Saturday, August 05, 2006

Plagiarism. New Indian Express Style.

From the newspaper that pioneered the use of kerosene as toner, comes this remarkable effort at originality.

This is an article in todays Bangalore edition of the New Indian Express, on Page 9. Interesting enough and it does mention that "...an IP address installed at the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was also leaded..."


They go on to, most thoughtfully, explain what an IP Address is, as below.


Except it's hardly fsking original! Dammit, Wikipedia?! This is a blatant rip of the Wikipedia article on IP Addresses. What do they gain by not citing the source?


I fail to understand. Would they lose their job by citing? Would the Science & Technology Editor be shown up as incompetent? Why? Why are you going the way of the ToI?

Gah!