10/29   And so it begins, bit by bit the death of outsourcing:
        http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031023005950&newsLang=en
        Send your shit overseas or to someone with no attachment to the US and
        reap the 'rewards'.  This is an extra zinger on top of last week's
        UCSF medical transcription extortion problem.
        \_ http://csua.org/u/4ua
        Send your shit overseas or to someone with no attachment to the US and
        reap the 'rewards'.  This is an extra zinger on top of last week's
        UCSF medical transcription extortion problem.
        \_ Ehh. That could happen regardless of outsourcing.
           \_ Bzzt not quite.  In this concrete example, Russia has very
              weak to nonexistent computer crime laws.  There has historically
              been almost no interest on the part of Russian law enforcement
              agencies to cooperate (for better or worse) with their western
              counterpart in areas like this.  -John
            \_ yeah right, try it here and your ass would be in prison by the
               end of the week.  if it was that easy it'd happen all the time
               or do you just believe that American employees are just really
               ethical compared to their foreign counterparts?