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  1. Re:I can verify this is happening... on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately that decision was made way above my pay grade.

  2. I can verify this is happening... on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I work at a Fortune 5 company, where we outsourced to Oracle, and Oracle in turn applied for H1B workers because they "could not find suitable US applicants". Most of the Indian contractors that showed up had no expertise in installing the software, and were completely lost when they could not find something in the manual.

    This is not about experience, this is about screwing hard working and capable Americans out of jobs so that Larry Ellison and creeps like him can buy private islands and retire. It's about putting shareholders above employees and morals. It's about damaging the country that made your success possible in the first place.

  3. Please do the needful! on Communication Lost With Indian Moon Satellite · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the needful had been done, this would not have happened.

  4. Potpourri on Company Makes Fake Cigarette Smells for Smokeless Bars · · Score: 1

    Why would you pay a bunch of money for a burnt tobacco smell, when you can just use pipe tobacco like potpourri?

    Anyone who has ever been in a smoke shop knows tobacco smells much better before it is burnt! (If only it gave a buzz that way!)

  5. Could they make it any easier on themselves? on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean really, using Wikipedia as your data set? It's so high signal-to-noise ratio it'll make all their search results look informative. Let's see how it does on the open internet, full of spammers and google-bombs.

  6. Re:I have to disagree on Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    I guess you should have overclocked your bus with some caffeine before driving, or beowulfed with your passengers!

  7. Agencies are supposed to be documenting their own? on National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving · · Score: 1

    Because we saw how well that plan worked for the White House emails...

  8. Re:Waste...? on Material Converts Radiation Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    So at some point in the future can we get all those drums of radioactive waste, and reprocess/re-enrich them into fuel? Or do they do something to the waste before storing it?

  9. Oversold to ISPs? Ugh! on Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice · · Score: 1

    I used to run an ISP, and all of our contracts with upstream carriers (we were multi-homed) included guaranteed bandwidth. Either this ISP negotiated a very risky contract to save a few bucks, or they are getting screwed by their upstream, and owed some free service!

  10. Re:What's private about passport records? on Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped · · Score: 1

    From the article, the protections and alarms you are referring to apply only to high-profile persons. So unless I'm having this conversation with Barak Obama or the Olsen Twins, your record probably does not enjoy those same protections.

  11. Re:What's private about passport records? on Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Haha, you just made his point by still having a step 4.

    i.e. Even if there is a supposed protection in place, it will still be abused again and again.

    To quote WOPR: "The only way to win is not to play."

  12. One correction on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 2, Funny

    "... shows the reality of the problem in stark detail."

    s/stark detail/comic sans/;

  13. Re:Is this that silly.. on AMD Open Sources the AMD Performance Library · · Score: 1

    Are you crazy? If your AMD chip enables your packets to travel back in time, you need to share that microcode, not replace it!!

  14. What about the CONTRIBUTIONS? on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I cannot believe no one has mentioned the contributions yet! Is Ron Paul going to keep the tens of millions in contributions that he barely spent? Is this going to disillusion a whole generation of politically active geeks?

    Ron Paul should donate a large portion of that money to the EFF, ACLU, and anyone else staying in the fight for our civil liberties! We did not contribute for his reelection to congress!

  15. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 0

    Every good spy knows, when you rattle your saber, you reveal it.

  16. Does this mean less dupes? on Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Memory Loss · · Score: 0

    Finally, less dupes on Slashdot!

  17. Re:These things happen on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 0

    I think counts with serial numbers published online and in newspapers is a great idea.

    If you're concerned about vote selling, make it a felony with mandatory prison time and loss of voting rights.

    Better to trust the American people as a whole, than to trust a little black box.

  18. Welcoming our new overlords, etc... on NSF-Funded "Dark Web" to Battle Terrorists · · Score: 0

    It sure is nice of the younger generation, assembling their own shackles.

  19. I work for a very big Cisco shop on Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All of our 100mbit servers and the Cisco switches they connect to have to be nailed to 100/Full, because the Cisco hardware refuses to negotiate properly with HP Proliants and Sun hardware. Yet a $40 D-Link can manage just fine.

    Not to mention how buggy IOS releases have become in recent years.

    I wonder how many folks will start checking out Juniper.

  20. Forget about "kissing"! on India To Offer Free Broadband by 2009 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Richard Gere kissed an actress in public and they both had warrants issued for their arrest. What do you think will happen when all of these rural Indians come across pictures a tad more extreme than kissing on the interweb?!

    I hope you like curry.

  21. Congrats (Pirate) on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 0

    We all know you are just returning Vista so you can install a pirate copy of XP instead!

  22. Class Action? Are you a lawyer? on Repair Computer, Repurchase OS? · · Score: 0

    Yeah, file a class action lawsuit so you can make some lawyer a millionaire, and get about half of what you deserve at best.

    Seriously, if you really have a case, file in small claims court. You'll get all the money and chances are they won't even show up to defend themselves.

  23. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT on The Taxman's Web Spider Cometh · · Score: 0

    "The article notes that the US IRS will neither confirm nor deny using similar technology."

    Hold on there!

    There is something called the "Freedom of Information Act" or FOIA, and domestic IRS tax collection methods surely do not fall under national security. We have to stop this dangerous trend towards closed government now!

  24. Increased Space Traffic + Debris = First Strike on Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    With Russia's increase in commercial space traffic, they now have excellent cover to leave nukes disquised as debris in a decaying orbit. With very subtle changes in orbit they can cause the "debris" to come down in the middle of any major US city. We won't realize it until it is too late.

  25. Verifiable Electronic Voting on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    - Print internal and voter receipts containing UUID and votes in text and barcode form.
    - Upload UUIDs and votes to a central, public database in regular batches, to preserve anonymity.
    - Pollsters, turnstiles, and other means can be used to verify that the number of electronic votes matches physical voters.
    - Pollsters can collect both UUID and manual polls, and compare for accuracy using the public database.
    - Individual voters can verify that their votes were registered correctly using the public database.

    Anything missing?