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  1. Parent Insightful? on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    If these H1B education visas are sending people to the same schools we go to, then what's the difference? Are 95% of these H1B candidates bad too?

    H1B is a work visa, not an education visa. You cannot go to school on a H1B Visa.

    God knows why parent post was Moderated Insightful?

  2. Stupid Story on Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker · · Score: 1

    What a stupid story!

    Basically the story says "You should hire a great programmer" - duh!!

    Only reason for the story is the use of the word 'hacker'

  3. Oblig XKCD on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1
  4. Bot on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    How about 'anonymous' or somebody building a network of distributed bots which do random suspicious searches every day of the year so the suspicious data is too much to sift through?

  5. Re:Why do you have bugs? on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 1

    I guess you write only trivial programs.

  6. More Evil Than Microsoft on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 1

    All you guys posting here are more evil than Microsoft.

    http://support.microsoft.com/gp/profsup/en-au

    Mainstream Phase: This phase commences at general product availability and normally extends for at least five years. During this phase a product is fully supported and free assisted support per the definitions below is available.

    Bug
    A bug is defined as "behaviour manifested by program outside of original design specification and is due to an inherent defect in the product code"; in other words a technical feature of a product that does not perform the task for which it was designed.

    When Microsoft stops providing free security fixes for Windows 95 in 2010, you all call them evil, but looks like in your own businesses, free support ends when the customer signs the cheque for the original software.

  7. Re:This is a direct assault on Google's revenue on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just in case Google is parsing this post: I will be buying a new mini-van later this summer.

    We already know. We started the process to make you want a new van 3 weeks ago by showing ads for minivans 3 weeks ago. We also know you finally made up you mind yesterday.

    - The Google Team.

  8. Diet Soda on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    What about diet soda?
    Will they allow giant cups of diet soda?

  9. Google like Environment on Ore-Sniffing Dogs Rediscovered By Mining Industry · · Score: 1

    Berenice Baker talks to Peter Bergman, geologist and CEO of the Swedish company OreDog, about his plans to turn the canine skills into a multi-million dollar global industry providing exploration services for the mining industry while offering a Google-like working environment for staff.

    I assume dogs are going to be the main staff in a ore-sniffing dog company called OreOdg, So what exactly does the above mean?
    - Dogs work a 5 day week
    - One day out of the 5 days, they are allowed to sniff anything else they want instead of sniffing of ores?
    - Free T-shirts

  10. McD vs In'n'Out on Patent Troll Now Armed With Thousands of Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    livable wages, not just minimum wage...if In-N-Out Burger can pay $10.00 per hour to a high schooler getting his first job, what is the excuse for McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, etc... They could but they do not want too

    McD was founded in 1940 and today has a revenue of 24 Billion USD
    InNOut was founded in 1948 and today has a revenue of 565 Million USD.

    McD exists in 119 countries.
    InNOut exists only in the Western United States.

    If you were a shareholder and you had a choice, would you like to grow - like McD or like InNOut.

  11. Gave Up on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 2

    And the submitter gave up right while copying the name of the kid from the article to slashdot.
    "Shouryya Ray" became "Shouryya Ra" and samzenpus also let it through without any corrections.

  12. Monsanto fixed the bee issue on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 1

    http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-bee-collapse-buys-bee-research-firm/

    They bought out the research firm which said they were responsible for the bee population Disorder. That should fix it, right?

  13. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Do not apply American sensibilities to everything in the world.

  14. ridiculous on Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Fuck man - this is as ridiculous a patent as the round corners one from Apple.

  15. The actual figure is 31% on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    It's 250% only on companies which will start selling to US newly. Existing companies will pay only 31% tariff.

  16. Gillete's plans and patents on Wozniak Calls For Open Apple · · Score: 1

    2012 - 5 blades on 1 razor
    2013 - 6 blades on 1 razor
    2014 - 7 blades on 1 razor
    2015 - 8 blades on 1 razor
    etc.

  17. Oblig XKCD on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Consumers need to do some research too ... on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    May be they all just hold it wrong in Australia.

  19. Calculations on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    If Americans did these kinds of calculations, buying cellphones subsidized by carriers wouldn't be the norm in the USA.

  20. Profit on Study Aims To Read Dogs' Thoughts · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Read dog's thoughts.
    2) .......
    3) Profit.

    What's the missing 2nd step here?
    Only a dog would know. If only we could read their thoughts. Wait.....

  21. Re:Original source please? on US-Australia Agreements Create Opportunities for Privacy Violation, Extradition · · Score: 1

    Myles Peterson has retweeted a link to the torrentfreak story - http://twitter.com/#!/tpb/status/198910412371136512

  22. Re:Too bad they're not also pushing ... on Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems to be #7 on Amazon best sellers.

    http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-Service-Plans/zgbs/wireless/2407747011/ref=zg_bs_nav_cps_1_cps

    #7 isn't bad for a phone which nobody wants.

  23. Protect the 28th amendment on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    If hacking is outlawed, only outlaws will hack.

    Hacking Articles don't hack, people hack.

  24. Carbon Credits on Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    A plane crash has got to have the huge potential to leak all kinds of harmful substances into the local ecosystem. Jet fuel, oil, hydraulic fluid, and the combustion remnants of the plastics, fiberglass, aluminum, and other things... none of it could have been good for the local plant and wild life.

    Did Discovery do their due diligence to study such potential impacts, and perform a proper cleanup after the crash? What are they doing now to ensure there are no long-term adverse effects?

    They purchased carbon credits to offset all this.

  25. Re:Uhhhhh, no. on NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I work at Microsoft, fairly high up. I can guarantee you this story is bullshit.

    May be you were kept out of the loop, Steve.