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The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey 324

Posted by kdawson from the know-guys-who-know-guys dept.
theodp writes "We smack this IT geek around a little, take him for a nice car ride, threaten to 'take care of him' if he doesn't recant his story, give him 5 G's for his trouble, and badda boom, badda bing, case dismissed. Federal prosecutors allege that an H-1B visa-holding IT employee who was owed some $53,000 in back wages was threatened in meetings at restaurants and in his home if he didn't change his story. However, the victim captured some of what happened on tape, and two employees of an Illinois-based IT staffing company — not named in the indictment but identified by the NJ Star-Ledger as ComData Consulting Inc. of Rolling Meadows, IL — are now facing extortion-related charges and a possible 20 years in prison."

Comment Re:Nexus One vs iPhone 3Gs vs. N900 (Score 1) 189

by naveenkumar.s (#30674150) Attached to: Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements

My Nokia 5800 already has text to speech. And speech to text! It can e.g. say the name of someone if that someone calls me. And it can recognize a name that I speak into the microphone, without me previously recording it. That feature surprised me, and from my experience works very well.

Symbian has that feature, but I don't think maemo has got it yet. Based on what I've read so far, TTS on Android seems to be much more comprehensive. For example, you can do browser form filling through speech-to-text.

Yes, I should have made that distinction of J2ME vs full Java. Although I think that full Java on Android is definitely possible with those specs. (And on the iPhone too. But I read a statement from Jobs, that he personally thinks Java is crap and therefore the iPhone will not have it. Which as a Java developer, I find pretty arrogant, considered that every single phone of the last 10 years that is out there, except for the iPhone, supports J2ME. In fact is it so common, that software often is not even labeled as being J2ME anymore. Also on at least all modern Nokia phones, you get accelerated OpenGL ES, accelerated EAX-HD-like sound effects, and every important API exposed. It’s all in all a great development platform.)

I don't think Apple will ever allow Java on their handhelds. For one thing, it breaks their appstore model and I think they simply don't like VMs. So no Java, no Adobe Flash.

I'm in the market for a new phone and have pretty much made up my mind on N900. But N1 does look very interesting

Comment Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score 1) 366

by naveenkumar.s (#30304016) Attached to: Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor

they'll be paid crap for their work, etc. Despite it being a so-called "economic powerhouse", only about 60k of its inhabitants have more than US $1 million net worth. It has over 5.8 million people living there. It makes the wage gap in this country look postively equalitarian.

Let me introduce something for you... Purchasing Power Parity. I hope you are merely making an observation and not being judgmental. If the latter, I should point out that more people are moving in to the middle-class than ever before. Places in South America and the Near East probably have a wider gap, but what's the point in fixating on one little metric.
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Submission + - Fedora 12 released (fedoraproject.org) 1

Submitted by AdamWill
AdamWill writes: The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page.

Lucene and SOLR Get Commercial Support 47

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the foss-going-mainstream dept.
ruphus13 writes "Two of the technical leads and core committers of the Lucene Project have launched Lucid Imagination, a venture backed company now offering commercial versions of Lucene and SOLR in the hopes of making it the de facto choice of search technologies used by companies within their products. 'The Lucene search library ranks amongst the top 5 Apache projects, installed at over 4,000 global companies. Although OStatic is primarily Drupal-based, our site's search is based on Lucene. According to Lucid Imagination officials, the Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project...Lucid's business model is roughly comparable to Red Hat's very successful model, in that it centers on support and services for free, open source software.'"

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