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Comment The map is not the territory (Score 4, Informative) 422

Have you actually been there? (I just got back.) Shanghai is an interesting place, that's for sure. Wages for university educated and skilled people there are rising quickly. (You can't use unskilled farmers as programmers.) At the present rate of growth, they will match North American wages for equivalent work in about 4 to 5 years. Now I'm perfectly prepared to entertain arguments that the present rate of growth is unsustainable, so lay them on me... (And explain how they won't also depress wages here.)

Comment They are likely grateful... (Score 3, Insightful) 446

They are likely grateful that people are using their software rather than the superior (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials. (Yes, MS makes a piece of software that is superior in virtually every way to its competition. Hard to believe, but it's true.)

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

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Submission + - BackScatter machines really safe? (npr.org)

ameline writes: "A number of respected scientists (expert in relevant fields of study) call into question the safety of the new back-scatter screening machines. Their concerns are well outlined in their letter to the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr John P. Holdren. The areas they specifically highlight are the uneven absorbtion of radiation from these machines, and the potential for mechanical or other failures to deliver even more concentrated doses than were intended. Given the cumulative nature of the risk presented by exposure to ionizing radiation, is it really wise to acquiesce to these new security requirements?

Their letter and attached memo can be found at the NPR site: http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
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