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Comment Switzerland... (Score 1) 836

by oriol on Monday September 01, 2008 @03:37AM (#24827659) Attached to: Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen?

The country is a bit protective but salaries are good.

English has become the de facto lingua franca between the 3 communities (french speaking, swiss german speaking, italian speaking).

Switzerland is central and has decent vacations: 4-5 weeks.

The country is very safe and the landscape is really beautiful.

US Paperless Voting Bill Advances 153

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 28, 2007 @07:22PM from the will-of-the-people dept.

A couple of weeks back we discussed the effort to require voting paper trails in US federal elections. Now WhiteBoxVoter writes: "Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed today on a compromise that will push through a bill banning paperless voting machines and requiring a voter-verified paper record for every vote in the country, after government sanctioned hackers showed how they could break into all three of the top voting systems used in California." The NYTimes reported on Thursday that even if it passes the House, voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.

Journal Journal: Universal Hard Drive Format 1

Journal by rfc1394 on Saturday July 28, 2007 @07:15PM

I've also posted this to Ask Slashdot in hopes I might get some answers.

Feed Engadget: RDISS: the Army's uber-vigilant surveillance system (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday July 28, 2007 @05:32PM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Being dropped into no man's land without a hint of what's going on around you can't be fun (or safe, for that matter), but scoping out foreign territory in a hurry just got a lot more reasonable. The Army's Rapid Equipping Force has developed the Rapid Deployment Integrated Surveillance System, or RDISS, which "can be installed quickly and with minimal training." Deemed "simple" to setup, the system is designed to "improve situational awareness for soldiers at joint security stations and combat outposts throughout Iraq," and plans are already in place to establish "hundreds" of these systems in various locales by the year's end. Nah, it's not nearly as hip as using GPS-equipped spy squirrels, but we guess it'll do the trick.

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Feed Engadget: Apple TV finally hacked for USB storage expansion (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday July 28, 2007 @04:32PM

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage

Enterprising Apple TV users have been putting that USB port to good use for ages now, for every hack but the most obvious one: media playback. So far you haven't been able to make a cheap, external USB drive into your primary storage device for kosher Apple TV media, but no longer. The Apple TV Hacks folks have finally figured out a method, and though some Terminal chops and an Intel-based *nix machine (like Mac OS X) are required to run the hack, and it's unclear if it'll work with updated YouTube-enabled Apple TVs running the 1.1 patch, at least it's a start for the storage space-starved.

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How Microsoft Beat Linux In China 313

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 28, 2007 @04:30PM from the always-did-know-the-value-of-being-the-standard dept.

kripkenstein notes an analysis up on TechRepublic detailing how Microsoft beat Linux in China, and the consequences of that victory: "With the soon-to-be largest economy standardized on Windows desktops, desktop Linux does seem to have an uphill battle ahead of it." "Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker... The fact that... Linux failed to gain a major foothold in China is yet another blow to desktop Linux. After nearly eight years of being on the verge of a breakthrough, Linux seems more destined than ever to be a force in the server room but little more than a narrow niche and an anomaly on the desktop."

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