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  1. Re:Only in science? on Sexism In Science · · Score: 1

    As a fact, there are far, far more women molesters targetting boys aged 13-17 than men, which is why women studies only talk about the cases that involve prepubescent minors. Women are also more violent on average than men when the victims are children and the elderly, which is again the reason women studies only talk about violence towards women.

    Citation needed.

  2. Re:Missing the Point? on Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT · · Score: 2

    The point here is "voluntary". If it was voluntary to display the number plate, you should sort your car out if you don't want it to display yours, and I should be allowed to record and track whatever I wanted to.

  3. Re:Privacy Burqas anyone? on Report Hints At Privacy Problem of Drones That Can Recognize Faces · · Score: 0

    You feel so now, but that will change when you have children. Then everything that was important before fades into the background compared to Their Safety. And the TSA and the cameras, while bad, might stop some terrorists, ergo.

  4. Re:Back to School on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    It took a meeting with the principle for the grade to be set straight.

    What was the problem with the grade? Wasn't there symbolism, which you missed?

  5. Re:Who gives a fuck? on Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do think though that his trip to India and the LSD and Zen meditation, it was all kind of bullshit.

    But he does have a sweet glass palace now.

  6. Re:A Review? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1

    Remember those couple versions of Office that had "everything is a toolbar, even the menus"?

    I still have those. (But today the toolbar is called "ribbon", and you can't add or remove or move the buttons. Yay, progress.)

  7. Re:That's nice on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    But it should be. Government should make no laws abridging the freedom of speech.

  8. Re:To paraphrase... on Former Xerox PARC Researcher: Windows 8 Is a Cognitive Burden · · Score: 1

    That particular moderation is in /.'s invisible menu. Just open it and click.

  9. Bingo on GNOME: Possible Recovery Strategies · · Score: 2

    > find new niches. ... tablet,
    > ... cloud-based services.

    If only someone had said "social media" also, we'd have had the whole set.

  10. Re:Higher salaries would make more sense on What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? · · Score: 2

    Or rather they are cheaper for low-risk groups. And Google employees are young (but not too young), well-educated, eat healthy foods from the Google Cafeteria, work out on office time in the office gym, and never drive their Priuses over the speed limit. That's got to be one of the lowest risk groups in the world.

  11. Re:But on Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor · · Score: 1

    And law enforcement. And the NSA and the like. (But that goes without saying, of course.)

  12. Re:Fantastic first impressions on Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor · · Score: 1

    Could it be unpaid fanbois? Is Microsoft the new Apple?

  13. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 0

    I would be OK with removing mathematics from the curriculum if they substituted it with English. No-one should leave school without having over-learned writing English to such a degree that they, effortlessly, never err on the basics, like how and when to use, for example, "your", "you're", "then", "than", "when" and the like.

    This annoys me more than people who can't solve equations. Even with engineers.

  14. Re:Tyranny on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    So because others may behave stupidly, I should face restrictions?

  15. Re:Tyranny on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    If someone yells fire in a theater, calmly exit the building in an orderly fashion. There, solved.

  16. Re:Foo. I missed it. on Joseph Palaia Answers Your Questions About Building Lunar Machines and Mars · · Score: 1

    Won't that interfere with using electronics?

  17. Re:VBA? on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    I'm using "rafsegulbylgjir" for EM-radiation from now on.

  18. Re:Still using Office 2003 on First Look: Microsoft Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    I need to be able to insert comments in documents. That function was uselessly buggy in Libreoffice as late as a few months ago.

    (Apart from that, I've been using LO for years without any problems, or any of my coworkers noticing.)

  19. Re:PDF import: Yes. "The Metro Look": No on First Look: Microsoft Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Subscription would doom Office to the scrap heap of history.

    Why?

  20. Re:The real issue... on Tasmanian Cops Decline To "Censor Internet" · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a story just yesterday or so about how Facebook could automatically detect crimespeech (or, you know, crimetext) and notify the police? I feel safer already...

  21. Re:We're gonna lose a lot. on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    But can you come back with a smartphone and install any damn thing you want on it? Or an ebookreader? And will you be able to come back with a general computer to which you have root access in five or ten years? Or will you be able to connect an "untrusted" computer to the internet?

    Because even if we are still allowed to own hardware today, we only have to lose once to lose the right forever.

  22. Re:We're gonna lose a lot. on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    But PC's will be locked down as well. Trusted computing, accountable internetting, and all that.

  23. Re:Why do I have to "enroll"? on School's In For Summer At Udacity · · Score: 1

    For your own safety's sake, citizen. Stanford must be able to guarantee that you get the optimal "Stanford experience", and probably they also have to ensure that you're not a terrorist. (By asking "Are you a terrorist? Y/N" in the application form.)

  24. Re:OnStar is a bug on EU Parliament Adopts eCall Resolution · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it have been easier to just put up a link (especially since they are so easy to find; I mean, we're apparently talking ten seconds here) instead of writing several messages on how you knowledgeable people are not going to put up a link and everyone should just google for it?

  25. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    How do you start a second instance of the program (without going to the Start menu) if its icon gets swapped for its taskbar entry when you start it?