Driver Arrested for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing; Amazon Workers Face 'Increased Risk of Mental Illness,' BBC Reports

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Driver Arrested for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing New Wonder Conductor Could Replace Graphene Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? Amazon Workers Face 'Increased Risk of Mental Illness,' BBC Reports Hot Comment: "So you get to starve to death or dehydrate. Excuse me if I don't consider..." From the Vault: Google Wants to Take Away Your Capslock Key Watch It: Game Review: Path of Exile Poll Booth: I wish my cell phone was... Driver Arrested for Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing Ohio state troopers made the first arrest under the state's new "hidden compartment" law. And the driver faces drug-related charges despite the fact that there were no drugs found. The 2012 law makes it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a secret compartment with the "intent" of using it to conceal drugs for trafficking. Sound Off>> New Wonder Conductor Could Replace Graphene Forget graphene. A team of theoretical physicists says that "Stanene" -- a single layer of tin atoms -- could be the world's first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computer chips operate. Sound Off>> Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries A community of bloggers wants to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that democracy has actually done more harm than good and propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy. Sound Off>> How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? An anonymous reader, who is being targeted by an overseas debt collection scam and gets calls every 10-15 minutes all day every day despite being on the Do Not Call Registry, asked Slashdotters whether there are any real solutions out there. Sound Off>> Amazon Workers Face 'Increased Risk of Mental Illness,' BBC Reports The BBC is reporting that an investigation into a UK-based Amazon facility has uncovered conditions that experts believe foster mental illness. At the root of the problem seems to be unreasonable performance expectations combined with a fundamentally dehumanizing environment. Sound Off>>   Re: Should be legal, with caveat "So you get to starve to death or dehydrate. Excuse me if I don't consider death by organ failure over several days as "quickly". I don't think anyone would call that humane. We would put down a dog in that condition. Not let it starve or die by dehydration." --by h4rr4r Read More>>   Google Wants to Take Away Your Capslock Key Three years ago, Gizmodo reported that is going to eliminate the Caps Lock key from all the notebooks made for the Chrome operating system. Why? According to Google, this will improve the quality of the comments, because people will not be able to write all in capital letters. Read More>> Game Review: Path of Exile Several years ago, a group of hardcore gamers put together an independent game studio and began developing Path of Exile, an ARPG that would update and refine all of the characteristics that made the genre great. We take a look at what the free-to-play game has to offer. Watch the Video>>   I wish my cell phone was... 50% faster 50% cheaper 50% smaller 50% bigger 50% lighter 50% more secure 50% more battery efficient 50% of the known universe 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.