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 common sense in any of this.” Green IT: The network is becoming a beneficiary of the greening effect in enterprise IT infrastructure. Hardware such as servers, routers, and switches are becoming more efficient. “On a broader level, there’s potential for the network to be a vehicle of energy efficiency effort,” Ted Samson writes in The network grows greener. “And the brewing IEEE 802.3az standard, more elegantly known as the Energy Efficient Ethernet, could have a profound impact on reducing power consumption, too.” Security: TJX just reported second quarter earnings and, despite the massive data breach earlier this year, the company’s core business remains hugely profitable. That means customers are not simply shopping elsewhere, as some experts predicted they would. What we’re not learning from TJX. “The implicit lesson has to be that consumers are either oblivious to the whole cycle of news reports and research being produced about the nature of corporate information leakage and its relation to identity theft, or that they simply feel there’s nothing they can do about it, so why change their lifestyles to deal with the issue,” Matt Hines explains. Careers