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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
Google

Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan 284

Posted by CmdrTaco from the it-better-be-good dept.
wkurzius writes "The new Google phone, the Nexus One, is rumored to cost $530 unlocked and will work on any GSM network. A subsidized version is also available for $180 and will get you a T-Mobile Even More Individual 500 Plan for 2-years with a $350 termination fee. Access to the phone is supposed to be invite only at first, with January 5th being the supposed release date."

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.
Red Hat Software

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.
Microsoft

Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation 364

Posted by Soulskill from the owning-up dept.
An anonymous reader writes with an update to the news we discussed last weekend that a Windows 7 utility seemed to contain GPL code: "Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 USB/DVD tool did, in fact, use GPL code, and they have agreed to release the tool's source code under the terms of GPLv2. In a statement, Microsoft said creation of the tool had been contracted out to a third party and apologized for not noticing the GPL code during a code review."

Where's Your Coding Happy Place? 508

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the vault-in-fort-knox-please-facilitate dept.
jammag writes "Cranking out code — your very best code — requires being in the optimal environment, muses developer Eric Spiegel. He explores the pitfalls and joys of the usual locales, cubicle, home, the beach. He claims he's done his best coding on an airplane. In the end, though, he suggests that the best environment is a matter of the environment inside yourself, your internal mood — and to hell with the cubicle or wherever. You have to be focused on quality, regardless of the idiot clients. It's all inside your mind. Where's your coding happy place?"

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