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posted by Dopefish on Monday February 24 2014, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-click-ok-to-accept-the-eula dept.

andrew writes:

"Alternet.org reports recent updates to terms of conditions for Bank of Americas cell phone app and Capital Ones new credit card contract have given banks unsettling new abilities. These privileges include the authority to access to your phone microphone and camera or even showing up at your workplace and home unannounced at any time.

From the the article:

We're witnessing a new era of fascism, where corporations are creating intrusive and over-bearing terms and conditions that customers click to agree to without even reading.

As a result, corporations in America have acquired king-like power, while we're the poor serfs that must abide by their every rule or else."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:47AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:47AM (#6464) Homepage Journal

    It is quite common for recruiter inquiry emails not to ask me if I am a US Citizen or permanent resident, but instead to ask my visa status. So they are just assuming I'm on an H1-B or some other temporary work permit.

    Go have a peek at the slashdot article from this afternoon, about the widespread fraud in india, that is preying on Indian citizens by selling them fraudulent visas.

    After a lot of consideration, I've decided I'm completely cool with outsourcing coding work to India. I should know, I've been hungry, broke and homeless. It just has to suck to be a dalit, but even untouchables can get computer science degrees. More power to 'em.

    But building a software industry in india will ultimately be to america's benefit. Not so bring in an H1-B under fraudulent pretenses, when you could have hired a US citizen.

    My own observation is that H1-Bs are employed not so much to save money, but to enable wage slavery. I have a real good friend, a top quality coder, who is a UK citizen. When he and I worked at the same company, I was treated like royalty, but he was kicked in the teeth on a daily basis. However he was paid the same as I was.

    It's just that he did not have the option of resigning. He would not have been deported exactly, but he would have been obligated to leave the US until he obtained another work permit.

    You could really help a brother out, where you to dig up the links to as many legitimate software employers as you possibly can, then mail them to me at mdcrawford@gmail.com I've been researching them myself. Just tonight I came up with a better way to research them, but it will be a week or two before I can code it up.

    I plan to create something like Find a Computer Job in Santa Cruz [warplife.com], but for the whole fucking planet.

    I observed about a year ago, that recruiting firms have never done very well in santa cruz since I put that page up back in 1997. At one time there were several of them, but now I only know of Armada Software, which is actually quite cool as headhunters go. Very ethical. Most aren't.

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