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Bernie Sanders wants to raise wages of H-1B workers - Nov 25, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to reform the H-1B program, in part, by "substantially" raising prevailing wages.

... clearly none of you have even tested a build of win10 because you are still whining about non-existent issues.

As someone who has a Windows 10 box, I'll agree that it's not a dream OS for stability, but it still has a large number of issues that people keep hammering. Not convinced? Here are a few articles about Windows 10 data collection from PC Mag and ComputerWorld. How to regain some privacy at Polygon and Techtimes. Finally, that Microsoft doesn't see (or care) about the privacy risk for all this data collection. Nor have they explained what is being collected, for what purpose, how it is being stored, and who has access to it. I had to add rules to my home router to block traffic to MS's servers, something I doubt the typical user would do.

On top of that, there's plenty of issues even with games. MS took down GFWL in favor of their store. However, older GFWL games will install the old software automatically, and give you some interesting crashes (SSF4:AE and SFxTekken both crashed miserably and forced a reboot). Other games require reinstallation or reacquiring of assets through Steam (Saints Row 4 is one). Some are unable to play fullscreen (Xeodrifter is one example). Some will simply only run when the planets are aligned (DmC: Devil May Cry starts as a service for some stupid reason... I rarely get the actual game).

It's hard to concisely explain their business model anymore which is usually a bad sign for a company.

Their business model is evidently asshattery indistinguishable from malware, which is an even worse sign for a company.

Umm, Chrome for Mac has been 64-bit only for a year now. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Hi AC re "Is there a browser plugin that does that already?"
"Six browser plug-ins that protect your privacy" (Oct 17, 2014)
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
"The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy" (8/31/15)
http://lifehacker.com/the-best...

Well, Windows 10 isn't free for all, the upgrade is free if you have Windows 7 or 8. but if you have neither then you can't upgrade. From what I remember, the Win7 ultimate upgrade was about the price you quoted, but the full version was over $300. Actually a quick search shows a 2009 article quoting the full version of windows 7 ultimate at about $319.00. http://www.computerworld.com/a... Now I am not saying Windows 7 isn't still in demand now that Windows 10 is out. The fact that Windows 7 machines are still being sold gives reason to why there was no reduction in the license cost after 6 years.

You don't even need to be a government.

Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature

Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing

Big Brands Use Mobile Apps to Direct Offers as You Watch TV

Google looks to patent tech that listens to calls to promote ads

and people will stand in line for days to pay $99 and sign a two-year contract for this.

1. Read this article. It does a better job of making my point than I ever could.
2. I've read some of your other comments; you're just one more jackass on the Internet that argues for the sake of arguing. As such you can fuck off; I have no time for someone like you. Go get your sense of being relevant from someone else; I am done with you.

You nailed it. This hit piece on Linus just came out 2 days ago.

"Why the hell do I pick your overpriced American company instead of the cheaper alternatives? Is it because you'll do a better job [slashdot.org]? Don't make me laugh."

So instead of choosing overpriced Americans (or possibly Europeans) you would choose somebody from India? Because they never have failed IT projects:

http://www.computerworlduk.com...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Holy tracking link Batman! Try this one instead:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002681/it-outsourcing/fury-and-fear-in-ohio-as-it-jobs-go-to-india.html

Bill Gates never said that either.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

That functionality already exists and has done for some time.

However the implementations so far haven't stood up to attack - Canon Nikon

There's no reason that should be the case though. It should be something that can be done securely, only falsifiable if you can either crack the key or find a hash collision (which'd likely mean making enough changes to the image to make it obvious that it's been modified).

He's the only candidate to oppose more H1-Bs.

The unspoken assumption, that folks like Google wish to remain unspoken and unexamined, is that "better then (sic) a human" part. That they are so committed to glossing over that suggests that they are also doubtful about how soon automated cars will, in fact, driver better than humans. Certainly, we're nowhere near that now.

Security problems have never affected the "golden age" of closed source much.

Believe it or not, at one point a very strong argument against FOSS in corporations was that software written by amateurs would be insecure and showing the code would give that away. The huge level of insecurity in MS Windows at the time made that argument laughable. This is part of the more general problems where it became impossible to say "nobody got fired for buying Microsoft" when major MS customers obviously had been fired. Quite possibly Microsofts "Get the Facts" campaign would have been much more of a success if things like "Patch Tuesday" had not driven MS Windows total ownership costs to be several times higher than the equivalent costs for Linux or OSX.

You are wrong. Intel has a fab in Ho Chi Minh and the fucking job advertisements are posted directly on Intel's career page.

Only a fool uses wikipedia instead of going straight to the source.

Or, Oh, I dunno, read on the internet where this plant has been known of FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS http://www.computerworld.com/a...

I've read through the lists, and I see a lot of guys insulting each other. You know what? Guys insult each other. It's how we communicate, it's how we bond. It's also brutally honest and helps to enforce the environment that makes for good IT - namely

A woman inserting themselves into that environment should expect to be treated like just another guy.

Oh, and read this:
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

2. The Indian developers never get up to speed.

"Indian developers"?

Yeah, there are only 2.75 million [1] of them and you'd worked with most of them to have an opinion. Nothing but, sweeping generalization.

[1] As of 2013

I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.

If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.

The backup generators failed as the fuel pumps couldn't be powered as there wasn't any electricity to power the pumps ref. Don't site your critical infrastructure in the basement. ref.

if you disconnect the machine from the internet, or otherwise block the connection to the server that provides revocation information, will the Windows system still see an executable signed with the revoked key as valid?

Yes, that is exactly how it works. To give an example of how weak this security control is, Google Chrome no longer even bothers, ignoring revocation lists completely.

Another aspect of Win 95, kinda lost now, was it was fun. The Plus! cd packed in all these themes that actually worked, changing fonts, icons, colors, wallpaper, screensaver, and (my favorite) system sounds to an aquarium, a haunted house, sports, and other cool time-wasting stuff. The aquarium screensaver was quite impressive. Sure it ate some CPU, but by the time Pentium 133's were common, who cared? Some of the system sounds from that era I still keep around and plug into Windows, 'cause some of them were just plain well done.

One of my ongoing beefs with Microsoft is how, with each release, they take more of this away. I didn't mind "Luna" on XP, at least not in principle, but they only released 3 possible colors (plus a black Zune theme if you could find it). Otherwise, Luna was locked down (although "classic" was still available).

It got worse from there. On a lot of systems, you have to go through a lot of settings to get Aero to start working even if you have adequate display hardware, and once it's working there's not much you can do with it. Moreover, these things they call "themes" in Windows 7-10 aren't themes at all - they're little more than a wallpaper (albeit a pretty one). Little else can be changed. You have to go skinning or buy Windows Blinds to do anything close to what Windows 95 offered with Plus!, and these methods involve messing with system files which Win 10's mandatory system updates may well wipe out on a regular basis.

Windows 95 was a product that Microsoft was determined to make people want to use on a PC at home. But the guys behind it have probably all retired with their stock options, and the new people figure you'll buy Windows 'cause you just have to. Fuck having fun, give us your ID, your browsing history and your shopping habits. Click on this live tile, watch this ad. Buy a tablet and a phone, so we can track where you're at. It's been 20 years since Windows 95 and we got TELEMETRY!

It is built by Google which has not come out and said anything about securing and protecting your privacy.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2923854/security/apple-google-urge-obama-to-reject-encryption-back-doors.html
oh ok.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

http://simpleprogrammer.com/20...

https://lonesysadmin.net/2008/...

http://windowssecrets.com/lang...

http://serverfault.com/questio...

*YAWN* Try again when you're an actual competent system admin, APK. You're completely fucking useless, outdated, and even 5 year olds know better than you.

"64-year-old engineer sues Google for age discrimination" http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Even too much knowledge of 1980s pop culture will put you on thin ice: "Median age at Google is 29, says age discrimination lawsuit" http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Teletubbies is still fine. FOR NOW! :-O

And of course once everyone who had a pirated version of the OS upgrades to the legit free version,

This is false. A pirated may (not will get upgraded to Win 10, but it will remain pirated. This does not change the legit status. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Short sighted people make short sighted errors.

Most people foresee the future by looking at the past so it's not as obvious as you would think. Those who have the gift of foresight end up joining the million dollar club because they're ahead of the curve. Most of us just follow what they lay in front of us.

My opinion of the situation is that the decision was made with financials in mind (keep the cost low) and using the existing architecture "for now" was good enough. They could NOT have known that their temporary design would end up feeding into a standard need caused by the popularization of an OS.

The "640 kB is enough" is a myth attributed . The blame for this should actually be placed at IBM's feet

From this wiki: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
More about Bill Gates and this comment about 640K: http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Bill Gates said KB, actually. And the other posters were obviously joking.

This has been repeated a billion times but people still don't get it. H1B can only fill a position that is not filled by a US citizen.

... and yet the employment rate among tech workers is not 0% (currently about 4.1%). How do these two things jibe? Because they specifiy the position at a certain rate. So all you have to do is successfully argue that nobody wants to take the job at the salary you are offering it, and then you can try to get an H1B person. Without that alternative, they'd be forced to raise the salary until they started getting takers.

A US citizen can anytime come in and show they meet the minimum qualifications and take the H1B's job away.

Not true. At all. There is no mechanism for this. In fact, the company doesn't even have to advertise an opening before applying. They do have to submit a form to the government, but nobody will know they did this unless the specifically go looking for it. And if you do find it and want that job there, there's nothing you can do but whine about it. For instance, just a few months ago Southern California Edison used H1-B's to replace their existing workers, and required those workers as their last duty to train their replacements.

The H-1B program "was supposed to be for projects and jobs that American workers could not fill," this worker said. "But we're doing our job. It's not like they are bringing in these guys for new positions that nobody can fill.

"Not one of these jobs being filled by India was a job that an Edison employee wasn't already performing," he said.

Really? You're about 12 years too late. They were profitable back in 2003, and could be profitable every single year if they so choose. Amazon's leadership chooses to spend most, if not all, their profit on infrastructure and new development, but cutting back on that a bit would put them solidly in the black every year.

Kodak tried this some years ago: sell consumer printers that have higher upfront costs but lower consumable cost.

Like a lot of things they tried before ultimately declaring bankruptcy, Kodak failed at this.

That's because Windows 10 is not an operating system, it's a marketing platform. Microsoft themselves even stated so and it explains why it sends so much data back to MS, why there are ads in the OS and why the user isn't allowed to control anything.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

A California utility has not only replaced citzens/green card holders with offshore labor, but they've handed control of critical infrastructure to foreign nationals. ATM, India is a friendly nation, but that is not guaranteed to last beyond their next election.

I agree. Re. the California utility, are you talking about Southern California Edison (SCE)? According to these two articles, a US senator and two US representatives are upset about replacing the American SCE workers.

I'm not a lawyer, but I've read that Disney's aborted replacement of US workers was legal. If so, then let's change the law. President Obama, please show us just how "troubled" about the law you are, and work to fix the law.

A California utility has not only replaced citzens/green card holders with offshore labor, but they've handed control of critical infrastructure to foreign nationals. ATM, India is a friendly nation, but that is not guaranteed to last beyond their next election.

I agree. Re. the California utility, are you talking about Southern California Edison (SCE)? According to these two articles, a US senator and two US representatives are upset about replacing the American SCE workers.

I'm not a lawyer, but I've read that Disney's aborted replacement of US workers was legal. If so, then let's change the law. President Obama, please show us just how "troubled" about the law you are, and work to fix the law.

A California utility has not only replaced citzens/green card holders with offshore labor, but they've handed control of critical infrastructure to foreign nationals. ATM, India is a friendly nation, but that is not guaranteed to last beyond their next election.

I agree. Re. the California utility, are you talking about Southern California Edison (SCE)? According to these two articles, a US senator and two US representatives are upset about replacing the American SCE workers.

I'm not a lawyer, but I've read that Disney's aborted replacement of US workers was legal. If so, then let's change the law. President Obama, please show us just how "troubled" about the law you are, and work to fix the law.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

'Nuff said.

Google was paying Firefox $300M a year. http://www.reddit.com/r/techno... http://www.computerworld.com/a... Wonder what Yahoo is paying?

You'd think people would treat data like that as sensitive, but security people are remarkably bad at that. NASA lost a similar data set (at least the PII, and possibly the submitted data for SF85 and SF 85P) when a laptop containing it was stolen from a car in Washington: stolen nasa laptop. They let my personal data get out in that one, now apparently they've done it again at OPM.

Somewhat amusingly, the NASA CIO office had predicted such an incident just a few months before the laptop theft in their newsletter see page 6 of this pdf NASA OCIO newsletter

... you can only legally justify H1Bs on the basis that there's no qualified US residents for the position ...

Do Southern California Edison and Disney know this? Because they had their US employees *train* their H1B replacements...

Unless, of course, "no qualified US residents" also includes "no low(er)-salary US residents".

Nokia do make mobile phones.

By this, do you mean "the corporation named Nokia manufactures, in addition to mobile telephony infrastructure equipment, mobile phones", or "there are mobile phones that happen to be sold by Nokia", or "the corporation named Nokia makes mobile phones that they sell"?

If the former, are you referring to the phones made by Nokia's Indian manufacturing facilities? Those were one of the parts of the Devices and Services business not sold to Microsoft, as part of the deal selling most of that business to Microsoft, due to them being "subject to an asset freeze by the Indian tax authorities as a result of ongoing tax proceedings"? If so, that press release says that Nokia will use them to "produce mobile devices for Microsoft", so that they're Nokia-made but not Nokia-sold. I.e., Nokia is just acting as a contract manufacturer for Microsoft here, so they make phones in the same sense that, say, Foxconn makes phones; it's not clear that they have a long-term interest in being in the featurephone business. (Yes, I am familiar with the term "featurephone".)

Microsoft appear, at least for the short term, to still be interested in making featurephones, so, if, as, and when the tax issues are resolved, Nokia may sell the Indian facilities to Microsoft as well, finishing the job of getting rid of their mobile phone handset business.

• Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements
• This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement
• 10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
• New Data Show How Firms Like Infosys and Tata Abuse the H-1B Program

Do any of my fellow IT workers see 200k more IT jobs than domestic workers can fill?

• Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements
• This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement
• 10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
• New Data Show How Firms Like Infosys and Tata Abuse the H-1B Program

Do any of my fellow IT workers see 200k more IT jobs than domestic workers can fill?

• Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements
• This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement
• 10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
• New Data Show How Firms Like Infosys and Tata Abuse the H-1B Program

Do any of my fellow IT workers see 200k more IT jobs than domestic workers can fill?

The author of the article is guessing (*) (and presenting it as a fact) that they are on H1-B visas, since they happen to be unpopular... Most likely, though, these are L1 visas, used by foreign companies with offices in US to do intra-company transfers.

The L1 visa has no caps and no requirements for prevailing wages, and makes it much easier to bring in foreign workers into US.

(*) - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/fury-rises-at-disney-over-use-of-foreign-workers.html

You can toss in So Cal Edison in the same bin
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Now unless I misunderstand the law. H1-B is supposed to be for jobs Americans can't do. Tell me how a dept that is and has been doing the work is suddenly unskilled and unable to do the job but is able to train their replacements. Also if these people have the "Skills" why are they being trained by those they displace ?

Self driving cars are interesting, and in most cases safer than people driven cars but they do NOT fix the congestion problems.

That is not true. SDCs can drive much closer together, increasing the road carrying capacity. They also have faster response times, reducing the "accordion effect" as cars slow down and speed up repeatedly. They also may have more information about conditions ahead, so when traffic in front of them begins to speed up, they know if it is just going to slow down again, or whether this is really the end of the congestion and they should accelerate rapidly.

This does not take a PHD to prove.

At least one study showed that as few as 10% SDC will substantially reduce congestion.

Banning things does us no favor, but getting the message out does

http://www.amazon.com/How-Powe...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
http://www.unc.edu/~healdric/P...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04...

The summary of all of these articles is that Powerpoint has a limit to how much information it can place on a slide, this is largely a function of screen resolution and visible font size

This limit is resolution results in 'high level' 10,000 display of topics that does not adequately represent the subject matter
The result is that people give presentations at a high level and then send out the powerpoint as the notes for the presentation, when in fact any real detailed information would be either omitted or glossed over at that high level

What we really need is to demand improvements to Powerpoint, like
1. displaying at legible resolution on a 6ft high by 30 ft wide screen (remember those old blackboards from college Calculus class, that is the level of information density that we need)
2. Providing linking and drill down like would would expect to see on an executive dashboard. Sure, start at the summary level, but allow the speaker to drill down to the details at any point in the diagram. Also, make this all print out as the 'notes' with footnotes and references to the linked information
3. Train the presenters to not be satisfied working at the outline level

I guess that we should not simply blame Powerpoint for making us stupid, when we are stupid for relying on it as it is

'cause he himself is a KGB apparatchik.

http://www.dshield.org/diary/D...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.dshield.org/diary/G...

https://threatpost.com/en_us/b...

https://threatpost.com/en_us/b...

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/...

http://plus.evozi.com/204/mala...

http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

http://www.zdnet.com/linkedin-...

http://www.zdnet.com/linkedin-...

http://www.zdnet.com/au/optus-...

http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-dns...

http://www.computerworld.com/s...

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...

http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

http://www.dshield.org/diary/g...

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http://www.dshield.org/diary/L...

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http://www.networkworld.com/ne...

* "Read 'em & weep" STILL more are coming (since that's only partial on my end, and the future WILL SHOW MORE without doubt)... & that's only SOME of the exploits DNS has experienced, I don't have them all but those will do!

(Simply facts supporting my former posts on the subject of DNS issues -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... AND http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... as I promised in it, to show the RAMPANT EXPLOITABILITY of DNS vs. my program AND WINDOWS protecting hosts perfectly...)

APK

P.S.=> You can't win, accept it... apk