AmaranthineNight - Slashdot User

Comment Re:droptrow? (Score 2, Insightful) 307

by AmaranthineNight on Monday December 22, 2008 @12:45PM (#26201921) Attached to: Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In

And if they do, one of the ports of chromium will remove the third-party-plugin killswitch and chrome will die a slow, painful death, because all the people considering switching to it will use the port that lets them block ads.

Comment Re:I hope the improved compability. (Score 1) 482

by AmaranthineNight on Thursday October 30, 2008 @02:30PM (#25573135) Attached to: Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released

Strange, because when I installed Windows, my internet worked without any configuration whatsoever.

And on windows, mine never has. There are very popular network cards with no built-in drivers on windows. I've found hardware detection on linux, with everything but video cards and printers, to be much better on Linux than Windows, but obviously your mileage will vary.

Submission + - Airline offer free access to StarOffice suite

Submitted by feranick on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @10:54PM

feranick writes: Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.
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Submission + - Justices' Ruling Limits Suits on Pay Disparity

Submitted by

gollum123

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @10:19PM

gollum123 writes: "The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for many workers to sue their employers for discrimination in pay, insisting in a 5-to-4 decision on a tight time frame to file such cases. The dissenters said the ruling ignored workplace realities ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/washington/30sco tus.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin ). The court held on Tuesday that employees may not bring suit under the principal federal anti-discrimination law unless they have filed a formal complaint with a federal agency within 180 days after their pay was set. The timeline applies, according to the decision, even if the effects of the initial discriminatory act were not immediately apparent to the worker and even if they continue to the present day. In an opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the majority rejected the view of the federal agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, that each paycheck that reflects the initial discrimination is itself a discriminatory act that resets the clock on the 180-day period, under a rule known as "paycheck accrual." In a vigorous dissenting opinion that she read from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the majority opinion "overlooks common characteristics of pay discrimination." She said that given the secrecy in most workplaces about salaries, many employees would have no idea within 180 days that they had received a lower raise than others. An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group "trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment" to avoid "making waves." Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential "will expand exponentially over an employee's working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.""

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