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Nailer writes:
Bloomberg believe VMware's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, as top 10 Linux contributor Christopher Hellwig claims the software violates Linux kernel copyrights.
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Hypercoyote writes:
Facebook users on Monday were left contemplating the security of private details stored on the social-networking site after part of its source code was leaked onto the Internet.
The site on Monday acknowledged that a section of its code had been copied and published on a blog, but stressed that none of the personal details of its 52 million users had been compromised.
Over the weekend, a blog called Facebook Secrets published details of part of Facebook's source code, the set of commands which determine the way the site appears when it is viewed by users.
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oddtoad writes:
I'm working on a Java project and we need to print bar code labels from our application. I'd like to use an existing API but after quite a bit of googling I've been unable to locate a quality product. Can anybody suggest a good bar code label printing product that can be called from a Java app?
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joeblstrn writes:
Use the mouse to aim the incoming droids. Shoot them before they shot you.
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Bachelor writes:
Ok, I know all of you have watched James Bond movies... I have always wondered to myself why he is so successful with women.
1. Body Language- notice bond never smiles when he shows expression he grins. His eye contact is always direct with women as well.
2. Unpredictable — you never know what Bond is gonna do... Girls love a guy they cant figure out...
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nosegay reports writes:
Dan Grigsby at Rail Spikes blog takes a pretty well reasoned look at the amazingly rapid rise and fall of the Ruby on Rails contracting market. Interesting reading for those of us considering ditching our cubes for the wild west of Ruby on Rails development.
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Bamafan77 writes:
There's an interesting hidden battle taking place over this issue. Many (most?) people view printing paper as "wasteful" and something to be avoided at all costs. But the fact is that consuming information from a monitor (even a nice LCD) is NOT as good as consuming information from paper. I use computers for things like storing information, doing calculations, and quick lookup of information. If I need to read something that takes more than a couple minutes, it gets printed. This includes articles, code, long emails, etc.
So I'd like to get the SlashThought on this — do you prefer reading from a screen or do you prefer printing things out before reading?
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Vicissidude writes:
Does America need more scientists and technical workers from abroad? The idea of a scientist shortage is "almost universally accepted [in political circles], and there's almost no one in Washington and no one on the Hill who says that there's a glut of scientists," says Ron Hira, a policy expert at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC. Despite these perceptions, tens of thousands of PhDs, many of them American-born and American-educated, are stuck in dead-end positions, struggling to find careers commensurate with their training and experience. Many others with technical expertise watch companies use H-1B visas to move their jobs offshore.
Far from signaling a shortage of trained scientific talent, current conditions suggest that what this country fails to produce is suitable career opportunities for thousands who have extensive scientific and technical training.
Regardless of the citizenship of these scientists, the arrival of additional people with comparable qualifications has been shown to depress income and increase competition. Still, "the only two organizations that I know about that have been actively involved in the debate on immigration" on the side of workers represent electrical engineers and computer programmers. "I don't see any scientists involved in this at all. ... What is confusing to me is who's representing their interests. Nobody, as far as I can tell."