Right, so the 2nd article states "I should note that this particular exploit requires that the attacker already have admin or root privileges on the box" -- and "The exploit code was only written for Intelâ(TM)s DQ35 motherboards. The DQ35 is one of their modern boards. According to Joannaâ(TM)s paper, Intel reported that their newest motherboards (DQ45â(TM)s for example) are not vulnerable to this attack.". In short, it's an interesting proof of concept, but at first glance it's not exactly the scare of the century....

I'd be surprised if _only_ 1% of H1-B visa are from europe, considering the inexistence of other options if you are from the EU and you want to work in the US (there are a couple of others visa for specialized jobs as well, iirc). All the europeans I know that know work in the US are either under a H1-B or started with one before applying for a green card.

Care to give some links about this ? All I read about the H1B "grace" period is that there is none. (random recent link http://www.isss.umn.edu/H1BEmployment/GracePer.html). There's apparently an unofficial 10 day grace period, but that's about it.