Paper and land-line calls subject to fraud also. It's how Steve Jobs got started.

I guess this aint the kind of joke that works on Slashdot

Preparing for global warming near the coastline.

Though it's simple enough to be implemented in one line of BBC BASIC

Perlers are so jealous right now; they need 2 lines.

By that criteria, neither is Microsoft of late.

But that doesn't rule out God incrementally fiddling with genes if there is change.

Much of that height difference is probably due to better diet and healthcare, and not evolution. For example, N. Koreans are noticeably shorter than S. Koreans due to diet, medical, etc. despite being recently separated.

Exactly. Employers want workers who can take direction. As an employee it is beneficial to be able to work around complex situations because this is what keeps us from being replaced by machines. It is not really a skill that the employers wants, or wants to pay for, but just a necessary skill for a worker who wants to keep their job.

This reminds me of writing. Employers have been complaining about writing for as long as I can remember, at least 30 years. Even in engineering school we were told that we had to learn to write. In high school we did have technical writing, but how much time was spent teaching accurate context free writing college? None, even though professors would tell us that employers were demanding the universities teach writing. Everyone says they want it, but not enough to pay for it. Those with critical thinking skills and writing skills will rise, and those that don't will muddle through and probably go into management.

I bet that company was glad they ripped off workers rather than the music labels

If this lopsided penalty situation is not strong evidence that the USA is slipping into a plutocracy, I don't know what is.

I've personally worked in a shop where they paid the H1B visa workers once every 6 months. They also didn't pay overtime, just the strait hour rate. (But at least it was the right total amount, overtime aside.)

The visa workers had no intention of complaining because they risked getting booted home if they did. (It was during a recession.)

It was at a big company that contracted through a smaller company so that the big company didn't inherent any legal risk of cheating. From the big co's perspective, they are merely paying the contracting company for hours. Where and how the workers were actually paid was legally the small contracting firm's responsibility. Thus, the big co got the benefits of cheating but not the risk. (And the small co. was probably a reshuffle-able front of some larger outfit.)

In any event, I think we can agree the AC is a moron.

I'll say. I was 23 when in seventh grade.

As intuitive as molasses. All these years the option was in the lower left somewhere. Now it's at the upper right, the complete opposite, and under your name. What's a name have to do with logging out? I'm not exiting my body. That may be intuitive for an exorcist.

Why is that allowed?

The Mars probe mishap still haunts everybody, especially when it comes to body parts.

Sorry, you can only subtract things, not add to them.