The job that they want an H1B for must be presented to the government and a $10k fee paid to the government to cover expenses. The government will interview qualified candidates and if the company does not take one of them, they do not get an H1B either. If no qualified candidates are found, the salary is raised until a qualified candidate is found, up to a maximum of 3 standard deviations from the average salary for the position. If there are still no qualified candidates, then you can have an H1b.
RC pilots were responsible. Planes and copters were safely flown in designated areas.
This legislation is only necessary because the day of the responsible RC pilot are now gone. Now we have irresponsible RC pilots (because they aren't drones, they are RC craft) who want to fly their toys around airports, in other people's yards, interfere with emergency operations, and any number of other intrusive and dangerous behaviors.
They believe that people in public (ie, their own backyard surrounded by a privacy fence) should have no privacy, but if you tell them they need to register their drone, then it is "But!, But! My PRIVACY!".
Wait! Let me get this straight. If you own a 250 gram toy drone you need to register it because it could be dangerous?
But if you own an assault rifle with 100 round magazine you don't need to register it. Yes, only in America.
I'm pretty sure that the armed forces DOES register all of their assault rifles.
I was under the impression that "drone" is merely the pop-culture term for "R/C", as they were called up to about 5 years ago before the Hollywood Nightly News decided to re-term it.
All of the things that people are flying are RC. I believe a drone would be autonomous. I am not sure if such a thing exists, and if it does, it is probably only in the military.
I lived in such situation 20 years ago. Now, I am a rental owner, and I very rarely see this situation. I don't know if it doesn't appeal to the younger generation, or if it just doesn't cross their mind. I have literally had 2 such roommate relationships out of what is close to 100 contracts at this point.
That helps the middle aged folks who already have mortgages.
It doesn't help the millenials who don't.
It absolutely did not help middle aged folks with mortgages. Although the interest rates were lower, you couldn't get a refi if you tried. First of all, the housing values had dropped so precipitously that you couldn't refinance without putting massive amounts of cash into the refi. Second, although the prime rate was practically zero, the interest rates that the banks were offering were still in the 4.5-5% range. They were very hesitant to lend to consumers, because after borrowing the money for practically free from the government, it made much more economic sense to turn around and lend that borrowed money back to the government to buy bonds, which paid a couple of percent. It's not much profit, but it is guaranteed. If you had free money given to you and could invest it for 2%, would you do that or loan to a consumer at 2%? You would take the guarantee. How about loan to the consumer at 4%? I don't know. 5%? Yeah, you would probably give a little bit out to the consumer if you could get 5%.
That's a 3 bedroom house with attached 2 car garage and 1500 square feet and a secluded half acre in Syracuse. Well, the $700 isn't, but the $900 definitely is in that range.
They moved all of these IT jobs to Cognizant, which is a company made up almost entirely of H1bs. Cognizant is blatantly in violation of the H1b laws, and if they are taken down, as they should be, all of the companies that are depending on Cognizant for outsourced labor will be up a creek without a paddle.
The safe bet is to only use an autonomous car in the laboratory where it was designed. Just like a lot of software, it only really works in clean room, optimized conditions with hand picked data.
The real test of artificial intelligence will come when the self-driving vehicle will have to decide between plowing into a crowd of people to protect the driver, and smashing into a tree to protect the crowd of people - but killing the driver, when the accident is inevitable.
I don't believe AI now or in the near future is capable of the sort of recognition needed to determine to make such a determination. It would probably pick the tree because the tree is a single object of unknown mass and density which is moving slightly (due to wind, but the AI doesn't know that) whereas the crowd of people is a bunch of objects of unknown mass and density that are sitting still, moving slightly, or moving a lot. AI also is not capable of determining the damage that may be caused to the tree or the crowd of humans, nor of making the philosophical decision of what the damage cost is in moral terms.
Never pay ransom.Never pay bribes. Never pay blackmailers. You are honest. They are not. You have no guarantee they will do what they say, they will use your honesty and your reputation against you to continue to suck even more money out of you. You will also make the list of targets who will pay, and will be hit again and again.
Charities and Volunteer organizations also use the same tactics.
It's about incentives. If the criminal fails to honor the payment too much, people stop paying. The amount of harm to the company also goes up, as does the interest of major law enforcement task forces. That's why ransomware operators send you keys and private corporations are frequently willing to pay ransoms. But people with a major presence whose operations will be strongly hurt by allowing criminal operations to continue--most obviously the United States Government when dealing with terrorism--are much less likely to pay.
Yes, but criminals are criminals, and as such are selfish. If they get the money and do the DDoS, then they have made their money and to heck with anybody else (including themselves later, but hey, they're criminals, so they don't think that far ahead).
An Engineer who is certified is a Professional Engineer. An Engineer who is not certified is an Engineer. There are certainly Project Managers who are not PMP certified. That doesn't mean they can't do they job. If they are certified that means they have a statistically better chance of being able to do the job, but it also doesn't mean they can do the job.
If your company has given you the title Engineer, then you are an Engineer. If you graduated from the Engineering College of your university, then you are an Engineer. If you feel like calling yourself an Engineer, then you are an Engineer, but if you do a sucky job, then other Engineers are going to be pissed.
I'm a Playstation guy. I've had every Playstation from 1 to 3. I will probably buy a PS4 as well when something comes out for it that is not available on PC and is worth buying a PS4 over. Basically, that will probably have to be Gran Turismo 7, because most every other major title is also available on PC.
I recommend not wearing any gadgets. They increase your weight, reduce your situational awareness, and increase your time to completion. Many marathons outright ban them and for good reason.
You can't put papers on it, organize files in drawers, store pencils, paperclips etc. in it. So it is not as versatile as a real desk. As such, they should probably price it below a traditional desk. I would suggest a price point of perhaps $50.
Did anyone RTFA (or watch the clip showing the "desk/chair" in it)?
Did they just glue the mouse down? How's it attached?
Magnets. You know those little things that are pretty darn disruptive to electronics? Yeah, those.
I can't imagine how large of a magnet they are going to need to hold the plastic mouse to the desk while upside down, to say nothing of a 30 pound plastic LCD screen.
Oh, wait, they are probably going to sell you special metal mice, keyboards, monitors and laptops for use with the chair also.
Here's the next question: which room do I have a better shot at breaking into: your server closet, or Amazon's data center?
Breaking into a room doesn't get you access to a machine. Since it is on the cloud, you can feel free to break into the machine anywhere with internet access. Their IT staff might be better versed in how to secure a server, but part of the problem that I have with cloud services is the could service provider. How do I obfuscate my server such that Amazon can't get into it. The answer probably is: you can't. In my closet, I absolutely can.
We have lots of browsers with too many features. At the moment, I am staring at my Firefox session using nearly 1 GB of memory. I usually shut it down when it hits 1.5 GB. There is really no excuse for a browser to be using that much memory. Including images, each tab is probably using less than 1 MB of space. I have maybe 20 tabs open, so 20 MB seems like a reasonable amount of memory to be using.
A feature I WOULD like to see is a breakdown of memory and CPU usage by tab, so I can permanently block sites that use too much CPU or memory. Also, something which can tell me which tab is playing some audio, so I can permanently block any site that does that without being told to do that.
Companies are really missing the true hidden cost of offshoring labor. It appears in the near term to be cheaper, but they ignore all of the hidden costs like customer loyalty, customer experience, service quality, build quality, etc. It actually costs MORE to offshore when you factor in all of these costs.
Fiorina is what happens when you decide not to get the best person for the job, but to get somebody who will appeal to the SJW crowd just to show how progressive you are. Then they made the mistake of letting her actually control things instead of just naming her CEO and trying to keep her from doing anything. Very similar to our current president.
Instead what will happen is that the rich will realize that it is not worth the effort to work really hard
Huh? If you could become rich by working really hard, then we'd have a lot more rich people.
A lot of people work really hard and don't get rich. A lot of people get rich and didn't work very hard. In most cases, they are not rich for very long. But there is a strong correlation between working harder and making more money.
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The job that they want an H1B for must be presented to the government and a $10k fee paid to the government to cover expenses. The government will interview qualified candidates and if the company does not take one of them, they do not get an H1B either. If no qualified candidates are found, the salary is raised until a qualified candidate is found, up to a maximum of 3 standard deviations from the average salary for the position. If there are still no qualified candidates, then you can have an H1b.
RC pilots were responsible. Planes and copters were safely flown in designated areas.
This legislation is only necessary because the day of the responsible RC pilot are now gone. Now we have irresponsible RC pilots (because they aren't drones, they are RC craft) who want to fly their toys around airports, in other people's yards, interfere with emergency operations, and any number of other intrusive and dangerous behaviors.
They believe that people in public (ie, their own backyard surrounded by a privacy fence) should have no privacy, but if you tell them they need to register their drone, then it is "But!, But! My PRIVACY!".
Wait! Let me get this straight. If you own a 250 gram toy drone you need to register it because it could be dangerous? But if you own an assault rifle with 100 round magazine you don't need to register it. Yes, only in America.
I'm pretty sure that the armed forces DOES register all of their assault rifles.
I was under the impression that "drone" is merely the pop-culture term for "R/C", as they were called up to about 5 years ago before the Hollywood Nightly News decided to re-term it.
All of the things that people are flying are RC. I believe a drone would be autonomous. I am not sure if such a thing exists, and if it does, it is probably only in the military.
I lived in such situation 20 years ago. Now, I am a rental owner, and I very rarely see this situation. I don't know if it doesn't appeal to the younger generation, or if it just doesn't cross their mind. I have literally had 2 such roommate relationships out of what is close to 100 contracts at this point.
That helps the middle aged folks who already have mortgages.
It doesn't help the millenials who don't.
It absolutely did not help middle aged folks with mortgages. Although the interest rates were lower, you couldn't get a refi if you tried. First of all, the housing values had dropped so precipitously that you couldn't refinance without putting massive amounts of cash into the refi. Second, although the prime rate was practically zero, the interest rates that the banks were offering were still in the 4.5-5% range. They were very hesitant to lend to consumers, because after borrowing the money for practically free from the government, it made much more economic sense to turn around and lend that borrowed money back to the government to buy bonds, which paid a couple of percent. It's not much profit, but it is guaranteed. If you had free money given to you and could invest it for 2%, would you do that or loan to a consumer at 2%? You would take the guarantee. How about loan to the consumer at 4%? I don't know. 5%? Yeah, you would probably give a little bit out to the consumer if you could get 5%.
That's a 3 bedroom house with attached 2 car garage and 1500 square feet and a secluded half acre in Syracuse. Well, the $700 isn't, but the $900 definitely is in that range.
They moved all of these IT jobs to Cognizant, which is a company made up almost entirely of H1bs. Cognizant is blatantly in violation of the H1b laws, and if they are taken down, as they should be, all of the companies that are depending on Cognizant for outsourced labor will be up a creek without a paddle.
The safe bet is to only use an autonomous car in the laboratory where it was designed. Just like a lot of software, it only really works in clean room, optimized conditions with hand picked data.
The real test of artificial intelligence will come when the self-driving vehicle will have to decide between plowing into a crowd of people to protect the driver, and smashing into a tree to protect the crowd of people - but killing the driver, when the accident is inevitable.
I don't believe AI now or in the near future is capable of the sort of recognition needed to determine to make such a determination. It would probably pick the tree because the tree is a single object of unknown mass and density which is moving slightly (due to wind, but the AI doesn't know that) whereas the crowd of people is a bunch of objects of unknown mass and density that are sitting still, moving slightly, or moving a lot. AI also is not capable of determining the damage that may be caused to the tree or the crowd of humans, nor of making the philosophical decision of what the damage cost is in moral terms.
Never pay ransom.Never pay bribes. Never pay blackmailers. You are honest. They are not. You have no guarantee they will do what they say, they will use your honesty and your reputation against you to continue to suck even more money out of you. You will also make the list of targets who will pay, and will be hit again and again.
Charities and Volunteer organizations also use the same tactics.
It's about incentives. If the criminal fails to honor the payment too much, people stop paying. The amount of harm to the company also goes up, as does the interest of major law enforcement task forces. That's why ransomware operators send you keys and private corporations are frequently willing to pay ransoms. But people with a major presence whose operations will be strongly hurt by allowing criminal operations to continue--most obviously the United States Government when dealing with terrorism--are much less likely to pay.
Yes, but criminals are criminals, and as such are selfish. If they get the money and do the DDoS, then they have made their money and to heck with anybody else (including themselves later, but hey, they're criminals, so they don't think that far ahead).
An Engineer who is certified is a Professional Engineer. An Engineer who is not certified is an Engineer. There are certainly Project Managers who are not PMP certified. That doesn't mean they can't do they job. If they are certified that means they have a statistically better chance of being able to do the job, but it also doesn't mean they can do the job.
If your company has given you the title Engineer, then you are an Engineer. If you graduated from the Engineering College of your university, then you are an Engineer. If you feel like calling yourself an Engineer, then you are an Engineer, but if you do a sucky job, then other Engineers are going to be pissed.
I'm a Playstation guy. I've had every Playstation from 1 to 3. I will probably buy a PS4 as well when something comes out for it that is not available on PC and is worth buying a PS4 over. Basically, that will probably have to be Gran Turismo 7, because most every other major title is also available on PC.
Well, this will certainly raise awareness for their cause...uh...whatever, that might be.
I recommend not wearing any gadgets. They increase your weight, reduce your situational awareness, and increase your time to completion. Many marathons outright ban them and for good reason.
You can't put papers on it, organize files in drawers, store pencils, paperclips etc. in it. So it is not as versatile as a real desk. As such, they should probably price it below a traditional desk. I would suggest a price point of perhaps $50.
Did anyone RTFA (or watch the clip showing the "desk/chair" in it)? Did they just glue the mouse down? How's it attached?
Magnets. You know those little things that are pretty darn disruptive to electronics? Yeah, those.
I can't imagine how large of a magnet they are going to need to hold the plastic mouse to the desk while upside down, to say nothing of a 30 pound plastic LCD screen.
Oh, wait, they are probably going to sell you special metal mice, keyboards, monitors and laptops for use with the chair also.
Here's the next question: which room do I have a better shot at breaking into: your server closet, or Amazon's data center?
Breaking into a room doesn't get you access to a machine. Since it is on the cloud, you can feel free to break into the machine anywhere with internet access. Their IT staff might be better versed in how to secure a server, but part of the problem that I have with cloud services is the could service provider. How do I obfuscate my server such that Amazon can't get into it. The answer probably is: you can't. In my closet, I absolutely can.
You know tabs show an audio icon when that page is making noise now. In firefox you can use the audio icon to mute that tab.
Hmm, mine doesn't. But then I am only on 41.0.2.
We have lots of browsers with too many features. At the moment, I am staring at my Firefox session using nearly 1 GB of memory. I usually shut it down when it hits 1.5 GB. There is really no excuse for a browser to be using that much memory. Including images, each tab is probably using less than 1 MB of space. I have maybe 20 tabs open, so 20 MB seems like a reasonable amount of memory to be using. A feature I WOULD like to see is a breakdown of memory and CPU usage by tab, so I can permanently block sites that use too much CPU or memory. Also, something which can tell me which tab is playing some audio, so I can permanently block any site that does that without being told to do that.
I have a hypothesis that goes for any president and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" backs me up.
And I agree with it. Basically, the less that the president, or congress is able to get done, the better it is for all of us citizens.
Companies are really missing the true hidden cost of offshoring labor. It appears in the near term to be cheaper, but they ignore all of the hidden costs like customer loyalty, customer experience, service quality, build quality, etc. It actually costs MORE to offshore when you factor in all of these costs.
Fiorina is what happens when you decide not to get the best person for the job, but to get somebody who will appeal to the SJW crowd just to show how progressive you are. Then they made the mistake of letting her actually control things instead of just naming her CEO and trying to keep her from doing anything. Very similar to our current president.
Instead what will happen is that the rich will realize that it is not worth the effort to work really hard
Huh? If you could become rich by working really hard, then we'd have a lot more rich people.
A lot of people work really hard and don't get rich. A lot of people get rich and didn't work very hard. In most cases, they are not rich for very long. But there is a strong correlation between working harder and making more money.