seconded.

Great many thanks to Mint team for this. Had used 3-4 major linux distros before, but after first try with mint, no going back :)

hey... celebrating world optimism day today are we?
you see, just like managers, these dickheads are expected to come up with "next big idea", spent a lot of money and move on. and that is what this is, just like the akash tablet project, the complete literacy project, remove proverty project and what not.

photographed... just that!?! you are just humiliating us sir!

they will initially be photographed and on front page tomorrow. by evening 5 of the 12 phones will develop some "technical" issue. As this happens, opposition will uproar about the quality of phones. by weekend, there will be a leaked tape circulating in media about backroom deals involved in buying of these phones. Of course, there will be demand for "very high level" enquiry from opposition and govt. critical media types, and ofcource, govt. will try to calm people that there is nothing major and that just a "high level" enquiry should be sufficient. Finally, maybe within next 5-6 years, a "judicial enquiry" will be setup, submitting its first report in next 10-12 years.
in the meantime, by next month, there will be some people on road asking govt. to come clean. after some he said-she said, and some roiting, govt. will decide maybe this needs to be done better. After a loan of 2.4 Billion USD, a study will be done how this should be done better.
Ah! and those 12 students... how can we forgot those poor souls. Complete analysis will be done on what is their caste/ creed/ social group/ religion/ state are. The one less represented have all rights to demand more, including state level strikes. But certainly, the ones which are over-represented will deny the claim saying they are still less and need more phone.

and you think just photographed... talk about knowing other cultures
(Disclaimer: me no govt. employees, so some few issues might have been left out)

no... no facebook for me. thanks for asking.

i see, so if i get it right, and pray almighty i do, you are implying that since people cannot pirate for free, they will not watch stupid [bt]ollywood movies, and in time, will clear the mind of useless nonsense and will get smarter and realistic and the effect of bollywood will diminish further and everything and so things will get better and better and the fun will begi....

wait, my initial hypothesis is wrong... or yours or...

does not COMPUTE!!!!

i agree overall with this sentiment, but fact remains its not so easy specially if you live outside centers of town...
most of the places the only choice is BSNL (the "Big Setup, No Link" (almost) govt. monopoly) or Reliance datacard. BSNL Service is unreliable as hell (i had connection for 3 months, out of them for 2 it never worked!) and if Reliance dumps you, there is no options for most of the rest people!

hey AC, honest thanks for information, i looked at all places where i shouldn't had looked :)

congrats being the citizen of a reputable country.
TFA: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/science/rise-in-scientific-journal-retractions-prompts-calls-for-reform.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1334958458-PxivQM3BpvGZR636Xup/Qw&pagewanted=all
QUOTED: http://iai.asm.org/content/79/10/3855.full

QUOTE in asm: "Of more than 28,000 articles in its 40-year history, Infection and Immunity has issued only 15 retractions. Six of these were issued this year and arose from a single laboratory (52,–,55, 87, 89). ..."
lets check what these bad bad chindians are doing:
ARTICLE: (52-55, 89):
RESEARCHERS: (Naoki Mori1,*, Kazunori Oishi2, Borann Sar2, Naofumi Mukaida3, Tsuyoshi Nagatake2, Kouji Matsushima4 and Naoki Yamamoto1)
Affiliations:
Department of Preventive Medicine and AIDS Research1 and Department of Internal Medicine,2 Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523,
Department of Pharmacology, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa 920-0934,3 and Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033,4 Japan

(found to contain digital figures that had been inappropriately manipulated)
ARTICLE: (78):
RESEARCHERS: (Junghee J. Shin1, Anton V. Bryksin1, Henry P. Godfrey2 and Felipe C. Cabello1,*)
Affiliations:
1Departments of Microbiology and Immunology
2Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595

(two were unable to confirm their original results (42, 67))
Awdhesh Kalia1, Mark C. Enright2, Brian G. Spratt3 and Debra E. Bessen1,*
A Reynaud, M Federighi, D Licois, J F Guillot and B Joly
- Author Affiliations
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut,1 and
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY,2 and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London, St. Mary's Campus, London W2 1PG,3 United Kingdom
Laboratoire d'Analyses Vétérinaires et Biologiques Département du Puy de Dôme, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

(and three found a critical reagent to be impure (19, 49, 61). The remaining article was retracted due to extensive plagiarism (43))
19, 49 and 61:
D R Cue and P P Cleary
Paola Marcato, George Mulvey and Glen D. Armstrong*
I M Orme, S K Furney, P S Skinner, A D Roberts, P J Brennan, D G Russell, H Shiratsuchi, J J Ellner and W Y Weiser
Biswajit Khatua, Angana Ghoshal, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Chandan Mandal, Paul R. Crocker and Chitra Mandal
- Author Affiliations
Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455, USA.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
Infectious diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK

so, 1 indian of all these and no chinese!!!
i think someone should listen to you and ban indians ad chinese from publishing - right?

would someone, for the love of heavens, please explain to me why they always miss out 1 peice of info: from which location on earth and which timezone!!!!

i think this is such 2nd or 3rd story i am getting on slashdot. everytime i went to nasa website, watch damn videos and could never understand when and where on earth (srsly no pun) can i expect it!!!

please enlighten me if someone knows
(at my location this time already passed 12 hours ago)