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Submission + - MA Governor Wants Non-Compete Agreements Outlawed. Will it Matter?

curtwoodward writes: Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts say the state's legal enforcement of non-competition agreements hurts innovation — if you're going to get sued by Big Company X, you're probably not going to leave for a startup in the same industry. But those contracts have powerful supporters, including EMC, which is by far the state's largest tech company. Gov. Deval Patrick is finally picking a side in the debate by introducing his own bill to outlaw non-competes and adopt trade-secrets protections instead. Just one catch: he's a lame duck, and will be out of office in January.

Comment backfire (Score 1) 1238

While the school board may be trying counteract liberal bias, what they're really doing is creating class conflict. Some people will end up with only a high school diploma and so only hear the school board's "pro-American, Christian, free enterprise" version of history. Other's will go on to university and get a different take on our nation. The result is a disconnect on how people see the country.

Comment Lock the overhead bin until that row is called (Score 1) 880

Rather than having the gate people be more strict, what about starting with the overhead bins locked and having the flight attendants unlock them as the rows are called.

That way, people near the front of the plane don't have an incentive to try to get on early and block the aisle. If they want to put something overhead, they'll have to wait their turn; and they know when they get there, space will be available. By making the sections smaller (say 30 as opposed to 6) you could incentivize people into behavior that is fairly close to strict row ordering.

It could be implemented within a week and airlines could even experiment with only a few flights at first to work out the kinks.
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Submission + - What NASA won't tell you about air safety. 6

rabble writes: According to a report out of Washington, DC's WTOP, NASA wants to avoid telling you about how unsafe you are when you fly. According to the article, when an $8.5M safety study of about 24,000 pilots indicated an alarming number of near collisions and runway incidents, NASA refused to release the results. The article quotes one congressman as saying "There is a faint odor about it all." A friend of mine who is a general aviation pilot responded to the article by saying "It's scary but no surprise to those of us who fly."
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Submission + - People trust Yahoo! and Google just for the brand (pressesc.com)

amigoro writes: "Here's an interesting experiment: Copy Google results pages from four different e-commerce queries. Tell 32 test subjects who are going to evaluate the results that the results were from four different search engines: Google, MSN Live Search, Yahoo! and an in-house engine created for the study. And see which once they rate as the best.

As it turns out, Google and Yahoo! win hands down, proving that even on the Internet, it is all about branding now."

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