If a computer search alters the state/contents of a machine, how would it be legal? e.g.: a naive software-based search of files, that alters metadata on files? Or: disassembling a device that wasn't designed to be disassembled, in order to clone the HD?
If border officials order a user to boot-up and enable the same access the traveler would have: What if there's software on the machine, that is *designed* to alter file contents when they are viewed? (The precise reason doesn't matter, but: what if the uncorrupted state of these files, or hardware, are important for one reason or another? say, to enable a security audit, by the traveler's employer?)
So (perhaps unlike other personal effects or "papers"), a computer search is not necessarily a passive process -- it's an ACTIVE one, that can (likely?) lead to damage, destruction, or complete loss.
Such reciprocity should be made part of the H1-B visa program:
1.) Oh, the originating country does not allow Americans to work there, under the same or better conditions? BAM! No H1-B visas for you.
1-a.) If no U.S. government agency will maintain a list? The U.S. worker just needs to prove they were statutorily barred working in the country that originated any H1B visa the company sponsored.
2.) For ANY violation of the H1-B visa conditions, make the sponsoring company subject to triple damages, paid to any U.S. worker that was passed-over, in favor of an H1-B.
Ultimately, the companies that hire Infosys should pay for this outrageous behavior. What other strategy will yield the fastest end to this degradation of American workers?...or even, put a stop to the entire H1B visa abomination? Here's a list of Infosys Clients.
Pick one at random. How about: Kellogg's? (They have such a homey, "All-American" brand image, don't they?)
Make them pay: Shame them, give them bad publicity, DESTROY THEIR BRAND -- do anything legal & necessary to make them drop Infosys as a vendor, permanently.
BTW, I don't think Infosys are the only ones who may do this. I recently did a phone screening for a *temporary* web-development job w/ Sapient. AFAICT, I gave detailed, accurate answers to nearly every technical question asked of me. And several of the questions were extremely remedial: ("What is the 'http' part of a URL called?" "Name some other protocols that a browser can use...") -- and worse: the interviewer tried correct me with his own, WRONG answers.
Anyway, because of this thread, I did a little searching, and came across this WSJ article about Sapient:
Sapient hired about 2,000 staff in India last year too. The Boston-based company has 65% of its total workforce of more than 10,100 based in India.
"About 35% of our people are hired locally [in markets the company operates]," Mr. Endow said. "That's a very healthy mix."
Are companies like Sapient just going through the motions to make it *look* like they're trying to fill some position with a U.S. worker -- as some sort of legal workaround? -- when their actual goal is to import yet another H1-B, all along?
Does any U.S. government agency keep an accurate, publicly-accessible record of all accepted/denied H1B requests?...including the name of the company, with the date, location, and public-job posting for the position they were allegedly trying to fill?
North Korea may have taken extra precautions to prevent their tests from releasing radionuclides, in order to conceal the nature of their fission devices (Pu-239 vs U-235, or possibly other isotopes) -- and thus, conceal & protect the supply chain for their fissile material.
Furthermore, don't let the low explosive yields fool you: NK is likely testing the compact trigger for full-blown, fission-fusion-fission thermonuclear devices -- whose explosive yield could be up to several hundred kilotons.
However, sex changes are legal in Iran (and paid for!) -- so Iranians should be allowed to buy iPads, as long as they're jail-broken & running Android.
Are you kidding? The United States initially helped Saddam Hussein invade Iran, in a decade-long conflict that eventually claimed a million Iranian lives. The U.S. and other European powers even helped the Iraq use WMDs against Iran. And, get this: when Iraq attacked Iranian forces with chemical weapons, Iran did not retaliate in kind, despite possessing the technical capacity to do so. On top of all that, Saudi Arabian leaders claim they could acquire nuclear weapons in mere weeks. (regardless of the conditions under which they claim they would do so, the Saudi acknowledgement of their capability, is, itself, a nuclear threat -- on top of the threat already posed by other regional actors, who posses nuclear weapons.)
Now, you don't think *these* are plausible reasons for why Iran might want to develop a latent nuclear capability?
(note that "latent capability" is different from "fully functioning and deployed weapons.")
> History repeats itself.
Exactly, but not the way you describe. That repeating pattern is more like colonialism -- with its concomitant historical pattern of racism and white supremacy -- and not, as you claim, Antisemitism. Those tin-pot dictatorships that are (or were) all over the region? Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Hosni Mubarek, etc...? They are *overwhelmingly* propped-up by European powers and/or the United States. Make no mistake: the Saudi regime is *brutal.* ( it can be argued that basic freedoms are far more curtailed in Saudi Arabia, than in Iran.) Heck, Saudi Arabia essentially operates a eugenics program, designed to breed more "Al-Saud" family members. Such policies are not in the interests of most Saudi citizens, and, in fact: they are robbing the people blind. But these policies are in the interests of the Al-Sauds, and their colonial benefactors.
Also, the entire settler/colonist process in Israel, itself, is far more akin to classic, race-based colonialism, than it is akin to resistance to racism (which includes: resistance to Antisemitism). You can even ignore the treatment of Palestinians to make this case:
1.) Israel helped the Apartheid South African government acquire weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. Israel did this, despite the fact that the South African state was maintaining preparedness for a genocidal war of annihilation against Blacks, eg: they even went so far as to research the creation of bioweapons that would selectively-kill Blacks in the "race-war" that their leaders imagined could happen.
2.) Israel helped supply arms, training, and logistics to the Ladino/White Guatemalan regime, in the 1980s to 90's. It is widely acknowledged that this regime committed outright genocide against indigenous Mayans, during that county's civil war. Some estimates say that at least 200,000 Mayans were murdered or disappeared. Logistics included a computerized "passbook" system, that was used to limit the movements of Mayan Indians, in their own country. A similar system was supplied to South Africa, enabling the Apartheid regime to limit the movements of Blacks.
Now, before you claim "Israel (or other western powers) would never use nuclear weapons, first" -- consider the above two points: Israel has already helped other countries commit, or potentially commit, genocide. Not to mention: the United States, and many of the European powers active in the region, already have their *own* relatively recent history of mass-murder and genocide.
So, who should be trusted? Who will keep the peace? Iranian leaders
The "Christian" right's relationship to the Taliban is might be more literal than everyone thinks: Saudi Arabia owns two trillion dollars of U.S. corporations and assets, and that buys a lot of influence. Perhaps, it's more than a coincidence that many these corporations help push socially conservative agenda? They do this via the media entities on which they advertise, like News Corp, which is 7% owned by a Saudi "royal." And now, they can do it via direct, unlimited, & anonymous campaign contributions/political advertising. Is it any coincidence that the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-woman agenda they push happens to mirror that which exists in the barbaric, medieval hellhole called "Saudi" Arabia?
The policies they push even help *kill* Americans" -- whether it's via lack of universal healthcare*** (killing up to 40,000 Americans a year) -- or via the wasted opportunity cost of multi-trillion-dollar wars & military spending. Why should the Saudi Arabian monarchy care? After all: a majority of Americans are still "infidels" -- so what if they push policies that help impoverish us and die? They've already spent billions to push their reactionary version of Islam (Wahhabism) around the world, for the last several decades.
***Ironically: the Saudi Arabia dictatorship attempts to buy support by providing their subjects with universal healthcare!
You can't be serious. Failed federal policies, facilitated by corporate-financed corruption, nearly caused the entire American economy to collapse....A collapse big enough to put both the Constitution and countless American lives in jeopardy. Next time, we might not be so lucky.
It IS that bad -- your comment seriously downplays what's been going on. Part of the problem is that not all Americans are affected to the same degree. (which is perhaps why you haven't noticed.) Look at the differential rates of incarceration, depending on what race you are. (holding constant particular crimes & crime rates, eg: white vs. black drug use rates are nearly identical for various drugs -- but the incarceration rate for blacks can be more than X10.) Or, just look at this guy, who just spent TWO YEARS in solitary confinement, after having had NO TRIAL.
Meanwhile, if you were the decision-maker at a bank that issued "liar's loans" en masse -- or led one of the credit agencies that fraudulently rated these bundled mortgages as "AAA" -- I guarantee that you got off scott-free! No one has gone to jail, or even been arrested for these crimes. (described & documented by many people, e.g.: William Black, here.)...even though the ENTIRE ECONOMY NEARLY COLLAPSED -- putting the both the Constitution and American lives in peril.
That's just a few small examples of how law & order have broken down in this country.
Even worse: a Saudi Arabian "prince" owns 7% of News Corp. What agenda do you think he want to push, vis-a-vis selling more oil?
(not only vis-a-vis climate change, but war with Iran?)
>600LY delay in communications is the deal breaker
Even if an extraterrestrial intelligence were detected thousands of light years away, we could reasonably assume that they've been around a lot longer than we have. (it is unlikely that in our multi-billions-of-years-old galaxy, that their technological civilization emerged *exactly* at the same time ours did....whether or not you consider the delay in communication.)
This means they could have long ago established outposts all across the galaxy, to which (whom) they can delegate decisions about what to communicate, or physically do. Such outposts could be very close to Earth.
>trade for exotic technologies.
Perhaps the "trade" is informational, or computational.
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If a computer search alters the state/contents of a machine, how would it be legal? e.g.: a naive software-based search of files, that alters metadata on files? Or: disassembling a device that wasn't designed to be disassembled, in order to clone the HD?
If border officials order a user to boot-up and enable the same access the traveler would have: What if there's software on the machine, that is *designed* to alter file contents when they are viewed? (The precise reason doesn't matter, but: what if the uncorrupted state of these files, or hardware, are important for one reason or another? say, to enable a security audit, by the traveler's employer?)
So (perhaps unlike other personal effects or "papers"), a computer search is not necessarily a passive process -- it's an ACTIVE one, that can (likely?) lead to damage, destruction, or complete loss.
1.) Oh, the originating country does not allow Americans to work there, under the same or better conditions? BAM! No H1-B visas for you.
1-a.) If no U.S. government agency will maintain a list? The U.S. worker just needs to prove they were statutorily barred working in the country that originated any H1B visa the company sponsored.
2.) For ANY violation of the H1-B visa conditions, make the sponsoring company subject to triple damages, paid to any U.S. worker that was passed-over, in favor of an H1-B.
Ultimately, the companies that hire Infosys should pay for this outrageous behavior. What other strategy will yield the fastest end to this degradation of American workers? ...or even, put a stop to the entire H1B visa abomination? Here's a list of Infosys Clients.
Pick one at random. How about: Kellogg's? (They have such a homey, "All-American" brand image, don't they?)
Make them pay: Shame them, give them bad publicity, DESTROY THEIR BRAND -- do anything legal & necessary to make them drop Infosys as a vendor, permanently.
> Personally, I'd rather see an open system. [...] a prorated debt to to the company that paid for getting them the H-1B
If the system were truly "open," the companies wouldn't pay any fee for an H1-B, at all.
Sapient hired about 2,000 staff in India last year too. The Boston-based company has 65% of its total workforce of more than 10,100 based in India.
"About 35% of our people are hired locally [in markets the company operates]," Mr. Endow said. "That's a very healthy mix."
However: Sapient has only about 1,500 US employees, and at least one-third to one-half of those are here b/c of visa sponsorship. (Consider that an H1-B lasts for 3 years -- extendable up to 6 -- and 2013 isn't even over, yet.) So:
Radionuclides were detected in 2013, and 2006.
North Korea may have taken extra precautions to prevent their tests from releasing radionuclides, in order to conceal the nature of their fission devices (Pu-239 vs U-235, or possibly other isotopes) -- and thus, conceal & protect the supply chain for their fissile material.
Furthermore, don't let the low explosive yields fool you: NK is likely testing the compact trigger for full-blown, fission-fusion-fission thermonuclear devices -- whose explosive yield could be up to several hundred kilotons.
John Titor's gonna fix this!
> This is war. This is what war is. This is wha
Oh no! They got him!
> 1700 miles a second
This is obviously a mis-print, right?
(i.e.: "sunlight" correlates to sleep patterns, sleepiness, and alertness.)
However, sex changes are legal in Iran (and paid for!) -- so Iranians should be allowed to buy iPads, as long as they're jail-broken & running Android.
> to purchase the product and violate US law (and apple policy)
According to Forbes, items that can be purchased at retail do not require an export license.
> Apple should be lauded for following it.
But the Apple Store employees did not follow the actual export law; and then they eventually told her she could buy the iPad online.
This girl was with her uncle, and intending to give the iPad to her cousin.
> Couldn't possibly be that.
Are you kidding? The United States initially helped Saddam Hussein invade Iran, in a decade-long conflict that eventually claimed a million Iranian lives. The U.S. and other European powers even helped the Iraq use WMDs against Iran. And, get this: when Iraq attacked Iranian forces with chemical weapons, Iran did not retaliate in kind, despite possessing the technical capacity to do so. On top of all that, Saudi Arabian leaders claim they could acquire nuclear weapons in mere weeks. (regardless of the conditions under which they claim they would do so, the Saudi acknowledgement of their capability, is, itself, a nuclear threat -- on top of the threat already posed by other regional actors, who posses nuclear weapons.)
Now, you don't think *these* are plausible reasons for why Iran might want to develop a latent nuclear capability?
(note that "latent capability" is different from "fully functioning and deployed weapons.")
> History repeats itself.
Exactly, but not the way you describe. That repeating pattern is more like colonialism -- with its concomitant historical pattern of racism and white supremacy -- and not, as you claim, Antisemitism. Those tin-pot dictatorships that are (or were) all over the region? Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Hosni Mubarek, etc...? They are *overwhelmingly* propped-up by European powers and/or the United States. Make no mistake: the Saudi regime is *brutal.* ( it can be argued that basic freedoms are far more curtailed in Saudi Arabia, than in Iran.) Heck, Saudi Arabia essentially operates a eugenics program, designed to breed more "Al-Saud" family members. Such policies are not in the interests of most Saudi citizens, and, in fact: they are robbing the people blind. But these policies are in the interests of the Al-Sauds, and their colonial benefactors.
Also, the entire settler/colonist process in Israel, itself, is far more akin to classic, race-based colonialism, than it is akin to resistance to racism (which includes: resistance to Antisemitism). You can even ignore the treatment of Palestinians to make this case:
Now, before you claim "Israel (or other western powers) would never use nuclear weapons, first" -- consider the above two points: Israel has already helped other countries commit, or potentially commit, genocide. Not to mention: the United States, and many of the European powers active in the region, already have their *own* relatively recent history of mass-murder and genocide.
So, who should be trusted? Who will keep the peace? Iranian leaders
>In Iraq, for example, the goal was to free the people there from a tyrant.
Wasn't it supposed to be about WMDs?
>phone calls made
Does this include full voice *recording* of the calls?
get an impartial ruling under the circumstances.
...and his father's friends in the Florida court system?
Trayvon, per mobile conversation with his girlfriend:
Does the NSA have a recording? (or some agency? via one of several automated, mass-surveillance systems?)
The "Christian" right's relationship to the Taliban is might be more literal than everyone thinks: Saudi Arabia owns two trillion dollars of U.S. corporations and assets, and that buys a lot of influence. Perhaps, it's more than a coincidence that many these corporations help push socially conservative agenda? They do this via the media entities on which they advertise, like News Corp, which is 7% owned by a Saudi "royal." And now, they can do it via direct, unlimited, & anonymous campaign contributions/political advertising. Is it any coincidence that the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-woman agenda they push happens to mirror that which exists in the barbaric, medieval hellhole called "Saudi" Arabia?
The policies they push even help *kill* Americans" -- whether it's via lack of universal healthcare*** (killing up to 40,000 Americans a year) -- or via the wasted opportunity cost of multi-trillion-dollar wars & military spending. Why should the Saudi Arabian monarchy care? After all: a majority of Americans are still "infidels" -- so what if they push policies that help impoverish us and die? They've already spent billions to push their reactionary version of Islam (Wahhabism) around the world, for the last several decades.
***Ironically: the Saudi Arabia dictatorship attempts to buy support by providing their subjects with universal healthcare!
You can't be serious. Failed federal policies, facilitated by corporate-financed corruption, nearly caused the entire American economy to collapse. ...A collapse big enough to put both the Constitution and countless American lives in jeopardy. Next time, we might not be so lucky.
It IS that bad -- your comment seriously downplays what's been going on. Part of the problem is that not all Americans are affected to the same degree. (which is perhaps why you haven't noticed.) Look at the differential rates of incarceration, depending on what race you are. (holding constant particular crimes & crime rates, eg: white vs. black drug use rates are nearly identical for various drugs -- but the incarceration rate for blacks can be more than X10.) Or, just look at this guy, who just spent TWO YEARS in solitary confinement, after having had NO TRIAL.
Meanwhile, if you were the decision-maker at a bank that issued "liar's loans" en masse -- or led one of the credit agencies that fraudulently rated these bundled mortgages as "AAA" -- I guarantee that you got off scott-free! No one has gone to jail, or even been arrested for these crimes. (described & documented by many people, e.g.: William Black, here.) ...even though the ENTIRE ECONOMY NEARLY COLLAPSED -- putting the both the Constitution and American lives in peril.
That's just a few small examples of how law & order have broken down in this country.
The same guy who owns the WSJ owns Fox News.
Even worse: a Saudi Arabian "prince" owns 7% of News Corp. What agenda do you think he want to push, vis-a-vis selling more oil? (not only vis-a-vis climate change, but war with Iran?)
This is great news for people who want to use lasers for crowd control.
Even if an extraterrestrial intelligence were detected thousands of light years away, we could reasonably assume that they've been around a lot longer than we have. (it is unlikely that in our multi-billions-of-years-old galaxy, that their technological civilization emerged *exactly* at the same time ours did. ...whether or not you consider the delay in communication.)
This means they could have long ago established outposts all across the galaxy, to which (whom) they can delegate decisions about what to communicate, or physically do. Such outposts could be very close to Earth.
Perhaps the "trade" is informational, or computational.