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No Americans Need Apply

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Stamp-over advertising? by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · 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?