I think you have your logics backward. I'd bet 99.9% if kids have *never* heard of H1B in their entire life when they pick their major.

This is a recurrent topic on Slashdot. I will not pretend I know how it's done in every single company but, as an H1B I have:
- paid the same amount of taxes as citizens in my company - had the same wages (even higher actually) as citizens - had the same access to healthcare as citizens - created an extra legal cost to my employers for maintaining my immigration status - not worked more (at least hours-wise) than citizens

The BLS (bls.gov) regulary publishes a list of the jobs with the most potential on the market. There is a lack in STEM. It's a fact (unless BLS is conspiring against the people, this is Slashdot after all).


In my field there are roughly 20% of citizens that fill positions, in any given company. Not sure why. Maybe head over to the engineering department of a big university and see who's attending and getting top grades. You have a sh*tton of people from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, and also now Latin America, working their asses off. Not many Americans... no they're all at the Business School learning 1- blah 2- blah 3- profit. Let's fix that first, then complain.


signed: former H1B, now permanent resident, one day citizen



Oh, and obligatory: "I took yer jerb".

...prehistoric devices like the Zune?

AES, used by NSA after beeing deemed sufficient for classified information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Security

The NSA/CIA may have quite a few (a lot of) bright minds, but they certainly can't compete with the best worldwide cryptographers.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your conspiracy theories.

I beg to differ, OPEC has run successfully as a cartel for quite some time.

Yes, they all more or less cheat, but not too much. In the end, they still drive the prices.

Whose fault? Who's "we"?

Subsidising unprofitable US producers would be extremely costly. It's extremely hard to fight market forces in a globalized environment (if it was just Montana vs Nevada, one could just pass a law). It's also most of the time counterproductive.

Now this is beyonf "free markets", this is clearly price manipulation. And price manipulation is "legal" only when there's no law. OPEC has been manipulating oil for years. Why do they get away with it? Because they don't belong to the WTO and hence don't fall under its "laws". China is a WTO member, so it's not that legal for them to act like that, and there is precedent action against such manipulation: http://www.google.com/search?q=wto+china+rare+earth

You shouldn't (always) trust the government either.

Oh come one. Now you totally ruined what could have been an interesting article.

Thanks dude, you made my day. I remember the first time I watched this intro... and the 10 following years spent playing the most awesome game ever.

(now you got me thinking, I had 16MB of RAM back then, now I have 16GB... time to see if building a 50,000 unit army would work!)

I won't comment about corporate America in general, but allow me to comment on Wall Street.

It may come as a surprise to (some of) you, but Wall Street mostly supported Obama in 2008(1). You are right though in saying that this year Wall Street seems to favor Romney. I guess you can't really bash bankers for four years and then expect them to support you.
The point is that assuming that big business votes overwhelmingly Republican is probably not realistic.

Big tech names have also always been generally of the progressive type, hence Democrat. Not to mention the quasi endorsement Obama got from Warren Buffet.


(1): yeah, I know, citation needed. Couldn't find the WSJ article that was listing the shift in contributions... but basically there was this article (as an example) that was saying that while in 2008 at Goldman Sachs the ratio of campaign contribution by employees was 80% for Obama vs 20% for McCain, this has pretty much changed into 20% for Obama vs 80% for Romney.

OP here.

Exactly. My reason to believe SilentCircle is in good faith is Zimmerman's history fighting for privacy. It doesn't mean I would trust that service. But I guess it gives some hope that people are going to become more aware of privacy issues in general.

Which is why I was ambivalent about this and came to get /.'s opinion

How did you learn? By making mistakes. Let him run his Windows 7. With admin rights. If he gets viruses, trojans, adware, malware, so be it. If he needs to reinstall every 3 months as you probably did when you had Win 95, so be it. That's how he'll learn.

When I was an H1B worker, I had health care like my peers, was paid more than my peers and had slightly shorter hours than my peers. Your stereotypes belong to the local pub.