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Submission + - Engineering shortage in US Aerospace and Defense?

Submitted by braindrainbahrain on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:57PM

braindrainbahrain writes: Yet another story about an engineering shortage, this time in Aerospace and Defense. The AIAA is claiming there will be huge shortages in those industries due to an aging and retiring workforce. Buried deep within TFA , there is talk about outsourcing design services overseas. Will the next (US) moon rocket or fighter plane be designed overseas, or by people holding H1-B visas?

Submission + - Chomsky in feature film on Outsourcing to India

Submitted by

agslashdot

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:53PM

agslashdot writes: "Project Outsourced, a 150 minute indie docu on Outsourcing of IT jobs to India, now on Google Video in 6 parts — Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Features Brian Behlendorf ( Apache ), Dr. Noam Chomsky (MIT), Dr. Dennis Dalton(Columbia), Dr. William Easterly( NYU) and a host of economists, programmers & venture capitalists."

Submission + - Public Access to Public Funded Work?

Submitted by

elseware

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:36PM

elseware writes: "A Petition for guaranteed public access to (European) publicly-funded research results has reached 18000+ signatures since January the 17th. What's really interesting is the 900+ signatures on behalf of organisations including dozens of Universities and the European Research Council. Nature reports that The publishing industry has hired the "Pit-bull of public relations", Eric Dezenhall, to take on the free-information movement."

Submission + - For women, nothing's like the smell of men's sweat

Submitted by beatnitup on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:25PM

beatnitup writes: "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects." I for one enjoy how they use a picture of Andre Aggasi's old bald ass to further emphasis male sweat & sexual arousal.

Feed Indians Buy Organs With Impunity (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday February 08, 2007 @01:12PM

Authorities have arrested three organ brokers in the state of Tamil Nadu, where hundreds of people say they've illegally sold their organs while government authorities turned a blind eye. One official admits as much. By Scott Carney.

Submission + - Did Gates fib about H1-B business?

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Thursday February 08, 2007 @12:44PM

netbuzz writes: "While in Washington last year lobbying for higher H1-B visa limits, Bill Gates told David Broder of the Washington Post that Microsoft starts such workers at about $100,000. An analysis by one offshoring critic would suggest that's not true. If his analysis is correct, it would undermine part of the case for a lifting of H1-B ceilings.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1130 3"

Submission + - FAA to free aircraft held hostage by IP laws

Submitted by smellsofbikes on Thursday February 08, 2007 @12:33PM

smellsofbikes writes: The FAA is attempting to develop a legal process that will allow them to release data about vintage aircraft designs that have obviously been abandoned. But existing laws restrict the FAA's ability to release this data because it is deemed to be intellectual property even though the owner of record has long since ceased to exist. This is fundamentally the same problem with copyright that people looking for books out of print have to deal with, but in the case of vintage aircraft, the owners are legally required to maintain them to manufacturer specifications that the owners cannot legally obtain: an expensive and potentially lethal dilemma. An obscure situation for this solution to be applied, but if the FAA, notoriously slow and conservative, is willing to do this, maybe the idea will catch on in other places.

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