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Submission + - Woman Dies in Her Cubicle, Nobody Notices (time.com)

Submitted by jIyajbe
jIyajbe writes: Ever feel like no one notices all the effort you put into your job?

Well, hopefully they at least notice you're alive and breathing. If not, you could find yourself in the same situation as Rebecca Wells, a 51-year-old woman who died in her cubicle Friday in Los Angeles County.

Though she died on Friday, she was unnoticed at her desk in the Department of Internal Services until Saturday. The county coroner is yet to determine the cause of death.
Idle

Submission + - Catholic Church Approves Confession by iPhone (time.com)

Submitted by jIyajbe
jIyajbe writes: The Catholic Church in America has approved Confession: A Roman Catholic App, for use among churchgoers and lapsed Catholics alike. Patrick Leinen, of Little iApps, the company that created Confession, claims it has already helped one person come back to the church after 20 years away.
IT

Submission + - Why won't anyone hire middle-aged geeks (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: Over the past year, unemployment for computer pros over 55 has gone up, while the rate for those younger than that has gone down. Blogger Kevin Fogarty thinks older tech workers generally do a good job keeping up on their skills — so what's the problem? Is there age discrimination? Are their salary requirements simply too high? Do younger managers not want to supervise them?

Submission + - NHTSA finds no electronic flaws in Toyotas (yahoo.com)

Submitted by rogerz
rogerz writes: Despite the claims of "consumer advocates" and the subjective reports of self-interested "victims", an extensive study found no problems which could have been related to the sudden acceleration incidents.

From the AP:

'LaHood said NASA engineers "rigorously examined" nine Toyotas driven by consumers who complained of unintended acceleration. NASA reviewed 280,000 lines of software code to look for flaws that could cause the acceleration. Investigators tested mechanical components in Toyotas that could lead to the problem and bombarded vehicles with electro-magnetic radiation to see whether it could make the electronics cause the cars to speed up.'

Will we hear apologies from those consumer advocates or admissions of bias from the alleged victims? I doubt it.
Politics

Submission + - Obama calling for 53B$ for High Speed Rail (google.com)

Submitted by Antisyzygy
Antisyzygy writes: President Obama is calling for 53B dollars to be appropriated for the construction of high-speed rail in the United States over the next 6 years. Assuming Congress approves this plan, the funding would be spent on developing and/or improving trains that travel at approximately 250 miles/hour, as well as spent on connecting existing rail lines to new developed high speed lines.

Comment Re:If it wasn't 99% memorization no one would chea (Score 1) 484

by jIyajbe (#35140898) Attached to: 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat

Sorry son, but that's all *you* got out of college. *You* didn't actually learn anything except trivia.

As a college physics prof, I can tell you--I have students *every single quarter* who are motivated, interested, and get a huge amount out of their classes (not just mine). They use their classes as the starting point of their intellectual explorations, not as a barrier.

Oh, and btw: Did it ever occur to you that maybe the reason college was so valueless to you is that you cheated rather than studied?

Submission + - Feds settle case of woman fired over Facebook site (yahoo.com)

Submitted by jIyajbe
jIyajbe writes: Employers should think twice before trying to restrict workers from talking about their jobs on Facebook or other social media.

That's the message the government sent on Monday as it settled a closely watched lawsuit against a Connecticut ambulance company that fired an employee after she went on Facebook to criticize her boss.

The National Labor Relations Board sued the company last year, arguing the worker's negative comments were protected speech under federal labor laws. The company claimed it fired the emergency medical technician because of complaints about her work.

Submission + - New LightSquared Broadband Will Interfere with GPS (freegeographytools.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FCC has conditionally approved LightSquared's proposal to use spectrum adjacent to the GPS band for a new high speed 'satellite' broadband system. The catch: they're planning to supplement the weak satellite signal with 40,000 high powered terrestrial transmitters in areas that cover most of the US population. Drive (or fly) too close to one of those transmitters and you're likely to lose your GPS signal due to interference

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