Your Loss Is My Gain: How China Can Use Terrorism To Its Advantage

China is a different sort of a country. The Chinese are a different sort of people. I mean i love jackie chan, but forget not, most of the hacking/DDoS attacks on government institutions around the world start in China, China killed its own people when they asked for democracy, China is probably the only country in the world as of now that aggressively wants to occupy more land (taiwan, tibet, many parts of India, many parts of neighbouring countries), they have repeatedly prooved they only care about their objective of becomign a super power and beign a good world citizen is not their priority (nuclear proliferation, misslie proliferaton - pakistan, north norea, espionage - stealing classfied info from usa including nuclear info).

Well the point is i came across a company thats trying to sell its self using terrorism in India.

Here is the link to this company that suggests outsourcing providers should switch to China instead because there is terrorism in India.

Some people say terrorists rule China. Not me though ;-), i disagree.

I do agree to one thing though, terrorism is a problem, a huge problem, but China is too unpredictable to be a safe investment. India has way to many advantages and although the wages are rising ad the cost advantge is being lost, we  still have decades of assets, a brand called India and millions of hugely talented people to keep us ahead of the pack.

i wldnt be surprised if blogspot will suffer a ddos attack right out of bejing after this post, China brethern, relax a bit, smile, why so serious?

On a closing note china isn't compeltely untouched by terrorism either guess they have just been lucky someone isn't adding fuel to this fire, but for how long?

"If" By Rudyard Kipling - heard it?

Found this piece by Kipling...and liked it..so here it goes..

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!"

Remember The Spammers & Scammers

I was just reminded today, one more time, how most of us who build large scale web apps forget the spammers so easily.

Viewed this website and searched for google. The website basically provides sites similar to the site you put in, if you put a search engine, ideally it should have given you another search engines.

When people build apps, especially the user generated content types, spammers need to be taken care off.

Spam and spammers are a big part of the web, they need to be given the attention they deserve, we need to keep them in our mind when we make our apps.

Misuse of any system is inevitable, but if you don't expect it, you run the risk of turning the entire system unusable, like in the case of tagomatic

Marissa Mayer Says Sorry On Google's "This Site May Harm You" Issue

Marissa Mayer, Googles, cute(plus hot) but smart VP, Search products and user experience said sorry in a blogpost titled "This site may harm your computer on every search result?!?!"

I am assuming the questions marks and exclaimation marks in the end stress the significance of the issue.

She did give a half baked explaination that would almost make your believe it came from paris hilton or something and here is the explaination:

she says "We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs"

Hmm the url of "/". I wonder if there is a way of explaining this problem in a better way. VP of shit sucks and what not. Get Paris hilton in, she would do as good i'm guessing.

But honestly who cares, the female is hot, when she says sorry you smile and move on.

I'm only wondering how many times did the adword revenues went up during these 40 minutes.

Update: Google blog stops showing trackbacks on their blogpost. And also somehow promotes its own blog post with clarification on top of their search engine for related terms("this site may harm your computer), coincidence? I have never seen Google work that fast for sure. And not showing blogs that link to their blogspot is again somewhat grey. 

Government of India Plans $10 PC

I recently read a news in Indian Express a national daily. According to the news government of India in association with IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore plans to laundh a $10 PC for students.

They also plan to provide free e-content that students can download and use.

Just below the news someone comments saying something that seems too good to be true, probably is.

Lets face it, IISc is not going to make chips, they are going to use off the shelves chips available. They are not going to build motherboards they will borrow a twaiwan made motherboard.

The cost of a TFT display will be more than $10.

India has always been fascinated by quantity. China is not different.

Only problem is when it comes to education, quality is what we need, not quantity.

I only wish they would have provided somethiing actually useful even if it costed little more, they would exempt broadband services from taxes for next 10 years and let broadband penetration increase in India.

This is whn you start to doubt their vision. I just hope this does not end up being some policitians cheap shortcut to fame.

I'll keep an eye on this one.