It's nice to see that you've realized the error of your ways and decided to quit defending the indefenseable. It is rather unfortunate however that you have to make a snide childish remark rather than acting like a real man and admitting you're wrong. This is too important a topic to allow someone like you to discredit the validity of the issues and the integrety of the data available to us. I wouldn't find it manly of me to walk away knowing that this issue is of vital importance to our Nation and our future.
You've got no points, never did, never will, you're contradicting yourself, you're quibling on the "difference" between programmer/analyst and software engineer, you're classifying H1B as a terrorist/ prostitution ring, you're off in some desperate never never land.
In case you're computer industry illiterate, let me fill you in on the difference here. A programmer/analyst works on business systems. He could very well work with web based development as many of them are commerce related. A programmer/analyst utilizes a high level language such as Visual Basic and hardly ever needs to worry about the internals of the operating system nor the intricacies of the network protocol stack nor of anything to do with hardware.
A software engineer on the other hand deals with those intricacies listed above, PLUS is responsible for the design, associated documentation, and the test plans for any software that he writes.
The work performed at DCM involves device drivers. A device driver is software that interacts with the hardware and the operating system. It runs in kernel mode which is a vastly different environment than what takes place at the upper levels of the operating system. A device driver configures and controls hardware devices in a computer and routes data and control events between different layers of the OS.
DCM also develops embedded systems. An embedded system is typically a system that is used in such applications that require real-time execution and utilizes a real time operating system such as VxWorks. Such systems are used in telecommunications for voice and data routing and switching.
So what is clear to me at least is that the positions at DCM are software engineering positions. And to misrepresent them as "programmer analyst" positions is dishonest in light of the fact that programmer analysts make less money than software engineers, so the employer is paying them below what they should normally get for those positions.
Give up.
You've got to be delusional, as there is no reason whatsoever for me to do so..