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Have a look at some of the stuff at ledsupply.com. Their stuff tends to be good. Newer CREE (XPG, MKR if they've got it) is what you want, you need to take some care in heat sinking. They sell drivers, also, both DC/DC and AC/DC, some of them dimmable from an external signal, some of them (I think) dimmable from a wall dimmer. Here's an example of how you work with their stuff: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/undercabinet-lights-basement-kitchen/

Here, some pictures worth quite a few words: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/led-color-rendering/
(From a similar discussion, here on Slashdot, about a year ago).
It's my opinion that the camera magnifies the differences, which means that the mixed LED case (cool+neutral+warm) looks really good to your eyes in practice. I think it would be good to fit some diffusers over the point sources, because sometimes you do get an "interesting" multi-shadow effect.

Here's what those same LEDs looked like in construction: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/undercabinet-lights-basement-kitchen/

I use a bunch of good-quality (*) neutral CREE LEDs under our kitchen cabinets, and that looks fine, and my better half does not complain (and she does note that most fluorescent bulbs look like shit). Here: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/more-undercabinet-lights/

(*) for a given manufacturer, so a "CREE neutral white" might be one of 2, 3, or even 6 different bins (I just checked across XML, XPG, XRE products).

Here, some pictures worth quite a few words: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/led-color-rendering/
(From a similar discussion, here on Slashdot, about a year ago).
It's my opinion that the camera magnifies the differences, which means that the mixed LED case (cool+neutral+warm) looks really good to your eyes in practice. I think it would be good to fit some diffusers over the point sources, because sometimes you do get an "interesting" multi-shadow effect.

Here's what those same LEDs looked like in construction: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/undercabinet-lights-basement-kitchen/

I use a bunch of good-quality (*) neutral CREE LEDs under our kitchen cabinets, and that looks fine, and my better half does not complain (and she does note that most fluorescent bulbs look like shit). Here: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/more-undercabinet-lights/

(*) for a given manufacturer, so a "CREE neutral white" might be one of 2, 3, or even 6 different bins (I just checked across XML, XPG, XRE products).

Here, some pictures worth quite a few words: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/led-color-rendering/
(From a similar discussion, here on Slashdot, about a year ago).
It's my opinion that the camera magnifies the differences, which means that the mixed LED case (cool+neutral+warm) looks really good to your eyes in practice. I think it would be good to fit some diffusers over the point sources, because sometimes you do get an "interesting" multi-shadow effect.

Here's what those same LEDs looked like in construction: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/undercabinet-lights-basement-kitchen/

I use a bunch of good-quality (*) neutral CREE LEDs under our kitchen cabinets, and that looks fine, and my better half does not complain (and she does note that most fluorescent bulbs look like shit). Here: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/more-undercabinet-lights/

(*) for a given manufacturer, so a "CREE neutral white" might be one of 2, 3, or even 6 different bins (I just checked across XML, XPG, XRE products).

On point 1, Manning never gave anything to the enemy. Manning gave the information to a media agency who is bound by their journalistic duty to ensure the safety of the data released from them. You are wrong to claim Manning gave anything to the enemy. If the media agency dumps everything given to them, that's a different topic and a much longer discussion. Before that discussion occurs, I'd suggest you read and/or listen to a great man's words regarding the responsibilities of both the Government and Journalists.

Since you are absolutely wrong regarding point 1, you can not possibly be correct with point 2. If manning actually gave something to the enemy we could discuss his intent when providing data to the enemy. If he did not do something, intent discussions are idiocy.

What will it look like? A little like the famous View From New York, but with a few substitutions e.g. Tehran in the foreground, Mashhad in place of Chicago, Mecca instead of Las Vegas, and Jerusalem standing in for Los Angeles.

Prior art. Assuming they have injunctions against that, and for those who don't get the ref.

Be careful not to step on the other thousands of tiny antennas!
Muhuhuhhahah
http://marswillsendnomore.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/calvin-hobbes-dinosaur-003.jpg?w=615

Depressing

It uses plain Nepomuk for everthing with one small exception: PIM data from the Kontact suite which uses Akonadi (KMail, KOrganiser, KAddressbook, KPilot, etc). How can I say that it's only a small exception when PIM is a pretty big umbrella of important data? Well, Akonadi passes all it's metadata and information along to Nepomuk for indexing and actually uses Nepomuk for search in PIM. There may be a few corner case exceptions to single items of metadata in PIM that are not reflected in the relevant Nepomuk ontologies, so are therefore not pushed to Nepomuk for indexing. These however are few, far between and mostly non-important.

For a better idea of their roles, and the reason to have both Nepomuk and Akonadi then have a look at this link. It's very useful info: http://cmollekopf.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/kontact-nepomuk-integration-why-data-from-akonadi-is-indexed-in-nepomuk/

Heh, so in answer to your question (I get sidetracked easily), it is a simple matter of backing up Nepomuk to keep all your semantic information. You'll find that in the settings section for search in KDE there is a button there to automatically or manually perform Nepomuk backups.

Yes. I met one poor troll victim whose knowledge of the court system came from TV dramas and thought they would get a fair trial. $$$$ later he discovered the system is rigged in favor of lawyers and trolls. No trolls. No business. Judges are supposed to be dignified and neutral. If you get one that isn't you are fucked. http://mokellyreport.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/sterling-reviews-of-judge-natalia-combs-green/ You are right. Play the game their way and you are fucked,

having a battery like this in a place with no fire extinguisher

Uh, once a LCO battery goes, your not putting it out with a "fire extinguisher". These things are nasty, and the lithium itself burns so hot that its damn hard to contain it.

Check out https://leehamnews.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/airbus-examines-lithium-battery-safety-fire-suppression/

Yeah. Take a lesson from the British on how to handle such matters.

I didn't see the following tweets until Major Nelson put out the apology, and I was rather horrified by the way Adam Orth expresses himself to a potential customer. Still, I am not sure kicking someone is the right way to go, but I do think they need to give at least the management some media training and make sure that everyone is aware of a company media policy. So many people are ignorant of how the internet ecosystem works and how things spread.

Personally, I refrain myself from publicly commenting on matters regarding the organization where I work. We have people whose job is to take care of these matters. When I see something I can tell them, say what I think and let them decide the correct course of action. I am entitled to my opinion, but that doesn't mean that I need to express it at all times. I know that my word might be taken for the official position and that might not be true, anyway I am not paid to comment on my employers decisions.

Yesterday I summed up some of my thoughts in the matter: http://mzomborszki.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/how-to-be-an-insensitive-clod/.

As a society in first-world nations (e.g. NA), I think we've moved quite a ways towards the utopia.

Our society has become extremely efficient at converting fossil fuels into food:
http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-u-s-ranks-200th-in-agricultural-workers-as-percent-of-workforce/

There also seems to be generally enough housing to keep a roof over most people's heads. We've reached a point where as an aggregate, there is a lot of free time for society to pursue non-essential pursuits. I read continued specialization and declining employment numbers as evidence that there maybe isn't enough work to go around.

I believe there are radical changes ahead e.g. working 20h a week if we can continue along the path of energy efficiency. I propose that there are two choices available: we can fight it kicking and screaming by consuming more and more just for the sake of growing the GDP. Or accept it in combination with being happy with enough and rethink our attitude to the amount of work that is necessary.

They got the storage down pretty well I think. There's hydrogen cars drive around all over my town. I also know some off-road guys that use it in competition because they get their trucks at crazy angles sometimes and liquid fuel becomes problematic when the trucks at a 90 degree angle.

http://experimentalev.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/tank.jpg

There is also this, which for me is reason enough to consider any and all alternatives.

This is what I was thinking of: http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/tag/pataphysics/

âoeThe normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.â The committee claims that there is no such thing as âoenormalâ, and there are no existing âoenormalâ people (i.e., people existing in the average). For example, no one has 2.3 children.

That's pretty funny: "The Board of the College of Patapsychology, Wilson writes, offered one million Irish pounds to anyone who can produce “a normal sunset, an average Beethoven sonata, an ordinary Playmate of the Month, or any thing or event in space-time that qualifies as normal, average or ordinary.”"

Any challenge that uses Playmates of the Month as examples has a lot going for it.

This is what I was thinking of: http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/tag/pataphysics/

âoeThe normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.â The committee claims that there is no such thing as âoenormalâ, and there are no existing âoenormalâ people (i.e., people existing in the average). For example, no one has 2.3 children.

If you go around taking surrealism literally you are going to end up sounding very odd indeed.

It's an art movement, not a practical philosophy.

This is what I was thinking of: http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/tag/pataphysics/

âoeThe normal consists of a null set which nobody and nothing really fits.â The committee claims that there is no such thing as âoenormalâ, and there are no existing âoenormalâ people (i.e., people existing in the average). For example, no one has 2.3 children.

You tall assholes are SOL, though - not considered a protected class (even though, unlike the obese, you actually can't control your own height).

Sure they can.

Here's the proof

Oh, but they did my friend, they most certainly did.

michaelochurch has blogged about open allocation and problems with "why you?" cultures and concave vs convex that is probably related.

michaelochurch has blogged about open allocation and problems with "why you?" cultures and concave vs convex that is probably related.

michaelochurch has blogged about open allocation and problems with "why you?" cultures and concave vs convex that is probably related.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/gervais-macleod-16-healthy-culture-vs-why-you/
Notice in the comments I have talked about how hiring CEOs based on years of experience doing the same job is a bad idea.

Modern medical science isn't terribly far ahead of the placebo effect when it comes to many chronic diseases including advanced pancreatic cancer. It's reasonable to try to separate the efficacy of a new medicine from the efficacy of psychosomatic healing when qualifying a drug. But to ignore the later entirely is not good medicine.

That hypothesis is far from proven. I'd like to point you to an interesting literature review:

Removed from the observational nature of the clinical trial, we can’t expect the observed “placebo effects” to persist, as they’re partially a consequence of the trial itself. A more detailed review of placebos is a post in and of itself, so I’ll refer you to resources that describe why placebo effects are plural, that placebo effects are subjective rather than objective and there is no persuasive evidence to suggest that placebo effects offer any health benefits. What’s most important is the understanding that placebo effects are a measurement artifact, not a therapeutic effect..

You mean the one guy who flew it?

Yes, I believe the gentleman was the actual pilot of the Enola Gay, the late Paul Tibbets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets

I've searched for a positive link to the actual History Channel WWII documentary episode where at its end this was mentioned, and could only get confirmation about the quote from the link posted below. When I wrote my op I wasn't 100% sure, that's why I couched my phrasing carefully.

World War ELEVEN

This morning, after standard news fare, we kept the television on; but perused to the History Channel. The edict of the hour was live footage and narrative of the atomic bombing plans in World War II by pilots of the Enola Gay and Bockscar.

My husband and I commented on how the History Channel should be required in study hall or detention in high schools across the land. There was commentary that many high school graduates thought that the atomic bombs were dropped in World War ELEVEN:(

While a saddening fact and testimonial to the state of our education system, what can we do? Pour more money into the school system? We have a very finite amount of cash, yet America’s teachers have impressionable minds in their charge and a good teacher is worth his/her weight in gold. Some schools have precious few resources to meet the VERY basics. http://anniesanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/world-war-eleven/

They test every ship with a geiger counter. The containers with the nuke would be found very quickly.

Uranium-based nukes are not sufficiently radioactive for that. The metal itself is a weak alpha emitter. That alone can be blocked with a mere sheet of paper. But the bomb is enclosed in a metal casing that absorbs pretty much everything. Given the size of the bomb and the size of the available volume for concealment, you could even shield a gamma emitter with enough lead, and nobody would know.

To further complicate your inspection job, container ships are loaded so much that you cannot even access containers inside the stack until the ship is at the pier and cranes are working on it, layer by layer. By then it's kind of too late. You could try inspections at the port of origin, but that is hard - you have no rights there, on the foreign soil, and the locals are in charge. You can approve one container, but a completely different one gets loaded.

This is a pretty interesting story some of you might have forgotten. It is about a radioactive container that ended up in an Italian port and the snafu that followed.
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/12/features/mystery-box?page=all

Wait, it can print itself? http://kafee.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/drawing_hands.jpg

They test every ship with a geiger counter. The containers with the nuke would be found very quickly.

Uranium-based nukes are not sufficiently radioactive for that. The metal itself is a weak alpha emitter. That alone can be blocked with a mere sheet of paper. But the bomb is enclosed in a metal casing that absorbs pretty much everything. Given the size of the bomb and the size of the available volume for concealment, you could even shield a gamma emitter with enough lead, and nobody would know.

To further complicate your inspection job, container ships are loaded so much that you cannot even access containers inside the stack until the ship is at the pier and cranes are working on it, layer by layer. By then it's kind of too late. You could try inspections at the port of origin, but that is hard - you have no rights there, on the foreign soil, and the locals are in charge. You can approve one container, but a completely different one gets loaded.

(Reverse no true scotsman? That's all you've got?)

According to Wahabists, indeed they are not proper Muslims, which is why often when fundamentalist families think they're losing their kids to the evils of ... being moderate, they murder them (a lot).

Then the pro and anti climate change people get to send their best scientists and try to convince the students of their case.

Serious question: Who does the anti-climate-change side send to this debate? Because as far as I can tell, there simply aren't climatologists out there who can look at graphs like this and not think there's some sort of serious problem.

Around 4% of the population lacks belief in god. Only around 1% of the population explicitly claim the atheist label. Around 4% of males, or 2% of the population admits to non-consensual sex.

There aren't "a lot more" atheists than rapists, and there's no reason to expect there to be. Sexual aggression has obvious evolutionary benefits. Questioning widely held beliefs has less obvious evolutionary benefits.

You don't need to learn all of it just one sign. Let them know they are #1 or #4 in binary

Did you mean like this?

I used to live in Georgia so I'm well versed in non-city life ;) . I now live in an apartment that was around $90K and there are about another $10K in updates/fixes on it.

I walk to the store and cook at home. Even with two gallons of milk, I can come home in about 10 minutes or so from the store (you may not need as much as you think you do to fill 4 carts a week). There's an even closer shop, that's just 5 minutes on foot, but they're a bit more expensive. The train station is also about 10 minutes away so I walk there too. It's just 30 - 40 minutes at most to get to work by train (+subway). I don't own a car so even with monthly tickets, I'm spending far less on transportation than on a full-time vehicle (gas, insurance, maintenance etc...)

This was inconvenient when I first moved, but since then, I don't feel I need 4 wheels all the time.

When the farmer's market opens, I take the bus to it.

Also, my plants aren't plastic ;)

Does pfsense support automatic shutting down from UPS/low battery alerts?

yep

If you think Adria Richards does not understand that community, you should read how the story is told by two female reporters, Dana Liebelson and Tasneem Raja, on Motherjones.com:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/pycon-2013-sexism-dongle-richards

According to that version, "Richards' termination triggered its own surge of support, from passionate tweets with the hashtag #SupportAdria to a DDoS attack on SendGrid that crippled their website for a good chunk of the workday on Thursday". That is the first version I read where it is said that the DDoS was caused to *support* Adria Richards.

Also the post of a female blogger who sheds a very interesting light on Adria Richards as a repeat offender (including a whole section called "An Established Pattern of Action") is summarized in a biased manner.
https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

To anyone who has a minute to spare I strongly suggest to read the Amanda Blum post. As for the masterpiece from Liebelson & Raja, well it shows that some people don't let the facts in the way of promoting an agenda (and/or a career).

You really are an intolerant bunch, when it comes to matters of faith - any deviation from extreme alarmism is unacceptable. Here I was thinking Lomborg was one of you. ... [Eric Worrall, 2013-01-26]

Contrarians often use Lomborg to support their misinformation, possibly because he's getting better at pretending to accept the science. When brucmack described Lomborg as more pragmatic than skeptic, I replied that "I've never heard of Lomborg before today, but your summary makes him sound like someone I could agree with."

But when I actually read his claims, it became clear that Lomborg is repeatedly misrepresenting science. Like many contrarians, Lomborg also misrepresents his own position by claiming to accept the science while simultaneously misrepresenting that science. Lomborg's books are often used to support accusations like these:

... Last time the Eugenics catastrophists, confident in their scientific consensus that genetic pollution would return us to the stone age, killed 7 million Jews to improve the race. Now poor people are dying because only rich people can afford the self inflicted expense of trying to appease the Carbon God. ... How many poor Africans and Asians will die because of the great global warming swindle, before their pseudo scientific bluff is finally called? ... [Eric Worrall, 2008-02-05]

... Mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would be the kiss of death. The U.S. is about to undergo this madness in the form of a deluge of Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide regulations that will strangle the economy and kill jobs. Unless the Congress can eliminate them via legislation, it will constitute a form of national suicide. ... If successful, the U.N. will lead the world back to a new Dark Ages. [Alan Caruba (Heartland Institute), 2012-12-10]

Consider a group of academics who claim the world faces an imminent catastrophe unless drastic steps are taken. Am I talking about Eugenics NAZIs or Climate alarmists? [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-18]

Its not my fault if you guys are pushing for the implementation of harmful policies on the basis of pseudoscientific predictions of imminent catastrophe - just like the NAZIs did. [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-29]

Given your gross advantage in economic and political muscle, its a wonder we've managed so far to hold off your new dark age. ... [Eric Wor

You really are an intolerant bunch, when it comes to matters of faith - any deviation from extreme alarmism is unacceptable. Here I was thinking Lomborg was one of you. ... [Eric Worrall, 2013-01-26]

Contrarians often use Lomborg to support their misinformation, possibly because he's getting better at pretending to accept the science. When brucmack described Lomborg as more pragmatic than skeptic, I replied that "I've never heard of Lomborg before today, but your summary makes him sound like someone I could agree with."

But when I actually read his claims, it became clear that Lomborg is repeatedly misrepresenting science. Like many contrarians, Lomborg also misrepresents his own position by claiming to accept the science while simultaneously misrepresenting that science. Lomborg's books are often used to support accusations like these:

... Last time the Eugenics catastrophists, confident in their scientific consensus that genetic pollution would return us to the stone age, killed 7 million Jews to improve the race. Now poor people are dying because only rich people can afford the self inflicted expense of trying to appease the Carbon God. ... How many poor Africans and Asians will die because of the great global warming swindle, before their pseudo scientific bluff is finally called? ... [Eric Worrall, 2008-02-05]

... Mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would be the kiss of death. The U.S. is about to undergo this madness in the form of a deluge of Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide regulations that will strangle the economy and kill jobs. Unless the Congress can eliminate them via legislation, it will constitute a form of national suicide. ... If successful, the U.N. will lead the world back to a new Dark Ages. [Alan Caruba (Heartland Institute), 2012-12-10]

Consider a group of academics who claim the world faces an imminent catastrophe unless drastic steps are taken. Am I talking about Eugenics NAZIs or Climate alarmists? [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-18]

Its not my fault if you guys are pushing for the implementation of harmful policies on the basis of pseudoscientific predictions of imminent catastrophe - just like the NAZIs did. [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-29]

Given your gross advantage in economic and political muscle, its a wonder we've managed so far to hold off your new dark age. ... [Eric Wor

You really are an intolerant bunch, when it comes to matters of faith - any deviation from extreme alarmism is unacceptable. Here I was thinking Lomborg was one of you. ... [Eric Worrall, 2013-01-26]

Contrarians often use Lomborg to support their misinformation, possibly because he's getting better at pretending to accept the science. When brucmack described Lomborg as more pragmatic than skeptic, I replied that "I've never heard of Lomborg before today, but your summary makes him sound like someone I could agree with."

But when I actually read his claims, it became clear that Lomborg is repeatedly misrepresenting science. Like many contrarians, Lomborg also misrepresents his own position by claiming to accept the science while simultaneously misrepresenting that science. Lomborg's books are often used to support accusations like these:

... Last time the Eugenics catastrophists, confident in their scientific consensus that genetic pollution would return us to the stone age, killed 7 million Jews to improve the race. Now poor people are dying because only rich people can afford the self inflicted expense of trying to appease the Carbon God. ... How many poor Africans and Asians will die because of the great global warming swindle, before their pseudo scientific bluff is finally called? ... [Eric Worrall, 2008-02-05]

... Mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would be the kiss of death. The U.S. is about to undergo this madness in the form of a deluge of Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide regulations that will strangle the economy and kill jobs. Unless the Congress can eliminate them via legislation, it will constitute a form of national suicide. ... If successful, the U.N. will lead the world back to a new Dark Ages. [Alan Caruba (Heartland Institute), 2012-12-10]

Consider a group of academics who claim the world faces an imminent catastrophe unless drastic steps are taken. Am I talking about Eugenics NAZIs or Climate alarmists? [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-18]

Its not my fault if you guys are pushing for the implementation of harmful policies on the basis of pseudoscientific predictions of imminent catastrophe - just like the NAZIs did. [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-29]

Given your gross advantage in economic and political muscle, its a wonder we've managed so far to hold off your new dark age. ... [Eric Wor

You really are an intolerant bunch, when it comes to matters of faith - any deviation from extreme alarmism is unacceptable. Here I was thinking Lomborg was one of you. ... [Eric Worrall, 2013-01-26]

Contrarians often use Lomborg to support their misinformation, possibly because he's getting better at pretending to accept the science. When brucmack described Lomborg as more pragmatic than skeptic, I replied that "I've never heard of Lomborg before today, but your summary makes him sound like someone I could agree with."

But when I actually read his claims, it became clear that Lomborg is repeatedly misrepresenting science. Like many contrarians, Lomborg also misrepresents his own position by claiming to accept the science while simultaneously misrepresenting that science. Lomborg's books are often used to support accusations like these:

... Last time the Eugenics catastrophists, confident in their scientific consensus that genetic pollution would return us to the stone age, killed 7 million Jews to improve the race. Now poor people are dying because only rich people can afford the self inflicted expense of trying to appease the Carbon God. ... How many poor Africans and Asians will die because of the great global warming swindle, before their pseudo scientific bluff is finally called? ... [Eric Worrall, 2008-02-05]

... Mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would be the kiss of death. The U.S. is about to undergo this madness in the form of a deluge of Environmental Protection Agency carbon dioxide regulations that will strangle the economy and kill jobs. Unless the Congress can eliminate them via legislation, it will constitute a form of national suicide. ... If successful, the U.N. will lead the world back to a new Dark Ages. [Alan Caruba (Heartland Institute), 2012-12-10]

Consider a group of academics who claim the world faces an imminent catastrophe unless drastic steps are taken. Am I talking about Eugenics NAZIs or Climate alarmists? [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-18]

Its not my fault if you guys are pushing for the implementation of harmful policies on the basis of pseudoscientific predictions of imminent catastrophe - just like the NAZIs did. [Eric Worrall, 2012-12-29]

Given your gross advantage in economic and political muscle, its a wonder we've managed so far to hold off your new dark age. ... [Eric Wor

Avdi Grimm (and you for re-posting him) missed the point.

It's not a question of whether or not the jokes were appropriate, it's a question of: (1) was her own reaction appropriate (answer: it was far from appropriate and the end result made her and the feminist culture look bad) and (2) is she a hypocrite for making the same kind of jokes on her very public Twitter account that is read by young and old, male and female alike. There seems to be a number of lady geeks who agree that she's a pompous blowhard who isn't helping at all.

I bet Twitter does have a code of conduct regarding sexual material, although this may not necessarily rise up to a violation. (But it's important to note that the subject matter discussed by the two men at the conference did not rise up to a violation of PyCon's own rules either, by any reasonable reading of them).

http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

Oh, it seems this woman has a HISTORY of blowing things out of proportion. In fact the woman that threatened to boycott a talk and instead lectured about p0rn awhile ago that I vaguely recall hearing about? It was HER! Why am I not surprised? What a scary hypersensitive shrinking violet she must be. why would anyone want them in their workspace poisoning things?!

This isn't a PyCon problem at all. By all accounts, the staff and management of PyCon did everything correctly and by the book. It was an *attendee* problem.

Should the jokes have been made? No. Should someone have said something? Yes. Should PyCon staff have been alerted? Should a picture have been taken, published to the public internet? No. Should anyone have been fired? No. Should this have been handled privately? Yes.

I'd never heard of any of the parties involved until 2-3 days ago. But I agree that we all lost. And if the reported interactions in there are true (and, honestly, I can't see why someone would fabricate that when it's so easily verifiable), then the first party seems to have a history of *not* dealing with things with the people in question, but instead screaming to the rest of the world to incite massive action. It just seems to have eventually backfired this time.

Frankly, I don't care either way. I don't think the word "dongle" was ever even uttered in my workplace until this week. Forking was, but that's what happens with developers and public repos. If I were a Python developer, I'd consider going to PyCon. Just like if I were an active Ruby developer, I'd consider RubyCon despite similar issues in the past. I think I recall a PHP one, too. It's not the con, the organizers, or the sponsors who are to be blamed for these things, especially when they have publish codes of conduct.

It was one minor incident in a conference full of win. I didn't even hear about it until the conference was over. 20% of the 2500 attendees were women. There were people from 41 countries. There were quite a few young programmers in attendance as well because of the education track. PyCon and the Python community has made great strides in outreach. In attendance, there were for organizations for women in tech: Pyladies, LadyCoders, Women Who Code, and CodeChix.

Here's the best take I've read on what happened and what should have happened:

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

Everyone involved could have handled the situation better. I'm annoyed that this one incident, important for those directly involved, got blown way out of proportion and has shit on all the great things that PyCon achieved this year. Adria Richards does not deserve the abuse she's received even if she handled the situation wrong.

I posted a bunch of details here but the main point is :

Richards had pissed off people by pulling similar publicity stunts before. Amanda Blum was one of those people Richard had pissed off. She sent a constructive email to SendGrid suggesting how one keeps such loose cannons under control. SendGrid simply read Blum's email as past behavior and fired Richards rather than taking Blum's constructive advice.

It's worth noting that Richard actions constitute libel in the U.K. I donno if her accusation of the forking remark constitute libel in the U.S., perhaps given that it's false. I'd assume that her accusation of the dongles remark does not constitute libel in the U.S., being true.

The bigger problem is that she chose not to confront the people she felt offended by, because she "didn't want to have her experience denied". She was right about that, they would probably have apologized for the dongle joke but told her that the forking joke wasn't sexual at all, which would have been accurate but a denial of her "experience" (= her misinterpretation).
And then she chose not to wait for the PyCon organizers to handle it. This woman has a history. She had a hard childhood but that doesn't excuse her lashing out at innocent strangers. I have a hard time understanding why she even felt offended. These were two men joking among themselves about a male body part. Did she feel excluded? But she wasn't part of the conversation in the first place, she was just eavesdropping on them.