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Comment Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, (Score 1) 580

If this was true, faculty salaries would've spiked on new demand and availability of cheap credit.

A quick overview of where the state education money is going http://www.sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2005/ucsalary/ tells you that most universities nowadays are just a stadium and sports team operation with education annoyingly tacked on here and there.

Comment Except (Score 1) 142

The tagged person needs to approve that tag first. Only then his friends would discover the photo via taggee's profile.

The photo would indeed be visible to poster's friends, but he could've mentioned the person's name (without the tag and with whatever custom privacy she chose) to begin with.

Submission + - Russia moves to universal ID card (uecard.ru)

prostoalex writes: On January 1st 2012, Russian government will start issuing universal ID cards that will replace current national identification system (Russia has a system of internal passports), medical insurance cards, student IDs, public transport passes, and debit cards. The smart card contains unique personal identifiers and allows for multiple levels of authentication. The Russian government is pushing for local government agencies, transportation providers, banks and retail operators to adopt the government-issued ID to streamline their operations.

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