I'm back! Now here's a post from someone else
Wow, what a weekend! Pre-Halloween parties, another of those increasingly creepy Daylight Savings fallbacks that you don't even notice because your machines do it for you, and...and I don't have a third thing.
Except that I'm back — thanks again, Rick Abruzzo, for writing Valleywag last week.
Yes, it's a good Monday to return to work. Here's Valleywag friend Theo DP to stoke your xenophobia with an item to remind you that techies aren't the only ones losing jobs to India.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Or an overtired No Child Left Behind tutor working the third shift in India. After learning that more than 2,000 schoolchildren have been interacting with 250 unscreened tutors based in India who claimed they were in Texas, the NYC Dept. of Education suspended the $2.4M-and-counting contract of TX-based Socratic Learning (aka SL INC), who is apparently the 'US based market leader' owner of Tutors World Wide India (TWWI). Socratic Learning came to investigators' attention after allegations were made that the company illegally offered computers to parents of students who completed its tutoring program, an event which nets the company about $2,175 per student. According to a recent Usenet post, TWWI offers tutors 8,000 rupees per month, or about $177.
