Posts under ‘Web’

In one of the most chilling articles, that I have read in recent times, author Steven E. Landsburg advocates the death penalty for computer hackers. He presents an extremely calculated basis for his recommdation. It is all in economics.
The computer hacker costs the wold US$ 50 billion per annum. If executing one of them could [...]

Today’s headlines from Rediff had me gasping. I thought that the loony left had taken over the Finance Ministry and there was George Fernandes style nationalisation on the cards. FM Targets Fortune 500 Comapnies - said the headline

Till I clicked the link - the headline read FM targets Fortune 500 companies for investment - and [...]

I came across a great repository for on-line books. The section that was the most interesting was banned books
The who’s who of writers has ended up getting banned at sometime in their life or the other. Ulysses, Cantebury Tales, The Arabian Nights, Moll Flanders, The Bible, The Koran, and hundreds of others have been banned. [...]

Once upon a time there was a great free e-mail service called Hotmail. Hotmail was probably the most popular e-mail service (about 7 years ago). Everyone i know, including me, had a hotmail account.
And then Microsoft bought out Hotmail. First came the - not being able to log on to the account. then came frequent [...]