Bang, crash and a creamy cake!

I may be a little late in writing this, but it is not every day that a person gets lifted by a bunch of people (!!!) and kicked till he starts howling, and then let down to be wished "Happy Birthday". For the uninitiated, welcome to the world of colleges and birthday bums.

Yesterday wasn't my birthday. It was a long time ago (end of may). But my buddies just decided that they wanted to kick me. So, one of them goes and gets a cake. Another suckers me to walk all the way to college telling that we are having "bums" for one of my seniors who just landed a job in Google. And guess what, I drag that poor guy all the way to the college, only to find that I am the "Bakra for the Day". It just aint fair. I lost count of the number of kicks after the first dozen.

The "best part of the night" was the cake. I am not sure how it tasted. I managed to get a small piece into my mouth before the guys tore it to pieces and stuffed all the cream on my face. I got more cake on me than inside me. Then came the "worst part of the night", I had to take a bath at around 1 in the night. Lucky me, the college has hot water running 24 hours. I go back to the room and find that my t-shirt (the orange one with iiit-b logo and let's log out on it) covered with cream. And then, I find that I had forgotten to go to the shop to buy some soap. Lightning struck at the same place twice. It was one thirty by the time I finished cleaning myself and my t-shirt. A wonderful night. The problem was that I was on the receiving end of the cake.

Is it right to hit back?

I just came across this post at whurleyvision about networks that can not just monitor threats posed to them, but actively respond with countermeasures. Sounds like a very interesting idea. There is a project called OpenSIMS that is currently working on it. But is it right to hit back at a network threatening you? What are its future implications in Information Warfare? A pity that I could not read the whole article on newscientist written by William Hurley...