In Deep Water

Two years in term and there is no respite for UPA government. Strings of accusations keep pouring in as new facts get unearthed every day.

Dayanidhi Maran’s involvement in 2G scam is one such skeleton UPA can’t wait to bury to prove a point of governance integrity. But compromising Maran would be a too little too late response for absolution from all that UPA has managed to get into.

Maran just happens to be a piece of jigsaw puzzle that will ultimately solve to be corruption at absolute government levels. Without involvement at the top it’s impossible to pull off a scam of such magnitude and cover it up for so long.

The only saving grace for this government can be through a thorough cleanup of all its deeds. Waiting for CBI to prosecute and take action is just getting too tiring for the entire country.

The Bad Apple

In the information age, forcing copyright policing in the crudest manner is both undesirable and unacceptable. Apple’s patent to disable video recording in places like concerts and live entertainment reeks of extreme level of intrusion in end user’s usage freedom.

Funny how those with power to dictate terms take measures to make extreme things possible, like publishing user’s private data publicly (Facebook). But trying to restrict the content one wants to keep and capture is deemed as an offense to be tackled desperately at every level possible.

This “feature” is bound to create so much discontent that overriding Apple’s restrictions via any necessary means will become commonplace. The people willing to go the “wrong way” might just increase. There have to be better and more concrete ways to avoid video capture at such events than installing a big brother on your phones.