He released the memorandum on his own, totally undermining other staffers and most likely bypassing any sort of vetting, validation, and/or peer review stages. It's naturally in the RSC's best interests to put forth memos and reports that present a consistent argument and (most importantly) don't express opinions in a way that may offend constituents.

While I hate to see them distance themselves from a sane and rational argument for copyright reform, I can't help but think that any other organization would do the same thing when one of their employees decides to go all "cowboy" and fire off memos and reports without organizational consent.

Nothing good has ever come from the commander-in-chief tossing government money back to his buddies (and campaign donors) in industry. My statement applies to this president just as much as it does to those before him.

You mean, people are picking the stock browser over mobile versions of Firefox or Google Chrome? Wow. What could possibly be the meaning of this? Let's deconstruct it and find the real truth in all this...

Oh, here it is. It's a combination of No one cares and the mobile versions suck!

Firefox and Chrome may be competitive browsers in the PC realm, but in their transition to mobile platforms, they're bringing over all that bloat and feature creep and trying to cram it all into a small screen. My Android smartphone has acceptable (but not ideal) battery life when I use the mobile browser for quick things here and there, but when I've tried to use mobile FF/Chrome apps it drops like a rock. I suppose if you sit there tethered into the wall jack you'd be fine, but at that point, why not just whip out your laptop?

Wow, you are getting gray. :)

I figure if the operator was a youngin' he probably wouldn't get the humor in labeling the speed dial "Giddy-up".

John McAfree?

What a clever pun considering the situation. Surely it was intentional!

This study focuses on "tech" positions (a very broad description) that require a Bachelor's degree. Here's what I'm left wondering after reading this:

Are they adjusting for the fact that a low-skilled tech position (tech support) in 2000 paying $12/hr did not require a Bachelor's, but in the current workforce climate, the same low-skilled tech support job at the same pay rate commonly requires that applicants have "at least" an Associates, but preferably (read: we won't hire you if you don't have) a Bachelor's degree? If this was not adjusted for, then the reason they're seeing diluted wages vs. what they expected is because with that one little change in the requirements for a position, a lot more jobs fit their description now than did jobs in 2000, which adds a lot of low wages to their data set and reduces the overall average wage across the entire IT field.

The Surface commercial was an absolute joke, so I'm not surprised the product itself is rapidly becoming a flop. Dubstep, breakdancers, romantic old people, and crunk girl scouts don't make me want to buy a tablet. The director should have stuck to directing Justin Bieber's music videos. Even if you have to spend all day pandering to shrieking preteens, at least there's money in it.

Troll.

The assholes you meet are not assholes because they're football players. They're assholes because they're assholes. Perhaps you, sir, are actually the asshole, and they just respond in kind.

There are plenty of very kind and caring people out there who also happen to play football. Come to terms with this and overcome your irrational (but understandable) hate of people who are more talented than you.

Let me guess - you live in China?

You're not legally bound to follow the terms of the EULA unless you accept it and use the software, and by extension, the license it comes with. You can reject the EULA after reading it and uninstall the software, or just not download it in the first place, and that's that.

Everybody could take the time to read all of the inane rambling bullshit that timothy clutters the front page with. Then we'd really be wasting time.

In other news, if you buy a $1 candy bar every Sunday, that's $52 a year! But wait, there's more. If everybody in Detroit, MI bought a candy bar every Sunday, that would be $36,742,420 a year! And if they bought THREE candy bars, then OMG! That's $110,227,260 per year! And OH EM GEE, IF THEY PAID 7% SALES TAX THAT WOULD BE $7,715,908.20 IN TAXES A YEAR FROM CANDY BARS!

ERMAHGERD, NERMBERS!

All of those companies were doing things that (almost) nobody else was doing at the time of their inception. When 1000 people drop out of college with the exact same "great new idea", 999 people become unemployed and eventually discouraged.

Don't put the idea in someone's head that they should immediately drop out of college if they want to start a "tech company", because nowadays people think "tech company" means "I want to build a website like Flickr but with a red logo instead of a blue one". They also think you can get by by doing what someone else is already doing, only a little differently. This is very, very far from the truth.

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to think up a model on your own, and it needs to be very different from established businesses. You can't just copy-paste a business plan and call yourself an "entrepreneur", and nobody's going to pay you to sit there and wallow in your own perceived greatness. You have to do something that people want to pay for!

The last thing society should be doing is encouraging students with no unique or original ideas to drop out and create the next Pets.com. Encourage students to think of creative solutions to existing problems, not blindly follow the "entrepreneur" fad when they have no creative merit. That's a recipe for unemployment and a very rude awakening.

I have an incurable breathing addiction. I keep holding out for a cure of some kind, but all their proposed treatments seem to have a very high mortality rate.

This is terrible. Now Slashdotters will have to find a new disease to self-diagnose and blame for their undeveloped social skills. Might I suggest ASPD?

"Commissioned Study" is politician-speak for "Take my opinion, find some numbers that agree with it, omit ones that don't, and release it as a third party so it looks like other people agree with me."