That's the way, dude! Look at the arrogance of the Anonymous Coward - he assumes that anyone who provides logical explanations to clear stereotypes is 'sapping' the American education system. The poster is most probably a leech living off benefits. I'm not perplexed by such posts anymore. Some people just cannot understand sane logical points - they deserve absolutely no sympathy or civility.

I was "caught" taking photos in the Delhi metro with my mobile camera once, and the security guys almost confiscated my phone. I pretended to delete all the photos I had taken and they were satisfied and let me go... Today, the situation worldwide is such that, if you so much as dare suggest that the security thing is a little overblown and some of the rules are ridiculous, you'll have a pile of right-wing nutters on your backs within seconds! That's how it's going to be for the forseeable future and we must just get used to it...

The 'Universal Installer' and other Java based tools can easily be rewritten - no big deal. More important than those tools, IMHO, is the fact that Oracle has been providing support for in-database Java Stored Procedures. That, I'd say, is a bigger reason for Oracle not to kill Java!

No Government or intelligence agency in the world is interested in your grandma and her pals exchanging recipes. Neither are they interested in reading anonymous techies let off steam on slashdot. Communications monitoring will become more and more common in all countries going forward, India included. As long as we have this terrorist/militant bugbear there's no escaping this. Maybe we just get used to it? And oh - if American citizens think that their Government does not have the means to monitor communication, all I have to say is - dream on.

I have a lot of respect for America as a nation and I accept the immense contributions that America has made to the world in the past century. However, I just CANNOT stand the whining disgruntled American middle class techies who infest slashdot like bacteria.

"the plug can be pulled" Really?? Wow, I'm impressed. Do you work as a 'Network Engineer' by any chance? You'll rise high in your career, my good wishes are with you...

Yeah, the Indian Govt. is incompetent and hugely bureaucratic - nothing new in that. But be careful what you wish for - it might not be fun to live amongst a bunch of pathetic whiners who just can't stop howling about "jaaab stealers"

I second you :-)

Most Americans seem to think that ALL 'big fat rich' corporations in the world are American.

Yeah? Get out of your inflated sense of self-importance. The Indian Government cares tuppence about your whining 'correspondence'.

Looks like slashdot is infested with disgruntled hypocrite American techies. I can't see any other reason why the above comment was not modded 'Flamebait',

Most middle class Americans are hypocrites. They are well known for ad-hominem attacks on other countries and cultures instead of getting off their ass and speaking to their own home-grown politicians etc. who are the root cause of all their problems in the first place.

What keeps Americans in a constant state of frustration and agitation about 'stolen jobs' is the American politicians and bureaucracy. Wasting billions of dollars on wars, nuclear weapons, etc. etc. when the pathetic set of whiners that is the American middle class, continues to suffer job losses, recession and rising prices.

Another round of howling from the American hypocrites - 'them Indians are steeeealing our Jaaaabs'. Look at the supreme arrogance of it - all jobs on earth are first American jobs. Anyone else who dares to do that job is a 'thief'. For arguments sake, let us assume that American jobs have indeed been stolen by Indians. But now those are Indian jobs. So, how dare you ask for those jobs to be 'stolen from Indians' and given to Americans now?

" continues to be dangerous to be a Christian in some parts of India" Agree only partly, with emphasis on the fact that those 'parts of India' are less than 0.0003% of India's land area. More importantly, it is dangerous for Christians in that 0.003% of India only if they try to convert tribals and other backward communities to Christianity. I'm not saying this is a good thing - just stating facts. "and has been for decades" Vehemently disagree! What nonsense - the only 'communal riots' India has had for 'decades' were Hindu-Muslim. Tell me where you get your information on 'persecution occurring for decades on a continuous basis'?