MrCrassic writes “Working at home isn’t vacation…or is it?” Quoting an article in The Register: “Almost one in five Americans who work from home only clock in for an hour or less a day, according to a survey, while a third stay in their pyjamas. Forty per cent of telecommuters say they work between four and seven hours, 17 per cent are doing the bare minimum and just 35 per cent are working eight or more hours, the CareerBuilder survey of 5,299 (more…)

About 100,000 people, or half the on-demand workforce at CrowdFlower, have taken pay in virtual rather than real dollars, says Chief Executive Officer Lukas Biewald, “We have to stop differentiating between the virtual world and the real world. The virtual world is very real.”

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neonsignal writes “Iconic Australian band Men at Work have been ordered to pay royalties for an instrumental riff in their song ‘Down Under.’ The notes were sampled from a well-known children’s song ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,’ written in 1934 for a Girl Guide’s Jamboree. The Justice found the claims of the copyright owner Larrikin to be excessive, but ordered the payment of royalties and a percentage of future profits. Let’s hope the primary (more…)

BonesSB writes “I’m a student at a university in Massachusetts, where I have a federal work-study position. Yesterday, I got an email from the office that is responsible for student run organizations (one of which I work for) saying that I need to go to their office and have my finger prints taken for the purposes of clocking in and out of work. This raises huge privacy concerns for me, as it should for everybody else. I am in the process of contacting (more…)

According to The Latino Review, Disney producer Steven Lisberger confirmed that a video game is being developed for release with next winter’s long-awaited release of Tron Legacy

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A cheeky instruction video about the do’s and don’ts of making your NES cartridges work.

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In this opinion column, Lewis Pulsipher muses on ways to enjoy games without the focus on success, failure and competition, asserting that users must have that option if games are ever to be as inclusive as movies.

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