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Anyone concerned about endemic sexism and harassment in the software industry...
What endemic sexism? Where is the proof? Skepticism of feminism is not the same as sexism, even though feminists like to pretend it is.
Is sexism the only possible reason for women chosing not to pursue a carrer in STEM? The only reason? Could it not be related to the fact the women in general seek work that is people oriented, while men chose 'thing' oriented jobs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess not. Just "social constructs" amirite? Scientific evidence be damned!

Also, how do you explain this? How does this fit in with the feminist narrative of "endemic sexism"?
http://www.mindingthecampus.or...

This makes a pretty convincing case for why so few women have any interest in joining the software development "club".
This is a circular argument feminists love using. "The replies prove we need feminism", as in the fact that people are skeptical of feminism just proves we need feminism. Does the fact that people are skeptical of totalitarianism prove we need totalitarianism?

Annnd humanity reaches a new low for stupidity.

But let's keep anthropomorphizing electronics because /sarcasm clearly they are indistinguishable from a real human.

In some cases they already are, so when do you think should we start applying some order to this technology?

What a dumb-ass.

Yes, yes you are...

Except for those who are not gamers.

Although funny enough, those with actual money and marketing research seem to think it is more important to listen than those that want to make up statistics from their mother's basement.

An argument from authority. This tells us nothing because their research methods could be bad or their reasons for complying might not be related to consumer demand (eg avoiding controversy).

Nuclear testing isn't quite the same thing as using nuclear weapons.

Here is a video trailer for you. You should try finding the full length version with English subtitles. It might fill in a few gaps for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The third guy from the left isn't you?

Your "radical chic" phase has lasted an unnaturally long time.

Maybe you can use this as sort of a halfway house, so to speak, on your way home. Note - both hats and hair! (No Cowsills though.) Or maybe just listen to this guy.

The third guy from the left isn't you?

Your "radical chic" phase has lasted an unnaturally long time.

Maybe you can use this as sort of a halfway house, so to speak, on your way home. Note - both hats and hair! (No Cowsills though.) Or maybe just listen to this guy.

In fact, he even says in the movie "I've got an idea for an electric jet"

I don't get the US centric bias towards military policy. Basically anyone that becomes capable of attacking the US is automatically an aggressor that needs sanction.

North Korea produces a lot of propaganda showing them destroying the US, so it's understandable.

It works in Finland all the same. We got the absurd "civilization being destroyed in Finland due to university budget cuts" story on Slashdot for the exact same reason -- the politically lefty types want to create a negative sentiment abroad that they can then point to, and demand that we must do something to fix our emerging bad reputation. As if we'd been seen as some shining beacon of everything great and good before...

Mean-while the Swedish left know that Sweden was the shining beacon of everything right in moral and society, until the RACISTS came and ruin it all thanks to the oh so aggressive and hateful right-wing media (You may not know Swedish media but it's rather full of denial, "taking responsibility" for not letting out the truth or post negative news or opinions about immigration and an enormous share of relativism when it comes to immigrant criminality vs events which involve the horrible Swedish white men.)
If only Sweden was a little (=a lot) more totalitarian, expressing your opinion or the truth was a little more forbidden and everyone lied and sang "no racists on our streets!" a little louder and more often all would be well! Because reality can't hurt us! Only expressing what's reality can!

Mean-while in Sweden new police departments to tackle .. uhm.. "the thought opposition" are setup and they want to add a new sentence for slander with up to four times of jail punishment not for media with proper rights but for everyone else - may I assume to stop the "haters" from "guessing" that such and such offense was committed by such and who or to reveal details when the media don't because .. they are responsible and ethnicity is totally irrelevant even if the immigrants rape, murder, steal and cause all sorts of havoc! Because saying so would be raaacist!
Swedish integrity laws stop at two years of possible jail-time so by setting it at four they can demand out IP logs and such for these heavy offenses by those who wonder or want to say what's really going on.

Welcome to Sweden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or a winch.

Istanbul (not Constantinople)

32C3 -> "My robot will crush you with its soft delicate hands" about soft robotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's Coolio with me if people wanna do that. After all, you gotta get up to get down.

I plan to post the source to Github by the end of the month (Feb 2016). Gotta do some more commenting. A computer science prof who dinged a lot of students for poor commenting practices has to proceed carefully on that matter. I could put a precompiled exe there as well, but that would require a few changes to the UI. Some of the parameters you'd need to set for your camera and view of the street are currently constants in the code. Not too many.

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Folks: Progress is good. I'm expecting a public github posting of the source, a characterization of all of the strings you can pull via various in-code constants and input parameters, and a combined VST overview and simple user manual soon now. Keep an eye on https://github.com/pfr/VideoSp.... I'll be making it public as soon as I can. And thanks to help from my Github son, there will be Mac and Linux compilable versions available in addition to my Wintel version.

I was a junior member of the Royal, yes I let it slip without upgrading to adult. I get around the curse by doing my solar observations from behind a UV-blocking window.

#southfacingwindowsforthewin.

They weren't even really trying to surrender. They were given ample opportunity to do so. They were trying to vie for an armistice, cease-fire, or discussions (depending on when). That was not an option per the Potsdam Resolution. The only surrender that was to be accepted was complete and total surrender. We did, wisely, allow them to keep their Emperor (in name only) to ease the transition into a non-warring society with democracy, rights, and a representative government.

Had we not dropped the nukes, they still probably would have surrendered completely. It may have taken longer. A good documentary on this, if I can only recommend one, is Hirohito's War, it's an episode from Secrets of War. Had we invaded the main island, the loss of life would have been much higher, including the loss of civilian life. There are varied estimates as to how many lives such an invasion would have cost but none of those estimates are lower than the lives cost with the totality of both nukes and the resulting figures even due to shortened lives.

Frankly, as a whole, Japan got off pretty light compared to the number of civilian lives they took all across the area. If you compare their number of dead to those caused by them, they got off pretty light. If you compare them with the numbers of dead caused by their allies, the Axis, they really got off light. If you go back and read some of the documents printed, there were people who really wanted to kill each and every last one of them. Fortunately, nobody took any of them serious and those espousing such views were not in a position of power nor representatives of their governing bodies. Though, to be honest, judging by the number of atrocities committed and the scale on which they were done, it's not hard to understand the anger at the time.

Oh, I went and found that documentary if anyone wants to watch it. I believe that's one of the ones from the series that was narrated by none other than Moses himself. Here's a link if you want to watch it in your spare time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's something like 110 episodes or more? I don't remember how many. It's hours and hours and hours long. Some of them are actually really good and information density rates are nice and high. I've no recollection of any factual inaccuracies from the series but there's a few times where the facts are presented with biased emphasis and the take-away can be a bit skewed. I'm not sure if that's intentional but it's not uncommon - specifically where war is concerned. That's one of the reasons that I try to get my documentaries from multiple sources. Keeping bias in mind helps keep things in perspective. Most are not outright dishonest but may not include certain events that are important and salient. There's surely a limit to what can be included (due to budget and time constraints) but the attempt to color the findings in a certain light is not always unintentional, I think. So, use multiple sources from varied perspectives.

Why even bother replacing the sensor? Just use the owners fingerprint to unlock the phone. The mythbusters did that a while back.

It depends how hard the sensor is to fool. Some are tougher than others, and the technology is improving.

I see what you're up to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE

Why even bother replacing the sensor? Just use the owners fingerprint to unlock the phone. The mythbusters did that a while back.

Paul Reynolds 3 days ago I plan to post the source to Github by the end of the month (Feb 2016). Gotta do some more commenting. A computer science prof who dinged a lot of students for poor commenting practices has to proceed carefully on that matter. I could put a precompiled exe there as well, but that would require a few changes to the UI. Some of the parameters you'd need to set for your camera and view of the street are currently constants in the code. Not too many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVkKysDvGA

Insomniac ? I hope you don't have that regularly, if so I suggest you do something about that. Less caffeine and less stress ?

OK, I'll be the first to admit it. I'm no expert, I suggest you talk to one.

I'm also not completely sane at this moment, this is the morning after a night on the town, their is still a lot of alcohol in my body. ;-)

Anyway, about the topic at hand...

Yes, I do think about it like a pendulum as well and about how far it can or will be pushed in one way (maybe even multiple pendulums). I think most people would really want to avoid full on revolution. Because it's hard to predict the outcome. Take for example the Arab spring. Also look at ISIS/IS/ISIL/Daesh they came out of the chaos largely created by the US (but that is a whole different topic).

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think at least some people in government get it.

Sometimes when I see police in countries like the US get more and heavier arms, I'm thinking someone is preparing for that future in a very negative way.

But let's look at the positive.

Let's take for example the people that claim that automation will take our jobs:
https://www.technologyreview.c...

Maybe they are wrong, but one thing is correct, technology can cause a lot of change and it probably will. Maybe even accelerate.

When talking about that, you'd always keep in mind what Voltaire said: Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Then you look at what people in some governments are trying to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

From a US perspective you'd think it's some kind of socialist system, but a lot of the ideas behind that came from the US from people like: Friedrich Hayek, Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman. Or as Andrew McAfee likes to say with a big smile: frothing-at-the-mouth socialists ;-)

In Europe we now have a bunch of organisations, countries and cities looking seriously into this and testing it in real life again.

From a pure technology perspective, I can see technology solving the need problem.

If energy prices do really keep falling like they have with capturing the energy from wind and solar light and heat then it will get easier (=cheaper). Take for example the Sahara Forest Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Energy storage is also still improving too: http://rameznaam.com/2013/09/2...

They seem to be on a Moore's Law like trajectory.

They might claim to be the first:
http://inhabitat.com/worlds-fi...

But automatic milking also has been doing very well for how long ? over 10 years now ?

If you combine: cheap energy, cheap clean water, cheap electronics/communication, cheap energy storage, cheap food production
you get a very potent mix to solve a large part of the problem of need that Voltaire talked about. In the documentary I linked they also talk about cheap health care (I hope so). Those are some very positive trends.

Cheap technology also seems to create a more decentralized future, so maybe in that sense Bitcoin/OpenBazaar and solar panels are similar.

I'm from Europe, I personally don't see the state as my enemy like some people in the US or some in Bitcoin do. For example I think of the government as the biggest VC funder/risk taker of them all. Who would spend more than 10 years on fundamental research with a high amount of risk of failure and then give it away for free (simple example: Internet, funded by ARPA now called DARPA. I don't know if it was considered a risky endeavour at the time, but it's an ex

Fk Systemd. (Alpine doesn't use it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Say no to the SJW cancer that is systemd, gtk3, etc

Don't laugh...

Brian Regan does a comedy routine on not being able to beat the story of walking on the moon. It's great. :)

Glen Aldrich is a carpenter with no more than a high school diploma.

I think having regular citizen legislators, with not much financial gain to be had from the job, is an excellent way to run a state house. It means you are more likely to get people involved for the right reasons, instead of career politicians looking for money and power.

I concur, and note that the first Free-Stater elected to the NH House was also a carpenter (technically, a contractor). Here's his victory speech; it's quite telling.

Stellarator? Sounds like something Dr. Doofenschmirtz would build.

"Behold, Perry the Platypus! My Stellarator! It will make anyone it zaps think they are Marlon Brando in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'!"

> The big draw of ARM is performance/price per watt which is exactly what Intel is shooting for.

Indeed. Here is an example of interesting hardware:

Parallella: The Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer on the Planet

Dude a new ATOM is a quadcore cpu that can do 1080p video which is comparable to the core 2 duo. These are used on low end sub $200 tablets and pcs. The Core 2 Duo was fast at it's time (compared to a Pentium IV). But it is quite dated now for all but elementry word processing and email and maybe under 4 tabs in Chrome.

Technology has progressed considering a 24 raid SSD in 2011 is the same speed as 1 NVME ssd.

You mean Hello, this is Lenny? Yes, it exists. Yes, it's bloody hilarious ;) There's tons of them on YouTube.

The iPhone 5S uses the same concept, of touchID in the home button. However, when you change the button on the 5S, you don't brick the phone.

Apple has some good concepts, but I've spent nearly ten years driving myself nuts trying to find ways to fix devices that they make difficult to repair for no reason. I document that on a YouTube channel I've been posting starting two years ago. https://www.youtube.com/playli...

This is the most blatant middle finger to the independent repair community, and the customer who wants to fix their old one vs. buy a new one, that I have ever seen. It makes sense to increase the bottom line by creating devices that brick themselves when common parts are repaired outside of Apple. I get it, there are a lot of shitty iPhone screens out there... and a lot of shitty repair people. I've talked about it for years. The reality is that there would probably be less shitty parts out there if Apple didn't go above and beyond to make it impossible to repair their products. If I told you the crap I had to go through to get anything in good condition that was original to repair their products, you'd laugh... but it's true.

Buttons break all the time.

I guess we're NOT interested.

At least the Helvetica Syndrome is far better than the Helvetica Scenario.

Enjoy..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

ell, Porsche developed a rear drive sports car which is a ridiculous thing to do

What? Who told you that? Rear wheel drive is still best for sports cars. AWD is awesome, I love it, my latest ride is an Audi with old-school Quattro, meaning it has a Torsen center diff and open diffs front and rear with EBD for low speed anti-slip. But nothing beats a well set-up RWD car for tossability. I've owned a 240SX and an Impreza, and flogged them both hard over the twistiest canyon roads available, you know the kind that just look more and more squiggly as you zoom in? The two cars weighed the same, but the Impreza had a problem the Nissan didn't; if you let go of the gas, the car would drift towards the outside, because AWD vehicles understeer off power. Making quick weight transitions is thus faster in RWD vehicles. In addition, you split the jobs up between the wheels; the front wheels can handle just the steering grip while the rears are doing the acceleration. That means there's more grip available for steering, plain and simple. Since acceleration and steering happen on completely different vectors, this makes a substantial difference in traction — even the shape of the contact patch is different.

On the other hand, what does NOT make sense is a rear-engined sports car. It's taken them some 30 years to make a car that will outhandle the competition even though the engine is in the wrong place. They're STILL castrating the mid-engine cars (slightly) to keep them inferior to the 911, because the truth is that mid-engine is superior and they have the proof in-house.

Oh yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

all the cool kids use Ruby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nothing pivots like a Clinton in office.

Hakeem Olajuwon?

"Patriarchy! I'm being oppressed!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays."

http://big.assets.huffingtonpo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think the hate flows both ways.

It is absolutely possible. Any moment. Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

It was a relatively small meteor, but bigger asteroids repeatedly hit the Earth, and it will happen again. There is no doubt of it, the question is when.

No - the question is, if such an asteroid struck the earth, would the Earth be less habitable than Mars?

Plants do not need oxygen at all, it is even poisonous for them in a way.

Plants die in a vacuum. Humans also die in a vacuum.

In principle, they may turn a planet without oxygen into a habitable planet. But this technology does not exist yet.

The maths is relatively straightforward:

Now:

Earth: Habitable

Mars: Inhabitable

[Earth gets Struck by an Asteroid]

Earth: Habitable

Mars: Inhabitable

Don't forget this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seN-THoB1WQ

P.s. <url> tag - learn it, use it!

It is absolutely possible. Any moment. Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It was a relatively small meteor, but bigger asteroids repeatedly hit the Earth, and it will happen again. There is no doubt of it, the question is when.

Plants do not need oxygen at all, it is even poisonous for them in a way. In principle, they may turn a planet without oxygen into a habitable planet. But this technology does not exist yet.

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Then you just write it in fancy sounding bullshit, and pass it off as a unique invention -- and the morons at the patent office, whose only real criteria is if the checks clear, will rubber stamp it and suddenly you have a patent.

To a great degree this is actually true. The patent officers don't care about the checks that much, though. It just creates a lot of work for them when they reject a patent claim and the lawyers of the people applying for the patent, i.e. prosecuting (that's the technical term) it prove them wrong and get their rejections overturned. It also shows badly on the record of the patent officer if their rejections tend to not hold up. The lawyers usually have more resources and motivation to make the patent pass through. So, the patent clerks tend to take the path of least resistance, i.e. approving the patents after doing their due diligence. Patent officers have a pre defined set of databases(including scientific journals, previous patents, etc) that they look through for prior art, and they don't look outside of that set (for example on Google) to find out if an idea is original. There is a fair amount of screening that goes into granting a patent for sure, and they don't just stamp anything. But they will stamp anything as long as their asses are covered. And they are really tiny asses that don't need a whole lot of cover.

Now when you bring up a case in court to invalidate somebody else's patent, that's when your lawyers will do all the google searches and thorough research to show that the invention was publicly known before the patent was granted. This research would go in front of a judge who will most likely rule in favor of whoever hired the bigger guns.

The problem with ideas in software (as opposed to, say, chemistry) is that they are generated far too quickly and anonymously to be included in formal databases and journals, even though they may be publicly known. I'll give you a rough example. Around the year 1998, you could use a plugin in Winamp called Geiss that showed trippy visualizations of music. Before that plugin (correct me if I'm wrong), music visualization was mostly just fancy waveforms. Apple lifted this idea wholesale and made it part of iTunes in 2001. Sony patented this idea in 2009. Poor Mr. Geiss got diddly squat for his invention, even though millions or even billions have probably used it till date, and his idea got patented more than a decade after conception. Such is the state of affairs: big tech companies go out and patent ideas that they learn from the general public. If the idea's implementation takes off, the patent provides them security, and if it doesn't, it's a bargaining chip to gouge money from anyone that tries to use the idea.

Regarding the patenting of ideas versus inventions, in theory you can only patent inventions, but the definition of what constitutes an invention is very lax, especially for software, and you don't have to go and show a working proof of concept to a patent officer. If the patent application describes the software in enough detail so as to allow an average programmer to develop it based on just the description, it's good enough to qualify. In other words, you can pretty much patent a piece of software at the requirements and architecture stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (will Mars or Venus kill you first)

They Live is so old and unwanted that it's on YouTube (As are many others of the age and popularity) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't have any idea who owns the rights, but Netflix gets lots of content by buying bulk access to studio catalogues, so They Lives may be in Universal's classics catalog, or it could be one of the many that falls into a "too hard" bucket, if John Carpenter has a perpetual % of gross, how do you measure and pay for that? There are lots of "classics" that end up in the too hard bucket because of little issues like that, or they'll find that the license for the music for a movie was too narrow, so they end up in troubles when re-distributing it.

Why not Venus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...