Obama Needs a Security Plan for Smart Grid so a Cyberspy Can't Turn off Lights
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US students respond to job market conditions
US students respond to job market conditions.
When they're at least led to believe they have a shot at a decent career in a particular field, they go for it, just as a few were deceived into believing in the late 1990s. The US STEM job markets were already dysfunctional, but the media PR engine was running over-time.
Before, H-1B, US employer were willing to bring gifted US STEM workers in for interviews all around the country, and to relocate those hired and those retained, and to invest in a reasonable amount of education or training in company-specific tools and processes. After H-1B, they want US STEM workers to come to them, to relocate themselves or commute 100 miles, and to be prescient enough to educate and train themselves right down to the brand-name, versions, sub- and sub-sub-versions, and build-numbers...
Meanwhile, employment in software publishing (US citizen, LPR and guest-work visa holder total) has been stagnant since 2000.
Which is to say there's been a severe glut.
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Genocide of the American
There were loads of Americans interested in high-tech and other jobs prior to the genocide of Americans.
It is genocide to destroy a race by starving it of a way to survive. Americans of all races are discriminated against because Indians only hire Indians. Since the H1B program has a hire Indians-only unwritten policy which is a violation of every right Americans of all races fought for, American businesses suffer. The EEOC is supposed to protect Americans against raced-based employment hiring, yet the EEOC seems oblivious to 90-100% Indian hires while Americans are weeded out prior to interviews based on our non-Indian sounding names. Who would have EVER thought that Americans would be discriminated against in America because of not being of Indian-descent?! Genocide is not a term usually used in America, but welcome to what "globalization" is really all about! Genocide on Americans should be fought at the "global" level. The Brits have already singled India out as the source of their financial collapse. America is also realizing that it pays more the Indians' twice billed labor that produces the work of a half of one American with skills. The genocide on Americans will soon end. If the market needs cheaper labor, wouldn't it make more sense to hire H1Bs to fill CEO positions? That is where the real savings could be drawn.
Obama Needs a Security Plan for Smart Grid so a Cyberspy Can't Turn off Lights
As I wrote to the WSJ author, this is largely a red herring promulgated by those whose rice bowl is probably not being filled. Hacker-Spies in the grid is sexy journalism but nothing as dangerous as our real problem. Our electric generating plants are approaching junk status; they have been running 24/7s for generations. Most date back to the Korean war. All of our circuit boards will fail when the grid collapses. So the government solution is to require another circuit board in your new air conditioner which will permit it to run during January, but not in August. This will forestall the building of new nuclear or coal plants. This is the smart grid.
There is a valid concept worth considering by adults relative to IT powers who want us destroyed, as distinguished from our own legislators and regulators who will accomplish this much quicker. No civilian infrastructure is immune from war. To destroy our grid is an act of war, requiring military response. Hackers, whatever their motivation, should be killed. They may fall into the foul terrorist, misguided youth, declared war soup which our leaders have created. New confusing laws on war-criminal behavior may be required. The basic issue is the technological power of IT over all human conduct. Who has the right, not power, to control your life via telemetry and circuit boards? Our current politicians are kicking this can down the street.
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how many americans were there in the classroom before this H1B starteed....I guess not too many.
Cybersecurity
IT professionals have been warning for years about our government,civilian and financial network security holes. This is not a new or unexpected threat by any means.
One root cause started years ago when we started laying off Americans and then offshored the jobs or brought in H1B guest workers to the USA to take their places. In order to save money we lowered our security standards, and both policital parties lobbied hard for those changes and average Americans ignored the IT professionals sounding the warnings of those actions.
Go to any university now and see who is sitting in the IT classrooms, not a lot of Americans of any race or ethnic background are in there because they can't compete with the overseas crowd for the low wages offered now. Who will check or rewrite the millions of lines of code running our most critical civilian and government applications now.
Most main stream media didn't cover the fact that a cyber attack was the opening shot in the Russian -Gorgian conflict before the first tank or troop fired a shot.
The terrorists (man made disasterists?) are not all simple peasants, they include engineers and IT professionals as well.
Thank you for your time to express my opinion.
