Comment: Re:visas for highly skilled coders (Score 1) 630
I wish I had some points to give mod you up.
Comment: Re:Again with the visas (Score 1) 630
Really? It's not like Sanjay is going to be eating the burgers those locals will be hired to flip.
I think that was precisely the point of the parent. Sanjay will be better for the economy, because he is an immigrant and is more motivated to succeed rather than to leech of the government and talk about benefits he is entitled to.
Comment: Re:Again with the visas (Score 1) 630
..."we can't find a CISSP who will work in the Bay Area for $24,000/year."...
They might want to hire someone for $24k, but the H1-B process does not work like that. They have to send all of the job requirements, resume, diplomas, recommendation letters,and other supporting information to government for Labor Certification process, which will give them a minimum salary they are allowed to pay for that job. Numbers are usually based on averages for the job and the region.
...Couple that with "secret requirements"...
It is worth mentioning that your experience, that you gained while already working for the company that is applying for your H1-B visa, is NOT allowed be used to justify your qualification requirements for the job. You will fail Labor Certification process and will not get H1-B approved.
Comment: Re:Again with the visas (Score 1) 630
How is increasing the number of workers supposed to decrease the unemployment rate?
It will prevent people from working for $1 oversees and competing with you on solely on the price. Instead, they will come over here and join the ranks of unemployed and drive salaries of software jobs up (since there are less people now willing to work for lower pay).
Comment: SOPA not dead (Score 5, Informative) 273
as of yesterday SOPA was resurrected in the House
Comment: Re:PHP is great (Score 1) 519
Out of curiosity, if I wanted to have a web application that used AJAX to listen for change events from the server (long-poll style), how in PHP would I notify any waiting requests of a new message to be sent out?
You would use "J" to send an "A" request and then use "J" again to interpret your "X" response. Notice the lack of "P" in AJAX.
Comment: Re:Hurray.. ? (Score 1) 1167
You're salaried. You're paid to do a job, whether it takes you 20 hours or 80 hours a week. If you want, I'll pay you an extra 50% of your hourly wage when you work more than 40 hours a week. Your hourly wage is $0/hour, here's $0.
I'm done! I can go home early, right?
I believe, if I was allowed to go home early, as a salaried employee, I would get more work done in a single day, because I would be proactively looking for things to do (to justify me leaving early) instead of browsing web and not doing anything useful.
Comment: Re:Word document?! (Score 1) 164
Once again, don't open email attachments from unknown senders.
Since many web browsers are so helpful nowadays, you don't need to run any executables or open any attachments anymore. Browsers will usually help you by opening malware-ridden PDFs, Flash objects, as well as DOC files. You will not even know they were opened, since malware does not want to be loaded in the open and gets executed in a hidden windows or javascript objects.
Comment: Re:Only one way to be sure. (Score 1) 1016
I recently melted by accident some aluminum cookware on a campfire. You don't really have to go all high-tech to get temperature high enough to melt aluminum.
Terrorists Bomb Moscow Airport 640
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from the violence-is-the-last-refuge-of-the-incompetent dept.
from the violence-is-the-last-refuge-of-the-incompetent dept.
jayme0227 writes "Terrorists detonated a bomb at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 35 people and wounding another 152, Russian authorities said. President Dmitry Medvedev, who called the bombing a terrorist attack, ordered additional security at Moscow's other airports and transportation hubs, and Moscow police went on high alert in case of additional bombs."
According to the NY Times, "The airport remained open on Monday evening, and passengers continued to flow through the hall where the bomb had exploded."