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Friday, August 17, 2007
* IT not immune to credit meltdown
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Cost of engineering degrees hits home
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IT NOT IMMUNE TO CREDIT MELTDOWN
Columnist's corner: It's a question that many of you are asking: Should
IT care about the credit meltdown? "As IT professionals, we'll be the
last ones to know where the bad loans are buried. But we can at least be
prepared for the likely fallout," advises David Margulius. "I don't want
to be Dr. Doom, but it's best to peek under the rug and be proactive."
It never hurts to polish the ol' resume, either. Gripe Line: Government
bureaucracies are particularly prone to taking the IE-only approach, Ed
Foster suggests in Reader voices: Institutional IE. And it's not just
in... ...
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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST
IBM extends support for Solaris on System x and BladeCenter servers,
Skype's outage appears to be over but work remains, Dell will restate
earnings after internal audit found manipulations, and more LISTEN!...
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COST OF ENGINEERING DEGREES HITS HOME
Careers: Calling the H-1B program, outsourcing, and discouragement of
technical degrees "repeated failures of logic and common sense," Nick
Corcodilos lashes out at the higher-education monopoly in America for
slapping engineering students with a surcharge above what, say, English
majors, pay. "The cost of a technical degree goes up; the number of
students willing to pay for it will go down; the effective yield of
technologists will drop; and companies will need more H-1B visas to make
up the difference," he writes in this post titled PAAAYYY!, which takes
its name from the board game Monopoly. "There's no logic or... ...
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JAVASCRIPT HIJACKING
Fortify Software's Security Research Group has announced a new class
of vulnerability: JavaScript Hijacking. This is the first class of
vulnerability that specifically affects Web 2.0 AJAX-style web
applications. This report details the risk and how developers can
make their code secure.
Download now, compliments of Fortify Software:
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=18C39B6:20920CD98AAF82DD24B73D7286441641EFF29049075316B4
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