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Comment It's the 90s all over again. (Score 1) 138

We've come full circle. Today's streaming is like VHS rentals and 4K UHD Blu-ray discs are like the LaserDiscs of the 90s. The average consumer can still watch their favorite movies with lousy quality (that they're happy with), while the film aficionados can still buy their high-quality discs with great quality and lots of bonus features.

Comment Cookies are NOT tracking devices (Score 1) 26

Unfortunately, due to their prominent use by big ad networks as tracking devices, that's the way the public (and technology-naive lawmakers) sees them. I would guess that most of the cookies on everyone's PC are not being used as "trackers". Cookies were around long before online ads started using them. Cookies are a convenient place to store login information, user preferences, and the like. They are especially useful for small websites that don't run a backend database and/or don't have user logins.

Comment Illegal in Minnesota (Score 1) 242

In Minnesota it is against the law for employers to take tips from employees or to require them to share or pool their tips. From MN Statute Sec. 177.24, Subd. 3:

"...any gratuity received by an employee or deposited in or about a place of business for personal services rendered by an employee is the sole property of the employee. No employer may require an employee to contribute or share a gratuity received by the employee with the employer or other employees or to contribute any or all of the gratuity to a fund or pool operated for the benefit of the employer or employees."

Minnesota also doesn't permit counting tips toward minimum wage (no "tipped wages"):

"No employer may directly or indirectly credit, apply, or utilize gratuities towards payment of the minimum wage set by this section or federal law."

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 82

But it's the original advertiser that presses the "submit" button that causes the ad to be published. If you ran a magazine but allowed anyone (for a price) to use your equipment to print additional pages and bind them into your magazine, who would be causing those pages to be published? Who published them? Is permitting the same as causing? I don't think these are easy questions with easy answers.

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