I was thinking an equivalent to the US Constitution's 14th amendment: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

In the US, this applies to corporations, because corporation are associations of people, and specifically, the court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company recognized corporations as having 14th amendment rights. So in the US, a law to apply this regulation to search engines and exempt others likely would be challenged as an infringement on Google's 14th amendment rights.

So the German constitution has no "equal protection" equivalent?

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

Especially the ones assembling the ipads.

There are a lot of "open source" jobs out there, whether you mean working with open source products like Linux or PHP or Android OS, or working for a company that is an open source provider like Red Hat or Google, and the article is nothing but a troll. Mr. stry_cat completely neglected to give so much as a hint about his technical skill set, let alone enumerate anything specific. There are programming, admin, project management, and management positions in all parts of the country, across almost every industry imaginable, and the only constraints for any given individual are personal preferences as to where to live, and current responsibilities for where they are currently located.

Every time a slashdot editor allows a completely worthless article like this to hit the front page, they are devaluing slashdot as a brand. Given how often timothy does this, I am amazed he is still permitted the opportunity to do so.

In a public school, salaries are so overly-influenced (if not outright controlled) by the teachers union that they are meaningless as a metric. For a private school, good luck getting them to divulge the salary levels, let alone what level any particularly teacher is currently at.

I would go further and suggest that this is a desired outcome by both governments and content holders: to drive the subversives, the perceived anarchists, and in short, all of the non-mainstream consumer users of the Internet off of it into their own "underground". This keeps the nominal Internet "market" sanitized from both subversive content and disruptive behavior, as well as segregates the undesirables into their own sandbox where keeping an eye on them may not be easier, but lowers the degree of urgency for doing so.

Time to meet the meat!

from TFA:

4. The absence of a timely brake application, the cellular provider records indicating frequent texting while driving, the temporal proximity of the last incoming text message to the collision, and the witness statement regarding the driver's actions indicate that the GMC pickup driver was most likely distracted from the driving task by a text messaging conversation at or near the time of the accident.

9 The GMC pickup driver was fatigued at the time of the accident due to cumulative sleep debt and acute sleep loss, which could have resulted in impaired cognitive processing or other performance decrements.

And that's why texting while driving is bad, boys and girls. And not getting enough sleep will, apparently, make you stupid enough to do it.

Unless he signed a contract that states everything he writes 24x7 belongs to the company, then anything NOT a "work for hire" belongs to him, not his employer. This is predicated on the huge assumption he's not writing things at home via cut-n-paste from work. Many companies will have you sign something giving them title to anything you patent, but copyrights aren't usually included in those, YMMV.

and the profession clearly doesn't understand the current financial industry, where bonuses are really just deferred compensation, not really rewards in the sense that bonuses are in other industries. Both the economy and society would be much better off to not focus on bonuses but instead to actually punish corporations for not managing risk, for ignoring long-term harm in the face of perceived short-term gain.

As soon as I read the headline, I immediately had to suppress the urge to start whistling.

I was, using math as a guideline, trying to say that if someone in high school is considering CS, they should really first consider something like physics or chemistry or engineering; and if they cannot handle doing the math for any of those fields, they should reconsider why they are looking at CS.

step 1: do interview with semi-famous person & conveniently lose it until he becomes famous & dies step 2: ???? step 3: profit!

If they have an aptitude for math, they should look at "harder" sciences than CS, because there's not enough college students studying those right now, so there will be a shortage by the time they are employable. If they cannot do the math then they need to reevaluate why they are looking at CS in the first place.