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Dear Sirs and Madams:

My friend Purple / Red / Blue / Green / Cyan / Violet / Orange / Black / Crimson Microdot has just informed me that he has recently been IP banned from Kuro5hin. Consequently, the onus has temporarily fallen to me of carrying out the sacred duties of the Microdot until he can resolve the situation and resume operations as before.

I know that I have big shoes to fill, and I won't claim that I'll be able to live up to the accomplishments of my predecessor. I won't even claim that I'm qualified for the job, however, I know that Kuro5hin needs a Microdot, and I will do anything within my power to adequately fill in for the true Microdot while he is indisposed.

The true Microdot wishes me to convey his sincere regrets to all of you over being temporarily forcibly separated from you. This is a situation that was beyond his control, and he is doing what he can to find a workaround. Until then, I'll do my part to try to fill the void, because Kuro5hin without the Microdot is just not Kuro5hin. (We won't even mention a certain Yellow imposter, who is an embarrassment to the Microdot name and to himself.)

I can never be the original Microdot, but I'm going to try my best to get into the Microdot mindset, and find my own personal style as well. If you like me, then perhaps when the real Microdot overcomes his IP-ban, I'll continue to work side-by-side with him. If you don't like me, then e-mail some certain people and request/demand that the original Microdot have his IP-ban removed as soon as possible.

This is all that I have to say at the moment. Until the services of the Standing Junior Microdot are needed again, I wish you all good night... and Godspeed.

Warmest Possible Regards,

Teal Microdot

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Dear Sirs and Madams:

My friend Purple / Red / Blue / Green / Cyan / Violet / Orange / Black / Crimson Microdot has just informed me that he has recently been IP banned from Kuro5hin. Consequently, the onus has temporarily fallen to me of carrying out the sacred duties of the Microdot until he can resolve the situation and resume operations as before.

I know that I have big shoes to fill, and I won't claim that I'll be able to live up to the accomplishments of my predecessor. I won't even claim that I'm qualified for the job, however, I know that Kuro5hin needs a Microdot, and I will do anything within my power to adequately fill in for the true Microdot while he is indisposed.

The true Microdot wishes me to convey his sincere regrets to all of you over being temporarily forcibly separated from you. This is a situation that was beyond his control, and he is doing what he can to find a workaround. Until then, I'll do my part to try to fill the void, because Kuro5hin without the Microdot is just not Kuro5hin. (We won't even mention a certain Yellow imposter, who is an embarrassment to the Microdot name and to himself.)

I can never be the original Microdot, but I'm going to try my best to get into the Microdot mindset, and find my own personal style as well. If you like me, then perhaps when the real Microdot overcomes his IP-ban, I'll continue to work side-by-side with him. If you don't like me, then e-mail some certain people and request/demand that the original Microdot have his IP-ban removed as soon as possible.

This is all that I have to say at the moment. Until the services of the Standing Junior Microdot are needed again, I wish you all good night... and Godspeed.

Warmest Possible Regards,

Teal Microdot

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

Scott Lockwood whines just to hear himself.

"You know, I'd stay retired if these fools would just find another target."

We did. We had an agreement. We moved on to other things. Scott Lockwood didn't. Scott Lockwood couldn't STAND being left alone. He can't live without negative attention, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to atract it. He had, and still does, have the chance to be left alone FOREVAR, just by shutting the hell up. We gave him once chance, and he flat-out lied to us. We left him alone, and he couldn't stand it, so he started spamming himself all over the Internet and goading us to pay attention to him again.

We put up with it for quite a while, but the frequency and volume of his attention-seeking continued to increase. Well, if he wants attention, he'll get it.

Scott Lockwood, it's all up to you. You can stop it any time you like. You know that VladeKua5y is doomed. Stop fucking yourself over. You can end it any time, if you have willpower and honest. The problem is that you don't. You have no morality as a person.

Is this Scott Lockwood? No, Scott Lockwood is much wider than that. Is this Scott Lockwood, or is this? There are so many that seem to fit him, I just can't decide.

Oh well. On to the future. There's much to be done, and little time to do it.

You have proven yourself quite the Archivist. You've managed to take a 19-year old post, take one tiny snippet of that, take it out of context to boot, and cornerstone your "proof" around it. Obviously nothing has changed in the past 19 years, and obviously the sequencing of words so long ago is equally valid today. Right.

The GNU system is a complete operating system of which the kernel is only one small portion. GNU is an operating system that can work with Linux as its kernel. (although it doesn't need linux to run) On the other hand, Linux is a kernel that is almost useless without a supporting framework of software. Luckily, the GNU system exists to fill in those massive gaps in linux as an operating system. As RMS says, this isn't a mistake - when Linus was looking around for software to use with his kernel, it wasn't a mistake that he found GNU.

GNU is independent of a kernel, but needs a kernel to operate. Because of this, I don't think there is a "rightful" GNU system. Or more accurately, I would consider the "rightful" GNU system to be any operating system that consists of nothing but free as in speech software.

Loopy bastard.

You mean like this guy?

Winternet were my dialup ISP before I got cable. They are still going.

Too bad you're too late: winternet.com. Established in 1994....not using "wireless" but even so....you lose the trademark race.

First let me assure you that I'm not the AC that insulted you. I log in to do that ;-)
The whole art of keeping up traditions is to do it in small doses. Honestly I liked how you derided my rant about slashdot traditions: that's exactly how it should be. As in "you flame me, I flame you". Excellent, I foresee a great future for you as a slashdot poster. A bit less whining and a bit more spice and you'll make one heck of a flamewarrior.
I never said you had to agree about the tradition part, but I hope you sure do see my point. Oh, and don't link to goatse.cx, it's already bad enough mentioning it.

I realize DivX 5 is not classified as 'Open Source' which is why I added 'somewhat' into that sentence, as some version of the codec are and others aren't. If you're not satisfied with what Project Mayo achieved and you believe ffmpeg and XVid are better projects, go for it, post for it, convince me. Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because you happen to have a different opinion. Besides, your complaints are regarding subjects which doesn't even touch on the subject of my post.

If you're so knowledgeable and as deeply entrenched in the open source video codec scene as you claim, you should probably create an account to post under. I'm sure your posts would gain lots of credibility if people could associate your name and reputation with it.

Details can be found here.

Yes, they do (Apple users have fans, that is). At least some of them have. Even some PC users have fans (like this guy ;-).

> (no operator overloads, etc).

Here you go. ;-D

What's etc?

niko

BrettGlass is an M$ apologist and anit-GPL troll. He is also a tireless rebutter.

Grammarian usually has little to contribute to a discussion and possesses few effective weapons. To compensate, he will point out minor errors in spelling and grammar. Because of Grammarian's obvious weakness most Warriors ignore him.

Flame Warriors

All I have to say is read the link. Really.

After reading the link, unless you are socially brain-dead, you will see that Martin Coxall (the "banned" member) was being a total ass. No really--read it yourself. Keep going until you get to the end of the thread. You'll see. Unfortunately, the dotGNU people felt they needed to defend themselves on the mono list--and with people like this guy, that is only adding fuel to the fire. He's definitely a Tireless Rebutter.

Note of clarification: he was put on manual moderation after stiring up trouble on the dotGNU list. Not banned, moderated. Now before you cry "Oppression!", remember that this is exactly what moderation is for. If you don't understand what I am talking about, read the thread and imagine a constant onslaught of email coming from Martin Coxall sniping and being a jerk--as a developer, it would make you pretty upset.

Moderation is in place on lists to keep flame wars to a minimum. Martin Coxall was just sounding off and got moderated--that's internet life, kids.

What about the controversial issues in these open encyclopedias - I don't mean Windows/Linux stuff, I am talking about the really controversial things, such as Middle East conflict, for example.

Are projects like Wikipedia built to deal with it? Usenet-style wars on articles?

Just don't tell me the regular users will decide what's right and wrong, it won't work.

Sarcasm, the bastard child of irony ;-) I wish I could remember which comic stripper has a piece with that theme...

"Comic stripper"? What, you mean Omaha the Cat Dancer? That doesn't sound like the sort of "piece" she usually has... ;)
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#/usr/bin/perl
require 6.0;

For prople primatily interested in Linux, and glibc2, there's a paper for the community, written by David J. Brown and Karl Runge on Library Interface Versioning in Solaris and Linux.

NASA's official transcript and a collection of non-official information.

Flame Warriors Explaned

Great website! I'm suprised you resisted the temptation to classify Katz as a Profundus Maximus, a Philosopher, or just a Target. Since I'm an Eagle Scout, I won't even guess myself.

Flame Warriors Explaned

Great website! I'm suprised you resisted the temptation to classify Katz as a Profundus Maximus, a Philosopher, or just a Target. Since I'm an Eagle Scout, I won't even guess myself.

Flame Warriors Explaned

Great website! I'm suprised you resisted the temptation to classify Katz as a Profundus Maximus, a Philosopher, or just a Target. Since I'm an Eagle Scout, I won't even guess myself.

Flame Warriors Explaned

Great website! I'm suprised you resisted the temptation to classify Katz as a Profundus Maximus, a Philosopher, or just a Target. Since I'm an Eagle Scout, I won't even guess myself.

Flame Warriors Explaned

Great website! I'm suprised you resisted the temptation to classify Katz as a Profundus Maximus, a Philosopher, or just a Target. Since I'm an Eagle Scout, I won't even guess myself.

Cheers,
Richard

Please ! Lots more submissions from this dipshit. Why ?, exactly because he is such a dipshit.

He's funny, pathetic and makes the rest of us (paranoid about turning into generic geek LoserGuys) feel an awful lot better about who we are.

OTOH, anyone who uses red text on a black background image, and can't even work a bgcolor atribute, deserves boiling in oil.

"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up

thanks for the trollbait or at least a good response to them :)
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For the wood-burning emergency generator. Duh!

No. Nice try, though. Its the emergency backup heavy duty LART stick.

Women don't like technical fields, so what?

You make some very good points.

I'd ask though, what about the borderline ? I know plenty of women, excellent geeks, who still have a problem with accepting that they're damn good at geekery, and that it's OK to be so. Maybe we're now at a situation where no woman who wants to be a geek can be prevented from it, but there are still plenty out there who "decide" that they don;t want to be, because there are so many social pressures that say geeks are still fat, smelly guys with no social life.

Over the weekend I met a friend's kids; 13 & 16. They'd also been to the HP Labs (where I work) company picnic the day before. Now these are two intelligent kids who could do almost anything in the future they put their minds to, in the next year they have to choose courses etc. that will influence this, yet mention HP (the finest and most well-socialised bunch of geeks around) and they suffered a total gross-out. OK, so some of it was just teenage "everything sucks" angst, but they really did feel that working here at Nerdvana would be their personal idea of Hell. Geek-wise this site is as good as it gets, yet we're absolutely horrifying to a generation of girls.

How can geeks improve their perceived profile ?

A big march through London every Summer, T shirts with "Geek Pride" and a big triangle of aluminium checker plate ?

( I love you dude... can I have a hug? )

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Evan

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

-- Diana Hsieh