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  1. That's misinformation. on The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    That's called misinformation. It's a tactic used in the "free market" to create force that appears desirable. Even IBM has succumbed to this to sell off their PCD to Lenovo. What was the highest in quality is now in the hands of one of the CEOs from the Cursed Brand of Abysmal Quality. It's something to think about when let quality fall by the wayside, knowing that it affects your job as well by supporting an unsustainable practice such as offshoring.

  2. Heavy hands outdo Free Market Exploitation on The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    But when you can put a heavy hand on things, it fixes those "unsolvable by market economics" problems. Especially when the problems are related to the head not knowing what the body wants. When you cant buy quality anymore, something is very wrong *cough*IBM sale to Lenovo*cough*. It's not that quality isnt wanted, it's that quality is being pushed out by improper information that quality is an undesirable thing to have. That is how one of the assumptions of market economics breaks itself.

    That requires something outside of market economics to fix.

  3. Unfortunately social guarantees are in order. on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    even if education were the solution, we're doing nothing in this country to make it more accessibleeven if education were the solution, we're doing nothing in this country to make it more accessible

    Unfortunately we'd have to reserve a mass amount of slots for domestic recovery, which are capped at $3000/4 years no matter what university. Think social class integration (along with the National Guard escorting Midwesterners into Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Rice, Brown and others like them) into exclusionary institutions, with no "required 4.0 just to make an easy fail" way to kick them out. Sure, some think that removes choice, but unfortunately since they've given up on the millions, it's probably the only option.

    Next, you guarantee that they will be able find work in whatever they train for 20 years(at the highest level paid for the position) before the next offshoring wave, or they are responsible for more re-education at the company expense. Since they've been given wide latitude in removing 100 years of labor protection, it's only fair to return the favor.

    The only thing he's done to education is devalue a Yale degree.

  4. Re:Israeli Security on U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Do the words Checkpoint Syndrome mean anything?

  5. Karmic Justice for Google. Coming on a ship. on Google Moving PRC Records Out of China · · Score: 1

    Whoops! We just knocked over your oil platform, didnt know it was not abandoned.

  6. Ok, where were these people for IBM? on U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Maybe these people should have been paying attention to IBM a bit more and actually putting forth effort to block the sale of their PCD to Lenovo.

    Oh, wait... we gave China a blank check on trade. And yes, that sucking sound going towards China is our jobs leaving.

  7. Re:Of course NSA continuing TSA on Slashback: Enigma, Google, Java Games · · Score: 1

    I'm also glad that it's easily made untrackable by the inadvertent application of heat.

  8. Ohio, where the private sector rapes the public. on Hiring Is Up in Silicon Valley for High-Skill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Well, consider that they've only recently stopped raising (unneeded) taxes to remove people off their land - given how they've done it to some in that area, and that namesake was one of them(and not just the airport). They've done it to companies as well, and the result is the same.

    Combine that with Ohio being the 2nd capital of corruption, and you figure out fast that things are bound to always get killed here if you work private sector. If you have a clean record, see if you can get a clearance and then a job with a government contractor. These people will even cover your vacation expenses, even to far off places such as Italy.

    The only other option would be to overhaul education to a point where you could walk into any university in Ohio, even Case Western, and get all years paid off - no exclusion policy like Ohio State wants to pull.

    Even the spammers are having trouble, but who wants them prosperous (at least in /.)?

  9. Re:It's just in their blood on Analysts Are Seeking Guidance From Google · · Score: 1

    No, it's just another thing they inherited from Stanford. It'll be karmic justice when they start being open, and dealing with Midwesterners with seriousness. That's the reasoning.

  10. Take care of our own, *first*. on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 1

    ...or maybe you can do a lasting solution by removing exhorbitant tuition(3000 max for citizens for unrestricted access to Ivy level) and overrestrictive admissions (the cat's out of the bag, you might as well let the Midwest in with no conditions at all, and all the same benefits upon exiting) out of the equation.

    Market based solutions do not work in relation to things such as jobs. They ignore external factors and do not provide favorable transition for displaced. They only destroy upward mobility.

    Why, yes Carly, an American has a right to his job, even if it means you suffer.

  11. Re:Sun's customer "service" is piss-poor on Sun to Give Niagara Servers to Reviewers · · Score: 1

    Mind they're also the same company who thinks it cant just remove dtrace (or just leave it at the feature level that a sun4m can understand) and just let the high end 32bit'ers in. I'm not surprised you got the treatment you did. Break compatibility all over, and not care a dang. IBM however, at least gave their Microchannel RS/6000 machine equivalents from the same era a better shot at things.

    I wonder if they(IBM) were the "competitor you ordered from", being the last of the solvent high-performance "cheapness is weakness" solution providers.

    Sun just seems to be wanting to move to the 1u/2u knockoff level, and fast.

  12. Both soon blown out of the water by passing... on MacBook Pro Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    T60's. Whatever you do with it after you get it is up to you. Load up whatever you were wanting, even if you wanted OSX86 up and running.

    With it's non-integrated graphics (ATI X1400/FireGL V5200), Molten Core ought to be a walk in the park. As for the *book Pro, the Intel GMA 900 isnt what it's cracked up to be and isnt the kind of thing you would wish anyone to have.

  13. Free Marketeers look up, see falling blade in IT on U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    So you would deny developing nations both jobs and trade with the U.S. If all modern nations took that attitude, the developing nations would be doomed to near-eternal poverty. Until their labour laws are up to U.S. standards, they can't do business with the U.S. And until they can do business with the U.S., they can't generate the wealth to improve their labour standards.

    Sure - we already do it to our own via Walmart and to various parts of the US via New Orleans(or any other undesired region, this includes the Rust Belt too).

    I'm sure we can figure out how to get them up to US/EU standards of human rights, even down to allowing unions go unchecked as conventional corporations are today. We have the resources, and we certainly can enforce standards. Maybe not handing a blank check to Asia like we do now is a Nobel-worthy idea after all.

  14. Re:China and Censorship on Slashback: Google, China, Network Neutrality · · Score: 1

    China is very protectionist, and is allowing foreign companies in only as a stopgap measure while their own industries ramp up.
    Somehow people miss this point quite clearly when supporting Free [to enslave] Trade policy with China instead of furthering our own.

  15. Re:OK Quantum computer, riddle me this... on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    Both.

  16. Keep anything resembling a CN bot OUT! on A first look at RF Online · · Score: 1

    After seeing what goes all wrong in allowing them in on Lineage II, they best be on their toes to keep botters away from this game. Drop them out of the game fast, discourage botted grinds, and enforce a 2-region world - one for the botting nations to boil in, and one for the Rest of Us.

  17. Re:Censorship Alive and Well in West on Slashback: Google, China, Network Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of a quote (can't remember whos it was) 'when people complain about the cost of education, I ask them to compare it to the cost of ignorance.'

    Unfortunately, education seems to be valued less and less ...

    It's maybe that people are learning a bit more that $12000 would do well for 4 years as a maximum instead of one, and that excluding people from admissions will only bring discord (and unfortunately a French Revolution in education if you really let things go). When you can forcibly allow those from the Rust Belt into Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and others depending on educational - you're going to have to think that some of them will be able to bring it back when capacity complaints are addressed. At an exclusive institution, "lack of capacity" is mostly as a defense for their "prestige" policy- I thought such things as heritage preferences would be gone as a US Citizen.

    Guess some people never learn the problems of allowing more H1B's and Internationals to take slots and jobs, leaving no practical upward mobility.

  18. Nationalism signifies a broken game. on World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things? · · Score: 1

    If you really want to turn someone nationalist with an MMO, you might consider how Lineage II has been tuned to be Chinese Farmer Friendly. Search for the terms "FinalElf" "Farm the Farmers". You'll find out that farming here is not only encouraged, reporting the violation will only get you banned, (or if they do get banned they just tap 50 other accounts). WoW might have a point where you can do something, but you're going to need heavy duty legal regulation (They're just as xenophobic over there) to keep them in check.

    If that doesnt turn you nationalist after a while, you're probably working with them. For you, I say: Cao ni ma de.

  19. Re:Radio Censorship. on PBS To Air Six New Monty Python Specials · · Score: 1

    At least you dont have to worry about it being controversial(then again, the context it's put in, both are...), because the words arent awfully strong. But you can say spam on the radio.

  20. Mod Parent Up for China Hypocrisy. on Chinese Journalists Beat Censorship With Web · · Score: 1

    Well, when you're a free trade partner that can paint any critic as xenophobic, you can get any damn thing you want.

  21. Re:Looking forward to Socialized Higher Education on Outsourcing Evolving · · Score: 1

    Well, at least if you dont include Yale- you can be drunk and get low grades yet still run a nation.

  22. Foreign Cheapness breeds Weakness. on Outsourcing Evolving · · Score: 1

    Anyways, if you look at the situation from a purely statistical point of view there are a much larger percentage of people in those countries with high potential(raw intelligence, due to the large population) so the large multinationals can "cherry pick" the top .1% of the graduates to do jobs that would normally go to the top 30% or so of American graduates; so of course they can do them better(and cheaper). The multi -nationals are just looking for the best human capital value and due to the speed of communications the geographical advantage for US graduates is decreasing rapidly.

    Well, more reason to turn all education in the US to a system where a citizen can get higher education as easy as it is to get water from a tap.

    Internationals would just have to have some visible multinational sponsor them, and consent to monitoring which any citizen can obtain and use similar to credit bureaus. Not the best way to do it, but with this kind of government, you have to make an pro-globalization endrun very costly.


    And to address your point of more education even if everyone in the US was trained to be an engineer do you think they would all make good or competent or the best VALUE engineers? I think not.
    The world is flattening and all resources will slowly find their way into the most productive hands. Distributed elitism is already upon us!
    (emphasis mine)
    Who said the best education had to be of one single profession - as long as you can get the education with some sort of guarantee of it not being towards a job that self-built the Domestic Job Killer known as Offshoring (Offwhoring acceptable too).

    50+ years is a bit long, and I'm not about to put myself to cryogenics just yet to wait for a nation that promotes domestic education if that doesnt pan out. It's better to deal with this problem now, before it's impossible to reverse.

  23. Break the exclusionism and start improving things on Outsourcing Evolving · · Score: 1

    And how are you going to even increase it in the first place if the only places to effectively bootstrap the public cant be broken of their exclusionism?

  24. News flash- H1B countries are xenophobic too. on Outsourcing Evolving · · Score: 1

    Dang. Obviously someone hasnt seen the wrong side of exploitative (US style) globalization - maybe you need to come to the Rust Belt and other parts of flyover country, instead of just dismissing it as Someone Else's Problem.

    Well, the deep nationalistic feelings are quite mutual in at least one H1B country (China, possibly Japan, with others).

      Who pays - not just internationals, but a portion of taxes and cut rate tuition (cut something from another govt department) would also pay for it. Besides, I dont see much in reciprocation from China and India, having no need to have an international take my spot for no return, just a low quality, 2nd rate job fixed by the domestic that would have done it right the first time.

    As for the other nations, it's a matter of how much they reciprocate back to allow for mutual growth.

  25. Re:A Cube, a Gitmo supporter's dream. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    A Cube, includes all devices to torture anyone who objects to the Occupation without needing large amounts of staff, also cleans up pesky evidence before declassification. Also can be used to program difficult people with desired mindset, with penalties of burning death, or various other implementable traps. Cost: $30bn + imprisonment of any dissenters, employment of a staff of 5(2 low level + 2 high level operators, + overseer).

    However, in reality, we have Gitmo coming in a close second due to lack of ability to obtain private interviews (for all we know, the conditions are probably the same as the Cube with the lack of evidence. That is, the kind not from Occupation sources.). Abu Ghraib and its disillusioned people due to conditions going from evil, to a hair less than evil (same tainted sources!).