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Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud 254

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:53AM from the evidently-some-people-lie dept.

CWmike writes "A Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman said today that the agency is weighing a series of reforms to the H-1B application process, including the use of 'independent open-source data' to obtain information about visa seekers or the companies that file the petitions on their behalf. The move follows a report by the agency that found widespread problems and evidence of fraud in the nation's H-1B program, including forged documents, fake degrees and shell companies being used in H-1B applications. It also comes after the controversy caused by changes to the H-1B rules earlier this year."

Comment Re:A bad idea even if true (Score 2, Informative) 438

by Interl0per on Friday July 11, 2008 @11:00AM (#24152579) Attached to: "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste

My father has been an organic gardener for 30 years and he purchases cottonseed hulls every couple of years for mulch. The parent is correct, these are not "waste" products that are being miraculously turned into useful energy, this application would be a net loss. Hopefully the biofuel bubble will collapse quickly enough for people to wake up to the necessity of responsible energy policy rather than hoping for a magic pill.

Submission + - Sierra dropping Tribes multiplayer support

Submitted by Interl0per on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @02:02PM

Interl0per writes: A number of sites have been reporting recently on the quiet announcement Sierra has made that they will no longer provide multiplayer support for a number of titles, including the venerable and influential Starsiege:Tribes. A number of people already host or are voluteering to host a third party master server. There is some ongoing discussion among the community as to how to effectively distribute the new master server info for those who wish to continue playing online.

Submission + - Heroes Star joins Nimoy as Spock for Trek XI

Submitted by Interl0per on Thursday July 26, 2007 @08:58PM

Interl0per writes: It has been revealed at Comic-Con that Zachary Quinto of Heroes has been cast as Spock in the J.J. Abrams film. Leonard Nimoy joined Quinto on stage for the revelation and it seems that Nimoy will also be involved in the production. The full write-up is here.

Submission + - Web hosting with a (free-speech) backbone (dedicatedhostingguide.net)

Submitted by schwaang on Thursday July 26, 2007 @07:38PM

schwaang writes: Slashdot readers will recall tales of woe like these where web hosting services shut down websites at the slightest controversy over their content, prompting the EFF to tell GoDaddy to get a backbone.

Now from Jimmy Atkinson of Dedicated Hosting Guide comes Free Speech Hosting: 11 Web Hosts That Won't Dump You at the First Sign of Controversy.

Some cater to adult sites, others to political dissent, but all to free speech in some form or other. As Voltaire supposedly said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Feed New Scientist: NASA investigates sabotage of space-bound computer (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday July 26, 2007 @07:13PM

Wires were cut inside a computer due to fly to the space station on the next shuttle, which nonetheless has been cleared for lift-off on 7 August

Submission + - Dell to offer more Ubuntu-powered models (reuters.com)

Submitted by

kickabear

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @07:08PM

kickabear writes: "Dell and Canonical are getting set to expand the lineup of Ubuntu-based PCs.

From the article: '"What's been announced to date is not the full extent of what we will see over the next couple of weeks and months," Shuttleworth said an interview late on Wednesday. "There are additional offerings in the pipeline," he said.'

Dell declined comment."

Submission + - AMD + ATI One Year Later

Submitted by NerdMaster on Thursday July 26, 2007 @06:57PM

NerdMaster writes: Hardware Secrets posted today an in-depth analysis of the ATI+AMD deal one year after it was first announced. Their conclusions are quite amazing: "So far the big winner from the AMD-ATI deal is clearly nVidia. Today nVidia is worth two times and a half more than it was one year ago, while AMD is worth less than it was before buying ATI! This is simply amazing, AMD bought a 5 billion dollar company and instead of becoming a 15 billion dollar company nVidia was the one that became such company! Also during the last 1-year period Intel market value increased 43%."

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