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  1. Re:My solution on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of the internet?
    It is super cool, you can leave the data in your datacenter and get to it from anywhere! You can even show the customer right on the server instead of dealing with your laptop and a painfully slow USB connection.

  2. Re:Time Machine on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Considering how slow it is I doubt it.

    I sometimes use a Mac, I still prefer rsnapshot over some backup that is likely hard to deal with if you don't have another mac.

  3. Re:The Quick EE Version (Re:How?) on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    I don't think I will be testing this, I was not aware the amperage could be so low and kill a person. Shocking information.

  4. Re:It is OBVIOUSLY cost reduction on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    Sure, so people should report these employers when that happens.

  5. Re:H1B or Outsourcing, choose one. on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    Actually right now we are only hitting replacement rates due to immigrants.

    So you think smart people having babies will not produce smart kids?

    Importing some folks for their brains and them having kids is a happy side effect, not eugenics.

  6. Re:The Quick EE Version (Re:How?) on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    My wiring in my house is much thicker and not normally shorted to ground.

  7. Re:The Quick EE Version (Re:How?) on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    Sure, but how long is a USB cable going to carry that before burning up?

    My thought was a total failure like that would just end up turning the USB cable into a fuse.

    Also they would be 220V, since this is China.

  8. Re:H1B or Outsourcing, choose one. on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    Where did he propose eugenics?
    He wants to import some workers that are smart. That is not eugenics.

  9. Re:How? on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the USB cable catch fire first?

  10. Re:How? on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    But a cheap USB cable is not going to carry 220v very far. The cable will likely burnup first.

  11. How? on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: -1, Troll

    How is this possible?
    No one is going to die by having 5volts applied to their face. Are we sure this is not from the chinese version of the Onion?

  12. Re:H1B or Outsourcing, choose one. on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    The wait list would not be so long if so many were not brought in fraudulently. Personally I would also give citizenship to anyone who alerted the DOL to such fraud and had enough evidence for a conviction.

  13. Re:Nice to see the H-1B questioned in the MSM on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    It was functionally both at the same time.

    I know that 90% of them are just used to lower the wages in these fields, but the last 10% or 5% or 1% are really great at what they do and should be offered citizenship. Importing the best of the best is what we should be doing.

    The H1B program without a fast path to citizenship insures it will be used for that 90% of folks that work for cheap and the employer can deport if they feel like it. Since they will likely not find a job fast enough to be allowed to stay if they are fired. If they risked this person becoming a citizen then they would never hire them. At that point he could demand a fair wage and go to another company if they failed to provide it without fear of deportation.

  14. Re:It is OBVIOUSLY cost reduction on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. Price cannot be used legally as a hiring decision for H1Bs.

    It has to be due to a shortage of workers, meaning you simply can't get them at any price. You can use refusal of offers at whatever wage as evidence of shortage, but that is it. You cannot hire an H1B simply because he agrees to work for less than the prevailing wage, and it is illegal to pay him less than the prevailing wage.

    That being said, all the major contracting companies that use H1Bs do this. They are all breaking federal law and as such should have the DOJ after them.

  15. Re:but why do they need H-1B workers? on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    They want H1B because they will take less pay and if they ask for anything can be fired and deported. If you want to hire cheaper workers, then maybe you should say so and I can avoid your products. If you want to hire workers you can deport at will, say so and I will avoid your products.

    Why should any worker accept that kind of arrangement? Why should society tolerate such behavior?

  16. Re:Nice to see the H-1B questioned in the MSM on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    Why is there a set price at all?
    If you are going to have the program let there be X H1Bs and put them up for auction. Those who really need them will have no probably paying. A price floor might be nice though, set it at 25% of the expected wage though. If they are not willing to pay that, they don't get them.

    At a bare minimum we also need a fast track to citizenship for these folks. Clearly they are so valuable our nation cannot function without them.

  17. Re:Simple solution? on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 2

    They simply lie.
    They hire the H1B as tier 1 helpdesk, pay him as such and have him do software development. Only setting a price floor or requiring bidding would fix this.

  18. Re:H1B or Outsourcing, choose one. on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 1

    No one thinks they will blow through the roof.

    Let these folks become citizens, H1B is simply a way to make them indentured servants to the company. If they complain you fire them and odds are they will not find a job quick enough so they get deported.

  19. Re:It is OBVIOUSLY cost reduction on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they have the choice you should be reporting them. What you are describing is simply illegal. It is not uncommon though. It is really your civic duty to report this sort of thing.

  20. Re:Simple solution? on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also just let them immigrate. No H1B, no being tied to the employer to stay in the states. Put up X spots, let companies bid and let the people simply immigrate.

  21. Re:Of course... on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh, H1B is the government bailing out these companies. It is an artificial way to lower wages. If they want to let these best and brightest become citizens far less would object. Instead they want an H1B they can underpay and send home if he demands anything like a fair wage.

  22. Re:Of course... on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can law books not be shipped internationally?

    This H1b lawyer does not need to know the laws of his own nation, only the one he wants to practice in.

  23. Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    3. You do not deprive them of their item by copying it. If you make a painting and I take a picture of it, you still have the painting.

    4. You claimed your language had no words for it. Two word phrases are fine. If klopi means theft than greek is an imprecise language. Theft requires one to be deprived of the item, not a simply copy made. If I copy an mp3 the original is not destroyed.

    Honestly, this problem with your language forces you to think these are the same thing. They are simply not. By using the same words it influences you to believe they are the same, when they are very different.

  24. Re:Flashable? on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 1

    I want either one.
    What I do not want is to pay full new car price for a car I did not select each feature on.

    My problem was selecting between new old stock and a new inventory car that had the one feature I wanted and a bunch more added I did not.

  25. Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    3..You deprive them of that soda though, which is what they sell.
    If you make your own soda at home, you also don't pay the supermarket. Same way if you copy media you don't pay for it. Should making homemade soda be illegal?

    4. Copyright infringement is the correct term in English. It is nothing like theft. Theft deprives someone of an actual thing, not the mere chance to make money. If taking the chance to make money away is a crime, I am a criminal whenever I cook my own dinner instead of going to a restaurant. If I cook food just like the restaurant surely I am worse than hitler.
    5. Any language that has no separate words for such things is incredibly imprecise.