CC in San Diege costs like $30 per credit right now. Back during the "sweet times" it was $20 a credit. You are getting ripped off. Then again, maybe you pay fewer taxes (you get what you pay for).

CheggPost was started at Iowa State University by three guys: Josh, Mark, and Seager (can't remember their last names). When it first started it was a site for buying/selling textbooks among other things. I remember hearing a few years ago that they sold the site. Rashid and Phumbhra may have been the founders of the textbook rental business model, but the website was originally founded by those three guys at ISU.

          "When the two entrepreneurs started Chegg, then called CheggPost, in 2003..." They definately didn't start it, and I don't think they bought it until around 2006 - 2007. It'd be nice if the article would give the original creators of the website some credit.

Yes, let's burn him at the stake for committing thought crime!

Concerned that having to type in a password twice or mistyping a password might deter users from signing up for their website, I was asked by my employer to change the sign-up page to show a single password box with the password in plain text while the user was typing the password, switch it over to masked text when the password box lost focus, and clear the password box if the user set focus on it again. I thought it was unconventional and a bit crazy, but it wasn't like we were securing highly classified materials.

I agree. It appears the mistake the administrators made was not strip searching the girl, but saying that the reason they were strip searching her was because they suspected she had an OTC pain killer. Had they said they strip searched her because they suspected she had crack, it probably would have been constitutional.

So if you ever want a fresh whiff of a young girls panties and work in a school, just say you suspect she has crack and strip away.

The point is that the district did not pressure them to perform such a search by establishing a policy requiring such a search. If the district did have such a policy, then it might be more acceptable to place most of the blame on the district. Since the district had no such policy, it's ridiculous to place all the blame on the district while exempting the people who made the independent decision to strip search the teenager.

I'm not total anti-camera, but this is ridiculous. Sure, everything is fine and dandy right now, but what if we start passing ridiculous laws, enforcing those ridiculous laws become even easier. Smoking a crime in public? Cameras process an image of you smoking, identify your face, automatically print out your ticket and email a copy to your phone. Homosexuality is criminalized? A same-sex couple holds hands in public, camera records it, notifies the police who swiftly arrest said couple. Don't laugh at this, even Ron Paul claims that sodomy laws are not unconstitutional and states have every right to criminalize it. Since we seem to be stepping closer and closer to a "mob rule" mentality in this country, the possibilities of the majority criminalizing the minority are endless, and this only makes it easier and more oppressive.

        My question is, how does someone "opt-out" of this kind of surveillance? You can't! In order to survive, you typically have to go outside into public space, using public roads to get to/from work or the grocery store. By choosing to survive, we are consenting to being films? If you want to "opt-out" you'd have to be a complete shut-in.

        Limits need to be set on the increasingly prevalent introduction of cameras into every crevice of public life. There should be a limit to the number of cameras or viewable area from cameras per sq. mile. Recorded footage from these cameras should also not be admissible in court, it should require an eye witness to back-up the claim. With computer generating imaging become increasingly realistic, it's going to become possible to create fictional footage which is indistinguishable from reality. You won't even need to commit a crime yourself to actually commit a crime, they'll just have footage of you doing it and unless you have an alibi you will be screwed.

        We will live in a world where we will be constantly afraid of making a mistake, afraid of sneezing the wrong way.

1) Blow up moon.
2) Scan dust for evidence of ice.
3) ?????
4) Designer babies!

1) Find ice on the moon.
2) Harvest so-called ice as giant cubes.
3) Parody popular animated sci-fi comedy show.
4) ?????
5) Profit!

It's not like he's going to keep workers here if we continue to let his company avoid taxes using loopholes. As long as labor in foreign countries is significantly cheaper, they'll just keep moving jobs there.

Also, Microsoft is one of the largest consumers of H-1B visas. If they did decide to move their employees someplace else, they could probably just take them all to the country of origin of the majority of H-1B visa holders without any hassle. They might lose a lot of standard workers, because not many people would move to another country to keep a job, let alone with a pay cut, but do they really care about that?

So what's the difference? They're moving the job anyways. Don't make it easy for them either. Hit them with some anti-trust lawsuits and switch government systems from Windows to Linux; a little "don't let the door hit on you on the ass."

Capitalism at it's best. Verizon has a right to keep the service off until the bill is paid, otherwise it's simply government interference in the free market. This isn't a charity, it's a company. If you didn't want to die, them maybe you should not have gone crazy; it's your own fault and you deserve to die. /sarcasm

Anyone remember the story of an elderly man in the Midwest who died because he could not pay his bill and so the utility company reduced his heat in the middle of winter, causing him to freeze to death?

I don't think this is a good idea. The food isn't bad in itself, it's the choice to eat too much of that junk food that's bad. What should happen is that, if your eating choices make you a fatty then your health insurance company should charge you more than everyone else and then use the extra money they get from fatties to cover weight-loss expenditures like nutrition or diet programs (ex. Weight Watchers) or even gym memberships. As long as you go to your meetings and exercise regularly, your health insurance should reimburse you. They do the same for smokers don't they? You pay more for health insurance if you smoke but health insurance usually pays for quit-smoking programs. Of course, this does nothing for the 46 million Americans who don't even have health insurance in the first place.

But this is just another issues that the medical provider and health insurance companies have failed to actually address, so I'm not surprised the government is stepping in. If the private sector would actually do something to combat the obesity problem in the U.S. then the government wouldn't have justification to step in.

At my office, you are banned from heating up fish in the microwave because of the smell. I don't mind the smell, but the people who do complained loud enough that an email was sent out stating that you could no longer heat it up in the microwave. I wish they would send out an email stating that you could no longer fart in your cubicle. The lady in the cube next to me rips some pretty nasty ones, and I'd take the smell of fish over the smell of an SBD any day.

Oops, forgot my /sarcasm tag.

Wow, paying the unsubsidized market rate for a commodity is getting raped?

Anyways, you'll only get raped if you have a gas guzzler. If you have at least a half-decent fuel efficient car, you'll be just fine. If you drive an alternative fuel vehicle, you won't even feel a thing.

Having the customer pay the full, unsubsidized price for gas may actually create real competition in the vehicle fuel market. If people had a choice between gas or an alternative fuel, then the gas companies would have no choice but to keep their prices competitive to that alternative fuel, wouldn't they?

Or worse yet, people may actually get used to driving less and taking public transit as part of their daily commute instead!