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Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.
Earlier on SN:
US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info (2018)
Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl (2018)
cURL turns Seventeen Today (2015)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @09:06PM (1 child)
"Now, even the mediocre can become president, you know!"
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. I, for one, am *proud* that even those with mental and psychological disabilities now have a role model in the Whitehouse they can look up to. Now people with mental disabilities can see that man in the Oval Office and say to themselves " someday, that could be me". Those who are mediocre at everything can say "it doesn't matter how much I slack off, I still got a chance". He's making America great again!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:24PM
Gee! Score "Flamebait", huh? What's the matter? Did I hit a little too close to home for someone? Maybe next time you shouldn't vote for a Doofus to be the President. Just sayin'.