It is an admission of guilt but the problem is you don't know what crime the contents of the drive showed he committed. He _could_ have had 10,000 illegally downloaded mp3s and didn't want to fork over billions to the RIAA.

That's manager-speak for "will you take a 36% pay decrease until we're profitable." Assuming the hourly rate *with overtime*, you're losing out on 22.5 hours of pay (15 hours @ time-and-a-half). Considering I value my 5-9 time more than my 9-5 time, it would be an even bigger pay cut in my opinion. If you believe the company will become profitable *and* compensate you accordingly, make the appropriate gamble.

The exchanges already charge a fee for every transaction for those who participate. You didn't think that was free, did you??

Check out this article and the pay some garbage collectors actually get...
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/04/trash-collecting-entrepreneur-squashed.html

$109,533 in annual compensation -- not bad if you ask me but they're going on strike over it...

Using the Presidents up to Reagan, the odds were good that a President elected in a year ending in zero would die in office -- Jefferson, Monroe, and Teddy Roosevelt didn't but WH Harrison, Lincoln, Garfield, Harding, FDR, and Kennedy all did. If the pattern holds true, expect the winner of the 2020 election to die in office.

I think the fact that GW was President means we're in a Bizarro Universe...

It's almost as if "2K" is part of the company's name...

There have been 6 perfect games in the past 20 years in MLB. In those 20 years, there have been approximately 48,000 games -- so a 1/8000 chance of it happening since 1990.

If you consider the entire history (or even the 130 years since the first one), there have only been 18. I have no numbers on the total number of games played in that time span, but I would venture to say the chances are much worse than 1/8000.

You could probably assume that the 2K10 players themselves were doing whatever they could to increase their chances as well (like a Yankees v Nationals matchup). If 2K Sports really wanted surge in sales, they should've offered $10M for a perfect game against the Yankees.

... or fielder errors or dropped third strikes with the runner reaching first or catcher interference.

No one gets to first base. Surprised more Slashdotters didn't submit entries...

(ducks and cover)

IANAL but if you ever need to take part in a lawsuit against them, you may not want to be on record as not accepting the fix when they presented it to you. If you're truly that concerned about it, then you probably shouldn't be driving a Toyota or, as the most extreme, be driving a car with many electronic components.

I'm reminded of a time in college when I ran a web site that hosted a forum among other things (about 10 years ago). Someone posted some comments as the president of the university and a couple days later I got a call from his office. While they would've legally been allowed to do all sorts of things to me, they posed the simplest question: "Will you remove those comments?" They even prefaced it with "we openly support your and your users' rights to free speech." I'm curious if they even asked her to take it down with the trade-off from the school being that they will audit the teacher to verify the allegations.

Kudos to you. You also have the benefit of learning your students' tendencies in code. I failed an assignment with a note from the professor that basically said "what the hell?" It was my first thought as well but for another reason -- it wasn't my code. I went to retrieve my original from my network account and my profile had been erased. If I remember correctly, the prof gave me full credit for the assignment largely because I had talked to him about how I had found another algorithm online (implemented it myself) that was 20% more efficient but was not valid for the assignment (it wasn't A*). I have no idea if someone else actually stole it and turned it in (or if it was some fluke with the server) but I imagine he would've failed the student that turned in the other solution...

This isn't cheating. It's effectively calling a O(n) lifestyle cheating because someone else is living a O(n!) life. Although I will concede the point that you cheated your way to a score of 2 despite the fact that I did "all the extra work" by using appropriate punctuation and will undoubtedly be at zero forever. Such is life.

Talk about the metaphor of all metaphors....

This is called "coding by coincidence."