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Comment Re:Stock Options (Score 1) 1216

by LazJen on Sunday November 24, 2013 @10:41PM (#45511375) Attached to: Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio?

Firing all low wage employees wouldn't work if the indexing is done to the minimum wage in whatever region is appropriate (state, country, whatever) - not the minimum wage within the company.

The swiss law is a great way to change the game incentives to promote a way that more people can gain instead of a lucky few.

Submission + - Bad month for Firefox

Submitted by

marty

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @07:38AM

marty writes: "Februrary is not a good month for Mozilla developers: Infoworld and eWeek both report about the efforts of a Polish researcher Michael Zalewski, who apparently kept finding new vulnerabilities in the popular browser on a daily basis through the month, first postponing the 2.0.0.2 update, and then finding a remotely exploitable flaw in it immediately after its release. Will Firefox prove to be no better than MSIE?"

Submission + - Telecom refunds $8 million for bad service

Submitted by Gearu on Saturday February 24, 2007 @06:54AM

Gearu writes: Telecom New Zealand has admitted it made an error with its Go Large broadband plan and is to credit customers of the service. An internal technical review of the service, launched in October, identified an issue with how internet traffic was being managed on the plan. The Go Large plan was promoted as having traffic management applied to certain applications, but since December the traffic management process had affected all forms of activity. With around 60,000 customers on the Go Large service, the refunds were expected to total $7.5 million to $8.5 million.

Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Designed 122

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 24, 2007 @05:36AM from the next-they-need-to-make-a-death-ray-for-peaceful-purposes dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Georgia Tech researchers have had a brilliant idea. Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as it has a five-gear transmission system. This rocket engine uses 40 percent less fuel than current ones by running on solar power while in space and by fine-tuning exhaust velocity. But as it was designed with funds from the U.S. Air Force, military applications will be ready before civilian ones. Here is how this new rocket engine works."

Submission + - New technology could pave the way for 3-D printers

Submitted by

nomoreself

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @05:23AM

nomoreself writes: "According to a story over on Physics Web, a team of scientists in Jerusalem have come up with a method for creating self-assembling 3-dimensional models from a single sheet of paper. The "Chemical origami" is created by etching a pattern of monomer onto the paper, then heating it. The chemical's reaction to the heat causes bends of varying size in the paper, molding the sheet into the patterned model. A professor in the States with no apparent ties to the study whatsoever says in the article that the technique could be used to create self-assembling prototypes, or even a printer that prints 3-D objects."

Submission + - Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy

Submitted by

teamhasnoi

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @02:10AM

teamhasnoi writes: "Back in 2004, Slashdot discussed a program that deleted your home directory on entry of a pirated serial number. Now, a new developer is using the same method to protect his software, aptly named Display Eater. In the dev's own words, "There exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something. I don't know if this is going to become Display Eater policy. If this level of piracy continues, development will stop." Is deleting user data ever acceptable, even when defending one's software from piracy?"

Voltron-Like Modular Robot Demonstrated 84

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @10:03PM from the i'll-form-the-sense-of-self-entitlement dept.

MattSparkes writes "The 'Superbot', a modular robot that transforms itself into different shapes in order to walk, crawl and clamber up inclines, has been demonstrated in at the University of Southern California. Each bot module is effectively a robot in its own right, and can move independently, flip over and rotate like wheels. They also have 3D accelerometers that let them know their precise orientation. The six sides of each module can dock with any other module. Once connected, the modules can communicate, coordinate shape changes and even transmit power. The bot's creators hope it will make a great working companion for places like, say, the Moon. Or Mars."

Meetings Make You Dumber 207

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @02:37PM from the not-cumulatively-thank-everything dept.

Maximum Prophet writes "Robert Heinlein once said that the committee was the only life form in the universe with three or more bellies and no brain. MSNBC reports that his statement may have some statistical truth to it. Researchers are finding that meetings are actually bad places to be creative. You're not actually 'dumber' when you're in the meeting, just more likely to lose your creative edge. Studies have now shown that, as collaborative primates, the more often a possibility is mentioned the more likely the group is to go along with it. Individuals placed by themselves were more likely to come up with imaginative alternatives to products, for example."

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