Why don't we just allow them to get exemptions for anyone they have that qualifies as a truly highly skilled employee that they can't get locally and be done with it? Personally I feel there wouldn't be that many and this is actually about cheap labor.
The fair way to handle ir is for each such prosoect to apply for a standard immigrant visa. The company would then offer sponsorship support, which helps a lot. That's how my father did it years ago when he worked DOD contracts.
Today, 'refugees' are ululating for special exemptions from the vetting process. So are the corporate biggies who want cheap peons.
There is a lot of commonality in learning natural and programming languages, though. I learned by first foreign language when I was 8 and my family lived in a French-speaking corner of our continent. I took up Russian as a college language because I thought it would be useful in the hard sciences (no major yet) and at the same time Fortran so I could work physics problems on the campus mainframe. That got me hooked on computers as a field, and learning several coding languages of academic interest, like Lisp.
PL/I led me into the commercial world, and having to learn Japanese on the fly so I could consult in that country and be able to read the documentation, and then German so I could communicate with a girlfriend I met as part of the expatriate community. Then after returning Stateside I discovered Unix and worked my way through C, C++ and C#, and because by then I was in Arizona, Spanish. Currently I'm studying Swift.
"Just after I moved here sixteen years ago, a local paper published a story about a study that said Seattle was the most asexual large city in the world."
Seattle should have more sex, because you can't get Internet porn.
I agree. Eating in public comes from a position of privilege. It's no surprise that restaurants are usually filled with white people whose access should be limited. Restaurant patrons should be AT LEAST 25% black, 10% lesbian, 48.5% Eskimo. The whites can have what's left.
You don't have a Church's Chicken in your neighborhood, do you?
There is an odd but persistent correlation between mathematics and insanity. A prison math program could convert an ordinary robber into a crazed serial killer who becomes a political hero to other wackjobs: https://www.google.com/search?...
But....but...but doesn't the NSA have infinite powers to surveil the Internet without us even being aware of it?
In any case, we keep being told that those no-go neighborhoods don't exist. The refugee communities in Paris, Malmö and Calais will gladly throw open their doors to any authority needing to look into what they might be doing on the Internet, won't they?
Can a new administration with no concern for political correctness finally turn the NSA loose on finding ransomware perpetrators? Since we in here have decided that their Internet surveillance efforts are omnipotent, they should be able to trace a surveilled Bitcoin payment back to them. Then we hire local talent for "wet work" in killing them off in some eye-catching manner, dissuading others from entering the business.
A logical first application for this tech would be light, high-value local freight. Imagine delivering deli and fresh seafood to the roofs of restaurants, delivering medical supplies to hospitals, electronics tech and components to businesses, and legal documents to courthouses. Such a delivery network could fan out from big-city airports.
After a few years of safe operation, high end passengers will start volunteering for rides, replacing expensive services like this one: https://www.newyorkhelicopter....
"They're early tech adopters, and this was certainly tech and not a steampunk, wind-up sort of watch."
The steampunk watches appeal to the watch hipster market. They are vinyl records for your arm.
Apple Watch is currently a terminal for your iPhone, bringing out one selected compact set of data the wearer feels the need to view all the time. It could be fitness data, stock quotes, or GPS information. The killer app for it will be capture of medical data once the new administration makes it possible for Apple to compete with the healthcare monopoly in implementing such devices.
On OS X, the built-in Xprotect is the only antivirus you need. Watch for 'social engineering' malware installs ("the email I clicked on looked just like it was from the bank, so I entered my machine password when it asked me to") and browser redirects.
Nice Fanboi flamebait post. Beau, did MicroShaft PAY you to put this up?
I can back this up based on my end-user servicing experience, and I'm not even a Microsoft fan. Recent versions of Windows before 10 are better protected with Microsoft Security Essentials (free from MS) plus periodic manual scans with MalwareBytes Free than the bloated antivirus scanners that bog down PCs for the first hour after every reboot. In Windows 10, the antivirus is finally built in once again, so long as you enable Windows Defender.
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Why don't we just allow them to get exemptions for anyone they have that qualifies as a truly highly skilled employee that they can't get locally and be done with it? Personally I feel there wouldn't be that many and this is actually about cheap labor.
The fair way to handle ir is for each such prosoect to apply for a standard immigrant visa. The company would then offer sponsorship support, which helps a lot. That's how my father did it years ago when he worked DOD contracts.
Today, 'refugees' are ululating for special exemptions from the vetting process. So are the corporate biggies who want cheap peons.
There is a lot of commonality in learning natural and programming languages, though. I learned by first foreign language when I was 8 and my family lived in a French-speaking corner of our continent. I took up Russian as a college language because I thought it would be useful in the hard sciences (no major yet) and at the same time Fortran so I could work physics problems on the campus mainframe. That got me hooked on computers as a field, and learning several coding languages of academic interest, like Lisp.
PL/I led me into the commercial world, and having to learn Japanese on the fly so I could consult in that country and be able to read the documentation, and then German so I could communicate with a girlfriend I met as part of the expatriate community. Then after returning Stateside I discovered Unix and worked my way through C, C++ and C#, and because by then I was in Arizona, Spanish. Currently I'm studying Swift.
And no, you hyenas, it wasn't Mary Shelley.
Just get the local internet providers to support IPv6.
"Just after I moved here sixteen years ago, a local paper published a story about a study that said Seattle was the most asexual large city in the world."
Seattle should have more sex, because you can't get Internet porn.
"The lack of women in SF ultimately does not matter."
My first really good relationship was a woman who wrote SF.
Because that's common knowledge among those who are not AC trolls. We can also spell Thiel.
In Japan, slurping is the polite way to indicate that you like the food.
I agree. Eating in public comes from a position of privilege. It's no surprise that restaurants are usually filled with white people whose access should be limited. Restaurant patrons should be AT LEAST 25% black, 10% lesbian, 48.5% Eskimo. The whites can have what's left.
You don't have a Church's Chicken in your neighborhood, do you?
This site is so pro-Trump it isn't even funny. You need some real editors that are impartial and don't have an agenda to push.
Gee, that must by why Slashdot has this one editor who relentlessly promotes coal. Whenever a story mentions coal in any way, he posts it.
There is an odd but persistent correlation between mathematics and insanity. A prison math program could convert an ordinary robber into a crazed serial killer who becomes a political hero to other wackjobs: https://www.google.com/search?...
But....but...but doesn't the NSA have infinite powers to surveil the Internet without us even being aware of it?
In any case, we keep being told that those no-go neighborhoods don't exist. The refugee communities in Paris, Malmö and Calais will gladly throw open their doors to any authority needing to look into what they might be doing on the Internet, won't they?
Can a new administration with no concern for political correctness finally turn the NSA loose on finding ransomware perpetrators? Since we in here have decided that their Internet surveillance efforts are omnipotent, they should be able to trace a surveilled Bitcoin payment back to them. Then we hire local talent for "wet work" in killing them off in some eye-catching manner, dissuading others from entering the business.
"...build zero emission nuclear plants to replace dirty coal plants..."
If we really wanted to screw the Green left, we would accept the carbon warming hypothesis in full so we could resume doing exactly this.
Melting of Arctic sea ice is already causing an increase in precipitation in the region:
https://www.dartmouth.edu/pres...
" Venice DOES seem to have major problems with flooding, something that will be very expensive to fix"
Mainly because Venice is sinking:
http://www.livescience.com/191...
A logical first application for this tech would be light, high-value local freight. Imagine delivering deli and fresh seafood to the roofs of restaurants, delivering medical supplies to hospitals, electronics tech and components to businesses, and legal documents to courthouses. Such a delivery network could fan out from big-city airports.
After a few years of safe operation, high end passengers will start volunteering for rides, replacing expensive services like this one:
https://www.newyorkhelicopter....
No, the new Olympic medals will be Rose Gold, Silver, and Space Gray.
"They're early tech adopters, and this was certainly tech and not a steampunk, wind-up sort of watch."
The steampunk watches appeal to the watch hipster market. They are vinyl records for your arm.
Apple Watch is currently a terminal for your iPhone, bringing out one selected compact set of data the wearer feels the need to view all the time. It could be fitness data, stock quotes, or GPS information. The killer app for it will be capture of medical data once the new administration makes it possible for Apple to compete with the healthcare monopoly in implementing such devices.
"Well, did you see the ComputerWorld artilce copied in TFS? Because it says Apple did say that."
The warning is in an iOS beta, not the current release version.
On OS X, the built-in Xprotect is the only antivirus you need. Watch for 'social engineering' malware installs ("the email I clicked on looked just like it was from the bank, so I entered my machine password when it asked me to") and browser redirects.
Nice Fanboi flamebait post. Beau, did MicroShaft PAY you to put this up?
I can back this up based on my end-user servicing experience, and I'm not even a Microsoft fan. Recent versions of Windows before 10 are better protected with Microsoft Security Essentials (free from MS) plus periodic manual scans with MalwareBytes Free than the bloated antivirus scanners that bog down PCs for the first hour after every reboot. In Windows 10, the antivirus is finally built in once again, so long as you enable Windows Defender.
If you have not successfully tested a restore and you do not have a completely offline copy, you do not have a backup.
Especially now that ransomware is overwriting online backups.
Including that purist-hated trash can/recycle bin.
Moral: the command line is too powerful for puny humans who might not be totally attentive to every character being entered at all times.