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Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?

An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end.

Alfie's a little provocative at fashion show

quoteI haven’t seen anything quite so gleefully preposterous as this show since Take That toured with a hologram of Robbie Williams quote

DBS Profit Plunges 38%; Bank Warns About Outlook

Lucrative...provocative...and completely illegal. CNBC takes you inside the business of high-end prostitution.

Panasonic Shares Plunge on Sanyo Electric Deal

Lucrative...provocative...and completely illegal. CNBC takes you inside the business of high-end prostitution.

Euro Stocks Fall 4%; Banks, Oils Weigh

Lucrative...provocative...and completely illegal. CNBC takes you inside the business of high-end prostitution.

iPhone Launch to Hurt SingTel's Quarter Earnings

Lucrative...provocative...and completely illegal. CNBC takes you inside the business of high-end prostitution.

Why Agile Projects Fail

The purposely provocative title of this article is meant to capture the attention of people with two opposing mindsets. The first are the proponents of agile methods who will want to pick apart any arguments against their preferred approach. The second are those who oppose agile and are looking for justification for their concerns. The goal of this article is to reduce the opposition between these two schools of thought, and to provide some food for thought to those who are undecided.

Nicole puts on an extra show

Nicole Scherzinger, left raised some eyebrows with rather provocative stretches before a performance with the Pussycat Dolls last night.

Q&A: Jonathan Zittrain

Internationally renowned cyberlaw scholar Jonathan Zittrain’s new book carries the provocative title, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Oliver Lindberg asks him exactly what he means

Artist Fritz Scholder Redefined Native American Art

Washington — Perhaps no contemporary artist of Native American heritage has been as enigmatic, influential or provocative as the late Fritz Scholder (1937-2005), who almost single-handedly demolished some of the most persistent clichés about the nature of American Indian identity.

Katich hits ton before a collapse

AFTER the satisfaction of the century Simon Katich craved came frustration, when he was upset by the provocative Zaheer Khan and then watched India claw back the advantage in the fluctuating fourth Test.

Study: Wii Games Hit Bargain Bins Faster

When it comes to game sales metrics, feelings are irrelevant and data is king. Research group EEDAR claims to have rather provocative data from a study conducted on "price protection" that reveals Wii games are landing in bargain bins at a rate, compared to Xbox 360 and PS3 titles, of nearly 2 to 1, according to Cinema Blend.

Moscow alarmed by exhibition of Prophet Muhammad pictures in Netherlands

MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) - Moscow is alarmed by an exhibition in the Dutch city of Gouda displaying what is sees as provocative pictures of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers. "Russia harshly condemns this action and calls on all parties to refrain from steps that could complicate inter-civilizational accord," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its official website on Friday. "In fact, this is a further attempt at a cartoon scandal, which has already blackened relations between the West and the Islamic world," it said. va nb

I admire Sachin, never called him a liar: Gilchrist

MUMBAI, Oct 25: In an exclusive column for a leading Indian newspaper on Saturday, Aussie wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist clarified his stand on his allegedly provocative remarks against Indian batting maestro, Sachin Tendulkar.

Video Artist Wins Britain's Turner Prize

Mark Leckey, a multimedia artist whose exhibition “Industrial Light & Magic� combines recreated images of Felix the Cat, Homer Simpson and the movie “Titanic,� won the 2008 Turner Prize on Monday, the BBC reported. The annual prize, presented by the Tate Gallery in London to a British artist under the age of 50, comes with an award of about $37,000, and is often given to creators of untraditional and provocative works. Mr. Leckey, a professor of film studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, was presented with the prize by the rock musician Nick Cave at a ceremony. According to the judges, Mr. Leckey’s work “celebrates the imagination of the individual and our potential to inhabit, reclaim or animate an idea, a space or an object,� the BBC said.

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