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Comment Re:Hire the unemployed (Score 1) 428

by Amiga Trombone (#40294409) Attached to: 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted

They're so full of precise specifics that the worker absolutely must have that an American engineer won't be able to fit the bill. Then they hire the H1B from the overseas office that they had in mind in the first place (and who fit the onerous job requirements exactly, strangely enough) and pay him less.

Yep. That's exactly how it works. If you have any doubts about that, watch this.

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 713

by Amiga Trombone (#39990761) Attached to: Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore

de-associate icons with tech and the problem of being out of date goes out of date

I don't think the icons being out of date is even a problem. Even Slashdot uses an antique phonograph with a horn icon to indicate music stories. It's doubtful that any one posting on Slashdot was even born when that tech was common, but everyone recognizes what it means. The important thing is that people associate that image with a particular function. Is anybody actually complaining about not being able to recognize the symbolism of current common icon sets?

Comment Re:simple (Score 1) 204

And where is corporate speech protected in the Constitution?

Nowhere. But then, neither is anyone else's:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The 1st Amendment simply prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of speech. It makes no distinction as to whether the speech originates from people, corporations, chimpanzees or disembodied spirits. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Period.
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Submission + - Better brain wiring linked to family genes (physorg.com)

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Third Position writes: How well our brain functions is largely based on our family’s genetic makeup, according to a University of Melbourne led study.

The study published in the international publication The Journal of Neuroscience provides the first evidence of a genetic effect on how ‘cost-efficient’ our brain network wiring is, shedding light on some of the brain’s make up.

Lead author Dr. Alex Fornito from the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre at the University of Melbourne said the findings have important implications for understanding why some people are better able to perform certain tasks than others and the genetic basis of mental illnesses and some neurological diseases.
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Submission + - Adventures in Very Recent Evolution (nytimes.com)

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Third Position writes: Ten thousand years ago, people in southern China began to cultivate rice and quickly made an all-too-tempting discovery — the cereal could be fermented into alcoholic liquors. Carousing and drunkenness must have started to pose a serious threat to survival because a variant gene that protects against alcohol became almost universal among southern Chinese and spread throughout the rest of China in the wake of rice cultivation.

The variant gene rapidly degrades alcohol to a chemical that is not intoxicating but makes people flush, leaving many people of Asian descent a legacy of turning red in the face when they drink alcohol.

Many have assumed that humans ceased to evolve in the distant past, perhaps when people first learned to protect themselves against cold, famine and other harsh agents of natural selection. But in the last few years, biologists peering into the human genome sequences now available from around the world have found increasing evidence of natural selection at work in the last few thousand years, leading many to assume that human evolution is still in progress.

Submission + - Israel attacks international humanitarian convoy (aljazeera.net) 23

Submitted by chainLynx
chainLynx writes: Israeli forces attacked an international aid flotilla bringing much-needed supplies to the blockaded Palestinian territory of Gaza. Israeli commandos dropped from helicopters onto the ship and used live ammunition, killing at least 10 people and wounding others. The convoy has many noted participants, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
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Submission + - Russia doubles price for launching US astronauts (yahoo.com) 4

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Third Position writes: NASA on Tuesday signed a contract to pay $55.8 million per astronaut for six Americans to fly into space on Russian Soyuz capsules in 2013 and 2014. NASA needs to get rides on Russian rockets to the International Space Station because it plans to retire the space shuttle fleet later this year. NASA now pays half as much, about $26.3 million per astronaut, when it uses Russian ships.

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