A world of difference. E-ink, and paper, work by reflected light. That light is scattered, diffused, softened, if you like. LCD, TV, iPad etc are transmitted light. They are stimulating your optic nerves with a constant intensity. Stare at your LCD screen for a minute without blinking. Now close your eyes and feel that burn as the nerves drain. Do the same to a book. The same burn just isn't there. I know we all blink more often than once a minute, but long sessions have the same effect. Unless you are reading a book by the light of a small nuclear explosion behind you (closer than the sun), the effect on the eyes of reading an e-ink screen vs an LCD screen is like looking at a lit wall vs staring into a lightbulb. E-ink also isn't 'hard-edged' but is feathered, although it still allows reasonable high contrast, which is, for reasons I'm not as up on, easier for the eye to deal with.

Of course you need to be stuck to the contract rates you offer! For the life of the contract, or a mutual renegotiation (I think a web poll button is pushing this concept a bit) but you enter a contract with responsibilities to BOTH parties, not just the one feeling a bit bruised. You can renegotiate a contract - preferably when it ends - but if you are just changing the details of it when it suits you, then it isn't a contract. Technically, unless your contract is really badly written (possibly verging on illegal, as it must give equal gain to both parties) you cannot be turfed for failing to take a pay cut. They may need to prove you don't fulfil your other duties - work performance, etc - but if it is a contract, no, they don't get the right to change the value unilaterally without offering some other compensation (shorter work hours, perhaps?). Temp workers usually have a contract with their agency, not the company, and this may be a different story.

This could be the start of a good way to embarrass companies into fixing bugs AND punishing bad people. Evil person wants to use the exploit, so they bid. Microsoft don't want the exploit usable, so they fix it (run with me on this one for a moment) The clever bit is, the Seller (who is honest, intelligent and socially responsible) sets the auction expiry time far enough into the future to cause a race between the two. M$ are put on public notice when the exploit becomes usable. If they win the race, Evil Person has to pay for no benefit (or M$ would give them a bad ebay rating - that'd hurt, right?). If they lose the race, public humiliation ensues. This is sort of like the Bounty system, in reverse. Or just plain blackmail. Either way, it would be fun to watch.