The abstracts are available. You can find who wrote it. If I need a paper I email one of the authors and they send it. People email me asking for papers I wrote.
Why the need for tweeting?
Methinks the author might possibly have something else to do besides answering requests for papers all day.
Ugh. Academic research, paid for by a grant, needs to be peer reviewed (author pays for this) and published (pay again) and is then inaccessible to non-subscribers, unless you can find a library wealthy enough to have a subscription, which may still deny you access if you're not a member of the community they serve.
Here we are in the 21st century, with gigabits flowing freely through the Intertubes, and the dissemination of scientific articles is stuck in the mid-20th century, and sinking fast (costs going up, number of library subscriptions decreasing) and Elsevier trying to gain control of as many journals as possible.
Anyone else see a problem with this? A major overhaul seems way past due.
I don't need to "site" sources. Go do a Google Search. His dad is a well known Sudan politician and activist. His Dad is friends with the Sudanese leader who is a mass murderer. The entire thing was a setup and this kid was used. His sister was used for the same purpose.
Interesting, then, that he chose to go to Qatar, instead of to Sudan.
I think he's quite clever. Trading a little up front discomfort for paying off $22k of student loans in 10 months? Sounds pretty smart to me. Hes sacrificing less than a year of his life.
The phone number requirement when signing up for email is very annoying, but it's not there because Yahoo or whoever wants your phone number. It's there to stop abuse. It's much more work to get a new, working phone number than it is to create another email account. This is after pressure from people who have been harassed and sites getting put on spam block lists etc.
Easily resolved: I use my work phone number. Or make one up. The alleged use for it is to help you get back in to your email account if you forget your password or something. Since the email account is free, I'll just start another.
Specifically: I use Google and Gmail. I have *never* received spam emails related to searches I've done on Google. And I do a *lot* of Google searches.
All there needs to be is, as many other states do, laws in place demonstrating that there is no one qualified domestically for the job before you can get an H1B.
For whatever reason, the US doesn't have or enforce these laws in most circumstances. We need to protect our work force in sane ways that still preserve the incentive to work hard, perform, innovate, and compete for advancement based on merit.
I've seen this in action. They do the required search for qualified US applicants. If you don't know #### (insert highly specific tool, language and experience requirements here), you're not a qualified US candidate. However, if you *claim* to have graduated from University of East Farkistan with a PhD in #### (highly specific tool, language and experience), then "come on over"! And, by the way, we'll pay you 80% of what we would have had to pay a US candidate.
What we need are rule in place that if you are applying for H1B Visa workers, you have to prove you have done qualified job search for the positions and found NO workers to fill them. Make the Corporations prove they actually need the workers before issuing a single H1B visa. Right now, they just say it, and it is so.
The problem isn't H1B visas, the problem is that we have record unemployment and are still importing workers from outside to take the jobs of those workers still trying to earn a living.
The rules are in place. The problem is, they're given lip service by the corporations and Immigration. Basically, because Microsoft, Apple, Cisco and the heavy hitters all want more H1-B workers, the government says, "sure, whatever you want" and rolls over, because...American competitiveness, or some such reason. The government has no reason to enforce the rules, and politicians have every reason not to encourage enforcement.
No elected official wants to be the one to yell that the Emperor has no clothes, as it were. If they do, then the corps will all outsource work to China or India and, along with no jobs, there'll be no tax collection either.
I have no problem at all with bringing in people from foreign countries, AS LONG AS THEY INTEND TO STAY HERE and become citizens. However, that would involve paying them a living wage, and that's clearly not what's going on here. H1-B is all about decreasing labor costs. Maybe it wasn't at the beginning, but that's what it's been about for the past 20+ years.
POTUS already knows about this, and has invited Ahmed to bring his clock to the White House.
Perhaps he'll also write "WTF were you thinking" letters to the chief of the Irving PD, and to the principal of the school.// JADE HELM is over, but Texans still finding ways to look stupid
Unfortunately, a lot of the stupid seem to have involved themselves in education.
and the police department. Not everything with wires is a bomb. As a matter of fact, ost things with wires aren't bombs. Honestly, does no one use any common sense any more? Is the "reasonable" reaction to arrest and charge?
I hope he gets a good lawyer and the police and school get sued. The kid never mentioned explosives, all that came from the fertile minds of the administration and the police.
Ahh the good old "Linux is so great it breathes new life into old computers" circle jerk. Linux bloats up with wobbly windows and the like. Then 6 months later you're left with an old obsolete OS, and have to upgrade to the latest version of oooooobuntu Horny Hardon to get systemd, unity, and the latest attempt at pulse audio or whatever re-implementing a basic audio API, and completely broken Wifi drivers.
Funny, I've been running Linux (Mint and Ubuntu) on old hardware for years and have never had the problems you claim.
Mint, especially, seems to run well on older hardware and if it's really old, XFCE does the trick.
XP, OTOH, is so full of security holes, running it on the Internet is always more of a risk than running any version of Linux.
my 2001 crown victoria police interceptor has been modified slightly to emit a protective haze of burnt oil to stealthfully evade hackers. Whats more, the suspension has been recalibrated to bob and duck at the slightest bump, and shake violently at speeds above 40 miles per hour in an attempt to elude hackers signals. Finally, I use crippling student debt technology to ensure that flipping on my dome light and barking orders to OnStar does virtually nothing to the vehicle. For added protection, you can put the car into 'stealth mode' if you have an arts degree by avoiding oil changes and fuel in exchange for more ramen this month.
Designate several students as tech support for extra credit. Best way to learn is by doing (For some folks). Show the 'support' kids. Let them get the other kids up and running.
Absolutely. The kids probably know more than OP, or will shortly.
Nothing wrong with a Goodwill computer. Heck, down at the town dump, you can probably get two for free and make one working one out of them. The idea is not to get caught in the middle, with a stockroom full on non-functional donated computers. Get the kids to act as clearinghouse for old computers.
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Train a Trop Grande Vitesse
I thought the reason we were forced to resort to H1B workers was because we didn't have enough qualified applicants.
Oh...just NO.
Imagine all the people you went to college with.
Now, imagine them all "fermented" and set in their ways.
Now, imagine having to live with them.
This must be what Hell is like.
But then the elected officials who voted to approve the projects wouldn't get cushy jobs when they left office...
Is there ANY government IT project that has been completed on time, under budget and exceeds specifications?
The same week you inform me that I need to pay $10 if I exceed 250GB of data, I will be canceling my account with you and switching to FIOS.
That is all.
Damn near WAS all...thank $DEITY CPT Bassett had a good head on his shoulders.
The abstracts are available. You can find who wrote it. If I need a paper I email one of the authors and they send it.
People email me asking for papers I wrote.
Why the need for tweeting?
Methinks the author might possibly have something else to do besides answering requests for papers all day.
Ugh. Academic research, paid for by a grant, needs to be peer reviewed (author pays for this) and published (pay again) and is then inaccessible to non-subscribers, unless you can find a library wealthy enough to have a subscription, which may still deny you access if you're not a member of the community they serve.
Here we are in the 21st century, with gigabits flowing freely through the Intertubes, and the dissemination of scientific articles is stuck in the mid-20th century, and sinking fast (costs going up, number of library subscriptions decreasing) and Elsevier trying to gain control of as many journals as possible.
Anyone else see a problem with this? A major overhaul seems way past due.
I don't need to "site" sources. Go do a Google Search. His dad is a well known Sudan politician and activist. His Dad is friends with the Sudanese leader who is a mass murderer. The entire thing was a setup and this kid was used. His sister was used for the same purpose.
Interesting, then, that he chose to go to Qatar, instead of to Sudan.
And the data rate was...9600 bits per second, over the air.
I think he's quite clever. Trading a little up front discomfort for paying off $22k of student loans in 10 months? Sounds pretty smart to me. Hes sacrificing less than a year of his life.
The phone number requirement when signing up for email is very annoying, but it's not there because Yahoo or whoever wants your phone number. It's there to stop abuse. It's much more work to get a new, working phone number than it is to create another email account. This is after pressure from people who have been harassed and sites getting put on spam block lists etc.
Easily resolved: I use my work phone number. Or make one up. The alleged use for it is to help you get back in to your email account if you forget your password or something. Since the email account is free, I'll just start another.
I have a facebook page too - it's not real but I have one.
I have three.
There's very little accurate information on any of them.
Specifically: I use Google and Gmail. I have *never* received spam emails related to searches I've done on Google. And I do a *lot* of Google searches.
Maybe they're planning to collect?
All there needs to be is, as many other states do, laws in place demonstrating that there is no one qualified domestically for the job before you can get an H1B.
For whatever reason, the US doesn't have or enforce these laws in most circumstances. We need to protect our work force in sane ways that still preserve the incentive to work hard, perform, innovate, and compete for advancement based on merit.
I've seen this in action. They do the required search for qualified US applicants. If you don't know #### (insert highly specific tool, language and experience requirements here), you're not a qualified US candidate. However, if you *claim* to have graduated from University of East Farkistan with a PhD in #### (highly specific tool, language and experience), then "come on over"! And, by the way, we'll pay you 80% of what we would have had to pay a US candidate.
And you'll be writing crap PHP code or something.
What we need are rule in place that if you are applying for H1B Visa workers, you have to prove you have done qualified job search for the positions and found NO workers to fill them. Make the Corporations prove they actually need the workers before issuing a single H1B visa. Right now, they just say it, and it is so.
The problem isn't H1B visas, the problem is that we have record unemployment and are still importing workers from outside to take the jobs of those workers still trying to earn a living.
The rules are in place. The problem is, they're given lip service by the corporations and Immigration. Basically, because Microsoft, Apple, Cisco and the heavy hitters all want more H1-B workers, the government says, "sure, whatever you want" and rolls over, because...American competitiveness, or some such reason.
The government has no reason to enforce the rules, and politicians have every reason not to encourage enforcement.
No elected official wants to be the one to yell that the Emperor has no clothes, as it were. If they do, then the corps will all outsource work to China or India and, along with no jobs, there'll be no tax collection either.
I have no problem at all with bringing in people from foreign countries, AS LONG AS THEY INTEND TO STAY HERE and become citizens. However, that would involve paying them a living wage, and that's clearly not what's going on here. H1-B is all about decreasing labor costs. Maybe it wasn't at the beginning, but that's what it's been about for the past 20+ years.
POTUS already knows about this, and has invited Ahmed to bring his clock to the White House.
Perhaps he'll also write "WTF were you thinking" letters to the chief of the Irving PD, and to the principal of the school. // JADE HELM is over, but Texans still finding ways to look stupid
Unfortunately, a lot of the stupid seem to have involved themselves in education.
and the police department.
Not everything with wires is a bomb. As a matter of fact, ost things with wires aren't bombs.
Honestly, does no one use any common sense any more? Is the "reasonable" reaction to arrest and charge?
I hope he gets a good lawyer and the police and school get sued. The kid never mentioned explosives, all that came from the fertile minds of the administration and the police.
Ahh the good old "Linux is so great it breathes new life into old computers" circle jerk. Linux bloats up with wobbly windows and the like. Then 6 months later you're left with an old obsolete OS, and have to upgrade to the latest version of oooooobuntu Horny Hardon to get systemd, unity, and the latest attempt at pulse audio or whatever re-implementing a basic audio API, and completely broken Wifi drivers.
Funny, I've been running Linux (Mint and Ubuntu) on old hardware for years and have never had the problems you claim.
Mint, especially, seems to run well on older hardware and if it's really old, XFCE does the trick.
XP, OTOH, is so full of security holes, running it on the Internet is always more of a risk than running any version of Linux.
my 2001 crown victoria police interceptor has been modified slightly to emit a protective haze of burnt oil to stealthfully evade hackers. Whats more, the suspension has been recalibrated to bob and duck at the slightest bump, and shake violently at speeds above 40 miles per hour in an attempt to elude hackers signals. Finally, I use crippling student debt technology to ensure that flipping on my dome light and barking orders to OnStar does virtually nothing to the vehicle. For added protection, you can put the car into 'stealth mode' if you have an arts degree by avoiding oil changes and fuel in exchange for more ramen this month.
Does the cigarette lighter work?
Designate several students as tech support for extra credit. Best way to learn is by doing (For some folks). Show the 'support' kids. Let them get the other kids up and running.
Absolutely. The kids probably know more than OP, or will shortly.
Nothing wrong with a Goodwill computer. Heck, down at the town dump, you can probably get two for free and make one working one out of them.
The idea is not to get caught in the middle, with a stockroom full on non-functional donated computers. Get the kids to act as clearinghouse for
old computers.
Run Linux on it.
Exchange (or Fully Compatible Linux App)
MS Project (or FCLA)
Adobe Lightroom Pro
Starry Night
iTunes