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Comment Re:more then the background check... (Score 1) 334

by saifatlast on Monday October 16, 2006 @01:40AM (#16449581) Attached to: Backyard Rocketeers Keep the Solid Fuel Burning

For what it's worth, ammo isn't that dangerous in a fire (unless it's actually in the gun). Without the barrel to direct the bullet and channel the expanding gasses, and the bolt assembly to hold the brass in place, the bullet itself is going to fly far shorter and far slower than the brass.

Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements 765

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 10, 2006 @07:37AM from the have-a-good-trip dept.

Makarand writes "David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that Bank of America (BofA) is moving thousands of tech jobs to India and has asked its techies to train their Indian replacements or risk losing severance pay. Although there is nothing in writing that says precisely this, the employees have been made clear about this responsibility in their meetings. BofA is outsourcing tech work to Indian companies whose employees do the work at half the cost of what a U.S. worker gets paid. According to an estimate, outsourcing has allowed the bank to save about $100 million over the past five years."

Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk 282

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 02, 2006 @03:40AM from the i-call-my-tumor-tummy dept.

dtjohnson writes "A new Swedish study has found that heavy users of cell phones had a 240 percent increase in brain tumors on the side of their head that the phone was used on. The study defined 'heavy' use as more than 2,000 total hours, or approximately one hour of use per workday for 10 years. An earlier British study was previously discussed here that didn't find an increased risk, although that study covered fewer subjects and only followed one type of brain tumor for a shorter period of time. Or course, the biggest epidemiological study of all is the one we are all participating in whenever we use our cell phone. The results from that study won't be available for a while."

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