I don't read a lot of other forums, so from my vantage Slashdot is it. And from what I see on Slashdot that message in the article applies to many of the posters here. Maybe Slashdot is mild overall, but I have never seen anywhere else the sort of low misogynist attitudes that you see on Slashdot. This sort of story is indeed highly appropriate to Slashdot because it is here that such backwards attitudes are prevalent.
This is about math, science, and technology also. Especially about whether or not women should be involved in those fields, since I see very strong attitudes from many that women don't prefer such fields and would rather do stereotypical stuff instead. Gamergate (gamersgate?) is absolutely without a doubt involved about socialization in technology and thus it falls squarely within the domain of Slashdot stories.
If you don't want to hear these stories then I suspect you also don't think that a problem even exists, and that the status quo of a man dominated tech world is just fine.
And how secure is this interlocking system? Could someone with writestrippers, soldering iron, and a wrench accomplish a launch? Say a Barney Collier or MacGyver type.
Remember also, employers will be able to tell who is good or bad in very short time. That cheating may get someone their first entry level job but it won't help at all to get the second job and will be a liability to get the third job.
The difference perhaps is that in America we are not proud of being cheaters, or at least not yet. If we had student rallies in front of the US capital building demanding the right to cheat they'd be laughed at from both high and low society. Yet this actually happened in India and the government backed down.
Dont' forget, a lot of really really dumb people from India get jobs in the US also. Even those from the 'best' schools.
The good students are those in America from Indian parents who want their kids to succeed and do well. But this isn't true of only Indian parents, it is very often the case that first generation immigrants are the ones most concerned about making sure their kids must do the best that they can. By the third and fourth generation people start to slack off again.
Here's the important thing: lose a job in Silicon Valley, there are many nearby and you wont' have to relocate. Maybe a longer commute though. Lose a tech job in Florida and you're in trouble.
No income tax. How does the government function? Or are you the type of state that thinks no government is good government, shrinking it down until everyone is forced to be home schooled because schools can't exist, and no roads for buses to travel on to take kids to school.
I am not a liberal, but sheesh the no-tax people need to get some sort of clue.
Although for the right company it could be considered, one that can forward your career, is fun to work at, etc. But Magic Leap? Never heard of it, won't even bother looking it up because it sounds stupid on the face of it, probably infested completely with marketing types with no real engineers.
I take that back, I looked them up. I still can't tell what they do. But they sure to waste a ton of time making flashy web pages that say nothing at all. Anyone who moves to Florida to join them deserves what they get.
We've had big data for centuries, even though it wasn't called that. You can't have insurance without large collections of data, or reliable investment markets, or much of science. The change is in the types of data and new connections between them.
You can keep things private; don't use Facebook, or make sure you don't post publicly things that you don't want the entire world to know. Big data does not know who I voted for, I can barely remember myself who I voted for, but it may be able to predict with some confidence what people in my micro-demographics tend to vote like. Don't use your shopper loyalty card when shopping. Don't advertise on LinkedIn that you're looking for a job, and don't wait until you're job shopping to update that page.
People need to learn that commute hours are not fixed in stone. Go home an hour later or an hour earlier if the amount of light is important. Although in winter you're stuck if you're not in the tropics; either you go to work in the dark, go back home in the dark, or you cut the number of work hours.
VB created a generation of idiots. As in idiot managers who seem to think programming is easy because they could create a buggy VB app in a day. Or those idiots thinking VB was brilliant while ignoring the competition that was vastly better (Delphi for example). Even the older dBase was better than VB+Access.
VB did a lot of things, but it did them in very mediocre ways.
There was a HyperCard like program for the Amiga, and I thought it was pretty slick. PCs at the time were just a bit clunky, still on DOS mostly, using graphical line drawing characters for lots of things.
It took me a long time to get used to using the phone to get time compared to the watch. Seriously, I don't even bother looking up the time because it takes a conscious effort to pull out the phone and hit the power button. That is, when I conciously want to know the time I do this, but with the wristwatch I would just glance to notice the time without thinking about it and without interrupting what I am doing. So with the watch I would essentially have a good idea all day long what time it was but with the phone now I have found myself uncertain about even what hour it was.
Now that's fine if you grow up in an Apple world where knowing the time is irrelevant, where the phone is ALWAYS in your hand like some demented hipster. But for people who grew up with other habits it's not so simple.
Here's another idea: sometimes you do not want your phone. No phone in the gym, no phone when watching TV, no phone while driving to work, no phone while sleeping, etc. The watch is always there though and you can glance at it in less than a second.
Of course friends don't see this. I get around to checking my phone in the afternoon on weekends, see that I have email, then a friend says "where the hell were you, I couldn't contact you?" I ask if there was something important, and he says no, just wanted to see what I was up to. Sheesh, people, learn to disconnect.
Early mobile phones would stay charged for a week or two, easily. Today the "smart" phones need more frequent charging even if you're not using them that much.
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I don't read a lot of other forums, so from my vantage Slashdot is it. And from what I see on Slashdot that message in the article applies to many of the posters here. Maybe Slashdot is mild overall, but I have never seen anywhere else the sort of low misogynist attitudes that you see on Slashdot. This sort of story is indeed highly appropriate to Slashdot because it is here that such backwards attitudes are prevalent.
This is about math, science, and technology also. Especially about whether or not women should be involved in those fields, since I see very strong attitudes from many that women don't prefer such fields and would rather do stereotypical stuff instead. Gamergate (gamersgate?) is absolutely without a doubt involved about socialization in technology and thus it falls squarely within the domain of Slashdot stories.
If you don't want to hear these stories then I suspect you also don't think that a problem even exists, and that the status quo of a man dominated tech world is just fine.
And how secure is this interlocking system? Could someone with writestrippers, soldering iron, and a wrench accomplish a launch? Say a Barney Collier or MacGyver type.
Remember also, employers will be able to tell who is good or bad in very short time. That cheating may get someone their first entry level job but it won't help at all to get the second job and will be a liability to get the third job.
The difference perhaps is that in America we are not proud of being cheaters, or at least not yet. If we had student rallies in front of the US capital building demanding the right to cheat they'd be laughed at from both high and low society. Yet this actually happened in India and the government backed down.
I can teach anyone to use a hammer and screwdriver in three months, meaning I can create mechanical engineers in that time frame.
Dont' forget, a lot of really really dumb people from India get jobs in the US also. Even those from the 'best' schools.
The good students are those in America from Indian parents who want their kids to succeed and do well. But this isn't true of only Indian parents, it is very often the case that first generation immigrants are the ones most concerned about making sure their kids must do the best that they can. By the third and fourth generation people start to slack off again.
Here's the important thing: lose a job in Silicon Valley, there are many nearby and you wont' have to relocate. Maybe a longer commute though. Lose a tech job in Florida and you're in trouble.
No income tax. How does the government function? Or are you the type of state that thinks no government is good government, shrinking it down until everyone is forced to be home schooled because schools can't exist, and no roads for buses to travel on to take kids to school.
I am not a liberal, but sheesh the no-tax people need to get some sort of clue.
Although for the right company it could be considered, one that can forward your career, is fun to work at, etc. But Magic Leap? Never heard of it, won't even bother looking it up because it sounds stupid on the face of it, probably infested completely with marketing types with no real engineers.
I take that back, I looked them up. I still can't tell what they do. But they sure to waste a ton of time making flashy web pages that say nothing at all. Anyone who moves to Florida to join them deserves what they get.
We've had big data for centuries, even though it wasn't called that. You can't have insurance without large collections of data, or reliable investment markets, or much of science. The change is in the types of data and new connections between them.
You can keep things private; don't use Facebook, or make sure you don't post publicly things that you don't want the entire world to know. Big data does not know who I voted for, I can barely remember myself who I voted for, but it may be able to predict with some confidence what people in my micro-demographics tend to vote like. Don't use your shopper loyalty card when shopping. Don't advertise on LinkedIn that you're looking for a job, and don't wait until you're job shopping to update that page.
However it is still a death threat, and thus still illegal, and not merely morally indefensible ala normal trolling.
So throw the murder victim overboard and replace it with a mannequin. Of course life forms and ex life forms can be evidence.
Windows is portable now? Did they resurrect the Alpha? Or are you talking the mini-Windows, like RT or CE?
Can't we just have a 21 day quarantine for people arriving from a gay country?
Does using a mac make me gay? Can I counteract it by using a Wintel machine to neuter myself?
Half dressed horses are the ones that compete in half dressage.
People need to learn that commute hours are not fixed in stone. Go home an hour later or an hour earlier if the amount of light is important. Although in winter you're stuck if you're not in the tropics; either you go to work in the dark, go back home in the dark, or you cut the number of work hours.
VB created a generation of idiots. As in idiot managers who seem to think programming is easy because they could create a buggy VB app in a day. Or those idiots thinking VB was brilliant while ignoring the competition that was vastly better (Delphi for example). Even the older dBase was better than VB+Access.
VB did a lot of things, but it did them in very mediocre ways.
There was a HyperCard like program for the Amiga, and I thought it was pretty slick. PCs at the time were just a bit clunky, still on DOS mostly, using graphical line drawing characters for lots of things.
Apparently those Ethiopians have no clue about how to be fashionable. Bet they've never even tried a bacontini.
So get a real phone instead of an Apple phone. And leave the phone behind when you go jogging or to the gym.
It took me a long time to get used to using the phone to get time compared to the watch. Seriously, I don't even bother looking up the time because it takes a conscious effort to pull out the phone and hit the power button. That is, when I conciously want to know the time I do this, but with the wristwatch I would just glance to notice the time without thinking about it and without interrupting what I am doing. So with the watch I would essentially have a good idea all day long what time it was but with the phone now I have found myself uncertain about even what hour it was.
Now that's fine if you grow up in an Apple world where knowing the time is irrelevant, where the phone is ALWAYS in your hand like some demented hipster. But for people who grew up with other habits it's not so simple.
Here's another idea: sometimes you do not want your phone. No phone in the gym, no phone when watching TV, no phone while driving to work, no phone while sleeping, etc. The watch is always there though and you can glance at it in less than a second.
Of course friends don't see this. I get around to checking my phone in the afternoon on weekends, see that I have email, then a friend says "where the hell were you, I couldn't contact you?" I ask if there was something important, and he says no, just wanted to see what I was up to. Sheesh, people, learn to disconnect.
Early mobile phones would stay charged for a week or two, easily. Today the "smart" phones need more frequent charging even if you're not using them that much.
But this was before the heard the enlightened words from Apple.
I prefer miasma myself.