Indian Cops and Technology

India is considered as the mecca of outsourcing. We have BPOs, KPOs, Data Warehouses and every other aspect of outsourcing in India.

However, when it comes to Cyber Crime Chase, we are far behind other countries. The main reason that India cannot enforce or interpret cybercrimes is that our cops are not familiar even with everyday technology. There is a huge gap between a guy writing software for Microsoft in urban Bangalore and a field cop.

So it’s no surprise when you hear that a police squad confiscated some monitors as evidence of cyber crime from an office and left CPU/Harddisk behind. In another instance, they seized floppies and tried to staple them together, thinking they were documents. You can read the whole store here.

The point I am trying to make is that the thieves and law breakers are getting tech savvy everyday. They are coming up with new ways to do crime everyday, thanks to Hollywood movies and serials.
Setting up Cyber Crime Investigation Cell will not help much if our cops can not even operate ATM machine. What we need is an awareness program for our law enforcers and making them to use computers/gadgets in work. I mean you have to think like thieves if you want to catch one

Using Flickr as Camera Guide

Flickr has stat graphs which reflects the popular cameras used by its members. This is a real handy guide which shows consumer trends.

This really makes your decision about camera purchase easy.If you are novice and big terms like MegaPixels, Zoom, Aperture, Shutter speed does not make sense to you, just look out for most popular camera on Flickr.

Also, you can see pictures taken from particular camera. For example these are picutures submitted by members who use Canon PowerShot S2 IS.

Jintao – We welcome you

India always had very complex relationship with China. Everybody knows about professional rivalism between two countries, especially when it comes to Services and Production Industry.

However, on political front, India and China have long standing bickering over borders. Areas under concern are Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh, which China refers as South Tibet.

As of today, Tibet is considered as Chinese sovereignty and India has traditional trading rights in this region. We, as Indians, have accepted this and respect Tibetian borders.

I have always believed that Tibet should have been under India’s control but I will discuss that later in some other post.

However, China has now ‘again’ started attacking Arunachal Pradesh, which is unacceptable.

It was a bad move by Chinese Ambassador,Sun Yuxi,when he claimed that Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory. Especially when president Hu Jintao is on his way to India.

Brief History — During British Raj, in Simla Conference (year 1913-1914), a 550 mile line (known as McMahon Line) was drawn as border between British India and Republic of China. The Simla Conference was attended by Tibetian and British representatives. Since China didn’t have any officer attending the conference, and they claim historical sovereignty over Tibet, they refuse to accept this aggreement. Point to note is that during the period of Simla Conference, Tibet had declared itself independent and hence they had authority to negotiate with India. Britain and Soviet Union considered the Simla Convention as a bilateral accord.
My take — British crown again played it’s trump card by keeping all parties in dark and the document vague. Classic divide and rule trick.

I guess Jintao sole purpose of this trip should be to promote political stability and economic development for both India and China.
He should not open can of worms by discussing borders.

After all Nehru taught us, Hindi-Chini bhai bhai.

The Angrez

I have to write review of this movie as soon as I get some time.

Bollywood stalker

Bollywood got it’s first big celebrity obsessed fan. Avineshwar, a Dutch national of Indian origin, sent mullah (Rs. 13 Lakh) and his pics in a parcel addressed to Aishwarya Rai. Now I don’t know whether he just wanted to use Ash’s name for bypassing customs or he is really a fan who wanted attention from his idol. If former is the case, why did he send his pics in package.

Since this is a first act from this guy, this cannot be termed as stalking. I hope he stops now and don’t follow our beloved national lady (comeon, unofficially Ash deserves this title).

Whatever may be the objective of Dutch Gentleman Avineshwar, he certainly got his fifteen minutes of fame in media.

This incident reminds me of John Hinckley, Jr., who was so disturbed with Jodie Foster that he planned to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan just to impress her.

Weird world out there. eh!

Hello World

With this post, I am trying to make a foray into the world of blogging. Although I have been an avid reader of blogs since a while now, I never thought of owning one. The reason was that I was never sure whether I would be able to provide much time to pour my thoughts on web pages.

So what made me change my mind?

No, I didn’t suddenly go broke and bored.

The real reason is that firstly, the best part of having a blog is that you don’t have to be diligent in writing a post daily. It doesn’t demand any commitment.

As rightly said “It beats yelling at the television” – Glenn ‘Instapundit’ Reynolds (Taken from desipundit)

Secondly, I don’t need to give a heck with what I have to write. Unlike weekly/monthly status reports, mails to clients, I don’t have to worry about language or grammar for that matter.

Thirdly, blog is more like an online diary where I can put my thoughts and I can ponder over them in future. Sometime down the line, it would be nice to read what I wrote long before.

This reminds me of Pensieve, which Albus Dumbledore is known to use.

OK now so I have decided to start a blog. The next big question facing me now is what to call my web baby. As should be true for everybody else, I started looking for a fresh, catchy, trendy, witty, original name. But boy this is really a challenging task. I always want to be in charge of the situation, so struggling so much for a name didn’t go well with my personality. I am not suffering from OCD but looking for a good blog name made me obsessive.

One thing about blog names is that people tend to relate it to your personality. Reading a blog name gives you a fair idea about what you can expect in posts.

Considering above assumption as my criteria and my real intention of blogging, I came up with name “Waste of Space”

So guys I will take a leave now and will post as soon as I find something to write about.