Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment small business need not apply... (Score 1) 178

Not for the first time in the last 13 months I wonder why I decided to incorporate my business in Nevada.

Talk about the epitome of a law designed to make it harder for small businesses to survive. Do the idiots that passed this law realize that 99 percent of businesses in the United States are small business with 20 employees or less? Small businesses who live on the knife edge of financial survival and who don't have the financial luxury of IT departments with nothing better to do with their time than network with $250/hour legal counselors to help them wade through the technical and legal questions of ensuring this kind of security.

And how many of that 99 percent are too damn busy doing 1001 other things that they aren't going to be know how to set up an RSS feed to get the latest from Slashdot and similar places.

Much less keep up with the 100,000 or so pages of federal, state, regulations put into play every frigging year.

I incorporated in Nevada in part because I thought Nevada was slightly less insane than other states in this regard.

Silly me. The only thing I was right about was the "slightly."

Hardware Hacking

A Home Lab/Shop For Kids? 291

sharp-bang writes "When I was growing up, my Dad let my brother and I have the run of his wood shop, and kept up a steady stream of Lego kits, Estes model rockets, chemistry sets, Heathkit projects, and other fun science stuff from the Edmund Scientific catalog, and the rest was history. I'd like to give my kids that kind of experience. If your kids were interested in science, computers, robots, and building stuff, how would you build and outfit a lab/shop for them (and you) to play in?"
Robotics

Huge Leap Forward In Robotic Limb Replacement 153

BlueshiftVFX sends us to Wired for some video of the impressive, mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm invented by Dean Kamen. "Kamen's arm, dubbed 'Luke' (after Skywalker, I assume), is an incredibly sophisticated bit of engineering that's lightyears ahead of the clamping 'claws' that many amputees are forced to use today. The arm is fully articulated, giving the user the same degrees of movement as a natural arm, and is sensitive enough to pick up a piece of paper, a wineglass, or even a grape without mishap."
Science

The Neuroscience of Illusions and Dictionaries 72

Scientific American is running a pair of stories about what words and illusions can tell us about the brain. Mark Changizi of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is interviewed about his research into the relationship between the mechanisms of the brain and the evolution of language. The second article contains a slide-show of various illusions and why the brain interprets them as it does.
Businesses

Moving Between Countries? 450

An anonymous reader writes "In six months' time, I am packing up and moving from Australia (Melbourne) to Canada (Vancouver). I'm a qualified network engineer. What I want to know is, what sort of quirks and tricks I am going to have to get used to in the Canadian job market? I'm used to Australian recruiters, and all the hoops you have to jump through, but Canada may have different hoops. I've tried contacting recruiters directly for information but they don't really give out much, as I am not actually in the country yet and therefore not worth their time. Is anyone willing to share their experiences on making the big move from country to country?"

Slashdot Top Deals

The computer is to the information industry roughly what the central power station is to the electrical industry. -- Peter Drucker

Working...