Growing up in the 1970s, there were many books by reputable scientists who were absolutely sure that the Earth will have mega-famines and enter an Ice Age by the year 2000. They were absolutely certain that no economic growth will ever occur in China or India, the Cold War will last a thousand years, and air pollution will require everyone to wear oxygen masks at all times.

This is the biggest problem with H-1B visas.

Wanna bet that the following has happened with H-1B holders

1 holder finds out about something illegal or otherwise questionable in the business And is then told to keep silent or you will get fired and deported.

2 requiring bribes to keep your job (or "extra" fees that a US worker does not even hear about)

3 Off Books/Unpaid work

4 requiring Daughters/Wives "model" for or "entertain" the managers/ friends

or worse

yeah ruffled underpants inspire great feats of hacking.

how does that formula go

time to complete hack = (Complexity of Hack * age of target) / (number of persons interested * interest factor of hack)

yeah any Porn Filter that does not include a locked room and armed marine guards will be hacked in minutes to seconds

Not to mention that you might find a number of Caribbean Lawyers that would LITERALLY eat you RAW for pulling a stunt like that.

I think the food regs require you to state if you processed a product IN THE SAME BUILDING as stuff with %insert list of common food allergens here% much less actually had bits of them in your product.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

and

http://www.fda.gov/Food/Guidan...

besides being able to wrangle a loaded rack server into place at combat speed could come in handy someday.

Or run a 100 foot network cable

Or throw a ssd to some grunt to plug it into a rack

but then again any DI that can't get a geek into shape in decent time needs to hang up his smokey bear hat

okay we have a sealed room (lets just say its stone made out of stone blocks) 2 meters by 2 meters by 3 meters.

the vents in the room are 3 inches wide with metal grates over them (so no coming in/out via the vents).

There is One Door in or out of the room (and its a security door) with an armed marine in front (and a couple cameras).

in the middle of the room is a small pedestal type table (no way of hiding anything under it) with a small velvet pillow holding a glass of ice.

The door is then sealed with forensic tape and then locked. (the marine is told to shoot anyone trying to get in the room)

3 hours later the room is opened and the glass of ice is GONE the pillow is wet and there is a handful of diamonds on the pillow.

Your challenge is to tell

1 where did the glass go??
2 where did the diamonds come from??

this has to be fixed at the K4 level (and pushed from there)

1 teach the rugrats A HOW TO LEARN B THAT THEY CAN LEARN C HOW TO BEHAVE PROPERLY
2 i would at this point flood the school system with "EDU-Slates" that have on the back end a full library of FREE school books (promote the Standard Book but also have the most common alt Books on %Subject%)
3 make being smart Cool (maybe have some sort of points system that unlocks Media for getting good grades)

Okay letme chime in here on that myth of pulling ones self up by your boot straps.

1 I would put good odds that the section of town that has the Homeless shelters is also across town from most of the decent jobs
2 Unemployment is a JOKE (okay if you earn more that $X00 in a week we are going to cut you off and btw you get paid $X0 a week)
3 Employers know exactly what addresses the shelters are and WILL NOT HIRE if you put one of those addresses down
4 Online aps for everything (and next to nothing for public access to computers)
5 Constant phone tag for like everything (and don't forget the number of minutes you get from a Gov Phone is dinky)
6 Everybody assumes that if you are homeless/unemployed you can show up anywhere anytime
7 Public transit that is a bad joke at best (oh and whoever placed all the different services must have used a dart board down at the local pub and a city map)

sure one can pull oneself up by bootstraps IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T KEEP CUTTING THEM

no but it and the rest of your PPE will protect you from

1 tools and such left on the beam
2 the guy slide tackling you to get you out of the way of a dropping ibeam
3 management that decides to muck about on the work site

"A robot which has "border collie" level intelligence, train-ability, and independent problem solving with robotic implements can/will be incredibly useful in many applications."

and if we could "wet jack" actual border collies we could do a bunch of really cool stuff at about 5% of the cost (even if we supplied the border collie with body armour).

in the traffic cop scenario would it work to have pingers in the light wands?? basically you would have a LEFT and RIGHT wand with 2? sensors each that would send out an X/Y position to any AIs in range. Im thinking that there is a small limit of signals since you have LEFT ,RIGHT ,STOP ,GO ,BACKUP/TURN AROUND and YOU!

im hoping they don't do something stupid and disable the GodMode trick.

could somebody please either try that trick by creating the folder from scratch or grab https://dl.dropboxusercontent....??

At what point will they learn to downsize these vessels? Will there not be a linux of the shipping world, microscopic ships that deliver one molecule at a time from Asia to Europe?

given the land speed of a Polar Bear if you need to shoot more than 8 rounds to drop said bear then thats just ammo that will be in the gun when the polar bear EATS YOU AND YOUR GUN.

do they have a snowmobile big enough to mount a Vulcan??

And given in the field of "Hell Fighter" he basically INVENTED large chunks of the tools and protocols he knoweth of what he speaks.