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Comment Imagine what this would do to the Farmers! (Score 1) 433

by pewterz on Thursday June 24, 2010 @01:20PM (#32680218) Attached to: Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch"

Tens of thousands of online farmers will lose crops costing millions .... and who will pay for these poor farmers, cafe workers, hotel owners, mafia guys who all lose money because big brother cuts off the internet!

IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring 242

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 30, 2009 @07:04PM from the riaa-business-method dept.

Ian Lamont writes "IBM has filed a patent application that covers offshoring employees. Application 20090083107, dated March 26, 2009, is a 'method and system for strategic global resource sourcing.' Figure 2 gives a pretty good idea of what's involved — it shows boxes labelled 'Engineer,' 'HR,' and 'Programmer' with crossing arrows pointing to cylinders labelled 'India,' 'China,' and 'Hungary.' The article speculates that IBM may apply the methodology to its own staff — it reportedly plans to lay off thousands of employees and has even started a program to have IBM workers transfer to other countries at local wages."

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