And who decides what "that much" is? Like I've noted elsewhere, different areas that a government spends on get their share of yearly budget and then the decision makes in those areas decide how the money is spent. Nobody is taking away money allocated to providing clean drinking water to make missiles. Indian defence spending is decreasing every year and projects like guaranteed employment and food-at-lower-than-market-cost to poor are getting a larger share of spending. So looks like they have their priorities in order.

umm... because China is fairly big and the larger cities are pretty far away from where these ICBMs will be launched?

Like any country, or rather any unit that has multiple areas they need to work on, everything gets its fair share of resources. One doesn't "prioritise" one thing in neglect of other things. Defence gets its share. Social upliftment gets its share. Remember, Indian defence spending in GDP terms is pretty low given the kind of neighbours it has and the amount of terrorism and insurgent violence it bears generally.

What logic says that India should stop worrying about its defence till all Indians are shitting in toilets?

Yours is just another predictable response that shows up whenever anything like this is reported on /.

There won't ever be a nuclear war with Pakistan. The real focus is China. And slowly but surely India is beginning to equalize the equation though it's still pretty far from doing so; at the moment it's advantage China. So these developments have to be read in context of China, not Pakistan.

Zaphod-AVA essentially summed it up @ http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2282088&cid=36618244 on June 30.

And Ram Herkanaidu, a Kaspersky Lab Expert confirmed it @ http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/516/TDL_4_Indestructible_or_not on July 4 that they do not believe the botnet is indestructible. Ram tried to downplay the sensationalist headline of it being indestructible by pointing out that they had used inverted comas around the word.

But almost anybody even remotely interested in computing can probably guess and those who are into encryption can state for a fact that nothing in this "virtual world" is indestructible --- things only get a little difficult.

So this is pretty much a lot of noise over the intended wit of an analyst.