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Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]
lifehacker.com - 11/20/2008
Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]
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If you're manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down?...

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Wired: Gadget Lab:  Employees Sue Over Half-Hour Boot Times

Is booting up a computer work, or a work break?
law.com - 11/20/2008
Is booting up a computer work, or a work break?
— law.com — NLJ Home > News EMPLOYMENT LAW Is booting up a computer work, or a work break? More companies fending off suits on the issue. It seems just about anything in the workplace can find its way into wage-and-hour litigation. Case in point: Lawyers are ... (more) Is booting up a computer work, or a work break?

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BeagleBoard booting custom Android (video)
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youtube.com - 11/20/2008
BeagleBoard booting custom Android (video)
— youtube.com — a video showing Android booting on Beagle board , captured on my mobile phone. (more) BeagleBoard booting custom Android (video)

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Employees Not Getting Paid for Boot-Up Times, Sue Their Employers [Work Sucks]
gizmodo.com - 11/20/2008
Employees Not Getting Paid for Boot-Up Times, Sue Their Employers [Work Sucks]
— gizmodo.com — For office drones at big companies such as AT&T;, United Health Group and Cigna, booting up their computers at the start of the day and waiting for them to shut down takes some decent time. Like 20 minutes at the start and end of the day. And they ... (more) Employees Not Getting Paid for Boot-Up Times, Sue Their ...

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Employees Sue Over Half-Hour Boot Times
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... are working on some kind of mechanical Babbage engines and need to coax the cogs into meshing every morning. We doubt it. If their computers are really that far gone, we can think of just one thing -- they've been visiting some very dodgy sites during work hours and gotten infected with all kinds of malware. Which, in turn, means that they have been surfing porn on work time, and should shut up about a few nickels. Is booting up a computer work, or a work break? [NLJ via Lifehacker] Photo: itilir/Flickr ...

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