Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen to Good Workers; Laser Cutters Heat Up Maker Spaces

Don't miss a single issue of this newsletter. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen to Good Workers Laser Cutters Heat Up Maker Spaces Apple Store Refuses to Sell iPad to Iranian-American Teen Fundamentalist Schools Using 'Nessie' to Disprove Evolution Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers at All Times Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? Hot Comment: You're all worthless and weak From the Vault: NASA Was Prepared to Silence Stranded Moon Astronauts Watch It: Why You Should Care About the Semantic Web Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen to Good Workers Even with millions of highly educated and highly trained workers sidelined by the worst economic downturn in generations, companies were reporting shortages of skilled workers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Who is to blame? Schools? Government? Workers themselves? Or are employers the real culprits?  Sound Off>> Laser Cutters Heat Up Maker Spaces Slashdot editor Jeff Boehm visited Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI, where they not only have an Epilog Helix Laser Cutter/Engraver, but let him use it. Which, of course, he happily did. See Jeff and the laser in action.  Sound Off>> Apple Store Refuses to Sell iPad to Iranian-American Teen An Iranian-American teenager was told by an Apple store employee in Georgia that they could not sell her an iPad because it would violate U.S. trade restrictions. The refusal came after the employee heard the customer speaking Farsi. Sound Off>> Fundamentalist Schools Using 'Nessie' to Disprove Evolution Certain fundamentalist schools in Louisiana plan to teach children that the Loch Ness monster is real in a bid to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution. The belief is that if it can be proven that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed. Sound Off>> Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers at All Times In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration enforcement law, H-1B workers--about half of which are employed in tech occupations--are being advised to keep their papers on them at all times. Sound Off>> Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? Jason Levine wants to get his young son interested in science fiction, but he's finding that most of the books he can think of are targeted to older kids or adults. So, he asked Slashdotters, "Which science fiction and/or fantasy books would you recommend for an 8-year-old?" Sound Off>> You're all worthless and weak "No American child would be caught dead allowing a Swiss teacher to wipe dirt off their hard-earned American Hot Dogs. Freedom Dogs 4eva!" --by alphatel Read More>> NASA Was Prepared to Silence Stranded Moon Astronauts Thirteen years ago, the BBC posted an article about NASA documents that revealed that if the astronauts of the first moon landing had been stranded because of some technical problem, communications would have been cut and they would have been left to die in silence. The astronauts, however, did not know about this. Sound Off>> Why You Should Care About the Semantic Web From Slashdot TV: Cambridge Semantics' Lee Feigenbaum, a leading expert in Semantic Web technologies and their applicability to enterprise IT challenges, gives a deep-dive look at the semantic Web, what it can do and what it means to you. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.