Comment Bail out this industry (Score 1) 207
The professional video gaming industry is part of the fabric of our country. It has become too important to fail.
I think they deserve a bailout.
Corporate Espionage Involving a Patent At Microsoft 241
thefickler writes "Microsoft is taking a former employee, Miki Mullor, to court for securing a job at the company in order to steal information that would help with a patent infringement case he filed against PC makers Dell, HP, and Toshiba (in which Microsoft quickly became enmeshed). And while it appears that Mullor did the wrong thing, some pundits are asking: 'If you believed that your patent had been infringed, wouldn't you be tempted to do the same thing?'"
Comment Re:$400 a month? (Score 1) 591
Can you give a link to the thermostat you're using? I've got a "programmable" one but it's a piece of crap.
Comment Re:80 hours (Score 4, Insightful) 1055
Sounds like you're one of the most unproductive workers I can imagine.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about people working these long hours is that they're wasting a lot of time.
