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Submission + - Create You Master Feed with Yahoo Pipes

Submitted by LinucksGirl
LinucksGirl writes: Explore the steps and benefits of using Yahoo Pipes, a content feed filtering utility to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the environment.
United States

Submission + - Lifting H-1B Caps Heralds 'In-Sourcing' Surge

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 'In-Sourcing' is the name for new scourge of the American high-tech worker, argues InformationWeek blogger Alexander Wolfe. He's coined that term in response to the call from Google, Bill Gates, and other captains of tech industry to lift the current cap of 65,000 H-1B visas, which allow foreign nationals to fill U.S. tech jobs when companies claim they can't find qualified domestic workers. Writes Wolfe:"Having winnowed the domestic pool of highly experienced IT and engineering talent by hounding thousands out of the business through years of layoffs and false complaints about the math-smarts of American students, big business has hit on the latest tack for controlling high-tech labor costs: In-source the jobs it was previously outsourcing, by getting the government to lift the cap on H1-B visas." But he says he doesn't blame Google; he blames Bill Gates, and NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, who claims there's been a steady erosion of science education in U.S. schools. "What engineering school did Friedman attend?" Wolfe asks. Do you agree that this "crisis" is hurting the U.S. tech community, or is there a legitimate shortage?
Portables

Submission + - Asus and Intel challenge OLPC with Eee PC (zdnet.com)

Submitted by
fl!ptop
fl!ptop writes: "George Ou at ZDNet says, "The user interface of the OLPC doesn't even feel worth of a cheap fisher price toy" but raves about a new Asus/Intel super cheap UMPC. "The ASUS Eee computer will cost a mere $199 for the 7" LCD model whereas the so-called $100 OLPC costs $175. Given the fact that Eee can run Linux or Windows XP and it can boot off NAND flash memory in a mere 15 seconds, the Eee slaughters the OLPC with ease." C|Net has some more information on the Eee PC when it was introduced at Computex last month in Taiwan."
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard (macrumors.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Posted on macrumors.com:
Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).

Quote: In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10. Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds.
Security

Submission + - IIS twice as likely to serve malware as Apache (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by abhinav_pc
abhinav_pc writes: Ars Technica is carrying an article about a study by Google's Anti-Malware Team which seems to confirm that Web sites running Microsoft's IIS are twice as likely to host malware than those running Apache. Last month, Google looked at 70,000 domains that were either distributing malware or hosting attack code. Nagendra Modadugu, at the company's anti malware group, wrote in a blog: "Compared to our sample of servers across the internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often as a malware distributing server."
Censorship

Submission + - Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Sec. (jonesreport.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest on the grounds of criminal trespass, despite protest of CNN staff. He had a proper press pass.
Movies

Submission + - Lesbian Illegal Immigration Movie coming to DVD! (prweb.com)

Submitted by
maplepalm
maplepalm writes: "Last year's politically charged indie feature, Maple Palm, sneaks across the border from theaters to home video when it's released on DVD July 3, with advance crossings occurring now via pre-order. Set in California's idyllic Marina del Rey, the film's dramatic subject matter exposes the one arena in which gay relationships are a felony, and in the process, challenges our stereotypes of what it means to be an immigrant, and an American. Read the full story at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb524670. htm For more info on the film visit: www.maplepalmmovie.com"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Doing the Nasty In Second Life

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner looks at Second Life sex: "As I worked on our report on sex in Second Life, I wondered: Is all this gettin' cyber-sweaty harmful? I decided it depends on the circumstances. But I know many of our readers will say it's just plain wrong. What do you think?" InformationWeek's look into the Second Life sex scene includes interviews with a lesbian dominatrix, a virtual madam, and a bi Asian chick who likes to have cybersex with hermaphrodites, shemales, alien avatars, and futuristic cyborgs.
Republicans

Submission + - Trouble in the Tubes for Senator Ted Stevens

Submitted by
MillionthMonkey
MillionthMonkey writes: "Internet star Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), has been implicated in scandal: according to the Anchorage Daily News the senator had the first floor of his house lifted off the ground and a new floor put underneath it with the help of a top executive from Veco Corporation, a local oil company. The addition doubled the size of the house (assuming the honorable gentleman from Alaska can still make it up the stairs). The FBI and a grand jury are still investigating- although the Senator's role is still somewhat murky in the scandal, which had previously ensnared his son, Ben Stevens, an Alaskan State Senator. The initial inquiry surfaced last year in August when the younger Stevens' legislative office was raided by the FBI along with five other state-level offices. Four politicians have been charged and Veco executives have already pled guilty- testifying that Ben Stevens received $242,000 in illegitimate consulting fees. Ted has remained clean until now."
Announcements

Submission + - Chinese drug commissioner is sentenced to death

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From IHT: "SHANGHAI: The former head of China's top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, the state-controlled news media reported.

Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from its founding in 1998 until mid-2005, was detained in February as part of a government investigation into corruption at the agency.

The unusually harsh sentence for the 62-year-old former commissioner came at a time of heightened concern about the quality and safety of China's food and drug system, following a series of scandals here involving tainted food and counterfeit drugs.

China is under mounting pressure to overhaul its food export controls after two local companies were accused this year of shipping contaminated pet food ingredients to the United States, leading to one of the largest pet food recalls in U.S. history."

Whilst it's good to see steps being taken to reduce corruption, and increase the quality of Chinese exports; sentencing someone to death for this shows a continued difference in legal standards with the Western world.
Programming

Submission + - Silicon Valley cheaper than India?

Submitted by
uniquebydegrees
uniquebydegrees writes: "InfoWorld is reporting today (link here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/29/riya-wag e-inflation-sinks_1.html) about the effects of the tech boom on wages in India, with a profile of Riya.com, a visual search startup with headquarters in Bangalore, India and Silicon Valley. With high demand for qualified programmers pushing wages in India up from 30% to 75% of their U.S. counterparts in recent years, Riya was forced to pull up stakes in Bangalore and consolidate in the U.S. Turns out, that 75 cents on the dollar is a lot, when you figure in the unreliable infrastructure in India (rolling blackouts) and the tendency for Indian IT workers to value salary over options. Figure those in, and Silicon Valley looks like a good deal — or at least it did to Riya. As the article points out, startups are particularly vulnerable to the effects of wage inflation in emerging markets like India, because they can't afford to take on, then train inexperienced workers, as IBM, HP and Oracle can. "Startups aren't places where you train people from the ground up," said Riya CEO Munjal Shah. "They're places where either you know what you're doing or you don't. We paid to hire the best.""

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