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Comment Re:Pronoun Game Anyone? (Score 1) 122

by Desler (#49924907) Attached to: Amazon Pulls Kodi Media Player From App Store Over Piracy Claims

There are no alternate web browsers for iOS. There are alternate shells around the engine of Safari,

So by this logic, PaleMoon is not an alternate browser since it's merely just an alternate shell around Gecko? And current Opera is also not an alternate browser because it's just Chrome with a different shell, too, right? Please do tell.

Submission + - Glenn Greenwald calls BS on Snowden hit piece (firstlook.org)

Submitted by Lunix Nutcase
Lunix Nutcase writes: Glenn Greenwald writes a scathing denunciation of the Sunday Times Snowden hit peace:

Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major US and British media outlets “report,” especially in the national security area. And journalists who read such reports continue to treat self-serving decrees by unnamed, unseen officials – laundered through their media – as gospel, no matter how dubious are the claims or factually false is the reporting.

We now have one of the purest examples of this dynamic. Last night, the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times published their lead front-page Sunday article, headlined “British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese.”

Comment Re: Why isn't this illegal again? (Score 1) 614

by Desler (#49838639) Attached to: Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements

H1b visas should be pared down to a couple of thousand superstars for whom NO replacement can be found (i.e. truly unique talents).. saying you don't want to pay an engineer or scientist in the US 75k a year doesn't cut it.

And in the cases of these truly unique people they should be required to pay at market or above wages and benefits. Because if those engineers/scientists/etc. were truly as vital to these companies as claimed then they can more than afford to pay all of that versus having vital positions being unfilled. That would eliminate all of this abuse of the system to drive down wages.

Comment Re: Why isn't this illegal again? (Score 1) 614

by Desler (#49838599) Attached to: Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements

(2) eliminate the restriction and let the H1-B workers compete without restriction. I would be happy with the second option, but I don't think most of the complainers would agree.

Why wouldn't they agree? Having to actually pay equivalent or higher wages to their American couterparts would all but eliminate most of the H1-B imports and outsourcing in general. The whole point of H1-B/outsourcing hires is to depress wages and benefits, not actually because they can't find qualified people (outside of extremely rare cases). Clearly if these IT workers at Disney are being used to train their replacements then they clearly were not incompetents who couldn't do their job.

Comment Re: Why isn't this illegal again? (Score 1) 614

by Desler (#49838581) Attached to: Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements

Why should this be illegal?

Because what Disney and other companies are doing in situations like this clearly violate the regulations around H1-Bs. H1-Bs by law are not supposed to be used to displace American workers or to drive down wages. They are only supposed to be used when NO ONE has the skills needed for the job. Clearly if these IT workers can train their replacements they have the skills to do their job. But since most of Congress are basically the mouthpieces of the rich and wealthy they won't do shit to stop this.

Congress should have required companies to have to pay above well-above market rates to use H1-Bs if they really are as vital as these companies claim. That would have eliminated the clear abuses of the system that we routinely see from these companies.

Comment Re:2015 (Score 2) 57

by Desler (#49723293) Attached to: Forecasting the Next Pandemic

Or you know, you could just put a condom on and forget about whole "dying" story.

Ignoring numerous people like Arthur Ashe and Isaac Asimov who got AIDS via blood transfusion, right?
AI

Forecasting the Next Pandemic 57

Posted by samzenpus from the I-don't-feel-so-good dept.
sciencehabit writes: A new study led by Barbara A. Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, suggests a computer model that incorporates machine learning can pinpoint, with 90% accuracy, rodent species that are known to harbor pathogens that can spread to humans. Sciencemag reports on the study: "Han and her team first used their program to identify lifestyle patterns common to rodents harboring diseases like black plague, rabies, and hanta virus and found that their model had an accuracy rate of 90%. After the machine had 'learned' the telltale signs, the researchers searched for new rodents that fit the profile but were not previously thought to be carriers. So far, the model has identified more than 150 new animal species that could harbor zoonotic diseases, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The computer program also predicted 58 new infections in rodents that were already known to carry one zoonotic disease."

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