Submission + - Bill would double cap on H-1B visas (computerworld.com)
I've been on my H1-B for about eight years and I'm still waiting for my green card. I wish someone would pass the "hurry up and gimme a god-damn visa number" bill.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 69 declined, 10 accepted (79 total, 12.66% accepted)
The social networking site Twitter was soon awash with posts deploring a threat to media freedom and the reporting of Parliament.... And the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tweeted: "Really pleased Guardian ban has been lifted. This is a victory for freedom of speech and online activism".
The Guardian notes that after the blogosphere jumped on the bandwagon,the mainstream media caught up, with The Spectator pushing the story.
Emails leaked to the BBC indicate that construction costs for the experimental fusion project called Iter have more than doubled. Some scientists also believe that the technical hurdles to fusion have become more difficult to overcome and that the development of fusion as a commercial power source is still at least 100 years away. At a meeting in Japan on Wednesday, members of the governing Iter council will review the plans and may agree to scale back the project.
Iter will be a Tokamak device, a successor to the Joint European Torus (JET) in England. Meanwhile, an experiment in fusion by laser doesn't seem to be running into the same high profile funding problems just yet.
Last week's announcement by Shai Agassi, a former SAP executive based in Palo Alto, that he's raised $200 million for a company that will try to revolutionize the electric car industry is the latest sign of this region's growing role in one of the hottest sectors of the automotive industry.
"We did not want the BBC's UK licence fee payers meeting this cost and in effect subsidising the service for people outside the UK. Now, with the help of our partners in BBC World, the BBC's commercially funded international TV news channel, we are making our broadband video news service available internationally."
[A special review] panel report said that doctors and other astronauts had raised concerns that the two drunken crew members posed a flight safety risk, but the astronauts were not grounded. The report did not say when the incidents took place, or whether they involved pilots.
With the vast number of playing possibilities, draughts is the most complex game to have been solved to date — it was about a million times more complicated to solve than Connect Four. Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems, however it seems that grand master of the board games — chess — may remain unsolved for some time.
"Hello, it's my car." ''Your cat, sir?." "No, my hatchback." "Your bad back, sir?" "No my car, it's a hatchback." "Your cat has a bad back, sir?" "Arghhhhhh!"...Just 4% of people have had a good experience when dealing with a call centre, according to a recent survey by YouGov. Over half of those asked said their biggest gripe was having to contact call centres outside the UK and more than a third admitted to shouting and swearing at agents because they got so frustrated.
Following the launch Cisco said it hoped to resolve the matter by Tuesday evening after negotiations. Cisco said it thought Apple would agree to a final document and public statement regarding the trademark.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur R. Miller