Maybe they lack momma's basement for carefree gaming into their forties.

So we are still not going to get the Silent Spring that we were promised 56 years ago?

I feel so cheated.

Yes, just like back in the old days when Slashdot was warning of the AOL/Time MONOPOLY that would end humanity!

Didn't end. Oh well.

Yes, that is the impression I get from watching Russian driving videos, "THAT is who I want driving our courier vehicles!"

True all that!

a recruiter who suddenly discovered the candidate she'd wanted to hire failed to respond to 12 messages

Anybody who uses "suddenly" like that doesn't need to be in charge of anything.

Personal experience, yes, though not specifically in "tech" industry. Pre-college I found quite a few potential employers who gave me enough of a suspicious feel that I never called back. Even after setting a start date. They just seemed shady and most of them proved to be. The rest, I just don't know if the managers or businesses are still around.

Post-college, no, I am still working at the first firm where I landed a full-time regular professional position (Diagnostic/Medical). Not same position I started in, of course.

However, we have had people do this throughout my time here and it is striking that the author would find it new.

ROFL, sounds like another crackpot book in the making and a decent check for a marketing firm.

I am sure their learned leadership was made aware of this option, and swiftly dispatched the messenger with a baseball bat.

They could employ lots more people if they used horses and carts. What about human power? LOL

Yes, the one that took AIM away from us today, LOL!

It is the AOL monopoly all over again! Someone help! /snark

Someone discovered that modern reporters don't know that methane comes from decaying organic material, like cow dung! Now THAT made this a headline story.

See also India coaldung fuel balls, India. Just in case a reporter out there wants to get a scoop on what to do with the leavin's.

I wonder if Chinese TVs will have less of that (owing to state controls) -- if true, I might become interested in Chinese TVs.

ROFL! Chinese TVs with LESS monitoring because of their government? Funniest comment on the intertubez!

he new interface looks strange. Like someone escaped from an art department ind infiltrated the interface team.

Exactly. And Facebook should never appear in the same sentence as integrity, unless modified with "lack of."