RobertB-DC's Journal: Rejected Submission: Offshoring Three Miles Off the Coast

[I'm not sure why this got rejected. I would have thought it was because it was a dupe of a previous article, since the CW article is dated 7/11, four days ago. But news.google.com didn't return any results for Slashdot and SeaCode. Are they just tired of hearing the same old bad Indian jokes (and outright racism), or is it just a dupe of something I couldn't find? Or, does my writeup simply suck eggs?]

RobertB-DC writes: "Offshoring gets a new definition: three miles off the Califonia coast, according to a former ship captain and a former IT consultant. They've put together San Diego based SeaCode, with plans to convert a former cruise ship into cubespace for 600 "C++Faring Lads". Sailing under the flag of Vanuatu, US labor laws don't apply, so no visa is needed for international IT types. But Americans are welcome to apply, if you like the sound of $1,800 a month for a 10-hour workday."

It's a dupe...

[evilviper]

This is a dupe of an article several months ago (so it's no wonder news.google doesn't turn it up). I remember reading it, and all the bad jokes that came along with it...

A quick search on /.'s (usually useless) search engine for "seacode" turns up the April 20th story:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/20/22512 0 3&tid=156&tid=8 [slashdot.org]

Re:It's a dupe...

[RobertB-DC]

Thanks for the info! Four months is usually enough time for a dupe submission to make it through (sometimes four hours is plenty), but I guess this concept really hit a nerve. [insert rude comment about editors and/or sharks here]