High-Tech Firms Defeat Foreign Worker Hiring Laws With Fake Want Ads – No American would respond to these ads. If they do, they aren’t qualified. So the company can import and hire a foreigner. [Dvorak]
AMA to Vote on Whether or Not Video Game/Internet Addiction is a Real Medical Condition -
The American Medical Association is taking steps to classify Internet and video game addiction as an actual medical condition. A vote is scheduled next week where members will decide whether or not to officially apply the “addiction” label. Bah, addictions are good for people. They help build character, at least the fun ones do.
In all seriousness, how many stories have we seen about some guy essentially giving up his real life to exclusively live a Second Life or to level up his Blood Elf until he passes out? Sure, this article points out that public scares like “they’re listening to too much rock music” or “rap encourages and celebrates the thug lifestyle” are common in American history, but video game and Internet addiction certainly seems to exist, at least anecdotally.
AMA to vote on “internet/video-game addiction” as medical condition [South Florida Sun-Sentinel via Drudge]
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Samsung's 3G SGH-T639 being sold by T-Mobile - This summer, we all got our hopes up when Samsung's (apparently 3G-enabled) SGH-T639 found its way into the FCC, and now that the handset is reportedly on sale in New York City, it'd be a great time to work yourself into a tizzy once more.
I was getting reports of "500 Internal Server Errors" on two of my web servers. And after further investigation it looks like it was related to the following error.
(4)Interrupted system call: FastCGI: comm with server "php-fastcgi.fcgi" aborted: select() failed
After doing some reasearch I stumbled upon the following patch.
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/3de22bc415d3da02?pli=1
Darpa funds invisible, shoot-through shield -Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
In a move seemingly influenced in equal parts by Halo and David Lynch's film Dune, Darpa has announced that it's ponying up $15 million to develop one-way-invisible, self-healing, shoot-through shields for use in urban combat. While the Pentagon's research division acknowledges that there are "significant technical obstacles" in the process, it's fairly gung-ho about developing a technology combining metamaterials, 'coded' obscurant systems, and a bunch of other stuff no one really understands. Trust us, you'll thank them if the Harkonens try and overthrow your spice-mining operation.
[Via Digg]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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