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

Submitted by curtwoodward
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

by asabove_sobelow (#32233618) Attached to: Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History
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.
The Courts

Submission + - Court Finds Part of Copyright Act Unconstitutional (stanford.edu)

Submitted by
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "A US District Court in the Southern District of California has found the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act to be unconstitutional. That act is what removes the sovereign immunity for infringement that state workers have in their official capacity, something many argued would jeopardize universities with liability for faculty infringement, not to mention other state agencies. In a rather dense legal ruling (PDF), the Court found that the Clarification Act was not a valid exercise of congressional power under the 14th Amendment. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what I just said, I recommend either being glad that a small piece of copyright law may soon bite the dust, or hoping that NYCL will explain this better."
Cellphones

Journal Journal: Cost of Text Messaging

Journal by Se7enLC

Apart from "because people will pay it", why do US cell providers charge so much for text messaging? Text messages place very little strain on the networks compared to voice calls, because of their small throughput and high latency. And yet, it is cheaper using most providers and plans to make a 5 minute call than to send a single text message.
Businesses

Submission + - Wikileaks, JP Morgan and the Insider-Trading Howto (wikileaks.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wikileaks hits the locusts again! In an internal JPM document published today, Wikileaks exposes JP Morgan's efforts to circumvent insider trading regulations, enabling the really wealthy clients to profit even when others are losing. The document reads like a how-to and explains such maneuvers under the hood of SEC Rule 10b5-1, which had been considered subject to abuse for some time already. Now this abuse is publically documented and shall not pass unnoticed!

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

by asabove_sobelow (#22625996) Attached to: Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster
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.
Censorship

Submission + - What NASA won't tell you about air safety. 6

Submitted by rabble
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."
Google

Submission + - People trust Yahoo! and Google just for the brand (pressesc.com)

Submitted by
amigoro
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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