Since the majority of H-1B abuse comes from IT services, there's one very easy way to keep that from happening: change the law to specifically disallow IT workers from being eligible for the H-1B. Maybe make a new visa class for IT workers with all kinds of extra restrictions on it too, but since the abuse is just about all coming from one industry, that's how you fix it.

The H-1B is a very broadly applicable visa, there are many, many people making use of it who aren't doing so fraudulently. Modifying the entire H-1B program, and increasing the difficulty for everyone, in an effort to fix the abuse from one specific industry is just stupid.

What led you to believe the facts bother me? I was just asking what the OP's point was.

I assume he was trying to make some kind of snide remark about public money spent on science being wasted, but I would prefer to get confirmation before I jump to that conclusion.

Yes? And? I mean, it appears to be true, but is there some larger point behind your comment or do you just like observing where funding for things comes from?

Yes, I'm sure that's it. That's not at all a baseless paranoid assertion, no no, YOU are the sane one it's everyone else that's crazy. Right?

McAfee is just as nutty as Sister Sarah, if not possibly more. Palin just dresses up her stupid craziness in the right anti-media anti-establishment buzzwords so it appeals to the GOP voter base.

So why does anyone even give John McAfee an interview anymore, let alone write about the bullshit he spews in those interviews? The man is an endless fountain of bullshit, and his grasp of reality seems tenuous at best these days.

Maybe the "morons" would like STEM jobs that contribute to the people, not ones that contribute to defense contractors at the expense of the people.

But no, you're probably right, those two positions are completely irreconcilable and only an idiot would ever decline to give up their principles in search of job growth.

...and, in deploying it, open the door to militarizing space. Because what we really need to do is extend the worst parts of our nature to space too, right?

As if Ted Cruz ever thinks through a single one of his awful policy proposals to their logical conclusion...

I know the GOP is the party of pimping out Zombie Reagan, and they're favorite past-time is cherry picking things about the man to back up what they want to do now, but reviving Star Wars? Really? They're not even trying to pretend they didn't jump the shark now.

Not really. But if you don't want your public goings on to be recorded and stored forever vote. Vote in an informed way, and do it in local elections. Everyone overlooks local elections until something like this comes up, but they're as important if not more important in most people's daily lives than the big splashy national elections.

...as contrasted to the private industry folks who not only hoover up every possible piece of data they can get within a country mile of, but then go on to monetize it and/or sell it?

We're in the age of data. Everyone has, finally, come around to understand that and they're acting accordingly. Your faux outrage over the government doing it is just silly.

Seriously, that has to be the dumbest random libertarian aside I've ever seen in an article summary. "If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor."

Seriously? That's how you decide to slip in your political commentary? Come on...

The secretary is right that charging companies to be whitelisted is bad (for many different reasons). But somehow he goes from that ethical conundrum about making money by lying to your customers (by not blocking ads) and making money as a middle-man (by charging advertisers) to the idea that ad-blocking itself is bad...

How do you even manage logic that faulty?

It's far too late for that. Playing ads for paying customers already drove me away from them, I won't be going back just because they now let me pay more to avoid those ads.