] "Our goal is to keep the U.S. economy growing and keep
] U.S. jobs in America. Sometimes this requires hiring a
] limited number of highly educated foreign professionals
] to fill technical or specialized positions," Sandy Boyd,
] chair of the group, said in a statement on Wednesday.
] "Reaching the 2004 visa limit less than halfway through
] the fiscal year is clear evidence that the system needs
] to be fixed."

[ To the extent that permitting positions to be filled by H1-B's keeps a certain number of positions from moving permanently offshore, which is obviously better - at least H1-B holders are spending most of their money here and (i think?) paying taxes here. Still, it's not that comforting to the coder who's unemployed. This is gonna only get bigger from here. -k]

Reforms demanded as H-1B visa limit reached - News - ZDNet

[This is a gallery of different images of human social networks.]

look at the highschool friendship image, see the few nodes (kids) with no connections...man, how much is that the suck...

--Abaddon

[ Yeah, high school sucks all right. -k]

Gallery of network images

[ Holy crap! I sure hope they don't fuck this up. -k]

News about Ender's Game: The Movie

] The content available online is much less important than
] the manner in which it is delivered, indeed, the way the
] Web is structured. Its influence is structural rather
] than informational, and its structure is agnostic. For
] that reason, parental controls of the sort that AOL can
] offer gives no comfort to conservatives. It's not that
] Johnny will Google "hardcore" or "T&A" rather than
] "family values;" rather, it's that Johnny will come to
] think, consciously or not, of everything he reads as
] linked, associative and contingent. He will be
] disinclined to accept the authority of any text, whether
] religious, political or artistic, since he has learned
] that there is no such thing as the last word, or indeed
] even a series of words that do not link, in some way, to
] some other text or game. For those who grow up reading
] online, reading will come to seem a game, one that
] endlessly plays out in unlimited directions. The web, in
] providing link after associative link, commentary upon
] every picture and paragraph, allows, indeed requires,
] users to engage in a postmodernist inquiry.

[ very intriguing -k]

CTHEORY.NET : Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie

] Researchers have begun to treat cancer with the surgical
] equivalent of a bat's squeak. They have developed
] invisible scalpels of ultrasound that can roast a tumour
] a bit at a time in a series of two second bursts -
] without cutting any other tissue, and often without side
] effects.

[ sounds promising... cancer is total bullshit. -k]

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Ultrasound could kill cancer cells

A female Samurai who dresses only in black and admires Hillary Clinton is running for president in Russia next month.

[ Hot damn... if it wasn't in the NY Times, I'd have thought this was a page from a novel. What an incredible character! -k]

A Samurai Fighter, Clad in Jeans, Takes On Putin

] When scientists learned last month that the word
] "evolution" had been removed from Georgia's proposed
] science curriculum for middle and high schools, some
] wondered what else might have been deleted.
]
] Some feared that the big-bang theory — the dominant scientific ]theory about the origins of the universe — would be absent.
]
]Their fears were well founded.
]
]The big bang had been eliminated from the science curriculum, and ]lessons on plate tectonics had been scaled back.

I swear, I may need to leave this state sooner than I thought..... Yeah, because the Bible is totally an authoritative source on this stuff......

[ Morons. We'll be sending burnt offerings to god before long. The fundamentalism in this country sucks, and i fear it's only going to get worse... -k]

Big bang busted in science class for high schools

] Around 25 attackers, some of them masked, faced little
] resistance as they surrounded the police station and
] stormed in, going from room to room throwing hand
] grenades and firing heavy machine guns, survivors said.
] Few police, most with only small weapons, were present at
] the time.
]
] ''I only had a pistol with me,'' said Kamel Allawi, a
] police lieutenant. ''Right away I fell on the ground and
] blood was gushing out of my left leg.''
]
] The attackers freed 75 prisoners held at the station,
] killing the guards and shooting open the cell doors,
] police Lt. Col. Jalal Sabri said. The prisoners were
] criminals most arrested for murder or theft and none of
] them were suspected of involvement in the anti-U.S.
] insurgency, Sabri said.

[ damn that sucks. -k]

Boston.com / News / World / Rebel assault routs Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, killing at least 20 and freeing prisoners

] CrossID, an Israeli startup founded by two engineers
] formerly at the telecommunications equipment provider RAD
] Group, has developed an innovative, chipless RFID system
] that can protect sensitive documents, such as
] intelligence agency reports, financial securities and
] banknotes. The technology could also be used to create a
] "hands-free" bar code.

[ fuck man. that's nuts. -k]

RFID Journal - Firewall Protection for Paper Documents

Well more windows source has been leaked. Let me tell you whats going on. Microsoft leaked the code, right now they have some programmer contributing patches to the linux Kernel, and 6 months from now they are going to sue redhat and the rest of the linux community because some of their code ended up in the kernel. Really, I have seen the memo that has been circulating around Redmond.

[ Interesting theory. Hopefully the Linux folk are being *extra*, *EXTRA* careful about who's contributing patches. Because getting screwd by MS would be double-plus-ungood, a lot. -k]

Forbes.com: Net file-swappers snap up Windows source code