U.S. Banks eye offshoring. My medical charts get to people in Pakistan. My technical support calls go to India. My bank transactions will go to…. who knows. Is there a job safe from offshoring? Flipping burgers, maybe…
Want your kid to get a good tech job? Encourage them to play video games! Si1y Wabitt! L337 i5 4 g33k5! Instead of using the TV to babysit me, my parents let me play on the Commodore 64 and Atari. No need to worry about me, I was happy killing asteroids or tanks for hours…
Boy am I dense… just noticed I had taken off the email from below the profile pic. Also, there are options for lots of IM clients.
One spammer down… a billion to go. Taliking about email… It is April Fool’s. Google didn’t put some kind of funny on the main page. Are they really offering 1 GB of free email? Or is it a hoax? If so, then a heck of a number of news sites were conned (or participated). Just a few…
Love RSS. I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! The idea…
Hold on to your butts…the Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004Â (the Pirate Act) might come around the corner. Expect more RIAA, MPAA, and DOJ lawsuits against file sharers. If the draft becomes law, anyone sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content, such as songs or movies, could be fined or thrown…
Think Kim Zetter has it dead-on… [Optican scan and touch-screen] systems have experienced problems in elections. But when optical-scan machines misread ballots or miscalculate votes, election officials can re-scan the ballots or recount them by hand. Touch-screen votes, however, exist only in digital form, so officials can’t know if a machine records votes inaccurately. Nor can…
This quote bothers me from an article about an ultra rare hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean. “The hurricane season in the North Atlantic runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.” Right… and in the Northern Hemisphere, summer starts in June and ends in Sept. For the Southern Hemisphere has different summer months because they…
Why does the presence of methane increase the possibility of life on Mars? I can buy that methane survives for only a short time in the atmosphere. I can buy there are no active volcanos on Mars. However, does that leave microbes as the final possibility? Is there no other explanation? Methane is simply 1 carbon and…