It's not globalist bullshit. I assist in doing hiring for the jobs my company has open. The number of candidates who simply have no experience is astounding. Especially when you are dealing with niche standards that aren't heavily used in the US. Is there H1B abuse? Sure, just like there is abuse of everything. But this will only serve to make it harder for people who are using the program legitimately.

I'm sorry, that's BS. There is no incetive for someone to learn technology if it isn't used in the US actively - that means no local talent pool outside of people who maybe worked internationally. If a domestic company begins using that technology, they have no choice but to pull from overseas. Likewise, a lot of major standards bodies are international (3GPP, ITU, etc). If you need someone with that tier of expertise, they are rarely going to be American. But, hey, whatever helps you justify your nationalist agenda.

First, I reported your post for being abusive abusive. Want me to take your argument seriously and have a real meaningful dialog? Talk like an adult. Second, yes, companies do use H1B visas this way. Good luck finding someone who actually has experience working on niche technologies in the US that aren't currently booming, or for standards that don't exist in the US. Guess what, if there is no one using the technology domestically, people rarely study it. That leaves companies who try to use the tech to shop overseas. Example, finding someone who fully understands the IP multimedia subsystem for telephony, understands the interfaces, and maybe helped participated in formulation of 3GPP spec. That's the sort of folks we hire, and they don't exist domestically. 3GPP IMS spec is barely used in the US, which means no talent pool outside of overseas.

I really wish these morons would understand that the US needs to compete in technology. And when you get to the bleeding edge of technology, the people who truly understand and are working to develop the "new things" are usually just a handful. And that handful of people rarely lives in the US. In my career, there are about 70 people around the world who work on the same technology, and the vast majority aren't American. We already have to get tons of H1B visas to compete. There simply aren't people in the states with the skillset, knowlege, and desire to work in the area.

This is actually a very good approach.

Simply create a utility that lets a user open an image, calculate the hash, and send to facebook. They have enough machine learning ability to look and tell if something is a hot dog or not a hot dog. Or are they going to rely on human beings to review every photo and validate that it isn't, say, a cat photo?

Parents need to remember that your kid is learning from your behavior. If you have your nose in your phone and tablet all day every day, you are teaching your kid that that is acceptable behavior. No matter how much you try to restrict their access to it, they are very likely to mimic you in the end. If you use a phone and tablet sparsely and put an emphasis on doing other things, the kid is much more likely to do the same. So, giving them a tablet isn't that huge of a deal so long as you yourself don't have one surgically attached at the hip.

So, I also wonder if any focus has been given to the health impacts of breathing in polyethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerin, etc. By volume, you're using far more of those than you are the nicotine. Likewise, the flavors can have any number of different ingredients that are ok for ingestion, but not necessarily for inhaling.

I always get the tonic water. I'm not a huge fan of tonic alone on the ground (too bitter), but at altitude it tastes amazingly lemony, with the bitterness being quite refreshing.

While I have never directly worked in hospital IT, I know plenty of folks who have. I did work for a PACS/RIS/HIS vendor, and I spent about 6 years working beside them. Not only do hospital IT teams chronically get underfunded and understaffed, they have to deal with vendors who give absolutely asinine support requirements ("no, our software only runs on windows NT!" or "Sorry, HP only allows you to use windows server for storage appliances for this device, why no, microsoft has never released a service pack for it, why do you ask?"). Worse, a lot of their extremely expensive equipment has embedded OS's that will likely never see an update because the vendors simply don't supply them, or because risking a bad update can quite literally cost lives. It's a really, really tough IT segment. People like to derp at them "well why don't you just update things!" without realizing that in many cases they simply can't because of the vendors who release the hardware not providing adequate support. Preventative measures would be their best bet, but boards of trustees rarely see it as worthwhile to give those IT departments funding to implement those preventative measures well. It's a shit sandwich.

I'm sure that a large anonymous donation from Microsoft will make the "do not recommend" turn into a "Recommended A+++++++" just like it did for Apple's Macbook Pro.

Sh was a successful musician before she ever married her husband thanks to the Dresden Dolls. That you automatically assume a woman married to a famous man is successful only because of the man in her life is pretty damn sexist.

Well, it makes sense, considering she literally has been pushing for this kind of funding for the arts, and even has a Ted talk and book about it.

She had a successful music career in the Dresden Dolls before they were married.

No one shares your pipe. The wireless gateway is a separate node on the DOCSIS network. It interferes with your service as much as your neighbor across the street does.

I've actually spent time in a Comcast call center. The agent I was shadowing had a lady berating him because he couldn't make her wireless gateway work. The wireless gateway that she bought from walmart, not from Comcast. The wireless gateway that Comcast had no management control over, had no documentation for, and had no information regarding, etc. But somehow, to her, it was Comcast's job to support the device. While there are absolutely problems with Comcast service, a big part of it is idiots who expect everyone to be responsible for their technology.