of Russian arms agents in the Ministry of Defense. All these factors have delayed the induction of a tank that kicked Russian T-90s in every environment that the Indian Army fights in. The comparative field trials of the Indian Army a few months ago showed Arjun MBT has consistently performed better than T-90. So, DRDO came out with a better tank that Russians who have decades of tank-building experience.

Hey, what do you have against scantily clad women? They are part of what makes life fun!

Doesn't pakistan fit that description?

My university's computer science dept.along with film and media arts dept. has an interdisciplinary degree that teaches game development to arts students. You should check it out and see what they teach in entry-level course for arts students in this discipline. You can reach them here: http://www.eae.utah.edu/

'Arabic' students? you must have meant Indian students! there aren't that many 'Arabic' students compared to Indians and Chinese in engineering.

Actually, you can do this with T-mobile smartphones too. I bought a HTC HD2 off the craigslist, loaded Android into it. Its a T-mobile branded and locked phone but I was still able to add the $10/mo unlimited web for phones (not the $25/mo smartphones plan). Another neat trick was being able to setup fring and getting google voice to work with it (via sipgate and sipsorcery). I get free incoming and outgoing calls using this method. I just hand out my google voice number. I have been an AT&T customer for more than 6 years but I couldn't take it anymore!

Well, technically, I did buy a windows phone (HTC HD2, runs Windows Mobile 6.5). But I loaded Android 2.2 as soon as I got bought the phone. Now, I use windows only during bootup (which is maybe once a week). I couldn't stand the winmo interface for more than a few mins. Laggy and slow. Not sure if win mo 7 will fix anything at all.

While that sounds wonderful, we will see if that saying holds true when you are surrounded by pakistan and China. Imagine if Mexico was pakistan and Canada was China. We will see how well you will stop the terrorists from infiltrating from the south.

By the same logic, US is a terrorist-sponsor nation. US has pacts and is allied with pakistan. It continues to provide it arms and military aid despite knowing well that pakistan is the epicenter of terrorism and has pretty much sponsored every terror act around the world including 9/11. US also provides weapons to Saudi Arab

Yep. A country with islamic terrorist neighbor on the north-west and a commie neighbor to north-east (which was already nuclear-armed before Indira Gandhi made India go nuclear) is not allowed to keep nuclear weapons to protect itself. Only western countries, particularly US, is allowed to protect its citizens. India faces active terrorist threats pretty much everyday (from internal maoist-naxal problem to insurgencies in north-east, sponsored by China, to terrorism in Kashmir sponsored by your ally - pakistan). As an Indian, I am happy my govt. went nuclear. Its the only thing that stops China from invading and annexing Arunachal Pradesh.

And India doesnt not have massive population that these companies wont see as a market? Either you live in a cave or you are amish to now know how big google and skype's markets are in India.

Wow! This comment got modded 'insightful'? Really? Indian govt trying to do what US govt already does invites such hateful comments. Why am I not surprised. As usual Americans dont want to acknowledge the reality. Their govt already intercepts every possible communication. But when a foreign govt does it, suddenly there is a backlash. Atleast India is going public. BTW, China already does this. So, fuck US and China as well.