WOW!

I wish I could bump this up to the top comment on H-1B at /.

Things have really changed in just a few years.

I am retired but it actually pains me to see H-1B adversely affecting so many with key skills still struggling to make a living.

I know that has to be tongue in cheek. If it is not then you and the rest of slashdot better fasten your seat belt because Israel and the USA appear to be ready to strike Iran over the nuclear issue sometime after July 1 2012. Gasoline will increase in price dramatically if not from the actual heavy weapons discharged over Iranian soil, then simply because the USA has figured out how to shut off the flow of oil using insurance companies. The Western insurance companies will no longer insure any of the super tankers leaving Iranian ports after July 1, therefore no oil for the world supply.

One way or the other there is going to be a significant spike in the cost of oil just before the US election as that Muslim state can not be permitted to obtain any more nukes. Iran already has sufficient enriched material for five nukes which the Iranian religious leaders desperately hope to use on Israel and possibly the USA.

I can not believe that I just read on SlashDot that Google was simply relying on security through obscurity to protect Bouncer and the Android Google PlayMarket.

"research without much detailed knowledge of how the Bouncer system works. Google has said little publicly about its capabilities, preferring not to give attackers any insights into the system's inner workings."

Ol Hugo has plans to do away with the shotguns. He built the first plant in South America in 2008 to produce the AK47 model 103.

The AK-103 is the most recent model of the original AK-47.

Unfortunately there was a horrible accident in 2011. Hugo's AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela mysteriously blew up and burned down, can you believe Hugo's bad luck?

He is a link to three minutes of a video of that fire and massive explosions,
http://youtu.be/tjg2uyWEfT8

Hugo's rebuilt Kalashnikov Assault Rifle AK 103 factory should be operational now or in the near future.

Then there will be plenty of the improved AK 103 to export for use in Mexico and the USA.

Naturally Hugo would not want these rugged high powered and efficient assault weapons in the hands of his own people unless they were military or police.

I bet I can find the stolen iPhone. I would do what every other LE officer would do. He would walk up to the location and then call the lost iPhone's cell number. Then with probable cause he could seize any phone that rang and was answered matching the audio he heard with his observation of the suspects lips.

This happens nearly every day in the USA. I think it is hilarious when the cops seize guns and a large drug stash at the same time from the perp and his urban buddies. My favorite form of instant justice is hearing there were panicked perps who jumped out of a second floor or higher window injuring themselves only to be caught by more backup cops waiting below.

Apple has been equipping their own employees with Notability.

That simple fact caught my attention so I bought a copy for myself.

This app is on a roll with impressive updates.

It features just about everything you can think of for a note taking app. It includes a recorder with time stamps linked to your notes so tap on part of your note and hear what was being said when you created that part. It has support for drawing, neat handwriting, and typed input.

You can add photos on the fly along with web pages, PDFs and other resources.

Export/Import is to BOX or Dropbox among various cloud storage options.

I use it for one to three day conferences and it works like a champ lasting all day long if you turn down the brightness somewhat.

Often the iPad is all I bother to carry while everyone else is totting regular notebooks or paper solutions.

Notability has new support for retina graphics on the 2012 iPad. The ink used for handwriting is very attractive on the new iPad.

I can also let Notability record while I use four fingers to swipe to other apps to look up private data which I can insert after a screen shot or in most cases via a simple copy and paste.

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I have tried many other iOS apps to see it they were better but I just keep coming back to Notability.

It just works.

Doesn't Finland, home of Nokia's world class mobile technology, have snow and ice too?

There is no such thing as wasting money on research.

Google should join with there new friends at the NSA to investigate how we can mine jello on the moon.

With the unlimited resources of the US government and Google great strides can be made in our discovery of the steps needed for industrializing the moon and a profitable new market can be established that the West can dominate.

Now all of a sudden Google's new March first privacy policies make a lot of sense. If they can connect all the dots to reveal the connections things like DarkNet, Google would be of great value to the government and no one else need be any wiser.

It is rumored today Monday Feb 27 that...

Apple is dropping all models of the iPad 2 next Wednesday except for a single 16 GB iPad 2 WiFi model. That will be the low ball to bring people into Best Buys, Target, Wal-Mart, Sams etc. It may even be for sale in educational channels as part of Apple's new iTextBook agenda.

Think of this as the 16GB iPad with a huge ten inch iron spike in it to prevent too many from walking out the door. The retail sales people are supposed to 'step' the customer up to a real iPad, the iPad3 in HD, which by the way is going to be significantly more expensive then previous iPad models.

I think the price jump is seventy or eighty dollars on the low end in todays iPad 3 rumors.

I think the new price increase will go a long way to give Android tablets some breathing room in the 2012 market. The only problem I have seen is that most of the Android Tablets are still undesirable compared to the iPad ecosystem. Even Amazon is seeing returns of between 25% to 33%.

Realistically competing tablets still have to sell for less, sometimes a lot less, to move the product in 2012.

That is simply Google's fault and they appear to be trying to remedy the situation the best they can.

Google seems to be quietly trying to subvert Linux by locking developer interest into Android and Chrome only. This move by Adobe to support only Google seems to be a continuation of a disturbing pattern of unfairness incited by that advertising giant as it moves to cement its dominance of the Internet.

Shame Dung.

Now can you begin to have insight on how the European union views Google's change to their 'user agreement' for all Google products. The EU flatly told Google that it isn't going to happen with out a review by all the governments in Europe who may completely reject Google's new terms as evil and monopolistic.

It is easy to say but can they prove it?

If they can, Android and Google are in a world of trouble, far more than the simple problem just solved by Apple over the Apple freeware iBooks Author. It is one thing to have a handful of Geeks mad at you but to have the all the governments turn on you in mass is another issue that is very serious.

Even the USA is getting involved since US laws have serious issues like the HIPPA violations that will occur on and after March 1 from a simple Google medical search tied to a user's ID
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/02/rep-bono-mack-reports-on-closed-door-google-briefing-/1

Google stepped into some very deep dung without thinking through that announcement of new mandatory user agreements beginning March 1.