Comment Re:It's Just a Euphemism... (Score 1) 194
They were offered horizontal promotions.
They were given the opportunity to excel in a more external capacity.
They were reverse rehired.
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women 892
sabri points out that Reddit CEO Ellen Pao plans to ban salary negotiations in an attempt to equalize pay for men and women. "After losing a sex-discrimination lawsuit in Silicon Valley last week, Ellen Pao continues on her crusade to bring gender equality to the tech world, but this time with a focus on her home turf. As Reddit’s interim CEO, Pao said she wants to eliminate salary negotiations from the company’s hiring process. In her first interview since the lawsuit, Pao told with the Wall Street Journal Monday that the plan would help level the playing field. 'Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,' she said. 'So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.'"
Comment Has anyone counted Oklahoma recently? (Score 1) 143
If there's more than one, I suspect I might know what happened.
Comment Exhibit A: Jenny McCarthy (Score 2) 227
Direct quote from "The View" regarding her quack beliefs on vaccines and autism: "The University of Google is where I got my degree from."
Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? 155
An anonymous reader writes: We've been in a malware arms race since the 1990s. Malicious hackers keep building new viruses, worms, and trojan horses, while security vendors keep building better detection and removal algorithms to stop them. Botnets are becoming more powerful, and phishing techniques are always improving — but so are the mitigation strategies. There's been some back and forth, but it seems like the arms race has been pretty balanced, so far. My question: will the balance continue, or is one side likely to take the upper hand over the next decade or two? Which side is going to win? Do you imagine an internet, 20 years from now, where we don't have to worry about what links we click or what attachments we open? Or is it the other way around, with threats so hard to block and DDoS attacks so rampant that the internet of the future is not as useful as it is now?
Comment Re:TLC NAND = unstable? (Score 1) 42
Well, it won't be the same price - it requires a more complex fab process - but yeah. Consumer MLC drives have proven themselves to be robust and reliable, for the most part. TLC still seems to be a bridge a little too far.
I'd like to see Tech Report re-run their endurance test with current drive models. The only "problem" is that drives are so good now that by the time the best model fails and we get the final score, none of them will be on the market any more.
Comment Re:The butting edge (Score 1) 42
A huge proportion of computing is moving to the cloud. Conventional disk storage is a nightmare for cloud services because there's such a huge disparity between sequential I/O and random I/O performance. CPU, memory, and network bandwidth all divide up nicely, but as soon as you have contention for disk I/O, it all falls apart.
This is known as the "noisy neighbour" problem. You might be happy and fine on your cheap VPS for months, and then the next day it collapses in a heap, even though you're getting the same allocation of resources you always have. It takes a lot of complex engineering and expert management to keep noisy neighbours at bay.
SSDs eliminate this, because SSD performance on multi-threaded random I/O is not far short of even their best-case sequential performance. Which means that every cloud provider wants to move to pure SSD. Exabytes worth of it. I work for a relatively small company, and we have 1.5PB of disk that we'd love to convert to SSD.
That SSD needs to be dense and reliable. Smaller process nodes improved density at a cost of write cycles. 3D flash gives us improved density and increased write cycles at a cost of more complex fabrication.
The market is there, all right.
Comment Re: Just what the Moon always wanted (Score 4, Interesting) 97
They rotate around a common center of gravity. But that center of gravity is inside the Earth. Or to put it another way, no.
Comment Re:Send the water back (Score 1) 417
Companies in other states that buy CA produced crops should have to send the watere equivalent back to CA.
They do. This equivalent is known as "money".
Comment Re:And the almond trees die. (Score 4, Funny) 417
I'd like to see you scrub each and every individual lettuce leafs. And don't miss a single crevasse...
You only get crevasses in iceberg lettuce.
Comment Re: meanwhile (Score 1) 342
WTF?
What kind of "Libertarians" do you know?
And what does the GOP have to do with anything in this context?
Comment Re:meanwhile (Score 2) 342
Consumption tax doesn't have to be regressive. Look into the FairTax plan. It provides each household a "prebate" on the taxes they will pay on their necessities each month.
Comment Re:meanwhile (Score 1) 342
Agreed. Also it is too easy for businesses to avoid taxation, even after this change.
Comment Re:meanwhile (Score 1) 342
If Comcast is your only broadband choice (which, BTW, it almost certainly isn't, since there are usually DSL, satellite, and cell options) it is due to them having enjoyed a government-created monopoly.
Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? 452
An anonymous reader writes: After five years of service, my keyboard is dying, and I'm starting to look for a new one. Since it's for my primary machine, and I spend a lot of hours there for both work and leisure, I'd like to invest in a high-quality replacement. What do you recommend? I've been using a Logitech G15, and it worked well enough — but not well enough for me to buy another. (I've also heard Logitech's build quality has been on the decline in recent years — has that been your experience, those of you who own their recent hardware?) My use cases include coding and gaming, so durability is a big plus.
I'd prefer something a bit less bulky than the G15, which has a raised area at the top for media controls and a tiny screen. I don't mind a thicker bottom bezel so much. I'm not a huge fan of ergonomic/split keyboards, but if you know a really excellent one, I wouldn't rule it out. Same with mechanical keyboards — love the action, but the noise is an issue. I don't need any particular bells and whistles, but don't mind them. As for a budget... as I said, it's for a heavy-use machine, so I don't mind investing in great hardware. (That said, if I'm spending $150+, it better automatically make sure all my semicolons are in the right place.) So, what keyboard has served you well?
I'd prefer something a bit less bulky than the G15, which has a raised area at the top for media controls and a tiny screen. I don't mind a thicker bottom bezel so much. I'm not a huge fan of ergonomic/split keyboards, but if you know a really excellent one, I wouldn't rule it out. Same with mechanical keyboards — love the action, but the noise is an issue. I don't need any particular bells and whistles, but don't mind them. As for a budget... as I said, it's for a heavy-use machine, so I don't mind investing in great hardware. (That said, if I'm spending $150+, it better automatically make sure all my semicolons are in the right place.) So, what keyboard has served you well?
