Set the minimum salary for an H1B visa holder at $150,000/yr and watch this problem solve itself. Have the salary requirement increase annually based on CPI.
H1B visas were supposed to be for highly skilled workers when talent is available locally.
We all know the H1B program is simply to drive down the cost of IT labor.
Give me one topic where he actually empathizes with us, the unwashed masses?
Encryption - the people can't be trusted. Guns - the people can't be trusted. Drugs - the people can't be trusted. Encryption - the people can't be trusted. Healthcare - the people can't be trusted.
This guy thinks he knows better than all of us - that we are too stupid to perform risk/benefit analysis in our daily lives.
I believed all the BS - transparent government, fix healthcare, reasonable restrictions on guns, privacy rights.
The Obama administration has been terrible for freedom and liberty. At every turn, the Obama administration has traded freedoms for, well frankly - not much.
We are forced to buy healthcare insurance - but the system is as broken as it's ever been.
The redacted documents released from this administration have been almost laughable with almost entire documents blacked out.
Guns - don't even get me started. Minorities appear to be more threatened by law-enforcement held guns than personally owned firearms.
Now we are expected to believe that if we just give up our right to privacy via strong encryption - we will be secure - because the FBI says so.
Our other school has a 300Mbps symmetric FIOS connection with static IP for $289/month. I could have 500Mbps if I wanted it for a couple hundred more a month, but we simply don't need that much bandwidth.
Why can't Comcast get anywhere near that for a similar price?
The reason is that, in many areas, Comcast is a monopoly and they see no reason to upgrade their plant. Lack of competition is hurting the advancement of broadband in this country.
Additional background checks are unlikely to put a dent in that number as suicidal people use legally bought and lawfully owned firearms to do the deed.
I know a few young people who have bailed out of the health insurance system entirely. They simply can not afford the premiums - even with the subsidies.
So they go without insurance at all.
Guess what happens to them this April? That's right - they will have to pay a tax penalty. The people falling into this pit are primarily young, low-income earners.
Exactly who the Democrats need to vote if their candidate is going to win.
Anyone who actually pays the bill for their healthcare is reporting the same thing - higher premiums and even higher deductibles. Our company has multiple insurance brokers competing for our healthcare policies - every single one, every year, has come back with significant cost increases.
This issue is going to hurt the Democrats during this election cycle. They pushed for the ACA, and told everyone that it would control costs and increase coverage. They can't blame Republicans for this as not a single Republican voted for this mess.
I've made quite a living over the past 20 years fixing networks built around windows, so I'm grateful to Microsoft for making a product that needs constant hand-holding.
But it's 2016 - apart from games, why is anyone using windows?
Sure, 15 years ago, Windows was the cheapest, easiest option - and lots of software required windows. Today, lots of stuff runs in the cloud, Chromebooks are easy and cheap, mobile devices are very powerful - even a $600 mac mini is bordering on affordable.
My best guess is that all these people running windows are simply doing so out of inertia. Is putting up with the headaches of windows really easier than learning something else?
"delivered on a campaign promise to deliver affordable health care to everyone"
After my last company meeting on healthcare benefits, 6 years into the affordable care act, I can say for certain that "affordable" healthcare has not been delivered to "everyone".
Every single person I know is paying significantly more for healthcare than they were 6 years ago. Even worse, many are paying for plans with such high deductibles, that their so-called health insurance is never used.
The ACA did absolutely nothing to contain cost increases that have been outstripping inflation and wages by many many times. At best the ACA can be credited with bringing catastrophic coverage to some folks who never had any coverage at all - at a significant cost to everyone else.
The ACA needs to be put in the trash and replaced with something that actually controls cost increases.
Companies will simply setup shop in encryption friendly countries and host your encrypted data for you. Now these governments are in an even worse scenario.
The data is not only encrypted, but it is also located in another jurisdiction.
I suspect, if autonomous cars really do eliminate driver error as a cause of accidents, insurance companies will respond.
You want to drive a non-autonomous car? Fine - go right ahead, but your increased risk relative to your autonomous auto peers means your auto insurance will cost $5000 a year.
Rich people already move money around the globe by buying and selling precious stones. I know guys who take their wives on vacation while wearing $100,000 worth of jewelry. When they get to their destination, they sell the jewelry and leave the cash in that country.
This vehicle has an electronic gear selector. You move a lever forward or backward to select the gear.
There is a large display on the instrument cluster that tells you what gear you are in.
We've had this vehicle for 3 years with no issue. It took my wife and I approximately 1 trip to become comfortable with the new selector.
There is no problem with this design - drivers simply need to pay more attention to the act of driving instead of the million other things drivers do when they are behind the wheel.
"essential government services that benefit society"
That the government has no constitutional mandate to provide.
Federal government needs to be shrunk down to it's constitutional role as "protector" and any other service that it qualifies as "provider" is not constitutionally mandated and therefore should be remanded to the states.
If you don't like living under a government bound by our constitution, then I suggest you move elsewhere.
This stuff is the crap leftover from the Linksys acquisition. I would be willing to bet none of their SMB products share much code with their big business stuff (ASA, Catalyst, and their real routers based on IOS).
If you've ever called tech support for their "pro" stuff - you get some pretty awesome people usually based in the US. Last time I called their SMB support teams I got a guy in Bulgaria (in his defense he did quickly recognize that my defective hardware needed to be replaced).
This type of flaw is probably not a systemic problem with Cisco's other products.
In an ideal market, people would be free to move around and seek work where ever the wages and opportunity are right. In our real world, moving from country to country to work is limited by governments that want to protect their borders and labor pool.
Try getting a visa to work in China or Brazil. Those countries do not readily allow foreigners to work "their" jobs.
A government visa program designed to artificially increase a pool of workers is the exact opposite of a free market.
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Apple seems to be stuck in a rut - the products are all very similar in functionality. Form factor seems to be the only significant difference.
They are a bit like the auto industry at this point.
Set the minimum salary for an H1B visa holder at $150,000/yr and watch this problem solve itself. Have the salary requirement increase annually based on CPI.
H1B visas were supposed to be for highly skilled workers when talent is available locally.
We all know the H1B program is simply to drive down the cost of IT labor.
Trump - are you listening?
Give me one topic where he actually empathizes with us, the unwashed masses?
Encryption - the people can't be trusted.
Guns - the people can't be trusted.
Drugs - the people can't be trusted.
Encryption - the people can't be trusted.
Healthcare - the people can't be trusted.
This guy thinks he knows better than all of us - that we are too stupid to perform risk/benefit analysis in our daily lives.
This administration can't end soon enough.
I believed all the BS - transparent government, fix healthcare, reasonable restrictions on guns, privacy rights.
The Obama administration has been terrible for freedom and liberty. At every turn, the Obama administration has traded freedoms for, well frankly - not much.
We are forced to buy healthcare insurance - but the system is as broken as it's ever been.
The redacted documents released from this administration have been almost laughable with almost entire documents blacked out.
Guns - don't even get me started. Minorities appear to be more threatened by law-enforcement held guns than personally owned firearms.
Now we are expected to believe that if we just give up our right to privacy via strong encryption - we will be secure - because the FBI says so.
Sorry - I don't believe that for a minute.
Our other school has a 300Mbps symmetric FIOS connection with static IP for $289/month. I could have 500Mbps if I wanted it for a couple hundred more a month, but we simply don't need that much bandwidth.
Why can't Comcast get anywhere near that for a similar price?
The reason is that, in many areas, Comcast is a monopoly and they see no reason to upgrade their plant. Lack of competition is hurting the advancement of broadband in this country.
I can't find any documentation on the upstream speed.
One of our Princeton schools has 100Mbps cable modem service, with a paltry 20Mbps upstream. This is crap for many reasons.
When I asked about getting more upstream speed, they said for only $1000/month I could have 50Mbps upstream with their metro ethernet service.
Comcast sucks.
Background checks won't reduce gun deaths by a dramatic amount as criminals do not get their guns from legal sources:
https://d3uwh8jpzww49g.cloudfr...
About 60% of the gun deaths in the US are suicides:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10...
Additional background checks are unlikely to put a dent in that number as suicidal people use legally bought and lawfully owned firearms to do the deed.
I know a few young people who have bailed out of the health insurance system entirely. They simply can not afford the premiums - even with the subsidies.
So they go without insurance at all.
Guess what happens to them this April? That's right - they will have to pay a tax penalty. The people falling into this pit are primarily young, low-income earners.
Exactly who the Democrats need to vote if their candidate is going to win.
This is going to be a massive problem for them.
Rising health care premiums:
http://www.politico.com/story/...
Anyone who actually pays the bill for their healthcare is reporting the same thing - higher premiums and even higher deductibles. Our company has multiple insurance brokers competing for our healthcare policies - every single one, every year, has come back with significant cost increases.
This issue is going to hurt the Democrats during this election cycle. They pushed for the ACA, and told everyone that it would control costs and increase coverage. They can't blame Republicans for this as not a single Republican voted for this mess.
I've made quite a living over the past 20 years fixing networks built around windows, so I'm grateful to Microsoft for making a product that needs constant hand-holding.
But it's 2016 - apart from games, why is anyone using windows?
Sure, 15 years ago, Windows was the cheapest, easiest option - and lots of software required windows. Today, lots of stuff runs in the cloud, Chromebooks are easy and cheap, mobile devices are very powerful - even a $600 mac mini is bordering on affordable.
My best guess is that all these people running windows are simply doing so out of inertia. Is putting up with the headaches of windows really easier than learning something else?
"delivered on a campaign promise to deliver affordable health care to everyone"
After my last company meeting on healthcare benefits, 6 years into the affordable care act, I can say for certain that "affordable" healthcare has not been delivered to "everyone".
Every single person I know is paying significantly more for healthcare than they were 6 years ago. Even worse, many are paying for plans with such high deductibles, that their so-called health insurance is never used.
The ACA did absolutely nothing to contain cost increases that have been outstripping inflation and wages by many many times. At best the ACA can be credited with bringing catastrophic coverage to some folks who never had any coverage at all - at a significant cost to everyone else.
The ACA needs to be put in the trash and replaced with something that actually controls cost increases.
Companies will simply setup shop in encryption friendly countries and host your encrypted data for you. Now these governments are in an even worse scenario.
The data is not only encrypted, but it is also located in another jurisdiction.
It's nice to know that stupidity is not exclusive to the US government.
Absolutely nothing will stop 3rd parties from developing their own encryption software layer.
What's next? Will Governments attempt to outlaw mathematics?
Two words: Insurance Rates
I suspect, if autonomous cars really do eliminate driver error as a cause of accidents, insurance companies will respond.
You want to drive a non-autonomous car? Fine - go right ahead, but your increased risk relative to your autonomous auto peers means your auto insurance will cost $5000 a year.
I say we let the free market sort this out.
I read a while back that a surgeon accidentally got cancer from one of his surgical patients:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...
So, it appears that cancer can move between hosts in a mechanical fashion.
Rich people already move money around the globe by buying and selling precious stones. I know guys who take their wives on vacation while wearing $100,000 worth of jewelry. When they get to their destination, they sell the jewelry and leave the cash in that country.
Why wouldn't terrorists do the same thing?
1. The Paris terrorists didn't use crypto.
2. Nothing is stopping terrorists from developing their own crypto and keeping their keys private.
I'm willing to bet that these were windows machines - and probably woefully out of date.
I wonder just how many hospitals are still running windows XP or some other relic thinking it will save them money.
Maybe the California Department of Health needs to start auditing hospital networks?
This vehicle has an electronic gear selector. You move a lever forward or backward to select the gear.
There is a large display on the instrument cluster that tells you what gear you are in.
We've had this vehicle for 3 years with no issue. It took my wife and I approximately 1 trip to become comfortable with the new selector.
There is no problem with this design - drivers simply need to pay more attention to the act of driving instead of the million other things drivers do when they are behind the wheel.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Intel figured out that high clock speeds bring all kinds of other problems like clock propagation delays across the chip and high power consumption.
The mobile computing revolution simply did not warrant that kind of clock speed - so here we are at around 4GHz.
"essential government services that benefit society"
That the government has no constitutional mandate to provide.
Federal government needs to be shrunk down to it's constitutional role as "protector" and any other service that it qualifies as "provider" is not constitutionally mandated and therefore should be remanded to the states.
If you don't like living under a government bound by our constitution, then I suggest you move elsewhere.
and they're going to leave everyone alone!
This stuff is the crap leftover from the Linksys acquisition. I would be willing to bet none of their SMB products share much code with their big business stuff (ASA, Catalyst, and their real routers based on IOS).
If you've ever called tech support for their "pro" stuff - you get some pretty awesome people usually based in the US. Last time I called their SMB support teams I got a guy in Bulgaria (in his defense he did quickly recognize that my defective hardware needed to be replaced).
This type of flaw is probably not a systemic problem with Cisco's other products.
Apart from a pure android experience, the only reason to buy a Nexus device is timely updates with long-term support.
Handset vendors and mobile network operators have very little reason to provide such software support - and it hurts the quality of the experience.
An in-house Nexus line is only one step to fixing the larger problem of fragmentation in the marketplace.
In an ideal market, people would be free to move around and seek work where ever the wages and opportunity are right. In our real world, moving from country to country to work is limited by governments that want to protect their borders and labor pool.
Try getting a visa to work in China or Brazil. Those countries do not readily allow foreigners to work "their" jobs.
A government visa program designed to artificially increase a pool of workers is the exact opposite of a free market.