Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive?; Assange Calls for an End to the 'Witch Hunt'

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? Assange Calls for an End to the 'Witch Hunt' The Worst Job at Google To AdBlock or Not to AdBlock? Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? Hot Comment: You can tell where the oppressive idiots are From the Vault: Should IT Unionize? Watch It: Cloud Talk With Ex-CEO of MySQL AB Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive? Former Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz says it's important to him "that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life." New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she doesn't believe in burnout. But Jason Fried, CEO of software company 37signals, says the best way to be productive is take time off. What do you think? Sound Off>> Assange Calls for an End to the 'Witch Hunt' In his first public statement since entering Ecuador's London embassy, Julian Assange urged the U.S. to end its "witch hunt" against Wikileaks. The U.S. has said that it "does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law." Sound Off>> The Worst Job at Google A ex-Google-employee recently told his story of a year-long stint of wading through and blocking the most horrible things on the Internet. In the end, he needed therapy, and since he was a contractor, he was let go instead of being hired as a full-time employee. Sound Off>> To AdBlock or Not to AdBlock? conner_bw, who doesn't want to be profiled by unscrupulous advertisers, but wants to support quality content, asks fellow Slashdotters: "Is there an acceptable compromise to behavioral targeting?" and "What should individuals do to protect themselves, if anything at all?" Sound Off>> Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? A Harvard Business Review writer points out that the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit is eerily similar to Apple's famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft in the mid-1990s. Apple lost the case, but clearly didn't stop innovating. Would we all be better off if we allowed companies to copy each other and let the marketplace decide their fate?  Sound Off>> You can tell where the oppressive idiots are "if you are so all-fired to exclude scientific thought, send your kids to church school. as for everybody else, they should be exposed to the real world and all its swirling contradictions through a broad-based education." --by swschrad  Read More>> Should IT Unionize? Four years ago, an InfoWorld writer asked, "Is it finally time for technology workers to form a union and demand better working conditions?" Perhaps the best bet for IT may be a professional organization modeled after the American Bar Association or the American Medical Association that could give IT pros a single voice to speak out on issues that affect everyone, such as H-1B visa limits. Read More>> Cloud Talk With Ex-CEO of MySQL AB From Slashdot TV: The business brain behind MySQL's rapid growth and subsequent billion-dollar sale to Sun and current CEO of fast-growing open source cloud software provider Eucalyptus Systems talks about the different flavors of cloud computing. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.