Harshal’s Comments

• Dec 4th, 2009 @ 2:24am

  Indian Telecom Scene Rules

  on Bill Introduced To Limit Early Termination Fees
  After reading the posts and story above, I think you guys are living in medieval times as slaves. In India there are no such contracts since almost all phones are not bought through the telecom companies and are hence not subsidized. The low call rates, cheapest in the world, more than make up for the non-subsidized handset market. Call rates are only headed further south with more competition arriving.
• Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 3:47am

  Jai Ho

  on US Visa Process Making It Even More Difficult For Foreign Musicians To Tour Here
  I remember that earlier this year singer Sukhwinder Singh from India, who sang this year's Oscar winning song was not granted visa to perform at the Oscars.
• Nov 26th, 2009 @ 2:08am

  Delete the records of non-criminals

  on UK Police Arresting People Just To Add To DNA Database?
  Shouldn't the system have a built in parameter to not store DNA records of people who get arrested but not eventually convicted?
• Nov 17th, 2009 @ 2:28am

  Re: Security vs. obscurity

  on Brazilian Hacking Attempts Fail To Break Brazilian E-Voting, But Do Improve The Process
  That's exactly right.
• Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 8:23am

  Re: no problem

  on OnStar Used To Stop Carjacked Car
  Very well put. I couldn't agree more. All other arguments pale in front of the fact that a carjacked car is several times more dangerous than killing its gas - Anywhere, even blindly.
  
  The only downside is I guess potential abuse of the technology by an unintended/unauthorized use.
• Oct 9th, 2009 @ 7:21am

  (untitled comment)

  on Japanese High Court Realizes That Developer Of File Sharing Software Shouldn't Be Liable For Infringement
  Wouldn't it have been the same as prosecuting a knife manufacturer for a murder committed by their knife.
• Sep 15th, 2009 @ 7:42am

  (untitled comment)

  on MLM Company Accuses Blogging Critic Of Trademark Infringement Over Metatag Usage
  Does that mean if I write a tutorial on how to use certain features of Microsoft Word and include Microsoft Word in the metatags. I need to take MS's permission. Ridiculous.
• Sep 2nd, 2009 @ 5:32am

  Fail to understand

  on The Trouble The Recording Industry Goes Through To Stop Leaks... And It Doesn't Work
  I fail to understand what does physically putting a watermark on the CD achieve. The leaker is obviously going to RIP the songs of the CD and leak it in MP3 format. What is the use of the watermark then? Rather they should at least try to appear to protect their music by using some DRM sort of technology.
• Aug 28th, 2009 @ 5:27am

  Blood banks?

  on Swedish Regulators Say The Word 'bank' Not Allowed In Any Domain Names... Except If You're A Bank
  How about some organization giving information on blood banks or sperm banks?
• Jul 28th, 2009 @ 5:57am

  Re: why bother?

  on Apple Says No To Google Voice On The iPhone
  "Simply not having to install that wretched iTunes on my computer is incentive enough to NOT get an iPhone (or any other Apple product)."
  
  Absolutely