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  1. Different story for contract workers... on Google Will Require Temp Workers Receive $15 Minimum Wage, Parental Leave (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife was offered a full-time job that was subcontracted, with Google as the client. They offered her 7 USD per hour. I'll bet that the company in the middle was getting plenty of money out of the deal, but because it was contracted out, they can get away with paying a pittance for a highly skilled full-time position.

  2. Getting emails for an employee with the same name. on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Lately I've been sent a lot of requests to work additional shifts at a sporting goods store in Idaho. I considered going, but I don't think it's really worth the hassle of a 16+ hour commute from New Zealand.

  3. Tough for small online businesses on PayPal To Suspend Business Operations In Turkey Following License Denial (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a big problem for small businesses there who use Paypal for payment processing, especially when they do most of their selling through sites such as eBay -- suddenly they suddenly have to find another solution. Apparently many people are looking into setting up bank accounts outside of Turkey to get around it; one of the options a lot of people are considering is Estonia's e-Resident scheme, which allows you to register your company and use a bank account in Estonia.

  4. Anti-face-recognition options on Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best · · Score: 1

    Not just neckbeards, creative hairstyles and makeup can easily break facial recognition algorithms. You can already find some nice examples and tutorials for this online. I sort of like the idea of a future where everyone is wearing ziggy stardust kind of makeup.

  5. Re:manbearpig! on SXSW: Al Gore Talks Surveillance Culture, Spider Goats · · Score: 3, Funny

    super serial?

  6. Send us your bones on Man Has 75% of Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Materials · · Score: 1

    Sounds good, as long as they don't use squirrel bones as a raw material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9exB1XR10ck

  7. I'm a tube man. on Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily lazy. It's a convenient I/O interface for the stomach, and the perfect accompaniment for the Cinco Food Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o7YG3x0DI

  8. I'll take one... on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 2

    ...If it means I don't have to deal with the TSA!

  9. Re:spoonful of sugar on Overconfidence May Be a Result of Social Politeness · · Score: 1

    In art school, there wasn't a lot of criticism, and they were nice about it -- tried to encourage you a lot. However, when I started working as an animator, if there was something wrong with a scene it had to be redone. If you didn't do it right, you didn't get paid. So, you learn pretty quickly not to be too sensitive to criticism.

  10. Cartoon or Comic? on How Madefire Is Changing the Visual Grammar of Comics · · Score: 1

    Pick one and do it well. Primitive animation can be funny or cute, but it needs to be designed with that in mind - as a low budget animation, something which will be shown on screen rather than in print. This can work on a small screen quite well. If you want to make a comic though, tacking on a few sound effects and screen wipes really adds very little, and is more likely to disrupt the experience.

  11. Re:Hypocritical much? on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 1

    Sadly I don't think that's ever going to happen. The current NZ government is way too cosy with the US government, far more so than any other NZ government that I can recall...

  12. Re:NZ Police has handed them over already on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's all a bit of a mess really. Here's an article giving a few more details: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10808032

  13. Hypocritical much? on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The US government has illegally copied his data, in the hope of extraditing him of charges of illegally copying other peoples data.

  14. "Like" on facebook can be a misleading term. on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to follow any discussion taking place on a facebook page, you usually have to "Like" it first. The word implies that you are supporting it, but you might just do it for the sake of curiosity, not to show how you genuinely feel about a subject.