Pay to Get Paid: When Paychecks Go Plastic; Electric Cars: Unclean at Any Speed?

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Pay to Get Paid: When Paychecks Go Plastic Firefox Snatches Performance Crown from Chrome Electric Cars: Unclean at Any Speed? Microsoft Killing Off TechNet Subscriptions Motorola Is Listening Hot Comment: "Yes, freedom is more important than general safety." From the Vault: Best and Worst Coding Standards? Watch It: Bye-Bye to Booth Babes? Poll Booth: I'd most rather, of the following, search with ... Pay to Get Paid: When Paychecks Go Plastic A growing number of American workers are being paid by prepaid payroll cards, which often have fees attached to basic services like making a cash withdrawal or for inactivity. And some employees report that their employers refuse to pay them by check or direct deposit. Sound Off>> Firefox Snatches Performance Crown from Chrome Recent browser benchmarks are showing surprising results: in a geometric mean of all four performance-based categories, Firefox 22 "pulls off an upset, replacing the long-time performance champion Google Chrome 27 as the new speed king." Sound Off>> Electric Cars: Unclean at Any Speed? The answer to the question, "Are electric cars really green?" depends on whom you ask. While most who have studied the issue say they are, there are a few critics who say that the supposed benefits of electric vehicles are nothing but myths. Sound Off>> Microsoft Killing Off TechNet Subscriptions Since 1998, Microsoft TechNet has been a mainstay for all system developers attached to the Microsoft platform. Users were given easy access to almost every product the company produced for the price of a subscription. But now it's coming to an end. Sound Off>> Motorola Is Listening While hooking up to Microsoft ActiveSync at work, Ben Lincoln discovered that his Motorola Droid X2 was silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola servers. To compound the problem, he also found that a great deal of the data was being sent over an unencrypted HTTP channel. Sound Off>> Re: So much for... "Yes Freedom is more important than general safety. When the government says you can't have or do X because it is unsafe. It allows them to take the next step and say the next thing is unsafe and you shouldn't do it." --by jellomizer Read More>>   Best and Worst Coding Standards? Five years ago, an anonymous reader asked Slashdotters, "What standards have you found worked well in practice, increasing code readability and maintainability? Which only looked good on paper?" Read More>> Bye-Bye to Booth Babes? It seems those scantily-dressed females hired to attract people to displays at IT trade shows and conferences are making fewer appearances. Enterprise Cloud Site Editor-in-Chief Michael Steinhart and frequent show attendee discusses the case of the disappearing booth babes and possible reasons. Watch the Video>> I'd most rather, of the following, search with: Lycos InfoSeek AltaVista WebCrawler Ask Jeeves Dogpile Gopher Some other (non-Google, non-Bing) option Cast Your Vote>> 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.