So you're kicking out talented and resourceful people so that you can keep some fat lazy Americans in work?
Yes, that sounds like the best way possible to prepare for bouncing back after the recession.
Oh... I guess stereotyping never works well, yet the H1B are mainly high-skilled workers. Sending them back home only gives their home country, or what ever country they decide to relocate to, an invaluable resource.
So you're kicking out talented and resourceful people so that you can keep some fat lazy Americans in work?
That's rather an ignorant and bigoted remark. If the reverse were true, if it were U.S. workers who were displacing talented and capable people in your country (maybe costing you your job) why, I'll bet a hundred U.S. dollars worth of your local currency that you'd be just as upset as we are. Grow up, acquire some empathy, and try looking at this from our perspective. You might learn something.
If not, you're just another dick who, no matter your talents and/or skills, are of no value to us. What a lot of people just don't understand is that there's more to a worker, to a human being, than his skill set. What makes a man or a woman a good citizen is not solely a matter of how they make their living. Honestly, when I see how many of you H1B's look down on Americans (like you do), see us as a nation of people to be exploited, regardless of the damage you cause us, my response is a hearty "Fuck YOU and the horse you rode in on." It works both ways, bucko: if you want us to respect you, to take advantage of all our nation has to offer, you'd better work on your attitude. Otherwise you're nothing but a liability.
In a capitalist market, we'd have outsourcing of executives too.
Dude, where have you been? That's been happening for a long time, because if they put a foreigner in a top job, it's a lot easier to get them to fuck over their workforce. Why should they care? It's just a bunch of Americans.
The program was meant to (and specifically states in the law) that you can only hire an H-1B person if you were unable to find a qualified individual domestically.
Right. So you do a crappy job finding someone domestically, claim that "you can't find anyone domestically" and hire the H-1B anyway. That, my friend, is how it works. The law be damned.
Let me suggest "it's the life if your family can handle it.".
InnerWeb
Yes and no. I know what you're saying, and generally speaking you're entirely correct. On the other hand, there's a distinct lack of employment stability in the tech world right now. I might add that there are a lot of people who like it that way (mostly upper management types.) Decent benefits are on the way out, job security is a thing of the past: really, few of us are comfortable with our corporate futures.
So yes, you may have a job... but for how long? At least my father (and I, once I followed in those footsteps) didn't have to worry about losing that one paycheck. I had multiple clients at multiple large corporations, and for the most part was more secure then many of my full-time counterparts. Granted, I had to work really hard to make that happen (much harder than most of my full-time counterparts) but there it is.
Hah, more secure than I am now. Yes, I've held the same full time position for the past decade, but I don't consider myself "secure." I work in an at-will State, and if the power-that-is decides that my services are no longer required, well, that's that. I'll be out in the cold as a senior software engineer in a job market that doesn't value knowledge, talent or experience anymore.
Sometimes I think I should never have quit the contract game. Other times I think I'll end up back in it whether I want to be or not.
The IT department is making up all sorts of accusations in an attempt to hide that they screwed up.
That's the thing, isn't it. Covering one's ass at the expense of a child's future. The fact they would even do that just proves that those people should not be in a position of responsibility. Especially not anywhere near young people... period. End of statement.
That's just evil. RIAA-level evil, and that's pretty fucking evil.
So, I am voting with my wallet and buying either Ford or foreign (most likely toyota for normal cars, Porsche or Lotus if I ever buy another sportscar) from now on.
Well, honestly I wouldn't feel too sorry for you even if GM screwed you on a catalytic converter. Mainly because you obviously have a bigger wallet than the rest of us.
You expect these people to all of a sudden become curious, critical thinking citizens???
I agree. I went through high school in the mid-seventies, and it was an entirely different ball game. For example, I managed to acquire passwords to just about every active account on the school's mainframe: I didn't do anything with that information and I eventually pointed out to the administration that they needed to fix a few things (Good Samaritan-style: it would be too risky to tell anyone about a security flaw nowadays, they'd call the FBI on you.) So, I got in a small amount of trouble (they called my parents), but they fixed the problem and that was that. If I were in high school in present times... hell. I'd have been up on terrorism charges at age 17.
Still, it's all in the same vein: teachers/administrators want extraordinary powers in order to make their jobs easier, law enforcement wants extraordinary powers to make their jobs easier, copyright holders want extraordinary powers in order to make their jobs easier... the list goes on. Nobody is willing to just deal with the fact that some things are legitimately difficult and that it's better for all that they be left that way.
Also, some people honestly believe that if they just make the system harsh enough, make punishments severe enough, people will stop doing things that the powers-that-are don't want them to. In reality, of course, all they're doing is training a generation of people that have no respect for authority, because that authority doesn't respect them. Two-way street and all that.
I had a consulting business for about fifteen years... yeah, it's do-or-die all right. But as my father used to say (he ran several engineering and consulting businesses in his life) "it's the life if you can handle it."
The fact is the RIAA may be a bunch of cruel bastards, but at the end of the day they are just protecting their copyright.
Shows how little you know. The RIAA doesn't hold copyright: the media companies that fund the RIAA's activities do. And they're the ones who are morally (if not legally) responsible for the RIAA's reprehensible tactics. The Recording Industry Association of America is a group of hired guns, no more. Don't try to make them into some kind of unsung heroes... because they're not.
Seriously, why don't you study this issue for a while, examine some of what the RIAA has done to "protect the bloody artists", check out the damage done to our legal system. Then come back and tell me that they're "just protecting their copyright." The reality is very different: they're screwing us ALL over, bigtime, in order to protect their masters revenue streams. And they're doing it by any means necessary, legal or otherwise.
Honestly, if you're a troll you're a fairly subtle one. Look, if the RIAA had stuck to suing people that had provably committed copyright infringement, using accepted and legal methods of investigation and had only asked for reasonable damages, nobody here would bother discussing the matter. Ray Beckerman would likely be spending his time on more productive work, not defending people who cannot be shown to have committed infringement yet are being destroyed anyway. But, that's not what the RIAA is all about, their activities are not legitimate, and that's a fact.
1)In all honesty if they came to your house and you could show them a 1:1 ratio every dvd/cd backup with the original, they would apologize and leave your house. Chances are it would be a ratio of 100:1 pirated:legit.
Huh? No they would not. They do whatever they could to destroy your life, that of your family, and anyone else that they can remotely connect to your alleged acts of "piracy" in order to make an example out of you. That's essentially why everyone who follows what's happening is so up in arms about the RIAA's tactics. Furthermore, I don't know what part of your anatomy you pulled that 100 to 1 statistic from, but I can guess. There are millions upon millions of people who do nothing but dutifully purchase commercial media, and are then presumptively treated as criminals by the media cartel.
2) Modifying the movie, and the extra's, violates the TOC. Just like any contract, if you do not like it then do not sign for it and do not use the product. If you like the product that much then use it how they asked you to use it.
Huh? What TOC? What contract are you talking about? Are you daft, lad? I buy DVDs and immediately rip them, and put the original in a safe place. And when I copy that disc, I remove all the crap (including all the "piracy is stealing" baloney with which they irritate legitimate customers, and which have no effect whatsoever on those who aren't), and anything else I don't want. When I put in one of my discs, it jumps right to the title track. That improves the experience and frankly, I wouldn't buy a commercial disc if I couldn't do that. If these idiots (and yes, they are idiots) would stop attempting to threaten and intimidate their loyal customers, and actually think about how their product is perceived, I might feel differently. But they aren't, and I don't.
No no no. This is a great ploy to keep the costs of operating systems low, and to standardize. It's a jab at Microsoft, but also to others with high costs (read Solaris, IBM's long list, HP's long list, etc.).
And if it works, and puts pressure on other OS makers to do better, so much the better.
Will we want to code in RussOS? Why not-- if there's a good reason to.
Well, I for one don't like Microsoft any more than any other Slashdotter, but frankly having my OS supplied by the likes of Russia and China is not my idea of a good thing. To make things better in that regard, we should come up with our very own US-OS, one that we could all rally around and feel patriotic about while it copies all our files, emails and browsing history to DHS servers.
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Obama is evil because his staff allowed You Tube to set a cookie. There's a conspiracy. They've gotten to him, he's in the bag for them. I bet he got use of the orbital mind control lasers in exchange for this.
Jesus christ, what the fuck? YouTube gets to set a cookie on the page. Is that really a huge deal? Now they know you watched the Inauguration video from the White House website! Oh noes!
You got it all wrong. Really. They don't use lasers, silly, they use masers. All you have to do to protect yourself is jam a screwdriver into your microwave oven's interlock switch, set it on "high", and leave the door open.
The U.S. government should have its own video servers, or lease them from YouTube, and not depend on commercial sites. Commercial sites can do anything they want any time they want; they don't have to consider internal government policy.
This whole issue would go away entirely if whitehouse.gov set up a bank of Torrent trackers. Let us pay for the bandwidth and keep outfits like Youtube out of it completely. Of course, that would send entirely the wrong message. What, you mean Bit Torrent can be used for legitimate purposes? Sure, dude, whitehouse.gov puts up all its videos that way. Hell, if they really wanted to do it on the cheap just post them to The Pirate Bay or Mininova.
Obama's media sponsors probably wouldn't like that very much.
The only thing left was a bloody ground assault... or The Bomb.
Or starve them into submission via a blockade - which would probably have caused even more civilian deaths.
You know, had we taken one of the non-thermonuclear routes to forcing Japan to surrender, no matter what the toll on Japan's civilian population, we wouldn't be so vilified today. We dropped two comparatively low-yield nuclear devices on Japan and yes, the results were truly and predictably horrific. As you say, the alternatives were no less terrible in their consequences. Atom bomb them, cover them in flaming napalm, starve them, shoot them, stab them to death with bayonets... there was no easy way out.
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So you're kicking out talented and resourceful people so that you can keep some fat lazy Americans in work?
Yes, that sounds like the best way possible to prepare for bouncing back after the recession.
Oh... I guess stereotyping never works well, yet the H1B are mainly high-skilled workers. Sending them back home only gives their home country, or what ever country they decide to relocate to, an invaluable resource.
So you're kicking out talented and resourceful people so that you can keep some fat lazy Americans in work?
That's rather an ignorant and bigoted remark. If the reverse were true, if it were U.S. workers who were displacing talented and capable people in your country (maybe costing you your job) why, I'll bet a hundred U.S. dollars worth of your local currency that you'd be just as upset as we are. Grow up, acquire some empathy, and try looking at this from our perspective. You might learn something.
If not, you're just another dick who, no matter your talents and/or skills, are of no value to us. What a lot of people just don't understand is that there's more to a worker, to a human being, than his skill set. What makes a man or a woman a good citizen is not solely a matter of how they make their living. Honestly, when I see how many of you H1B's look down on Americans (like you do), see us as a nation of people to be exploited, regardless of the damage you cause us, my response is a hearty "Fuck YOU and the horse you rode in on." It works both ways, bucko: if you want us to respect you, to take advantage of all our nation has to offer, you'd better work on your attitude. Otherwise you're nothing but a liability.
In a capitalist market, we'd have outsourcing of executives too.
Dude, where have you been? That's been happening for a long time, because if they put a foreigner in a top job, it's a lot easier to get them to fuck over their workforce. Why should they care? It's just a bunch of Americans.
no they shouldn't they should be allowed to hire the best workers for the job.
Spoken like a true H-1B. The issue is not that black and white and you know it.
The program was meant to (and specifically states in the law) that you can only hire an H-1B person if you were unable to find a qualified individual domestically.
Right. So you do a crappy job finding someone domestically, claim that "you can't find anyone domestically" and hire the H-1B anyway. That, my friend, is how it works. The law be damned.
"it's the life if you can handle it."
Let me suggest "it's the life if your family can handle it.".
InnerWeb
Yes and no. I know what you're saying, and generally speaking you're entirely correct. On the other hand, there's a distinct lack of employment stability in the tech world right now. I might add that there are a lot of people who like it that way (mostly upper management types.) Decent benefits are on the way out, job security is a thing of the past: really, few of us are comfortable with our corporate futures.
... but for how long? At least my father (and I, once I followed in those footsteps) didn't have to worry about losing that one paycheck. I had multiple clients at multiple large corporations, and for the most part was more secure then many of my full-time counterparts. Granted, I had to work really hard to make that happen (much harder than most of my full-time counterparts) but there it is.
So yes, you may have a job
Hah, more secure than I am now. Yes, I've held the same full time position for the past decade, but I don't consider myself "secure." I work in an at-will State, and if the power-that-is decides that my services are no longer required, well, that's that. I'll be out in the cold as a senior software engineer in a job market that doesn't value knowledge, talent or experience anymore.
Sometimes I think I should never have quit the contract game. Other times I think I'll end up back in it whether I want to be or not.
The IT department is making up all sorts of accusations in an attempt to hide that they screwed up.
That's the thing, isn't it. Covering one's ass at the expense of a child's future. The fact they would even do that just proves that those people should not be in a position of responsibility. Especially not anywhere near young people ... period. End of statement.
That's just evil. RIAA-level evil, and that's pretty fucking evil.
Charges? You'd have been disappeared.
Oh, I'd have eventually re-appeared. At Gitmo.
So, I am voting with my wallet and buying either Ford or foreign (most likely toyota for normal cars, Porsche or Lotus if I ever buy another sportscar) from now on.
Well, honestly I wouldn't feel too sorry for you even if GM screwed you on a catalytic converter. Mainly because you obviously have a bigger wallet than the rest of us.
while positing that the notebooks' integrated graphics would be more tricky to replace and would cost between $245 and $590 per unit.
The idea that MS should pay for hardware upgrades is plain old silly.
I like that bit about it being tricky to replace a laptop's graphics chip. That's a somewhat disingenuous: it's actually really easy.
You just replace the laptop.
I'd mod you "Funny" just for posting that link on Slashdot ... then again I don't have any mod points just now and by "Funny" I meant "Flamebait".
+5 Dimbulb would be more appropriate, I think.
Yes, KDE and Gnome are pretty big names when it comes to window managers, but there are other worthy WMs out there too!
Windows, for example.
Yes, but does it run Linux? And what about that whole Beowulf cluster thing?
You expect these people to all of a sudden become curious, critical thinking citizens???
I agree. I went through high school in the mid-seventies, and it was an entirely different ball game. For example, I managed to acquire passwords to just about every active account on the school's mainframe: I didn't do anything with that information and I eventually pointed out to the administration that they needed to fix a few things (Good Samaritan-style: it would be too risky to tell anyone about a security flaw nowadays, they'd call the FBI on you.) So, I got in a small amount of trouble (they called my parents), but they fixed the problem and that was that. If I were in high school in present times ... hell. I'd have been up on terrorism charges at age 17.
... the list goes on. Nobody is willing to just deal with the fact that some things are legitimately difficult and that it's better for all that they be left that way.
Still, it's all in the same vein: teachers/administrators want extraordinary powers in order to make their jobs easier, law enforcement wants extraordinary powers to make their jobs easier, copyright holders want extraordinary powers in order to make their jobs easier
Also, some people honestly believe that if they just make the system harsh enough, make punishments severe enough, people will stop doing things that the powers-that-are don't want them to. In reality, of course, all they're doing is training a generation of people that have no respect for authority, because that authority doesn't respect them. Two-way street and all that.
Sorry no job security here. Its do or die.
I had a consulting business for about fifteen years ... yeah, it's do-or-die all right. But as my father used to say (he ran several engineering and consulting businesses in his life) "it's the life if you can handle it."
What next, slashing his tires so he can't get to the court house?
Yes, and when you slash the RIAA lawyer's tires, make sure you paint a small round dot on the hood of his car.
The fact is the RIAA may be a bunch of cruel bastards, but at the end of the day they are just protecting their copyright.
Shows how little you know. The RIAA doesn't hold copyright: the media companies that fund the RIAA's activities do. And they're the ones who are morally (if not legally) responsible for the RIAA's reprehensible tactics. The Recording Industry Association of America is a group of hired guns, no more. Don't try to make them into some kind of unsung heroes ... because they're not.
Seriously, why don't you study this issue for a while, examine some of what the RIAA has done to "protect the bloody artists", check out the damage done to our legal system. Then come back and tell me that they're "just protecting their copyright." The reality is very different: they're screwing us ALL over, bigtime, in order to protect their masters revenue streams. And they're doing it by any means necessary, legal or otherwise.
Honestly, if you're a troll you're a fairly subtle one. Look, if the RIAA had stuck to suing people that had provably committed copyright infringement, using accepted and legal methods of investigation and had only asked for reasonable damages, nobody here would bother discussing the matter. Ray Beckerman would likely be spending his time on more productive work, not defending people who cannot be shown to have committed infringement yet are being destroyed anyway. But, that's not what the RIAA is all about, their activities are not legitimate, and that's a fact.
Really, clue up.
i call it a natural outcome of control freaks interacting with other people.
Sociopaths masquerading as normal people, you mean.
1)In all honesty if they came to your house and you could show them a 1:1 ratio every dvd/cd backup with the original, they would apologize and leave your house. Chances are it would be a ratio of 100:1 pirated:legit.
Huh? No they would not. They do whatever they could to destroy your life, that of your family, and anyone else that they can remotely connect to your alleged acts of "piracy" in order to make an example out of you. That's essentially why everyone who follows what's happening is so up in arms about the RIAA's tactics. Furthermore, I don't know what part of your anatomy you pulled that 100 to 1 statistic from, but I can guess. There are millions upon millions of people who do nothing but dutifully purchase commercial media, and are then presumptively treated as criminals by the media cartel.
2) Modifying the movie, and the extra's, violates the TOC. Just like any contract, if you do not like it then do not sign for it and do not use the product. If you like the product that much then use it how they asked you to use it.
Huh? What TOC? What contract are you talking about? Are you daft, lad? I buy DVDs and immediately rip them, and put the original in a safe place. And when I copy that disc, I remove all the crap (including all the "piracy is stealing" baloney with which they irritate legitimate customers, and which have no effect whatsoever on those who aren't), and anything else I don't want. When I put in one of my discs, it jumps right to the title track. That improves the experience and frankly, I wouldn't buy a commercial disc if I couldn't do that. If these idiots (and yes, they are idiots) would stop attempting to threaten and intimidate their loyal customers, and actually think about how their product is perceived, I might feel differently. But they aren't, and I don't.
Why would I want to? Are they delicious?
Yes. They are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
No no no. This is a great ploy to keep the costs of operating systems low, and to standardize. It's a jab at Microsoft, but also to others with high costs (read Solaris, IBM's long list, HP's long list, etc.).
And if it works, and puts pressure on other OS makers to do better, so much the better.
Will we want to code in RussOS? Why not-- if there's a good reason to.
Well, I for one don't like Microsoft any more than any other Slashdotter, but frankly having my OS supplied by the likes of Russia and China is not my idea of a good thing. To make things better in that regard, we should come up with our very own US-OS, one that we could all rally around and feel patriotic about while it copies all our files, emails and browsing history to DHS servers.
but is it better?
It's Microsoft, isn't it? What more do you need to know?
Yeah, pretty much. I'm not a Mac user, so I really don't know anything about that, and I've only briefly looked at Windows 7.
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Obama is evil because his staff allowed You Tube to set a cookie. There's a conspiracy. They've gotten to him, he's in the bag for them. I bet he got use of the orbital mind control lasers in exchange for this.
Jesus christ, what the fuck? YouTube gets to set a cookie on the page. Is that really a huge deal? Now they know you watched the Inauguration video from the White House website! Oh noes!
You got it all wrong. Really. They don't use lasers, silly, they use masers. All you have to do to protect yourself is jam a screwdriver into your microwave oven's interlock switch, set it on "high", and leave the door open.
The U.S. government should have its own video servers, or lease them from YouTube, and not depend on commercial sites. Commercial sites can do anything they want any time they want; they don't have to consider internal government policy.
This whole issue would go away entirely if whitehouse.gov set up a bank of Torrent trackers. Let us pay for the bandwidth and keep outfits like Youtube out of it completely. Of course, that would send entirely the wrong message. What, you mean Bit Torrent can be used for legitimate purposes? Sure, dude, whitehouse.gov puts up all its videos that way. Hell, if they really wanted to do it on the cheap just post them to The Pirate Bay or Mininova.
Obama's media sponsors probably wouldn't like that very much.
What Iraqi proxy servers?
You don't follow the news very much, do you.
Over there, they call them "couriers". Sometimes people shoot at them.
but is it better?
Or starve them into submission via a blockade - which would probably have caused even more civilian deaths.
You know, had we taken one of the non-thermonuclear routes to forcing Japan to surrender, no matter what the toll on Japan's civilian population, we wouldn't be so vilified today. We dropped two comparatively low-yield nuclear devices on Japan and yes, the results were truly and predictably horrific. As you say, the alternatives were no less terrible in their consequences. Atom bomb them, cover them in flaming napalm, starve them, shoot them, stab them to death with bayonets ... there was no easy way out.
People seem to forget that.