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Comment Re:Morality police (Score 1) 292

If this act starts getting misused on a large scale, the possibility of it being challenged in a court in India is quite high. Nowadays, in India, awareness among people is growing very fast and challenging a government policy in court is not very uncommon. Also, many NGOs are strongly raising the issues of human-right abuses and individuals freedom. To exemplify, RTI [http://www.rtiindia.org] can be cited as one of the big outcomes in recent days. Also, the Gujrat government is brought to its knees by a court for unfair treatment of minorities. There are many other examples too.

I can't say 'when', but, chances of it being challenged in some court is pretty high.

Comment Re:Human Rights (Score 1) 242

That's right. The idea itself is bad. You can comapare it with having something like idea of Jihad (actually the way the idea is being propagated by the hardliners, the bad way). If you have some unnatural/awkward ideas, you can have it happily within yourself. However, you should not be allowed to infect others with these ideas. Look it in this way: make some hate-speaches in a functional country (may be in USA also) and you will be locked up because you are infecting others with your bad ideas.

Comment Re:Human Rights (Score 0) 242

Gays harm a society in the same way cigarettes harm. It inspires others to try out something unnatural, which can't be justified. If gays want to have their own world INVISIBLE TO OTHERS, that's perfectly fine (on the grounds of their right to exercise their free will). However, as I said before, they should not be allowed to contaminate the rest of the world.

Comment Re:Human Rights (Score 0, Flamebait) 242

"Many US citizens still support oppressing the rights of gay people"

Just a different point of view:
Why do you exactly think that the gay-thing should be legalized or gays should be given equal rights what non-gays enjoy?! By all means, the gay phenomenon is unnatural and it doesn't seem reasonable to let a really small fraction of the population (gays) contaminate a society. You know, you can enjoy exercising your free will only if it doesn't harm others. If it does, it becomes an offence and it should not be given any legal backup.

Google

Submission + - A new version of Gmail is launched

freakxx writes: "A new version of Gmail is in action today. Look of the main GUI is same as before but contact management has become better now — a three column view showing contact groups, contact entries and corresponding contact information simultaneously in different columns. However, if a conversation has large number of messages, the scrolling is not as smooth as before. I think, only contact management system was needing a touch, nothing else. "Old Gmail + New Contact Management = Better than this New Version of Gmail"."
Google

Submission + - Gmail and many other google services under attack (indiatimes.com)

freakxx writes: "Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTIN) have found many XSS-vulnerabilities in Gmail and many other Google services. The team has described the way a malicious website can use XSS to steal mails from one's Gmail account. It also explains details of a similar kind of attack on other Google services (Search, Picasa, Blogspot, Urchin) and suggests disabling all kind of scripts while surfing internet. It also claims that there is "persistent email theft issue" with Gmail and it is backed by valid reasons.

Google India said that they are examining the issue and will respond to it soon."

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft sued by a Beijing student on privary (xinhuanet.com)

freakxx writes: "Xinhua reports that a Beijing University student has sued Microsoft for gathering personal informations by its WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) software. He has demanded a compensation of 1,350 RMB (US$ 180 approx.) and an open apology printed in national newspaper. He accused Microsoft that the WGA program enabled it to gather information about his computer and himself, rather than solely checking whether or not the installed Windows XP system was genuine.

Microsoft spokesman has denied to speak anything on this issue and said that the matter is under investigation."

Yahoo!

Submission + - Yahoo! pleads guilty in Chinese journalist case (bbc.co.uk)

freakxx writes: " Yahoo! pleads guilty of supplying information to the Chinese government, which has lead to imprisonment of many journalists and pro-democracy activists in China, including Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning.

In its 40 page response of the lawsuit filed by World Organization for Human Rights, Yahoo! acknowledged releasing information to the Chinese government. It further argues that it had to comply with the local law and it was compelled by the Chinese authorities to hand-over the information. Many people have criticized this decision saying that the organization has failed to keep up with ethics and it has more responsibilities towards international laws and humanity."

Announcements

Submission + - Indians most worried about climate change: Survey (indiatimes.com)

freakxx writes: "The Times Of India reports that Indians are most concerned about the global warming. It refers to an international consumer "index" of commitment to the issue, called Climate Confidex Index, which is built upon survey results, and India is on the top, far ahead of UK, France, Germany, USA etc. It says that nearly half of of Indians take individual responsibilities for global warming, in contrary to 23% of Americans and 19% of Britons. The HSBC are also quoted to have said that it was shocked and surprised "to discover the developing world — and Asia in particular — has the greatest concern, commitment and optimism about climate change".

So, the next question arises that why does the concern level is so low in western world? Does it have something to do with the capitalism culture they have and in general, they give more importance to economy and climate change is not a big issue yet?!!"

Announcements

Submission + - "new" 7 wonders of the world declared (new7wonders.com)

freakxx writes: ""New" 7 wonders of the worlds have been announced today at Lisbon, Portugal. People throughout the world have voted actively to elect the new 7 out of 21 finalists. As a summery, these are: Chichen Itza, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Brazil; The Great Wall, China; Machu Picchu, Peru; Petra, Jordan; The Roman Colosseum, Italy; and The Taj Mahal, India. "Pyramids of Giza, Egypt" was the only candidate which also used to be among old 7 wonders before. However, it couldn't make into the list of final 7 and hence we have a complete new set of "seven wonders of the world".

Finally, a question: should the wonders be decided by polling or by a group of experts in this field coming from every part of the world?!"

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