House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane

PipianJ writes "The House Science Committee has requested NASA to postpone the orbital space plane program (official letter (pdf)), thanks to lingering concern about the safety of the existing space program. On the other hand, isn't one of the ideas behind the orbital space plane program the fact that our current space program is getting more unsafe through the use of 20-year-old equipment?" The Senate is also getting into the act.

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SUCK IT!

[Anonymous Coward]

second post!

OFFSHORING MYTHS EXPOSED FOR CLUELESS SLASHDOTTERS

[Anonymous Coward]

MYTH #2: "New, innovative companies won't start up overseas."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

MYTH #4: "If you're truly working on something high-tech, today's high-tech, you'll never have to worry about your job moving."

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Good evening, everybody

[Sir Haxa1ot]

Hi, folks, how's everyone doing tonight?

I was away for the weekend, but now I am back. So what's new on Slashdot today? Anyone can recommend anything interesting?

If there has ever

[tarquin_fim_bim]

been a greater firm of bean counters, it was prior to the big bang, Ernst & Young are magnificent. They can count beans in a more Alice in Wonderland style than any other bean counters that have ever existed on any planet in this galactic spiral arm. Call them business intelligence firm call them crooks, they are by anyones standard of anything, simply the most creative.

P.S. I used to work for them so I know they're crooks.