I think it's been 10+ years since I've been here.

If a computer search alters the state/contents of a machine, how would it be legal? e.g.: a naive software-based search of files, that alters metadata on files? Or: disassembling a device that wasn't designed to be disassembled, in order to clone the HD?

If border officials order a user to boot-up and enable the same access the traveler would have: What if there's software on the machine, that is *designed* to alter file contents when they are viewed? (The precise reason doesn't matter, but: what if the uncorrupted state of these files, or hardware, are important for one reason or another? say, to enable a security audit, by the traveler's employer?)

So (perhaps unlike other personal effects or "papers"), a computer search is not necessarily a passive process -- it's an ACTIVE one, that can (likely?) lead to damage, destruction, or complete loss.

Such reciprocity should be made part of the H1-B visa program:

1.) Oh, the originating country does not allow Americans to work there, under the same or better conditions? BAM! No H1-B visas for you.

1-a.) If no U.S. government agency will maintain a list? The U.S. worker just needs to prove they were statutorily barred working in the country that originated any H1B visa the company sponsored.

2.) For ANY violation of the H1-B visa conditions, make the sponsoring company subject to triple damages, paid to any U.S. worker that was passed-over, in favor of an H1-B.

Ultimately, the companies that hire Infosys should pay for this outrageous behavior. What other strategy will yield the fastest end to this degradation of American workers? ...or even, put a stop to the entire H1B visa abomination? Here's a list of Infosys Clients.

Pick one at random. How about: Kellogg's? (They have such a homey, "All-American" brand image, don't they?)

Make them pay: Shame them, give them bad publicity, DESTROY THEIR BRAND -- do anything legal & necessary to make them drop Infosys as a vendor, permanently.

If the system were truly "open," the companies wouldn't pay any fee for an H1-B, at all.

BTW, I don't think Infosys are the only ones who may do this. I recently did a phone screening for a *temporary* web-development job w/ Sapient. AFAICT, I gave detailed, accurate answers to nearly every technical question asked of me. And several of the questions were extremely remedial: ("What is the 'http' part of a URL called?" "Name some other protocols that a browser can use...") -- and worse: the interviewer tried correct me with his own, WRONG answers. Anyway, because of this thread, I did a little searching, and came across this WSJ article about Sapient:

However: Sapient has only about 1,500 US employees, and at least one-third to one-half of those are here b/c of visa sponsorship. (Consider that an H1-B lasts for 3 years -- extendable up to 6 -- and 2013 isn't even over, yet.) So:

1. Are companies like Sapient just going through the motions to make it *look* like they're trying to fill some position with a U.S. worker -- as some sort of legal workaround? -- when their actual goal is to import yet another H1-B, all along?
2. Does any U.S. government agency keep an accurate, publicly-accessible record of all accepted/denied H1B requests? ...including the name of the company, with the date, location, and public-job posting for the position they were allegedly trying to fill?

Radionuclides were detected in 2013, and 2006.

North Korea may have taken extra precautions to prevent their tests from releasing radionuclides, in order to conceal the nature of their fission devices (Pu-239 vs U-235, or possibly other isotopes) -- and thus, conceal & protect the supply chain for their fissile material.

Furthermore, don't let the low explosive yields fool you: NK is likely testing the compact trigger for full-blown, fission-fusion-fission thermonuclear devices -- whose explosive yield could be up to several hundred kilotons.

John Titor's gonna fix this!

Oh no! They got him!

This is obviously a mis-print, right?

Or, more simply: Those who get less sunlight -- regardless of job status -- feel compelled to drink more coffee?

(i.e.: "sunlight" correlates to sleep patterns, sleepiness, and alertness.)

However, sex changes are legal in Iran (and paid for!) -- so Iranians should be allowed to buy iPads, as long as they're jail-broken & running Android.

According to Forbes, items that can be purchased at retail do not require an export license.

But the Apple Store employees did not follow the actual export law; and then they eventually told her she could buy the iPad online.

This should not be modded "insightful," because it is WRONG:

This girl was with her uncle, and intending to give the iPad to her cousin.