Nyenyec - Slashdot User

Comment: I'm an immigrant who left (Score 2) 770

by Nyenyec on Wednesday March 04 2009, @05:03AM (#27062089) Attached to: Smart Immigrants Going Home

I worked for 6 years at a US research institute on an academic H1B. I got a new job offer and would have loved to stay but couldn't get a commercial H1B (lost in the H1B visa lottery: my chances were 1 in 3).

So I moved to Switzerland last year. I'm still working for an American company, but I won't pay any taxes, buy products or use services in the US any more. And a US citizen still won't have my job, it went overseas.

If the US decreases the H1B cap even more, you'll see more stories like this. You can't keep jobs in America this way.

Citizendium, the non-free encyclopedia-> 4

Submitted by on Wednesday November 21 2007, @11:42AM

An anonymous reader writes "Citizendium, the erstwhile competitor to Wikipedia, is about to adopt a non-free license — a CC-NC license, with the Citizendium Foundation being able to sell the content commercially. Larry Sanger claims he hasn't decided, but the question, his arguments in favor and him comparing people who disagree to Hitler make it pretty clear. There is a Wikipedia blog post that says this means Citizendium is conceding the whole Third World to Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's already won the First World."
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Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation 0

Submitted by cowtamer on Thursday August 02 2007, @07:52PM

cowtamer writes "According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available."

Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA-> 0

Submitted by on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:32PM

An anonymous reader writes "Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?"
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