Archive for the 'Economy' Category
U.S. IT Workers Training H-1B Replacements
June 15th, 2014This has been going on since before I left the IT world behind back in 2005. I’m surprised that there are still IT jobs to outsource in any number. Maybe they go and comeback and go again… The feeble U.S. flag display in the cubicles was cringe inducing. Oh dear. Via: ComputerWorld: Training the replacement […]
The Craft Distilling… Bubble?
June 15th, 2014*chortle* Via: The Atlantic: Craft distilling—a loosely defined industry consisting chiefly of distillers producing fewer than 50,000 cases a year—is now in its heady, early-Internet phase. There were about 70 small distilleries across the United States in 2003; today there are more than 600. Hardly a day passes without the announcement of a new distillery […]
Starbucks to Provide Free Online College Education to Thousands of Workers
June 15th, 2014Would you like extra foam with that? Via: New York Times: Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University, the company and the university will announce on Monday. The program is open to any […]
The First Honest Cable Company
June 15th, 2014Via: YouTube Extremely Decent:
Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
June 13th, 2014Via: Pro Publica: The marketers that follow you around the web are getting nosier. Currently, many companies track where users go on the Web—often through cookies—in order to display customized ads. That’s why if you look at a pair of shoes on one site, ads for those shoes may follow you around the Web. But […]
Tesla Allows Rivals to Use Its Intellectual Property to Develop Electric Vehicles
June 12th, 2014Via: Tesla Motors: Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. […]
Dryers Waste $4 Billion a Year in Energy Costs
June 11th, 2014I almost thought that they were going to get away with not mentioning clotheslines in this article. So, after reading about the billions of dollars wasted and how upgraded appliances should be purchased, etc, you need to stick around until the last sentence for the dash of sanity: Best yet, he says, they can save […]
Google to Buy Satellite Company Skybox Imaging for $500 Million
June 11th, 2014Via: Reuters: Google Inc said on Tuesday it is acquiring satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 million in cash, the Internet company’s second high-profile acquisition of an aerospace company this year. Google said that Skybox’s satellites will provide images for Google’s online mapping service. Google, the world’s No.1 Internet search engine, said that Skybox’s technology […]
FAA for the First Time OKs Commercial Drone Flights Over Land
June 11th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: Marking a milestone for the industry, Monrovia drone maker AeroVironment Inc. has announced a contract to use an unmanned aircraft to perform routine commercial services over land in compliance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations. The company’s small drone, called Puma AE, is now scouring BP Exploration Inc.’s Prudhoe Bay oil field […]
The Strange Case of Gustl Mollath
June 10th, 2014Cryptogon reader bretwalda submitted the 2012 Guardian piece, German Man Locked Up Over HVB Bank Allegations May Have Been Telling Truth. The Wikipedia entry on Gustl Mollath has more and up to date information. In short, it turned out that he was jailed on a bogus medial assessment and that there was money laundering going […]
