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  1. Re:Horribly Unfair on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    While I can see that being a rule while at work, it should not be allowed when you are not on the clock or have exceeded your expected hours for the week.

    This is not to prevent people from being upset, this is to keep wages down. This way you can only give one guy a raise and keep the rest of the departement from also wanting a fair deal.

  2. Re:Great! on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 4, Informative

    So do lots of folks who do not get paid that much money.

  3. Re:It's their information if you gave it to them on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It should be if a considerable number of jobs require it.

    Having no food or shelter is not much different than a knife to the neck.

  4. Re:One More Tool to Fight the Rise in Workers' Pay on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 2

    Don't answer that question. Most companies are not going to pay to look up your old salary.

    Don't switch jobs for less than X% increase. You decide X. I had an employer once tell me 10% was too much even though they wanted me to shoulder considerable moving expenses. I let them know that I was then not interested in working in such a place.

    If you need the work bad you can take it, but when job switching you can be considerably more picky.

  5. Re:Horribly Unfair on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    A lot of employers forbid it, or try to.

    I believe the proposed law would make that illegal.

    In some situations discussing salary is fine, if you are getting a friend a job for instance or if you want to compare what your employer is paying for a job vs a friends employer.

    Discouraging the discussion of salaries is just another method of keeping wages down.

  6. Re:dental insurance ? on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Mine is stupidly cheap.

    It costs about $10 a year more than the two cleanings a year would cost me. So far I am way ahead, since it paid for a large part of my wisdom teeth extractions just a few years ago. Just the discount for having insurance was enough to put me way ahead.

  7. Re:Great! on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, some SUNY Binghamton coach is making $240k.

    Why is a state school wasting money like that?

  8. Re:Inaccuracy is a big problem on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    How is that possible?
    Can't she sue them and force them to prove she created that debt?

  9. Re:To play devil's advocate... on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Which should be my decision to disclose or not.

    If you want to extend me credit then ask for that information and the documentation to prove it.

  10. Re:Not constrained on OnLive's Epic Plan For a New Type of Video Game · · Score: 1

    Constant workstation upgrades are a thing of the past. 20 years ago onlive made sense, today my 4 year old PC is over the top for any modern game since they are all constrained to the PS3 and 360. This will change with the PS4 and 720 but not again for another 10 years. PCs have gotten good enough.

    If driving is unplayable something like CS would be impossible to play.

  11. Nearly no phone can actually be bricked. Absolute worst case you boot into recovery and flash another zip.

    For what device is installing Cyanogenmod difficult?
    From your description not that one.

    There can't be a "good" installer, that would require the device company to play along. There is nothing they could do to make it easier for you.

  12. Re:Doesn't matter on rooted phones on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 2

    Why not just flash a new ROM instead of using the OTA update?

    If you wanted to use OTAs, why flash Clockwork at all?

  13. Re:The carriers don't care. on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 1

    The alternative I will be seeking is leaving verizon and buying a GSM nexus as soon as my contract is over.

    Verizon is losing a family plan that is over 10 years old because of this.

  14. What lack of flash support?

    Adobe killed flash for all devices post 4.0.

  15. Re:Separation of Responsibilities on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Considering you don't have the device drivers how do you update the phone without them?

    Great you can have security updates and a phone that no longer has a functioning radio or camera.

    Getting the drivers into mainline would be a far better solution.

  16. Re:Not a problem for iOS. on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Really all the other advantages are a mystery to you?

    Not everyone wants to live in a walled garden and pay a tithe to be allowed to program for their own device. Not to mention the lack of custom ROMS, and a whole host of other things.

  17. Re:Still using my Droid 1 going on three years on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 0

    You are running stock on that device?
    WHY?

  18. Should have been part of the bailouts on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The banks should have been broken up as part of the bailouts. No need for any complicated new tax codes.

  19. Re:Sucks, I guess, on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because being a corporation means playing by our societies rules?

  20. Re:Not constrained on OnLive's Epic Plan For a New Type of Video Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forget constrained by bandwidth, the real problem is latency. Unless they can put a data center in every city they plan to service they can basically forget about it.

  21. Re:No they are not all scams on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 1

    It is free money to the bank.
    They want me to donate it so they can lend it out.

    See kiva.org for an example.

  22. Re:A *lot* of microfinance is just a scam on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 1

    Who pays this money?
    What does it take to get it?

    Can't your mother hire some pizza delivery folks who are probably not busy during the day and collect it?

  23. Re:A *lot* of microfinance is just a scam on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 1

    So then why don't the hospitals collect blood themselves and cut out the middle man?

  24. Re:someone should sue this place on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 1

    So you have either malware or a virus infecting your computer that you cannot get rid of, but we are to believe you have the technical prowess to hack this website.

    The fix you are looking for is here http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

    Good luck with your hacking there dummy.

  25. Re:The Plant on Startup Offers Pay-Per-Page E-Books · · Score: 1

    Do 75% of the readers of his paper copy books pay?

    How many are borrowing from a friend or a library or the book was bought for a whole family meaning only one copy was bought for 2-4 or more readers?

    I think he set that mark too high.