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Comment Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. (Score 4, Informative) 795

by bobstreo (#41782501) Attached to: Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs

So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.

No actually the ones I worked with were living 5-6 people in an apartment supplied by the company that they were contracting for. I'm guessing there is some kind of company store arrangement which paid back the company out of the wages for rent.

They all would carpool together to their work sites.
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What happens if you Open Source, and in doing so violate a Patent? 1

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An anonymous reader writes: We have developed a fairly useful Video Processing algorithm that we are thinking of open sourcing in 2013. There is one snag however: There are hundreds of imaging and image/video processing Patents that have been granted over the years, and some (small) part of our algorithm may violate one or more of these patents accidentally. Checking our work against the mountain of imaging patents out there is unfeasible. It would take a team of 5 months to do that. It doesn't help that many of these patents use obscure mathematical notations and formulae that make it difficult to decipher quickly precisely what the patent holder has patented. Now suppose that we open source our algorithm, and it turns out that it violates one or more patents. Could we get sued for damages because we open sourced it, and hundreds or thousands of people are now using it for free? It could take the patent holder months or years to identify that their patent is being violated, by which time our algorithm may have thousands of users. To sum it up: If you open source something that — accidentally — violates somebodys patent somewhere, what happens to you? Do you get sued for damages or forced to pay a high license fee? Do you have to shut the Open Source project down and take all files offline? Has anyone been in such a situation before? Are there any legal mechanisms or protections that shield you in a case like this? Thanks for any advice!

Comment Re:Biking is better (Score 4, Funny) 342

by bobstreo (#41649291) Attached to: As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking

Odd, my car club encourages us to not have any passengers and to drive as fast as possible without going anywhere. I spend a weekend driving the same route in a circle over and over and over again and trying to do it as fast as I possibly can.

Car clubs in Great Britain are very different than what we have here.

If you don't use apple maps you probably won't have this problem.

Comment Re:Really?! (Score 1) 190

by bobstreo (#41643491) Attached to: U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor'

I was referring to a network that only could be accessed by passing through a firewall inside the INTERNAL network
so just anyone internal couldn't access the systems. (Not an IntErnet facing network)

With the right type of firewall NextGen you can write specific application rules to reduce exposures
like DDOS, buffer overflows, SQL injection attacks depending on how skilled your firewall people are,
and the level of understanding people who support the servers/services.

I'd guess/hope you can't telnet to the control systems of most nuclear reactors from a library or coffee shop.

Submission + - Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Two Quantum Mechanics (nobelprize.org)

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An anonymous reader writes: According to a Washington Post article: "Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing and developing methods for observing tiny quantum particles without destroying them. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists Tuesday 'for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.'"

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