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Posted by michael on Thursday September 11, 2003 @04:40AM from the giant-sucking-sound dept.

Victor G. Sommers writes "Daniel Soong, who lost his programming job to Indian offshore companies, is willing to relocate to India. 'It would be really interesting to work in Bangalore,' he says. 'But I was told, "Daniel, it is against the law for you to work here. You can come here on vacation, but you can't work here."' Indian officials have told him they don't hire Americans." An article in ComputerWorld talks about the possibility of getting more than you bargained for in outsourced code.

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Stamp-over advertising? by Mr.+Darl+McBride · 2003-09-11 04:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Am I the only one who had to copy and paste the text from the second linked page into a word processor to view the story?
In Mozilla, I got a Sprint ad in a huge box which overlaid the story text, making it impossible to read. I tried hovering over and such to see if it had a 'click to hide' option, but nothing. I'm not clicking the ad itself.
Is this some new advertising tactic to force people to visit ad sites to view the article, or is this just a page design problem?
1. Re:Stamp-over advertising? by slaker · 2003-09-11 04:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Moz is the browser that is most compliant with actual web standards.
  Probably some dumbass webmonkey didn't bother to check his page in anything but IE6 for Windows, and therefore didn't realize the problem.
  
  OTOH, it looked fine to me, and I'm using Moz 1.4 with most of the image and javascipt-blocking options turned on.
  
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2. Re:Stamp-over advertising? by fenix+down · 2003-09-11 04:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  If it doesn't take Mozilla into account, that's a design issue.
3. Re:Stamp-over advertising? by mark_lybarger · 2003-09-11 05:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  i'd say it's a requirements issue. if the requirements allow for a site to be IE6.0 only, and the dev team uses windows with IE, you're going to get an IE only site.
Meeeeeh by dosius · 2003-09-11 04:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

IE is the buggy browser, not Moz. If something works in IE and not in Moz that's because people are writing faulty code.

My web designer uses IE exclusively. Well, one of my pages that he laid out for me broke in Moz Firebird, because the column widths were even so slightly different... There's standards, folks, use them! I would have preferred to use <NOBR myself.

-uso.

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What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
Re:hidden malware story by BobGregg · 2003-09-11 05:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I went through graduate school in Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering program, and took lectures at the SEI, where Watts Humphrey was and still is. But I didn't realize that they were doing presentations to Microsoft. Back in the day (6-7 years back), Microsoft seemed quite uninterested.

To see this tied in to the Trustworthy Computing initiative, though, is pretty jarring. Seems like the "trustworthy" then applies more to the developers than to the software. Not exactly where I'd expect their primary focus to belong!
Re:What is that?!? by DirkDaring · 2003-09-11 06:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's a peep hole. Get real REAL close to your monitor and stare inside it!
Business 2.0 Magazine - The Coming Job Boom by $exyNerdie · 2003-09-11 07:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I read this in the September 2003 Issue of Business 2.0 Magazine :

Forget those grim unemployment numbers. Demographic forces are about to put a squeeze on the labor supply that will make it feel like 1999 all over again. - The Coming Job Boom