Not to mention SMS is not reliable. SMS messages are not guaranteed, they are delivered on a "best effort" basis. Your mobile network is free to drop them on the floor and not retry if your phone moves out of signal range, the network is congested, or any other reason they feel like. This is particularly prone to happening when messages have to go across network boundaries.

Obviously the person who wrote the summary was under the mistaken belief that SMS is designed to be reliable, just like lots of people believe that email is designed to be instant...

Speaking of the horrific consequences of nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, a big one that's still with us today is the knee-jerk phobia of nuclear power, often by people who can't distinguish between the two. Along with wind and solar, nuclear power is one of our chief tools to mitigate global warming, which will in the long term prove to be far worse than weapons testing. It sure doesn't help that the US government lied through its teeth about atmospheric testing. I've been trying to find a copy of Joseph Rotblat's paper deducing that most of the yield of the Ivy Mike and Castle Bravo tests came from the fast fission of the U-238 tamper, revealing as a lie the government's claim that fusion bombs were inherently clean. Anybody know where I can find a copy?

And depending on how it goes about it, I may have no problem with that.

Learn Ruby. It's what Perl 6 should have been — the good stuff from Perl, but cleaned up.

Then you can either go the devops/sysadmin route — both Puppet and Chef are written in Ruby — or you can go the Rails or Sinatra route and head towards web services development.

So yes... it is theft. Suggesting that it isn't is just a specious rationalization used by people who don't want to feel guilty about it.

Like the US Supreme Court, for example.

But I was wondering if some slashdotters could share some constructive real-life experiences of planning a transition to a relatively offshore-proof career.

Well, how good are you at giving blow jobs? The oldest profession is unlikely to get offshored.

BSD got its automatic live self-defragmenting code from OS X. Then there's libdispatch/GCD, LLVM, and so on.

Yeah. I was there at the time, writing patches for the Minix kernel... Linus specifically wanted support for 386 protected memory and virtual memory. AST wouldn't do it, because it would mean Minix wouldn't run on 68000-based systems like my Atari ST. So Linus went away and hacked together his own 386-only replacement kernel over a weekend.

ROGER CARASSO died last year while on vacation. I think that is more worthy of a thread on Slashdot.

He didn't lose his job merely because of his beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.

He lost his job because he spent money attempting to get laws passed which would prevent people, including his employees, from getting married. That made it hard for him to be a leader for those employees, so he resigned his position.

If he had merely had opinions, there wouldn't have been an issue.

But hey, don't let the actual facts get in the way of a dishonest misstatement of the situation.

They were offered horizontal promotions.

They were given the opportunity to excel in a more external capacity.

They were reverse rehired.

If there's more than one, I suspect I might know what happened.

Direct quote from "The View" regarding her quack beliefs on vaccines and autism: "The University of Google is where I got my degree from."