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Comment Re:Ground down (Score 1) 1198

Take a look at construction workers or the military. I have close friends working in these sector, I'm being told women there have it a lot worse. I'd say IT is generally kinder for women, compared with other men-dominated sectors. So misogyny exists in IT, sure, but you have other horses to beat first. This outrage is misguided and deserves the cause.

Comment Re:Waste? (Score 1) 218

So you prefer certain atmosphere and aquifer contamination to a little bit of radioactivity. I suggest you document yourself on nuclear waste storage and fly ash storage. The first is a fear-driven, over regulated and technologically advanced process (see Areva), the latter is the kind of self contamination garbage humanity has been doing for centuries.
Facebook

Facebook Building a Company Town 159

cold fjord writes "The Wall Street Journal reports, 'Facebook Inc.'s sprawling campus in Menlo Park, Calif., is so full of cushy perks that some employees may never want to go home. ... The social network said this week it is working with a local developer to build a $120 million, 394-unit housing community within walking distance of its offices. ... the 630,000 square-foot rental property will include everything from a sports bar to a doggy day care. Even in Silicon Valley, where tech companies compete to lure coveted engineers with over-the-top perks and offices that resemble adult playgrounds, Facebook's plan breaks new ground. A Facebook spokeswoman said employee retention wasn't a major factor in the real estate push. "We're certainly excited to have more housing options closer to campus, but we believe that people work at Facebook because what they do is rewarding and they believe in our mission," she said. Some employees had inquired about places to live near the corporate campus, she said ... The development conjures up memories of so-called "company towns" at the turn of the 20th century, where American factory workers lived in communities owned by their employer and were provided housing, health care, law enforcement, church and just about every other service necessary.'"

Comment Re:I always thought Auction house is what make Dia (Score 2) 219

They fixed that in the console version. Good loot actually dropping when playing the game, instead of Auction House requirement for everyone. The console version is, for this very reason, the superior version of the game. Apparently, they want to shift the PC loot system to something similar to console version with their "Loot 2.0" system.

Comment Re:Hate labor laws? (Score 3, Informative) 293

No, it's not impossible to fire people in Italy nor in France. Companies just have to pay adequate compensation for breaking employment contracts. The keyword here is contract, binding both parties (employee not getting unemployment benefits if they are the ones breaking it). Of course most are too cheap to pay.
Bitcoin

Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin 334

ASDFnz writes "It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to crash. The culprit of the crash was found to be a bug that prevented pre version 7.1 bitcoin clients accepting large blocks that could be generated by version 8 clients. A temporary fix was put into place by Bitcoin Project lead developer Gavin Andresen that forced version 8 clients to generate blocks that version 7.1 could understand. It is important to note though, the fix was a temporary one! In just under two days on the 15th of May the fix will expire and version 8 clients will once again be able to make large blocks that older clients will not be able to understand."
Medicine

Bionic Hand Wired To Nerves Can "Feel" When Touched 42

An anonymous reader writes in with a breakthrough in prosthetics. "The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception. The patient is an unnamed man in his 20s living in Rome who lost the lower part of his arm following an accident, said Silvestro Micera of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The wiring of his new bionic hand will be connected to the patient’s nervous system with the hope that the man will be able to control the movements of the hand as well as receiving touch signals from the hand’s skin sensors."

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