I suppose if you were doing a beefy VDI implementation, or a Citrix gateway that has a public face.. I've simply never seen anyone use a Chromebook to access something like that. I'm not saying it can't be done, I've simply never seen it, or heard of anyone deploying it that way.

I would think if you're accessing a more powerful desktop, you've got to be securing your endpoints and the connection/VPN between them. While internet connections are pretty widespread, they're not yet available everywhere; so it would render a Chromebook not worth as much while unable to connect to that VDI/Citrix/Powerful Desktop, wouldn't it?

The article says, "...a corresponding decrease in remote work and remote learning." So, again, I go back to asking which 'remote work' is actually using a Chromebook? I know schools are using it for remote learning, they're using them from in-class learning. School usage likely hasn't changed in 6-12, but K-5 may be slowing down.

What actual 'remote work' is using a Chromebook? I'm actually curious.

So...just curious: Whose using a Chromebook for Remote Work? Honestly?

While it's possible that some of these judges may be innocent, or did not conduct themselves in an unprofessional or biased manner in their cases, it does not mean they are above the law. Someone who runs over a person trying to commit suicide is still charged with manslaughter and due process still rolls. I say the same thing for politicians on both sides, or all sides of the isle.

Judges, especially, should know better. And when they realize they've made a mistake, they should bring that issue forward and recuse themselves so Lady Justice can continue to work blindly.

While it may be something that should be done, at this point it may be with little point. Do we honestly think that businesses haven't been beating the bushes to get the supplies they need? You can't find what isn't there; no matter how much money you offer, you can't buy what doesn't exist.

Why do you think manufacturers have been talking about making chips in the US again? It's not because it's cheaper to build them here.

The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant work visa that allows US employers to hire foreign workers for specialty jobs that require a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

So, are you implying that the US doesn't have IT workers with Bachelor degrees, or that IT workers with Bachelor degrees are going to China and India? The H-1B visa was made to let US employers fill positions they couldn't find talent for in the US, but now it's become a cheap way to import labor instead of moving your firm to another country to exploit the inexpensive labor there.

That being said, the cost of an H-1B worker should be one higher than it would cost to get the talent locally. Otherwise, the program exists to simply avoid more expensive labor locally or with in the US.

I suppose they would have offshored the position already, if it were something that could be sent offshore, and was cheaper than an H-1B visa. Wouldn't they?

Huh, this subject line was in my autofill. Weird.

I'm okay with these H-1B's going to "waste" and companies, tech or otherwise, having to actually pay market rates for, or invest in the training and education of someone who can fill those needs for them. I've always been a proponent of training people and investing in them, so you can encourage them to stay. The H-1B program isn't doing what it was meant to do when it was created. It's now a program to allow companies to cheaply fill positions that could go to US workers, if companies invested in training and education.

US companies have proven time and time again, they are generally unwilling to invest in the talent pool. They're unwilling to look ahead and build a stable of talent inside their own company, but instead, seek to find Just-In-Time skills and labor, which doesn't really exist in their area, or if it does, demands a higher salary than they are willing to pay. Thus they complain that there isn't enough talent and so they beg for more and more H1-B visas, in order to import the talent.

This really must stop.

As long as companies are allowed to import overseas talent, or simply offshore the work, then the talent pool will continue to get smaller and smaller and smaller. In the same way that the US has effectively moved it's manufacturing overseas, this will continue to follow in the IT world.

I would agree that in a civilized country that should be a true statement. The US, especially the business world, is either VERY strict with internet usage, or pretty lax. But typically, it has been very strict on the whole. You are supposed to be doing company business with company property, you signed a AUP for that. I would wager that most government employees sign an AUP that would prohibit non-work use of work equipment.

I would tend to agree that under normal circumstances browsing history wouldn't be something you could use FOIA to pull those records. However, if web searches are filtered on a centralized server/service, that is a government record that should be accessible to FOIA. That may just be a record of sites they tried to go to, but were rejected. However, I suspect that data is being scrutinized, and those records likely are accessible.

Hrm.. let me see, I've got my surprised look around here somewhere.. Oh, here it is...*gasp!*

I believe this may have to do with the chaos and turmoil that was churned up in the last sets of turnover from administrations. You can't run these things like a business, because those get compromised by semi-state sponsored hacking groups. These things have to be run by dedicated professionals, who are immunized against political upheaval. When they aren't, your armor cracks and the enemy gets inside.

Don't misread me. That's not to say the work they do isn't influenced by politics. They don't always get to pick their projects, but they should very much be the final word on how a project is put out. We need to get back to letting experts and professionals lead us in areas where they are the authority, and not guided by those who have spent time in Google University.

In recommending that vaccinated people resuming wearing masks indoors in virus hot spots, the CDC this week said that new evidence shows that breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as those in unvaccinated people. They cited a large recent outbreak among vaccinated individuals in the Cape Cod town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, among others, for the change.

As the documents note, COVID-19 vaccines are still highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. The CDC has always expected some breakthrough infections but has struggled with how to explain them to the public.

The documents point out that the delta variant, first detected in India, causes infections that are more contagious than the common cold, flu, smallpox and Ebola virus, and is as infectious as highly contagious chickenpox.

https://apnews.com/article/sci...

The Vaccine doesn't give you immunity to COVID-19, it keeps you from 1.) dying from it, 2.) hopefully having to go to the hospital for a long stay with a sever case. Just because we're vaccinated, doesn't mean we can't get it, and/or spread it to others.

I'm not sure how to explain to others that you should care about other people. Disagreements over COVID-19 aren't about politics, but a basic divide on what it means to live in a civil society.

I think it's important to understand that when you get Vaccinated against COVID-19, you aren't immune to it. None of the vaccines tout that you can't get it after you have the vaccine fully onboard. The advantage of the vaccine is that if you do get COVID-19, you won't A.) die from it, and B.) get so sick you have to be hospitalized and ventilated. They have never, ever said you can't get sick from COVID-19 after you've had the vaccine.

The scenario that we should be considering is when you are vaccinated, and do get the virus. For you, it's just a bad cold or flu, but the week before you got a fever, you were spreading it to your co-workers, classmates, families, and the people you've been socializing with. So, the vaccinated people get cold/flu symptoms, but the unvaccinated folks go to the hospital; or worse.

The CDC is indicating, internally, this spreads as easily as Chickenpox. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/) Except this time, even after you've had it, or gotten the vaccine for Chickenpox, you can still get it and spread it again.

Actually, I think the L1011 was the very first to be rated for a CAT III autolanding...when I go back and double-check myself.

But, as others have commented, Pilots weren't/aren't always keen on the autoland feature. Which, I can understand. Automation, while it makes their job easier, also makes them worth less money to the company, and threatens their livelihood. Collectively, we have some of the same fears with the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles on the roadways. We want a driver in the seat, ready to take the wheel if the slightest error occurs.