Innovative solution to the H1B problem...Offshore Outsourcing! Plans are to have cruise ship(s) hanging out a few miles off the US coast and outside of US jurisdiction. Getting developers to stay on a ship might be interesting, though located in the nice sunny weather of California and the ability to take "tourist trips" helps. Plus they'll offer all the ammenities of a cruise including full on feasts, activities, etc.

Weird, but true. Now, why the US government can't make reasonable H1B policies is beyond me.

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Google launched another interesting beta tool today, the Google Web Accelerator. Interesting security issues since one feature appears to be a centralized proxy cache located on Google's servers. A great way for them to capture even more highly personal data about their users beyond what they can capture today (i.e. they can already capture all searches, any URL you visit when the Google toolbar is running, all your Gmail e-mail, any file on your desktop computer, etc).

Sure, the Google Toolbar could forward the page content back to Google but that would create suspicion on what they'd do with the data within the user community. However, proxying and caching the data transparently would probably cause less concern for the average, unaware user.

Interesting...Google may end up w/ more sensitive data on their users than any other company I can think of. Scary what they could do with this data, particularly if they ever change their privacy policy.

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