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Submission + - I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid (softwarequalityconnection.com)

Esther Schindler writes: "Who has money to train these guys nowadays? They should be lucky they're still employed, right? Keep thinking that way, writes Lisa Vaas. The competition applauds your choice to glue your wallet shut. Or, to put this another way: This is why the boss won't pay for developer training. Vaas explains how those still training manage to get their training budgets funded."
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Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon 780

Mike writes "Law prof Eugene Volokh blogs about a US House of Representatives bill proposed by Rep. Linda T. Sanchez and 14 others that could make it a federal felony to use your blog, social media like MySpace and Facebook, or any other Web media 'to cause substantial emotional distress through "severe, repeated, and hostile" speech.' Rep. Sanchez and colleagues want to make it easier to prosecute any objectionable speech through a breathtakingly broad bill that would criminalize a wide range of speech protected by the First Amendment. The bill is called The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, and if passed into law (and if it survives constitutional challenge) it looks almost certain to be misused."

Comment Re:Sony PSP... (Score 1) 426

The PSP's browser is horrible, at least on the first gen PSPs. Half of the pages you try to browse to will throw a "Not enough memory" error. You type using an interface exactly like a phone's 12 button keypad (2 - abc, 3 - def, etc). There is no zoom in / zoom out feature. You get to choose from three "size options", all of which render pages incorrectly. The browser has tabs... but only three? Scrolling through a page is horrendously slow, especially while the page is still loading, which is also slow. Browsing the web on the PSP is a waste of time.

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