KumarAseem's comments

Well, there are many summer drinks, depending on which region you are in. Some of them are:

Aam Panna, Bel ka Sharbat, JalJeera, Shikanji, Neera, Ragi ambli, Jigar Thanda, Nannari, Kokam Sharbat, Coconut water, Chaach/ButterMilk, Thandai, Roohafza,

and many more...

The cost of space missions done by ISRO is extremely low. Even if you cancel all the space missions, the money saved will be in pennies and the loss of tech know how will be enormous.

The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on.

India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways.

Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.

Yes, correct. The govt reporting of every figure is less by a factor anywhere from 10-50, or maybe even more as well. The ground reality in India is way worse than what even the media is able to show. And, at present no light in the tunnel. Heart cries at this but it is us at fault only for putting such incompetent people at the helm.

Browsing data which may not be getting collected through telemetry hopefully.

What is there to prevent Microsoft from not having Defender monitor and report the traffic back to MS once it has gained a big foothold? MS with Win10 forcefully collects a lot of data and adding a little bit of data through Defender will give them a really huge(complete) picture.

I got 0.7 on FF, 0.3 on Opera and Chrome, all in incognito mode. Maybe they have just a few values and return it based on AND OR logic of 2-4 variable. Or maybe they are just playing around trying to gather some stats, for some "Don't be Evil" purpose!

I think it has raised in most of the countries.

In India, raising a child now is a very tough one. 1) Health Insurance - Not everyone has it and many who have turns out to be not sufficient. 2) Education - Schooling has become extremely expensive. There is not much regulation and schools apply a lot of tricks to get money from you, mainly under the guise of extra-curricular activities or development. They force the parents to pay, and legal recourse isn't available. 3) Health again - With the bad air, water and food that the children are getting these days, a lot of them get some or the other illness on a regular basis, which forces the kids to visit doctors frequently and take medicines. These all doctor visits don't get covered under insurance a lot of times. Kids of today are not developing a strong immune system. To top it all, many parents don't let their kids play outside. They give them a mobile and think they have done their duty.

I forsee a very bad/difficult future for a lot of children.

They had the advantage that they did not have any legacy systems to take care off. All the other operators have to take care of 2G and 3G network supporting infra along with putting in investment for 4G. So, Jio had a lot of money to use to grab the customers by offering free deals. They applied the approach of cannibalistic business growth. Also, there network is not good anymore now, as the subscriber base has grown. I have seen cross connects happening which used to happen in the days of landlines. Cross-connect, not sure if all know it by the same name, is when you call a number and you get connected to some other number. I have never faced this with other providers like Airtel, Idea and Vodafone in 13+ years of mobile phone usage. Jio is now in the same league as others, and is actually bad at the customer front level when compared to Airtel and Vodafone+Idea. This is from my own experience and of those in the close circle.

Do you have any points written out with examples when you explain to your folks? I could use those. Thumbs Up!!! for being successful in weaning a person off from such portals and getting them to understand Privacy and Security.

Out of the total population of the chrome users, how many really use more than 1 computer? These benefits may apply only for few users, probably in single percentage figures, which does not justify pushing it down the throats of everyone.

We won't be able to buy such cars also in next 10-20 years as by then every manufacturer would have included partial or complete data gathering on their units. If they are doing it so should I so I can stay in business is the concept being followed. This can only be controlled through strict laws, and that is a sorry state of affairs anyway. :(

wow! The rate of interest is almost equivalent to what private money lenders charge, and you say on your site "Low Interest..." And why are you asking for Aadhar card when RBI states in its notification that asking for Aadhar details is dependent on the verdict from Supreme court?

We had a cool trick of attaching 4-5 pens/pencils together, and then writing. Took a little practice but then a big time save.

That's a beautiful memory for me too! A lot of us gathered in the college ground and spent 1-2 hours watching the beautiful spectacle. I started to count, and then after sometime just gave up the counting. Never have got another chance after 1998 to see so many in one night.

Their wording is very confusing for me - "To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number below."

To me it sounds like, "we are anonymizing your personal info, but you can opt-out and allow us to perform data analytics using your personal info as it is."

When it was Odesk, and had just started, I grabbed my first project. I have done very few projects (not a developer) on it as I couldn't take the time out to keep hunting for work and give long term commitments. And then when it became Upwork, finding even small work became a big pain.

I feel that it is not just the freelancers to be always blamed. I have seen jobs wherein the client will say that this needs to be done in 2-3$ and in specific amount of time, which is impossible. Then there were those who would post jobs but wouldn't exactly know what they want and wouldn't give out details.

The platform was good when it was Odesk. With it becoming Upwork, the changes have made the platform worse in my opinion. Not that many people don't still post good work and hire good resources, but something else can sure fill the gap, if it can figure out a way to better the rating and skill selection system.

And to those who keep saying that people from 3rd world countries have ruined it, that's a totally nonsensical thought. Idiots and scammers are to be found in every part of the world. Yes, people from Africa, Asia and South America are able to charge less, which is because of low cost of living in such countries. You (people from 1st world countries) want to save money by letting a low cost worker do your work (keeping a big share of money without doing work) and happy when that happens, but the moment your job gets threatened, you start shouting. Wow!!!

It is the same in India, and I guess same everywhere. Because of people being illiterate and with the attitude of "this can never happen to me", we have a unique ID system forced down the throat of the citizens.

In India, it is mostly the poor who don't have CC. Every upper class person has multiple CCs and most of the middle class, specially those in the age of 20-40 have atleast one CC. People may keep just one debit card but they do keep multiple CCs. And now even the poor have bank accounts and many have debit cards.

If you can, then read the vedas, the upanishads, ramayana, mahabharata (bhagvad gita) and other texts which do mention such weapons.

It will be useful after 2015 as it will cover entire India.