Let's not forget that BTK killer worked for them installing alarm systems for people who wanted protection against the BTK killer.

The source is mostly anecdotal: my wife worked for Amazon in Germany. They don't actually break the law but they treat employees extremely poorly [by German standards]. Strikes are frequent and unionization is coming, so things are bound to change.

If you Google for amazon deutschland betriebsrat and similar terms you will find a myriad of articles on the topic.

You can verify that trust by looking at how the employee performs over an extended period of time. There's no need to verify it every 30 minutes.

Despite the strict German labor laws, Amazon's warehouses in Germany get away with as much as they possibly can and some more.

I live abroad (in Europe) and Facebook is the main concentration point for expats from my home country. The groups will often have hundreds of thousands of expats and most of the time it's the easiest & fastest way of getting information on virtually any topic relevant to expat life.

Here in Germany the word Meister, which is the German word for master, is used in so many contexts to mean someone who is responsible for, or specialist in something, that it would be impossible to avoid it completely. For example, the landlord or the one responsible for janitorial services in a building is the Hausmeister. A professional house painter is a Malermeister. The (almost mythical) chap that comes once an year to clean the chimney is a Schornsteinfegermeister.

1. Three years ago in Brazil you could buy Bitcoins in local online markets using your local account. Several large markets also accepted international wire transfers. Or you could also go to localbitcoins.com IIRC, and buy in cash from people geographically near you.

2. There were services accepting Bitcoins that sold gift cards for Amazon and other big stores. Don't know if there are such services still. Of course they charged fees.

In any case, Bitcoin serves three main purposes, as I see:

I. dealing in shady business (silk road, etc)
II. trading and speculating
III. keeping a handful of libertarians geeks thinking they're really "sticking it to the man"

I and II are obviously the reasons Bitcoin still exists. III is not enough to keep it rolling.

I would be happy enough to see the Mt.Gox judicial nightmare over by Earth Day and get back at least some of my money and BC back. Yeah, let me keep on dreaming...

Damn you, Mark Karpeles! Damn you a thousand times.

Learning facts don't make anyone knowledgeable of science. I think what really means is that your regular software writer (and CS bachelor, IMHO) has no contact whatsoever with the scientific method and with how science actually works. That is, they are unaware of how to develop an hypothesis, test it against experiment, place the phenomenon under a broader context, etc.

A really simple test to see if someone has at least a minimum understand of how science works is asking them about what a theory is. I've seem plenty of college educated people think that, say, Theory of Relativity and Theory of Evolution are mere guesses that haven't still been properly verified and one have not only the right, but the moral obligation to chose whether to believe them or not based on their on personal logic. Actually, most people say things like "this and that haven't actually been proved by science", thinking that there are actually "proofs" of anything in science.

I disagree with how they picture Nye's position as a prominent science educator, but his opinion is right on the dime.

As they have no life to begin with, at least they won't lose much if things go wrong.

The thing is, you don't need that .exe to access the leaked data. The leaks are just a bunch of csv files. I never run the .exe.

Also, the MtGox2014Leak.zip file is 750672322 bytes. The trades.zip file is 622555932 bytes.

The leak is real, nonetheless. I found my balance and transactions there.

This was known minutes after the leak was released. You disappoint me, slashdot.

At home about 95% of all software that I use are open source. At work this number drops down to ~80%. However, most of the open source software I use at work is compiled with proprietary and closed source compilers (IBM, Portland, Intel). Compiling is not something I often do, though.