This!!! In the US, one needs a Social Security number to do anything - open accounts to do any tracking, but it's a stupid piece of paper that legally is not supposed to be laminated. In the meantime, you have controversies over cities issuing driving licenses to illegals, and thereby making the appearance of legalizing them. As well as the proposal by the TSA to require everybody to carry their passports w/ them in some jurisdictions.
Better idea: why not make SS cards like DL cards, which would include photos, personal details (eye color, hair color, et al, like in DLs, but not addresses), and then a chip that includes details like a person's legal status (citizen/GC/visa type, state in which one can vote, et al) and make that the ID that they are required to show anywhere? That way, DL would no longer be proof of anything aside from the authorization to drive, and the SS card can be used for things like Voter ID, travelling on planes, e-Verify, et al. Then cities that issue DLs to illegals would no longer be changing anything about their legal status to be here, only whether they can legally drive or not. Which shouldn't be an issue - one could legally go from Juarez to El Paso, get a TX DL and then drive anywhere in TX on a tourist visa, but not be mistaken for a legal resident of the US.
There are quotas for the L1 visas as well, and sometimes, when the L1 quota gets hit, companies are better off applying for H1B. Also, those managers cannot leave the company while on an L1, unlike H1B workers, who can
This assumes that H1B holders are actually as skilled as they're claimed to be, and can find work easily after losing a job. Which was true in the 90s, but not since. If an H1B worker loses his/her job, he's actually out of status: in fact, that's what people bring up when they point out that immigration overstayers outnumber those who illegally come from Mexico.
Also, your latter statement is a technicality, but actually applies more to an H1B holder than a GC. The people who feel tied to their employer are H1B workers whose employers have applied for their GC: they are compelled to either remain until their I485 is approved, or reset the process. The only way your first statement holds true is if an H1B worker is here w/ no plans to apply for a GC, and wants to return to his country after a while. I actually have come across such colleagues, but they are rare. If a person wants his employer to apply for his GC, he'll at least be w/ them as long as it takes to get the GC.
Also, once one gets the GC, as you mentioned, he's as good as a citizen (just can't vote, or serve on a jury). If this process is speeded up, companies would actually have a lot less of an incentive to sponsor them, since instead of taking, say, 5 years, they would only have to be w/ the company for a year or less, making them a lot less attractive for a company to hire them in preference to local talent
I'm technically considered a Millennial, but I feel more Gen X than anything, 34 Years Old.
Millennial should be anybody born in 2000 or later, not someone born in the 90s. Already, they're starting to use the term 'Gen Z' for people born today, but no new term should even start being used until 10 years from now
Do these users pay for it? No. Red Hat makes money and reinvests in Linux. Red Hat matters most, Canonical matters second, SuSE matters least. All others are just freeloaders whose opinions and usage don't matter. Proof: SystemD.
How about Oracle? They are the richest of Linux players, even if they do that by rebranding Red Hat and then making sure that their distro works w/ their software
Granted that Red Hat recycles money in Linux, but a lot of projects have nothing to do w/ Red Hat - such as Calligra, LibreOffice, KDE, LX/QT, Videoshot, et al. Yeah, it would be good if those projects had a stable income stream, and not have to depend on donations. But they are at least as important: if they weren't around, people couldn't do much w/ just RHEL and the bash shell prompt in front of them
Also, speaking of systemd, one big aspect about that: Slackware, which has not embraced systemd, is the favorite.
I thought that sensitive stuff is automatically classified at birth. His email definitely! Besides, if his phone is well encrypted, he may well have been allowed to put classified stuff there, since that would be backed up on their private cloud.
No. If I go abroad, I'd take my own phone w/ me and use things like WhatsApp audio or video calling to contact family members (in addition to the normal text messaging on WhatsApp). Your company doesn't ask you to make your international calls on roaming, does it: they'd probably install a VOIP app on your phone like 8x8 or MagicJack and ask you to use that. Anywhere you'd travel for work, there'd probably be WiFi, and that can be used to run either app to make the calls.
I overlooked the cited portion, but you're right. When I get a work phone, I don't give family or friends that number. In this age of cellphones, where all of us have our own and carry it around, if Sasha needs to call me, she has my number
I can understand it some 20 years ago, when laptops and phones were expensive, and therefore employees used those for both work and personal use. These days, when just about everybody can afford both, there is little justification for putting the names of your friends or families on work equipment. From a personal POV, particularly since none of that data is private: the employer legally has access to it.
Yeah, I just don't get why JPL would be upset at another government department accessing their material. Since there's nothing criminal, and the CBP is not a foreign spy agency, what they should have done should have been to require the CBP to show authorization to access that level of secrecy
No, just copy all contents of the flash drives in the phone to something, and give it back to him. If they need to revisit that later for any reason, they have what they need
Wouldn't that depend on what it was slowed down to? Like if your plan is 40Mbps, and the terms are that when you reach 20GB, the speed falls to 20Mbps, it's still pretty good for the Uber/Lyft/Waze to run. So this 'slowdown' doesn't sound so major at all.
A corporate firewall would presumably have a whitelist of the hosts that won't be blocked. Better still, if it's all within a VPN, then even this shouldn't be needed
That's the point I was making. The presentation is supposed to be something that the viewer should grasp right away, if it's done well, and what the presenter is supposed to do is elaborate on what's shown. Like 'As you can see, the DS14 will be coming out in the 2nd quarter: engineering samples just started shipping last week'
Since Hindus don't have the practice of claiming victimhood status the way Muslims do, that approach won't work here. The reason it's haram to say things against Muslims/Islam is that since Communism ended, they are the most major anti-Western group out there that's opposed to everything traditionally Western, thereby attracting the support of the hard Left (despite the misogyny, homophobia, animal-cruelty and whole host of other things that would be considered toxic by traditional Liberals). No other group has that attitude - not Hindus, not Christians, not Jews, not Atheists, not Rastafarians, not Scientologists, not Buddhists, not Sikhs, not Taoists, not Jains, not Confucians, noone else!
If you want to end exploitation of H1B visa holders, it seems like the easiest step would be to let visa holders change employers without restarting the H1B process. This would reduce the exploitation factor, since employees could walk away from bad jobs. It wouldn't require guessing what a reasonable salary bound would be, but would let the market decide that, instead.
This is something they can do already. What can change is that if they are already in the process of getting a Green Card and switch jobs, then the process won't be reset. That way, they won't have to work under ugly working conditions, and can move to better jobs w/o slowing down their naturalization process
Yeah, this would be the magic bullet. Too bad for them that India is not a Muslim country, and that the bulk of Indian Muslims who emigrate go to Gulf countries, for good reason, rather than to Western countries
All these countries should go talent shopping to countries like Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, et al, so that all those Liberal activists who are on their case for hiring from India or Eastern Europe would be forced to prioritize b/w their Trump derangement vs the interests of US workers.
They can! It's called an H1B transfer. So if you have such a visa and are working for, say, Microsoft, and you want to move to Avanade, you can. It doesn't go against the national H1B cap since it's a visa that's already been issued. Which is why companies are more willing to do H1B transfers as opposed to a brand new H1B, which runs into those limits
The real issue in question is what was mentioned in the summary:
EB sponsorship renders the workers de facto indentured servants; though they have the right to move to another employer, they do not dare do so, as it would mean starting the lengthy green card process all over again.
So the issue workers have is not that an H1B can't be transferred, but rather, that if a worker changes companies, then the company he's quitting would obviously stop applying for his Green Card, and the process would be reset w/ the new company. Also consider the fact that few employers would apply for a Green Card immediately: they'd want the worker to be w/ them from 6 months to a year. So, in the above example, if Srinivas' I-140 has been approved and he decides to leave Microsoft and join Avanade, not only does he lose that I-140 approval and everything, he then loses that time it's taken him, PLUS the time Avanade would like to try him out before deciding whether to file his I-140. So that is what would keep him in that company at least until his Green Card is approved
Volcanoes are zits on Mother Earth's nipples. But they do let out more greenhouse gases than all human created machinery - from cars to planes to everything that emits carbon dioxide
The FreeBSD desktop is PC-BSD which recently got rebranded TrueOS. Regrettably, the latest versions are somehow buggy: I've simply been unable to update my system to that, w/o having it hang. I'd really like to install the 'Playonbsd' and on that, Steam, and get going.
Big reason is that when an organization goes w/ an FOSS approach, the schedule of whether and when to upgrade is in their hands. With Microsoft, they were first forced out from XP to 7, and now from 7 to 10. A lot of organizations don't have the inclination to upgrade every other year just b'cos...
Besides, in this case, Munich had gone to Linux some years ago doing a complete exercise, from rolling out their own distro - Munix - to getting all their document systems to this. So their entire software infrastructure is already on this. Now, it could be that that leaves them unable to use things like Visio, or lose some of the previous Excel functionality that they had. But they need to assess how much (as a fraction) of their time and effort is spent on such Microsoft-only approaches, vs working on things like a LibreOffice document, or being online on Chrome.
Your argument would make sense if they were already on Windows and considering whether to go Linux. Or maybe even if they had no computing platform and were determining which one to adapt. But it doesn't in this case where Linux is already there, and the move is to migrate to Windows
I've seen this: some high-powered MS rep chats up a boss, and *presto*:
MS is great
We've got to migrate
Put that to whatever jingle you want. Also: inspect bank accounts and campaign funds.
Note also that the study supporting the move back to WIndows was carried out by Accenture (some of us know them better by their old name, Andersen Consulting). Accenture was Microsoft's Alliance Partner of the Year in 2016, so I'm sure that they have a neutral, objective reason for recommending Microsoft software.
Second point first: Accenture spun of a separate company 'Avanade', which partners w/ Microsoft and works w/ clients that are heavily into Microsoft solutions, as opposed to Oracle or SAP or anything else.
But I agree w/ your first point. Many years ago, had someone suggested migrating back from an FOSS solution to a Windows 7 based solution, it would have made sense, since the legacy support was still there. But that's no longer true about Windows 10. The only reason Windows 10 would make sense is if an organization already had plenty of legacy stuff on things like SharePoint, Exchange and the like. But if a company had not been using it, there would be no good reason to migrate to Windows 10.
The Minux approach was a document centric approach that they did, and by now, it should have sunk well into their infrastructure. What's more - since it's their own rolled distro, they would have had the option of keeping the OS untouched, except maybe for security updates. So migrating doesn't make sense at all. In fact, I have no idea whether Munich was using this system mainly as a document processing platform or maintaining databases as well, but even for the latter, there's enough stuff out there from MariaSQL to others.
Not due to bullet points, but rather the fact that the best of presentations are supposed to be visuals - using pictures, graphs and diagrams wherever conceivably possible.
I believe that this was done before Ubuntu went w/ Unity and later Mir. So while it may have been Ubuntu based, that would have simply meant a user friendly version of Debian.
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This!!! In the US, one needs a Social Security number to do anything - open accounts to do any tracking, but it's a stupid piece of paper that legally is not supposed to be laminated. In the meantime, you have controversies over cities issuing driving licenses to illegals, and thereby making the appearance of legalizing them. As well as the proposal by the TSA to require everybody to carry their passports w/ them in some jurisdictions.
Better idea: why not make SS cards like DL cards, which would include photos, personal details (eye color, hair color, et al, like in DLs, but not addresses), and then a chip that includes details like a person's legal status (citizen/GC/visa type, state in which one can vote, et al) and make that the ID that they are required to show anywhere? That way, DL would no longer be proof of anything aside from the authorization to drive, and the SS card can be used for things like Voter ID, travelling on planes, e-Verify, et al. Then cities that issue DLs to illegals would no longer be changing anything about their legal status to be here, only whether they can legally drive or not. Which shouldn't be an issue - one could legally go from Juarez to El Paso, get a TX DL and then drive anywhere in TX on a tourist visa, but not be mistaken for a legal resident of the US.
There are quotas for the L1 visas as well, and sometimes, when the L1 quota gets hit, companies are better off applying for H1B. Also, those managers cannot leave the company while on an L1, unlike H1B workers, who can
This assumes that H1B holders are actually as skilled as they're claimed to be, and can find work easily after losing a job. Which was true in the 90s, but not since. If an H1B worker loses his/her job, he's actually out of status: in fact, that's what people bring up when they point out that immigration overstayers outnumber those who illegally come from Mexico.
Also, your latter statement is a technicality, but actually applies more to an H1B holder than a GC. The people who feel tied to their employer are H1B workers whose employers have applied for their GC: they are compelled to either remain until their I485 is approved, or reset the process. The only way your first statement holds true is if an H1B worker is here w/ no plans to apply for a GC, and wants to return to his country after a while. I actually have come across such colleagues, but they are rare. If a person wants his employer to apply for his GC, he'll at least be w/ them as long as it takes to get the GC.
Also, once one gets the GC, as you mentioned, he's as good as a citizen (just can't vote, or serve on a jury). If this process is speeded up, companies would actually have a lot less of an incentive to sponsor them, since instead of taking, say, 5 years, they would only have to be w/ the company for a year or less, making them a lot less attractive for a company to hire them in preference to local talent
I'm technically considered a Millennial, but I feel more Gen X than anything, 34 Years Old.
Millennial should be anybody born in 2000 or later, not someone born in the 90s. Already, they're starting to use the term 'Gen Z' for people born today, but no new term should even start being used until 10 years from now
Do these users pay for it? No. Red Hat makes money and reinvests in Linux. Red Hat matters most, Canonical matters second, SuSE matters least. All others are just freeloaders whose opinions and usage don't matter. Proof: SystemD.
How about Oracle? They are the richest of Linux players, even if they do that by rebranding Red Hat and then making sure that their distro works w/ their software
Granted that Red Hat recycles money in Linux, but a lot of projects have nothing to do w/ Red Hat - such as Calligra, LibreOffice, KDE, LX/QT, Videoshot, et al. Yeah, it would be good if those projects had a stable income stream, and not have to depend on donations. But they are at least as important: if they weren't around, people couldn't do much w/ just RHEL and the bash shell prompt in front of them
Also, speaking of systemd, one big aspect about that: Slackware, which has not embraced systemd, is the favorite.
I thought that sensitive stuff is automatically classified at birth. His email definitely! Besides, if his phone is well encrypted, he may well have been allowed to put classified stuff there, since that would be backed up on their private cloud.
No. If I go abroad, I'd take my own phone w/ me and use things like WhatsApp audio or video calling to contact family members (in addition to the normal text messaging on WhatsApp). Your company doesn't ask you to make your international calls on roaming, does it: they'd probably install a VOIP app on your phone like 8x8 or MagicJack and ask you to use that. Anywhere you'd travel for work, there'd probably be WiFi, and that can be used to run either app to make the calls.
I overlooked the cited portion, but you're right. When I get a work phone, I don't give family or friends that number. In this age of cellphones, where all of us have our own and carry it around, if Sasha needs to call me, she has my number
I can understand it some 20 years ago, when laptops and phones were expensive, and therefore employees used those for both work and personal use. These days, when just about everybody can afford both, there is little justification for putting the names of your friends or families on work equipment. From a personal POV, particularly since none of that data is private: the employer legally has access to it.
Yeah, I just don't get why JPL would be upset at another government department accessing their material. Since there's nothing criminal, and the CBP is not a foreign spy agency, what they should have done should have been to require the CBP to show authorization to access that level of secrecy
No, just copy all contents of the flash drives in the phone to something, and give it back to him. If they need to revisit that later for any reason, they have what they need
Wouldn't that depend on what it was slowed down to? Like if your plan is 40Mbps, and the terms are that when you reach 20GB, the speed falls to 20Mbps, it's still pretty good for the Uber/Lyft/Waze to run. So this 'slowdown' doesn't sound so major at all.
A corporate firewall would presumably have a whitelist of the hosts that won't be blocked. Better still, if it's all within a VPN, then even this shouldn't be needed
That's the point I was making. The presentation is supposed to be something that the viewer should grasp right away, if it's done well, and what the presenter is supposed to do is elaborate on what's shown. Like 'As you can see, the DS14 will be coming out in the 2nd quarter: engineering samples just started shipping last week'
Since Hindus don't have the practice of claiming victimhood status the way Muslims do, that approach won't work here. The reason it's haram to say things against Muslims/Islam is that since Communism ended, they are the most major anti-Western group out there that's opposed to everything traditionally Western, thereby attracting the support of the hard Left (despite the misogyny, homophobia, animal-cruelty and whole host of other things that would be considered toxic by traditional Liberals). No other group has that attitude - not Hindus, not Christians, not Jews, not Atheists, not Rastafarians, not Scientologists, not Buddhists, not Sikhs, not Taoists, not Jains, not Confucians, noone else!
If you want to end exploitation of H1B visa holders, it seems like the easiest step would be to let visa holders change employers without restarting the H1B process. This would reduce the exploitation factor, since employees could walk away from bad jobs. It wouldn't require guessing what a reasonable salary bound would be, but would let the market decide that, instead.
This is something they can do already. What can change is that if they are already in the process of getting a Green Card and switch jobs, then the process won't be reset. That way, they won't have to work under ugly working conditions, and can move to better jobs w/o slowing down their naturalization process
Yeah, this would be the magic bullet. Too bad for them that India is not a Muslim country, and that the bulk of Indian Muslims who emigrate go to Gulf countries, for good reason, rather than to Western countries
All these countries should go talent shopping to countries like Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, et al, so that all those Liberal activists who are on their case for hiring from India or Eastern Europe would be forced to prioritize b/w their Trump derangement vs the interests of US workers.
They can! It's called an H1B transfer. So if you have such a visa and are working for, say, Microsoft, and you want to move to Avanade, you can. It doesn't go against the national H1B cap since it's a visa that's already been issued. Which is why companies are more willing to do H1B transfers as opposed to a brand new H1B, which runs into those limits
The real issue in question is what was mentioned in the summary:
EB sponsorship renders the workers de facto indentured servants; though they have the right to move to another employer, they do not dare do so, as it would mean starting the lengthy green card process all over again.
So the issue workers have is not that an H1B can't be transferred, but rather, that if a worker changes companies, then the company he's quitting would obviously stop applying for his Green Card, and the process would be reset w/ the new company. Also consider the fact that few employers would apply for a Green Card immediately: they'd want the worker to be w/ them from 6 months to a year. So, in the above example, if Srinivas' I-140 has been approved and he decides to leave Microsoft and join Avanade, not only does he lose that I-140 approval and everything, he then loses that time it's taken him, PLUS the time Avanade would like to try him out before deciding whether to file his I-140. So that is what would keep him in that company at least until his Green Card is approved
Volcanoes are zits on Mother Earth's nipples. But they do let out more greenhouse gases than all human created machinery - from cars to planes to everything that emits carbon dioxide
The FreeBSD desktop is PC-BSD which recently got rebranded TrueOS. Regrettably, the latest versions are somehow buggy: I've simply been unable to update my system to that, w/o having it hang. I'd really like to install the 'Playonbsd' and on that, Steam, and get going.
Is Skype itself IPv6 capable? Everything I've seen seems to suggest 'No'
Big reason is that when an organization goes w/ an FOSS approach, the schedule of whether and when to upgrade is in their hands. With Microsoft, they were first forced out from XP to 7, and now from 7 to 10. A lot of organizations don't have the inclination to upgrade every other year just b'cos...
Besides, in this case, Munich had gone to Linux some years ago doing a complete exercise, from rolling out their own distro - Munix - to getting all their document systems to this. So their entire software infrastructure is already on this. Now, it could be that that leaves them unable to use things like Visio, or lose some of the previous Excel functionality that they had. But they need to assess how much (as a fraction) of their time and effort is spent on such Microsoft-only approaches, vs working on things like a LibreOffice document, or being online on Chrome.
Your argument would make sense if they were already on Windows and considering whether to go Linux. Or maybe even if they had no computing platform and were determining which one to adapt. But it doesn't in this case where Linux is already there, and the move is to migrate to Windows
I've seen this: some high-powered MS rep chats up a boss, and *presto*:
MS is great We've got to migrate
Put that to whatever jingle you want. Also: inspect bank accounts and campaign funds.
Note also that the study supporting the move back to WIndows was carried out by Accenture (some of us know them better by their old name, Andersen Consulting). Accenture was Microsoft's Alliance Partner of the Year in 2016, so I'm sure that they have a neutral, objective reason for recommending Microsoft software.
Second point first: Accenture spun of a separate company 'Avanade', which partners w/ Microsoft and works w/ clients that are heavily into Microsoft solutions, as opposed to Oracle or SAP or anything else.
But I agree w/ your first point. Many years ago, had someone suggested migrating back from an FOSS solution to a Windows 7 based solution, it would have made sense, since the legacy support was still there. But that's no longer true about Windows 10. The only reason Windows 10 would make sense is if an organization already had plenty of legacy stuff on things like SharePoint, Exchange and the like. But if a company had not been using it, there would be no good reason to migrate to Windows 10.
The Minux approach was a document centric approach that they did, and by now, it should have sunk well into their infrastructure. What's more - since it's their own rolled distro, they would have had the option of keeping the OS untouched, except maybe for security updates. So migrating doesn't make sense at all. In fact, I have no idea whether Munich was using this system mainly as a document processing platform or maintaining databases as well, but even for the latter, there's enough stuff out there from MariaSQL to others.
Not due to bullet points, but rather the fact that the best of presentations are supposed to be visuals - using pictures, graphs and diagrams wherever conceivably possible.
Yeah, Scott McNealy did this when he ran Sun - wrote on mylar sheets w/ markers
I believe that this was done before Ubuntu went w/ Unity and later Mir. So while it may have been Ubuntu based, that would have simply meant a user friendly version of Debian.