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Comment Re:Actually it starts at conception (Score 1) 489

by phoenix03 (#45939645) Attached to: Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School
So what about when a group of women get together and talk about how men are pigs or how dumb we are? The upsetting thing is when a woman enters a group of men, she expects the behavior of the men to change to suit the woman.

They really dislike a lot of the joking that goes on in a team of geeks that's almost entirely male, and they're convinced the Valley's family leave policies are Evil and Anti-Woman,

And I really dislike this nonsense that tries to jam 'equality' into CompSci and completely disregards the bias against men in education. The very fact of being male has been under attack for far too long, and I'm sick of tolerating it.

Comment I'm lucky that's been my experience (Score 2) 249

by phoenix03 (#45850145) Attached to: Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value?
Absolutely. While I would hesitate to call my manager 'non technical', he is much more focused on the look and feel of our company websites. It's my job to implement back end functionality. However, he makes my working life easy. I'm able to work for long periods of time with 0 interruptions - mainly because he fields all the 'feature requests' and complaints. A great manager can be worth their weight in gold - a terrible one can drag you down like they were made of lead.

Submission + - Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.
Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive.
In two papers posted on the arXiv repository, Yoshifumi Hyakutake of Ibaraki University in Japan and his colleagues now provide, if not an actual proof, at least compelling evidence that Maldacena’s conjecture is true.

Submission + - Program to use Russian nukes for US electricity comes to an end (npr.org)

Submitted by gbrumfiel
gbrumfiel writes: For the past two decades, about 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States has come from Russian nuclear warheads. Under a program called Megatons to Megawatts, Russian highly-enriched uranium was pulled from old bombs and made into fuel for nuclear reactors. NPR News reports that today, the program concludes, when the last shipment arrives at a storage US storage facility. In all nearly 500 tons of uranium was recycled, enough for roughly 20,000 warheads.

Submission + - Child 'training' book triggers backlash

Submitted by mrspoonsi
mrspoonsi writes: BBC Reports: A child-raising book that advocates whipping with branches and belts has sold hundreds of thousands of copies to evangelical Christians. But the deaths of three children whose parents appear to have been influenced by the authors' teachings have provoked a growing backlash. The implements can vary. For a child under one year old, a willowy branch or a 1ft (30cm) ruler is recommended. For older children, a larger branch or a belt. But the objective of the "spanking" described in Michael and Debi Pearl's To Train Up a Child is the same — making children surrender completely to their parents' will. Like other people who have witnessed Michael Pearl's advice being put into practice, Hannah says her parents were seduced by the idea of a simple formula that would make their children compliant. "The problem is that [Pearl] tells you you have to break your children," she says. "And to get there you have to be completely ruthless." To Train Up a Child is widely seen as the most extreme of the publications produced by conservative Christians in the US who advocate corporal punishment.

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