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US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the talking-to-you-cliff dept.
theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."

Comment: When is a database not a database? (Score 1) 267

by MonolithicX (#27316035) Attached to: "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs
I think the question here isn't New DB or Old DB but when do you stop considering any data store a database? There are plenty of ways to write data to disk fast as hell but God help you if you want to do anything with the data later. I see these as specialty data stores - get the data in fast and then batch it out to your "old school" relational database to perform analytics on it later. Relationally Yours, MonoX.
The Media

AT&T quietly offers $10 DSL plan

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "NEW YORK — Without any sort of fanfare, AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month , half the price of its cheapest advertised plan. The DSL, or digital subscriber line, plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal Communications Commission to get its $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. approved last December."
Privacy

Court to Government: Stop Reading Our E-Mails!->

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An anonymous reader writes "A federal appeals court struck down a law today which allows the government to read people's e-mails without first obtaining a warrant. Under the law, the government could require ISPs to turn over criminal suspects' e-mails with far less reason to believe that they had committed a crime than is required to obtain a warrant. The court the law is unconstitutional, reasoning that e-mails should be treated no differently than phone calls, and since the government needs a warrant to listen to your phone conversations, they should also need a warrant to get your e-mails directly from your ISP."
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