Originally the Communications Act of 1934 which created the FCC also created a set of rules that prevented ownership issues. The FCC under the Bush Administration worked hard to repeal these restrictions, and now we have our wonderful mass media oligarchs that dictate what we like and what we watch. Something else we can pin on W.
Of course FCC regulates common carriers. In the last few years, under Wheeler, the FCC has said:
mobile voice, but not data, is common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
mobile voice AND data are common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
Neither mobile voice nor data are common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
It may be clear to YOU which is common carrier and which isn't, but Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, can't seem to decide.
Lying under oath to congress, destroying evidence after being issued a subpoena, lying to the FBI..
You make assertions, but offer no proof, much like all that claim she should be in jail. You assert she lied under oath, probably based on stories like this one. If you read through the transcript, a hostile series of questions were asked (then again, you want them to be hostile in this situation) but nowhere do I see any proof of lying, although I do see what I suspect is a level of technical ignorance I imagine is quite common among that level of government. She stated initially that no classified information was sent. After the review that stated there was some classified information, the statement became "no marked classified information". That's not evidence of a lie, that's making a truthful statement based on new knowledge. Note that Jim Jordan claims she committed perjury based on Comney's testimony, without providing hard proof. If you wish to argue that she knew it was classified before the review, you'll have to provide proof. I'll give you a hint - if there was actual proof, they would prosecute, or at least move to impeach her, since Congress is Republican dominated. Note that a successful impeachment would effectively remove her ability to run for any federal office.
They "rock"? They aren't "mini pros" at all, unless by "mini pro" you mean "the opposite of pro". They have a low amount of fixed RAM and storage, low CPU performance and low GPU performance.
I have four 2012 i7 quad core minis with SSDs and 16GB RAM. They have been running just fine as low-power headless servers. I'm looking for an upgrade of those minis. The current "minis" are something I wouldn't buy except as a simple desktop as that's about all they're good for, or a doorstop if you add some double sided tape. I am looking at small form factor low-power linux systems as an alternative. I don't need GPUs and in all honesty, don't need more than 16GB RAM for the workloads in question. If I need more than 16GB, it's likely time to step up to some serious hardware and not a low-power small form factor box.
Firefox should handle self signed certificates better. It treats them as dodgy, but they are not.
A certificate authority injected between you and a known server represents an unwanted man-in-the-middle.
I'll admit that the last time I dealt with this on FF, it was a few revisions ago. Self-signed certs are easy enough to add to the browser, any browser really. Will the average user know how to deal with this and take the appropriate steps? No.
Adding your own CA may take a little more work, but is what you need to do to avoid MITM attacks.
admitted under oath that Hillary was guilty of at least a dozen crimes
Did he? Should be easy to list out at least 2 crimes then. I thought as you did, until I actually read some of the details. I doubt I'd try to prosecute either.
Well, no. If you RTFA, you see that these jobs are being offshored. The H-1B workers are here to gather requirements and understand current workflows, not to become employees of the University and take the existing positions of American workers.
Flipping back through the entire set of links, that's not stated at all. It is implied, but so is the fact that some of these workers will be onsite.
Look, they are called "temporary work visas". In case you didn't get it, that groups as "(temporary (work visas))". That's because they are work visas that are time limited. Whether you like that terminology is irrelevant.
The fact that you fall back on literal statements to support your view that they are temporary workers of the same category that most expect when you say "temporary worker" says all that needs be said.
Skill-based immigration works pretty much the same in most countries: a temporary work permit followed after 5-10 years by permanent residence and the option of becoming a citizen. In the US, that works through H-1Bs followed by green cards. The reason for this two-stage system around the world is the massive expansion of the welfare state.
You'd be incorrect. In the US, that works through a green card application, or it used to, hence my reference to rolling back immigration laws to that of the 70s. To get a green card under those rules, preference was given to those with skills benefitting the US. H1-B visas are specifically to import "temporary" skillsets not available domestically because, you know, Network engineers level IV and System Admin II people just can't be found anywhere, especially not in UCSF. There is no clause for H1-Bs to be fast tracked for green cards. That's the carrot companies dangle to get H1-Bs to sign up for indentured servitude for 7 years. I've see this in action personally at several companies, 2 of which were honorable and actually attempted to follow through on their promises. Several others that just kept kicking the paperwork can down the street. I can also say most of those H1-Bs were not possessing any skills that could not be found locally.
My statement about 60K was in relation to computer / network support people who we are discussing in this thread.
The page you link to doesn't seem to be region specific; labor certification must take into account regional differences.
That page already had region selected, specifically for SF. You can go back through the process via "Find Occupations" if you wish to verify all aspects.
If it were only that simple. However, the entire system, multiple computers and all which was supposedly hardened specifically for this application (running the vessel) failed to even come up on reboot IIRC. There were multiple stories about this released at the time, and the problems were deeper than that "bad data" being placed in non-volatile storage. I don't recall the exact specifics, but something about the OS being compromised and rendered inoperable was what I believe occurred. i.e., corrupted system files. That definitely is an OS issue, especially across multiple systems that are supposed to be redundant and able to withstand a node loss.
Tell me kind sir, how the fuck am I supposed to vote with my feet?
Move? I think that was what he was getting at - your area sucks, so move to another area that doesn't suck. You know, because it's easy and simple to just move a state or two over.
consumers usually have the choice between a steaming turd and a shit sandwich.
If they have a choice at all. Some consumers wish they had a choice of either, but are being blocked from receiving anything even when someone wants to give them a choice.
A sailor entered a 0 which created a divide by 0 state that somehow even a reboot of the OS didn't clear, nor a complete shutdown and reboot of the entire system. Note that it didn't take down just 1 app or 1 computer, but the entire network of computers. Seems like more than just an app problem there.
Their OS hasn't changed measurably underneath the covers, other than lots of bandaids.
So you are asserting that Windows 95-era machines are substantively the same as Windows 7? Have you ever used pre-Windows 2000 machines, or are you just piling on the bandwagon of anti-"M$" hate here?
I'm guessing you've never had to diagnose why a "plug-and-pray" device was not working, and think that shield icon next to some menu options is just a weird graphical bug.
These were Windows NT servers. If all I ever had to debug was a PNP issue, I'd probably still use Windows as a daily OS.
Well, and in this case, the job is to gather requirements and perform training in order to facilitate outsourcing to India. Obviously, the current UCSF IT staff are not well versed in that, are they.
Nice bit of spin. The job is whatever job the H1-B will be doing. So, do they have people in the school capable of doing those jobs? Apparently they do, as they have current non H1-B employees doing those jobs and I assume that UCSF is also providing a program in this area training new people to do them as well.
H1-Bs are not temporary by the definition of temporary workers.
That may be, although since the labor certifications are issued by the federal government, Obama must be complicit in that.
However, your statement that it "only requires a minimum salary of 60K" is incorrect.
Any more "dog poop" you want to produce?
There's definitely a lot of stink all over the federal government regarding this program. Personally I do not feel we need an H1-B program at all. If a skill set is needed, I'm sure we can get it either domestically or promote that skill set for people actually wanting to immigrate. But that would revert the current immigration policy back to that in the 70s and that's a whole different can of worms.
If UCSF is training people to do IT jobs that cheap overseas labor in third world countries can do, they are failing in their mission and should be shut down entirely.
H1-Bs require that no one capable can be found. You just stated that they either have a whole school of them, or, rightly so, they should be shut down.
The term "temporary worker" has a specific meaning; look it up.
H1-Bs are not temporary by the definition of temporary workers.
As for the the INA clause you cite, H1-B abusing companies regularly hand that clause out for their dog walkers to pick up poop with.
True - MS products aren't known as stable reliable systems. Hell, MS OSes even left a whole Navy ship disabled, so why would you think an entertainment system nearly 20 years later would be any better? Their OS hasn't changed measurably underneath the covers, other than lots of bandaids.
Paper copies that the voter verifies and is received is the only thing that is close to inviolate. Electronic elections? Sure, print paper, voter validates paper, drop paper into the box. Only thing that counts is paper.
When you can build robots with robots, and assemble entire vehicles largely without human oversight. Just consider the Roomba, and move forward technologically a few years.
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Originally the Communications Act of 1934 which created the FCC also created a set of rules that prevented ownership issues. The FCC under the Bush Administration worked hard to repeal these restrictions, and now we have our wonderful mass media oligarchs that dictate what we like and what we watch. Something else we can pin on W.
Of course FCC regulates common carriers. In the last few years, under Wheeler, the FCC has said:
mobile voice, but not data, is common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
mobile voice AND data are common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
Neither mobile voice nor data are common carrier and subject to FCC regulation.
It may be clear to YOU which is common carrier and which isn't, but Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, can't seem to decide.
I think your sequence may not be date based.
Lying under oath to congress, destroying evidence after being issued a subpoena, lying to the FBI..
You make assertions, but offer no proof, much like all that claim she should be in jail. You assert she lied under oath, probably based on stories like this one. If you read through the transcript, a hostile series of questions were asked (then again, you want them to be hostile in this situation) but nowhere do I see any proof of lying, although I do see what I suspect is a level of technical ignorance I imagine is quite common among that level of government. She stated initially that no classified information was sent. After the review that stated there was some classified information, the statement became "no marked classified information". That's not evidence of a lie, that's making a truthful statement based on new knowledge. Note that Jim Jordan claims she committed perjury based on Comney's testimony, without providing hard proof. If you wish to argue that she knew it was classified before the review, you'll have to provide proof. I'll give you a hint - if there was actual proof, they would prosecute, or at least move to impeach her, since Congress is Republican dominated. Note that a successful impeachment would effectively remove her ability to run for any federal office.
They "rock"? They aren't "mini pros" at all, unless by "mini pro" you mean "the opposite of pro". They have a low amount of fixed RAM and storage, low CPU performance and low GPU performance.
I have four 2012 i7 quad core minis with SSDs and 16GB RAM. They have been running just fine as low-power headless servers. I'm looking for an upgrade of those minis. The current "minis" are something I wouldn't buy except as a simple desktop as that's about all they're good for, or a doorstop if you add some double sided tape. I am looking at small form factor low-power linux systems as an alternative. I don't need GPUs and in all honesty, don't need more than 16GB RAM for the workloads in question. If I need more than 16GB, it's likely time to step up to some serious hardware and not a low-power small form factor box.
For now, it's still better to use any *nix distribution, even a systemd one.
Firefox should handle self signed certificates better. It treats them as dodgy, but they are not.
A certificate authority injected between you and a known server represents an unwanted man-in-the-middle.
I'll admit that the last time I dealt with this on FF, it was a few revisions ago. Self-signed certs are easy enough to add to the browser, any browser really. Will the average user know how to deal with this and take the appropriate steps? No.
Adding your own CA may take a little more work, but is what you need to do to avoid MITM attacks.
I'd actually be happy with a solid mini. Those things rock as headless workstations, they're essentially mini pros... ;)
I'd love a mac pro tower for my graphics workstation with some number of minis for processing and server loads.
admitted under oath that Hillary was guilty of at least a dozen crimes
Did he? Should be easy to list out at least 2 crimes then. I thought as you did, until I actually read some of the details. I doubt I'd try to prosecute either.
Well, no. If you RTFA, you see that these jobs are being offshored. The H-1B workers are here to gather requirements and understand current workflows, not to become employees of the University and take the existing positions of American workers.
Flipping back through the entire set of links, that's not stated at all. It is implied, but so is the fact that some of these workers will be onsite.
Look, they are called "temporary work visas". In case you didn't get it, that groups as "(temporary (work visas))". That's because they are work visas that are time limited. Whether you like that terminology is irrelevant.
The fact that you fall back on literal statements to support your view that they are temporary workers of the same category that most expect when you say "temporary worker" says all that needs be said.
Skill-based immigration works pretty much the same in most countries: a temporary work permit followed after 5-10 years by permanent residence and the option of becoming a citizen. In the US, that works through H-1Bs followed by green cards. The reason for this two-stage system around the world is the massive expansion of the welfare state.
You'd be incorrect. In the US, that works through a green card application, or it used to, hence my reference to rolling back immigration laws to that of the 70s. To get a green card under those rules, preference was given to those with skills benefitting the US. H1-B visas are specifically to import "temporary" skillsets not available domestically because, you know, Network engineers level IV and System Admin II people just can't be found anywhere, especially not in UCSF. There is no clause for H1-Bs to be fast tracked for green cards. That's the carrot companies dangle to get H1-Bs to sign up for indentured servitude for 7 years. I've see this in action personally at several companies, 2 of which were honorable and actually attempted to follow through on their promises. Several others that just kept kicking the paperwork can down the street. I can also say most of those H1-Bs were not possessing any skills that could not be found locally.
The page you link to doesn't seem to be region specific; labor certification must take into account regional differences.
That page already had region selected, specifically for SF. You can go back through the process via "Find Occupations" if you wish to verify all aspects.
I think not and you can look about. The latter says 8% of urban americans did not have access to 3/25 as of 2015.
They've divided up the country so there are two majors in every area
There are areas where there is only 1 provider of what could loosely be termed as broadband.
Especially since Steve Jobs in relative terms contributed almost nothing to the world
And yet relative to you, Steve is a god.
Should be posting in about 5 hours...
If it were only that simple. However, the entire system, multiple computers and all which was supposedly hardened specifically for this application (running the vessel) failed to even come up on reboot IIRC. There were multiple stories about this released at the time, and the problems were deeper than that "bad data" being placed in non-volatile storage. I don't recall the exact specifics, but something about the OS being compromised and rendered inoperable was what I believe occurred. i.e., corrupted system files. That definitely is an OS issue, especially across multiple systems that are supposed to be redundant and able to withstand a node loss.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
I'm not sure, I think you have all the parts displayed here.
Vote with my feet?
Tell me kind sir, how the fuck am I supposed to vote with my feet?
Move? I think that was what he was getting at - your area sucks, so move to another area that doesn't suck. You know, because it's easy and simple to just move a state or two over.
consumers usually have the choice between a steaming turd and a shit sandwich.
If they have a choice at all. Some consumers wish they had a choice of either, but are being blocked from receiving anything even when someone wants to give them a choice.
A sailor entered a 0 which created a divide by 0 state that somehow even a reboot of the OS didn't clear, nor a complete shutdown and reboot of the entire system. Note that it didn't take down just 1 app or 1 computer, but the entire network of computers. Seems like more than just an app problem there.
Their OS hasn't changed measurably underneath the covers, other than lots of bandaids.
So you are asserting that Windows 95-era machines are substantively the same as Windows 7? Have you ever used pre-Windows 2000 machines, or are you just piling on the bandwagon of anti-"M$" hate here?
I'm guessing you've never had to diagnose why a "plug-and-pray" device was not working, and think that shield icon next to some menu options is just a weird graphical bug.
These were Windows NT servers. If all I ever had to debug was a PNP issue, I'd probably still use Windows as a daily OS.
Well, and in this case, the job is to gather requirements and perform training in order to facilitate outsourcing to India. Obviously, the current UCSF IT staff are not well versed in that, are they.
Nice bit of spin. The job is whatever job the H1-B will be doing. So, do they have people in the school capable of doing those jobs? Apparently they do, as they have current non H1-B employees doing those jobs and I assume that UCSF is also providing a program in this area training new people to do them as well.
The H-1B visa defines temporary workers. So, wrong again.
But, H1-Bs meet all the other requirements of Permanent employees, regular employees or the directly employed work for an employer and are paid directly by that employer. In addition to their wages, they often receive benefits like subsidized health care, paid vacations, holidays, sick time, or contributions to a retirement plan. Permanent employees are often eligible to switch job positions within their companies. The only difference between H1-Bs and a "permanent employee" that I have seen is that they are only permitted to stay in country for 'x' amount of time, and they're usually paid significantly less. Regarding retirement, they are obviously not able to partake of government involved plans like 401Ks nor IRAs. A bit of legalese or semantic hand-waving on a document does not change the facts. Neither the job nor the employment terms are temporary. However, the visa allowing them to stay in country is temporary. I'd even argue that most H1-B jobs in IT are more permanent than the actual "permanent" jobs some of us get hired into.
That may be, although since the labor certifications are issued by the federal government, Obama must be complicit in that.
However, your statement that it "only requires a minimum salary of 60K" is incorrect.
Any more "dog poop" you want to produce?
There's definitely a lot of stink all over the federal government regarding this program. Personally I do not feel we need an H1-B program at all. If a skill set is needed, I'm sure we can get it either domestically or promote that skill set for people actually wanting to immigrate. But that would revert the current immigration policy back to that in the 70s and that's a whole different can of worms.
My statement about 60K was in relation to computer / network support people who we are discussing in this thread.
If UCSF is training people to do IT jobs that cheap overseas labor in third world countries can do, they are failing in their mission and should be shut down entirely.
H1-Bs require that no one capable can be found. You just stated that they either have a whole school of them, or, rightly so, they should be shut down.
The term "temporary worker" has a specific meaning; look it up.
H1-Bs are not temporary by the definition of temporary workers.
As for the the INA clause you cite, H1-B abusing companies regularly hand that clause out for their dog walkers to pick up poop with.
True - MS products aren't known as stable reliable systems. Hell, MS OSes even left a whole Navy ship disabled, so why would you think an entertainment system nearly 20 years later would be any better? Their OS hasn't changed measurably underneath the covers, other than lots of bandaids.
BSquare is a Microsoft "Gold Certified Partner", whatever the hell that means.
It means they paid enough cash to line Microsoft's pockets with gold....
maybe even a paper copy somewhere just in case
Paper copies that the voter verifies and is received is the only thing that is close to inviolate. Electronic elections? Sure, print paper, voter validates paper, drop paper into the box. Only thing that counts is paper.
When you can build robots with robots, and assemble entire vehicles largely without human oversight. Just consider the Roomba, and move forward technologically a few years.