I wonder if it is possible to download the images for training models.

Call screens are for unknown numbers. If I got your phone number, I wouldn't screen your calls, as I would already have your name in my contact list. If I can't answer your call at that time, I'd just hang up the call or let it go to voicemail.

I can't reach linkedin and comcast's own website. If this is an outage how come only certain websites can't be reached. We should not have internet access at all if its an ISP outage right?

Most of the comments to any India related stories are only about a handful of topics that includes:

* H1Bs and how lousy Indians are at coding
* Public defecation (even though the topic is not about that)
* Third world country

Pretty much 90% of the comments are negative. This is not really adding any value to the discussion, so I hope people will refrain from posting stories about India.

Have you been to India? Or do you just gobble up whatever your biased western media tells you?
Everyone here automatically makes this lame argument/joke without knowing the reality. Do you have actual statistics about this? Can you cite a study?
Are you aware of the awareness campaigns and efforts taken by the current Indian government to combat this? Did you know of a case where there was a divorce awarded to a women because her husband's family didn't have a toilet at home (only an outside one)?

Change doesn't occur overnight. Especially when it involves that many amount of people. But it is happening slowly. In fact I would argue compared to the current political state of the US we are moving forward while the US is moving backward.

This is not limited to India or Indians. It takes time to get assimilated. As many of you might know, India is a very diverse country with a wide variety of languages. Pretty much each state in India has its own language after the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 when the states were separated based on linguistics. So even in India when a large number of people from a different state move, they tend to stick together and talk their own languages. Many people from different states talk in English to communicate with each other. I'm not stating this as an excuse, just stating it as a fact.

Does your repulsion and hatred stem from their language/culture/skin color? Because if any of this is true, it is no different than the hatred towards black people on racial basis or hatred towards LGBT people on sexual orientation basis. I understand there is a problem with fraud and abuse, but I have seen the hatred against the government policies or against the companies translate in to hatred against Indians since, as you have aptly stated we are the "face". A very recent incident which was posted here as well is the murder of an Indian in Kansas.

From the comments in slashdot over the years and indeed in the comments in this post as well, it indicates that many people are affected by the H1-B program abuse.

But instead of just voicing their concerns on a website, why don't people report it to the authorities if they witness H1-B fraud.

They have a website giving instructions on what to do and a form that needs to be filled and submitted.

Link: https://www.dol.gov/whd/forms/...
Form: https://www.dol.gov/whd/forms/...

Why are people not doing this?

And why does the H1-B hate invariably translate to hate towards Indians?

Why is that relevant?