TroubleMagnet - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Of course... (Score 1) 361

by TroubleMagnet on Thursday July 25, 2013 @11:11AM (#44381319) Attached to: Study Questions H-1B Policies

The whole POINT is to let in talented people who are more attractive than a college grad. Having such a pool of people _inside the US_ is a huge competitive advantage over countries with strict immigration. What in the world keeps American engineering salaries so high if not available talent pool?

If you want them in the talent pool here, give them a green card, not a temporary visa, or at least a temporary visa with a clear path it citizenship. Say, after the first year or two it converts to a green card instead of just getting an extension. Also, if they are more attractive than a college grad, why are they only getting about the same pay as a college grad?

Comment Re:Of course... (Score 1) 361

by TroubleMagnet on Thursday July 25, 2013 @11:01AM (#44381201) Attached to: Study Questions H-1B Policies

The whole point of the H1-B program is that it's supposed to be hard to find technical expertise that the companies can't find here AT ALL. So, we should be talking experienced people with a proven expertise in a technical field that should be earning well above entry level wages, NOT fresh college grads who by and large are not experts in anything. The reality is they're using it to hire engineers at reduced salaries to control costs and eventually exporting the whole job with them when they go back home in many cases. Kill H1-B, give out more green cards so they and the jobs stay here.

Comment Re:I'm observing a spike in demand right now. (Score 1) 118

by TroubleMagnet on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @03:30PM (#44364257) Attached to: Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years

Full time or contract? What are the posted requirements? How much do they pay? Might be the boom hasn't hit Texas yet I guess.

Comment Re:A bit confused. (Score 2) 109

by TroubleMagnet on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:54PM (#44180943) Attached to: Underground 'Wind Mines' Could Keep Datacenters Powered

This is power storage, not generation. Think of it as a big underground air tank. You pump air in to store power (when your wind farm is making more than you need), release it though some turbines when you need power later.

Comment Lesson one for Shawn Schuster: MMO != ACRPG (Score 2) 137

by TroubleMagnet on Friday May 25, 2012 @05:07PM (#40113811) Attached to: Curt Schilling Fires Entire Staff At 38 Studios

I fail to see how he confuses a single player game with an MMO. WTF. His eventual goal may have been an MMO but THIS GAME was a single player action CRPG.

Submission + - Would pirates really buy if it were any easier? 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @07:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: Systems like iTunes make it easier to pay for content, but still the torrent networks chug onwards driven by the pirates' unstoppable urge to grab. Wolfie Games recently tried to be cool and let people pay whatever they want through any of the major payment systems. Still the piracy continues and the company is resigning itself to asking the pirates to use the torrent networks to lower the company's bandwidth bill. Is it time to retire the old arguments that people will buy when companies bend over backwards enough to make it simple to buy?

Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship 115

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @09:57AM from the calling-in-the-bantam-artillery dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is asking the US government to petition the World Trade Organization to recognize China's censorship as an unfair barrier to trade. The US Trade Representative is reviewing their petition to see if they can prove that China's rules discriminate against foreign competition. At least it's something worthwhile for the US Trade Reps to do, rather than secretly negotiating ACTA."

AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Over the Next 10 Years 213

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 01, 2010 @03:05PM from the what-next dept.

GhostX9 writes "Alan Dang from Tom's Hardware has just written a speculative op-ed on the future of AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA in the next decade. They talk about the strengths of AMD's combined GPU and CPU teams, Intel's experience with VLIW architectures, and NVIDIA's software lead in the GPU computing world." What do you think it will take to stay on top over the next ten years? Or, will we have a newcomer that usurps the throne and puts everyone else out of business?

Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered 219

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @05:28PM from the horsefeathers-still-a-mystery dept.

anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"

Thomas Edison's Kindle 98

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @08:33PM from the mister-bezos-come-here-i-want-you dept.

harrymcc writes "In 1911, Thomas Edison bragged that he could make a 40,000-page book by printing the pages on thin pieces of metal. In the mid-1930s, newspapers experimented with transmitting special editions into homes via early fax machines. In 1956, Chrysler tried to sell Americans on buying 7-inch records that could only be played on a tiny turntable built into its cars' dashboards. Over at Technologizer, I rounded up these and a dozen other fascinating, forgotten gadget ideas that didn't work out — but which foreshadowed products and technologies that eventually became a big deal."

Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery 353

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 25, 2010 @04:43PM from the sounds-evolutionary-not-revolutionary dept.

A team of computer scientists from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA are claiming to have found an "effectively perfect" method for blocking spam. The new system deciphers the templates a botnet is using to create spam and then teaches filters what to look for. "The system ... works by exploiting a trick that spammers use to defeat email filters. As spam is churned out, subtle changes are typically incorporated into the messages to confound spam filters. Each message is generated from a template that specifies the message content and how it should be varied. The team reasoned that analyzing such messages could reveal the template that created them. And since the spam template describes the entire range of the emails a bot will send, possessing it might provide a watertight method of blocking spam from that bot."

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