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Comment Re:No surprise.. (Score 1) 166

by sapped (#36707252) Attached to: Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
I have been implementing SAP for 13 years (look at my nickname) now and the majority of our implementations went live at the right time and within the original budget. Of course occasionally you get a client that hires you and then proceeds to do the complete opposite of everything you tell them to do and eventually it turns into a disaster. That said, it's not unique to SAP, I have seen this problem when I was developing other kinds of software as well.

Comment Re:Apparently Obama knows not Grigsby & Cohen (Score 1) 763

by sapped (#34161134) Attached to: Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted
Yes, it really has taken me this long. I was unlucky in that I started my process back when it was still state driven instead of a federal process and my employer had an office in NY. It took almost five years just to get through the initial Labor Certification process. No, I am not Indian. I'm European.

Comment Re:Apparently Obama knows not Grigsby & Cohen (Score 4, Interesting) 763

by sapped (#34157032) Attached to: Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted
This is not quite true either. I have been in the Green Card process for almost 11 years now and have been steadily renewing my H1 every time it comes around. This is because they realized (to some extent) that they completely jumped the shark on the immigration process and allow us to keep renewing our H1 visa's while we are still in the Green Card process. For the first 9 years of that process I was stuck with a pig of an employer that made sure he abused me as much as he could because I was unable to switch jobs. So once I hit the Employment Authorization phase I was out of there like a shot.
Spam

Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked 340

Posted by timothy from the given-enough-eyeballs dept.
MoonUnit writes "Technology Review has an interesting article about the way CAPTCHAS are fueling AI research. Following recent news about various textual CAPTCHAs being cracked, the article notes that a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center has now found a way crack photo-based CAPTCHAs too. Most approaches are based on statistical learning, however, so Luis von Ahn (one of the inventors of the CAPTCHA) says it is usually possible to make a CAPTCHA more difficult to break by making a few simple changes."
Biotech

Submission + - Woz to take hydrogen-powered Hummer to south pole

Submitted by aws910
aws910 writes: Wozniak and others are planning a trip to the south pole in a hydrogen-powered Hummer H1 Alpha. The expedition is called "Zero South" The idea was met with criticism from scientists, but Drive Around the World(the organizer of the event) argues that since "movies, rock videos, and 30 second advertisements" can exploit the area, they should be entitled to do so as well. (PDF link to DAtW argument)
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - E-Gold Taken Down by Feds for Money Laundering

Submitted by loqi
loqi writes: Citing child pornographers and online scammers as the beneficiaries of an effectively anonymous payment system, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed charges of conspiracy and money laundering against the online payment system E-Gold. With advances in cryptographic techniques like Brands credentials and transparent servers, will money laundering laws continue to be enforceable?

Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 448

by markshuttle (#18010676) Attached to: No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release
The issues is not one of dependencies, it is one of necessity. We would not enable proprietary drivers just for fun (they are already *there* just not used by default). We will only enable them if there is some free software functionality that is important and in turn depends on them. The closest we have to that is Compiz or Beryl (TuxRacer is fun but doesn't count as essential) and neither of these is yet ready to be included in Ubuntu by default. Therefor, there is no free software component of Ubuntu that depends on the drivers, therefor we don't enable them by default.

The Art of SQL 225

Posted by samzenpus from the learn-all-about-it dept.
Graeme Williams writes "One difference between SQL and a conventional procedural programming language is that for SQL there's a bigger gap between what the code says and what the code does. The Art of SQL is the opposite of a cookbook – or rather it's about cooking rather than recipes. It's not a reference manual, although there's plenty to refer back to. It's an intermediate level book which assumes you know how to read and write SQL, and analyzes what SQL does and how it does it." Read on for Graeme's review.

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