Every woman around my age mentions this as their problem. Some might say they're being too picky,
It is a problem, and they *are* being too picky. Men's desirability rises over time[1] while women's drop. A 45yo man has no problem hooking up either temporarily or permanently with a 30yo woman. As long as he was employed continuously over his lifetime he has acquired those items that make men attractive (money, power, owned house, etc).
A 45yo women, OTOH, has *lost* those items that made her attractive (youth, beauty). So answer me this: why the hell would a 45yo man hook up with a 45yo woman when he has the opportunity to hook up with a 30-35yo?. A woman at 45 will probably have to settle for a man of 60 - she's still desirablecompared to him.
[1] up to around age 55-60. At which point it stabilises, then drops slowly.
I've noticed lately that the readership numbers of this site have gone down the shitter. It used to be that even the most boring, uninteresting stories used to get post counts in the hundreds, but not anymore. Most stories get less than 50, except for the ones where Dice can squeeze in something divisive.
You're looking at it the wrong way - the reason for low posts is that many of the reasonable and intelligent people have been driven off by the divisive stories (SJW clickbait). If they had posted fewer of those then more readers would have stayed. Now they have no choice but to post the crap "check your privilege" articles to get page hits.
Based upon my calculations, this Silicon Valley fad ought to be over pretty soon.
Did you seriously just compare a well respected egalitarian who fought for equal rights to people like yourself who rant on about MRA conspiracy theories? Really, stick to the conspiracy theories: the rest of the world ignored the flat earth society, the 911-truthers and the moon-landing-is-a-hoax theorists - we'll ignore you too while we continue using you truthers for entertainment.
"Crying man-babies":-) You gotta love what some of you nutters come up with:-) I expect you were also complaining that the Obama birth certificate was a fake, right?
OK so do you agree that the hiring of freshly minted "resources" i.e. people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating?
You have a serious reading comprehension problem: I've already made my position clear above. Let me change your assertion to one I agree with: "people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating from certain schools".
Are you seriously saying that you cannot tell the difference between:
"people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating"
and
"people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating from certain schools"?
The article and yourself makes it seem as if there is a mismatch in general. The data does not support this assertion.
Note of course that these are companies also complaining of a shortage.
Of course they are - the only reason that this whole (for the last two years at least, anyway) SJW controversy was manufactured and marketed is to provide a downward force on salaries in tech/CS. There is no shortage at the right price. I fully expect more "studies" to come out that have even less data than the data in this article. If the studies were at all honest they'd at least acknowledge that eastern races are disproportionately represented in CS, far above any other demographic.
TBH I'm no longer appalled by the brazen intellectual dishonesty of the social sciences; the multitude of non-science studies that are being paraded as science have desensitized me to caring about their cause.
These SJW articles are getting weaker and more desperate by the minute.
FromTFA:
But fresh data show that top schools are turning out black and Hispanic graduates with tech degrees at rates significantly higher than they are being hired by leading tech firms.
What's weak about that?
You know, you have really poor science skills. The production of the resource as measured by the first limited group highlighted above is not exclusively consumed by the second limited group highlighted above, and the consumption of the resource as measured by the second limited group highlighted above is not exclusively constrained to the first limited group above.
The quoted statement is extremely weak and misleading to the point of dishonesty. It gives the impression that their data suggests that leading tech firms have a skewed and/or biased hiring process while the data itself suggests nothing of the sort.
There are countless accounts of women facing gender related problems studying CS. What is your argument against those accounts? Are they lying? Perhaps you dismiss their problems, or claim that men face equal problems. I'm interested to know your position.
Anecdotes do not a study make. Those countless anecdotes wouldn't be about non-tech people like Zoe Quinn, Brianno Wu, etc, would they?
I've read this sentiment a few times ("scary international lenders") and I'm curious about why that phrase is being used. From my perspective, it seems like a person or govt should only borrow what they can afford and the blame shouldn't be on the lenders.
When the lenders make a risky loan, should they be allowed to pass on the default to the state?
And voters in Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, etc. will be asking why they are paying higher taxes to bailout Greeks
They didn't bailout Greeks, they bailed out private bankers. They should be asking tough questions like "why the hell did you use my taxes to buy the Greece debt from private banks?".
Which is a mode I've never been able to use under linux. All I can get is 80x25 text mode or graphical text mode that uses the monitor's maximum resolution. (which can maybe be capped)
Configuration is very arcane and hidden. (it's very easy in DOS and Windows)
And yet people incompatible with the organisation are are shown the door.
You are unusually accurate. This is exactlywhy Ellen has been shown the door. Shutting down other other opinions merely by whining about how hurt your feels are turned out to be incompatible with reddit.
In reality, the world seriously does not care how hurt you claim your feels are.
I can't give you an absolute or who to trust, or trust more, but Qihoo ranks at the bottom of the list IMHO.
This thread has got me really depressed about AV software - even the one you recommended would cause me to think twice - from their FAQ:
Yes! Both VIPRE Antivirus 2015 and VIPRE Internet Security 2015 automatically remove your existing antivirus program and replace it with VIPRE.
Any software that wants to remove/disable existing AV is going to be regarded as suspect. I did a quick search for a tripwire system and found this which appears (on the face of it) to be legit. Will look at the sources for it once I get home, but at least an open-source system won't be as compromised as a downloaded binary.
I can't name the company, but I was tasked with cleaning up a network and its PCs. I found this throwing all sorts of suspicious activity on the network and installing PUPs (Possibly Unwanted Programs) in the background. It's a suite of crapware and quite invasive to the overall Windows UI.
Now, it's possible there was a crafted malware version that looked like a legitimate program, but I'm not going to take the risk with the "legitimate" version of 360 Security.
I can't say I blame you. It's getting harder to tell malware from legit software. I might just roll my own tripwire type system for windows - all I need to do is log to a network machine every single process that opened a file for writing:-)
The one you linked to doesn't sound like the one I linked to/one I installed. There are too many differences between the two. The one I linked to differs from the one you linked to as follows:
1. It doesn't prompt for payment; it just quarantines then deletes.
2. It hasn't stopped the other AVs running nor flagged them as virus.
3. The other AVs don't detect it as malware. I'd have expected at least the MS AV to flag it.
4. It wasn't bundled with anything else.
5. I haven't seen any pop-ups from it (from anything, actually)
6. The only times it connects to the internet is when I click on the "analyse" button (Due to large bandwidth charges I log all my internet traffic).
7. It is significantly newer than 2009 - the one you linked to appears to be from 2009?
After all, I *did* say it/appears/ to behave in a legitimate manner. Realistically, it does not push any of my "be careful of this" buttons. Also, the previous poster responding to me posted a link to the El Reg article which says that, while it may not be effective/cheat on AV tests, it certainly isn't malware.
In China, local antivirus software vendors have a reputation of being shady, often bundling questionable software and forcibly removing their competitors' software (imagine that!). I heard the "international" versions are less aggressive, but personally I still wouldn't let any of them near any of my computers. This is the first time I heard someone outside China using those.
See, this is where the value in/. comes from - the comments to the article, not the article itself. I honestly haven't kept up to date with AV news and didn't know all this (good thing I didn't pay them already!). If I could I'd mod your post up.
I can never understand why people use or even buy antivirus software from not-so-trustworthy vendors when Microsoft offers one for free that is fast and effective.
I already have security esstentials and ClamAV and one other one that I don't quite remember right now (bitdefender?) installed. I figured it couldn't hurt to add another one. TBH, the software itself doesn't look at all dodgy even if it does have UI issues. It looks and appears to behave in a completely legit manner.
Fuck McAfee
Mod +5 Insightful because you know it is.
How about the best free alternative to McAfee?
I've been using this product which appears to catch quite a lot of different viruses. Now, I'm not really an expert on viruses so it is possible that it false-flags innocent things and makes itself look *really* impressive to me without actually being really impressive. However I'm so impressed that I intend buying the full product. The McAfee crapware that came with the PC was raising alerts for things like "no internet protection" yet failed to find any viruses, while this product found quite a few on my PC that the default windows AV missed.
When it isn't sure about a file it uploads it (or maybe just a hash) to their server where it then compares with others who have the same file. Sometimes it comes back with "safe" for the files it uploaded, sometimes "still known" and sometimes "malware".
My source of disgust is directed towards the tech media punditry. Because what they're demonstrating is that they don't have a clue what reddit management did wrong. They're just either covering up management's (Pao's) fuckup in the name of professional "sisterhood", or just care about how another startup is going to have lost investor money.
I dunno, I thought my write up on Ars was pretty good.
-Lee
If German made cars end up priced out of Greeks budget, wouldn't the materials and equipment required to build Greek cars also be?
You're making the incorrect assumption that cost of manufacture is the same everywhere. You're also ignoring that most countries in Greeks position import used cars - a just-out-of-warranty high-end bmw can be had for $6000 or less if you shop carefully ($40k - $60k new). Google for used chinese cars.
This is actually the reason that a common currency helped Germany; if the euro had not been implemented Germany would have effectively priced themselves out of the market (not just cars) due to a floating exchange rate.
Well yeah, but it's still a pain, and requires a contiguous file, and multiple commands to set up, and isn't the default.
So I'm sticking with - Windows-like swapfile support.
TBH, for 99.999% of computer users it really doesn't matter; the slowdown from a fragmented swap is unlikely to get noticed in most things. For high performance and/or scientific code it will result in a small speed advantage in low memory situations. The fact that partition is ever so slightly better than swapfile for a tiny fraction of users just doesn't matter anymore. Use the swapfile - it's more convenient anyway.
I don't think that there's any evidence that the linux swapfile performs better - and in any case why would it being unfragmented be an advantage? Memory access is random, and so swapfile access is random, and so why does having it non-contiguous cause an issue?
While memory access is indeed random, memory usage is not. Fragmented memory for MxN array accessing would blow chunks because the data is not localised.
Added to which, SSDs are becoming much more widespread, meaning the fragmentation issue vanishes.
I do not know about this - I would hazard a guess... the issue will still be there, due to caching on the SSD. I imagine pages of fixed size would be cached by SSD controller and non-localisation of your data on SSD would result in multiple cache misses, while localised/non-fragmented data would not.
The resulting currency devaluation will make greek goods cheaper and exports will boom.
Greece can't export tourism.
Tourism *is* an export - foreign money comes in, services go out. Fair enough, the services occur locally, but they still go out while money comes in. Thus it's an export.
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Every woman around my age mentions this as their problem. Some might say they're being too picky,
It is a problem, and they *are* being too picky. Men's desirability rises over time[1] while women's drop. A 45yo man has no problem hooking up either temporarily or permanently with a 30yo woman. As long as he was employed continuously over his lifetime he has acquired those items that make men attractive (money, power, owned house, etc).
A 45yo women, OTOH, has *lost* those items that made her attractive (youth, beauty). So answer me this: why the hell would a 45yo man hook up with a 45yo woman when he has the opportunity to hook up with a 30-35yo?. A woman at 45 will probably have to settle for a man of 60 - she's still desirablecompared to him.
[1] up to around age 55-60. At which point it stabilises, then drops slowly.
You really need to ask this?
Check the post counts on any story that does it.
I've noticed lately that the readership numbers of this site have gone down the shitter. It used to be that even the most boring, uninteresting stories used to get post counts in the hundreds, but not anymore. Most stories get less than 50, except for the ones where Dice can squeeze in something divisive.
You're looking at it the wrong way - the reason for low posts is that many of the reasonable and intelligent people have been driven off by the divisive stories (SJW clickbait). If they had posted fewer of those then more readers would have stayed. Now they have no choice but to post the crap "check your privilege" articles to get page hits.
It's a vicious circle, but wholly self-inflicted.
It's going on a century now, so you might want to take another look at your calculations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Based upon my calculations, this Silicon Valley fad ought to be over pretty soon.
Did you seriously just compare a well respected egalitarian who fought for equal rights to people like yourself who rant on about MRA conspiracy theories? Really, stick to the conspiracy theories: the rest of the world ignored the flat earth society, the 911-truthers and the moon-landing-is-a-hoax theorists - we'll ignore you too while we continue using you truthers for entertainment.
"Crying man-babies" :-) You gotta love what some of you nutters come up with :-) I expect you were also complaining that the Obama birth certificate was a fake, right?
OK so do you agree that the hiring of freshly minted "resources" i.e. people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating?
You have a serious reading comprehension problem: I've already made my position clear above. Let me change your assertion to one I agree with: "people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating from certain schools".
Are you seriously saying that you cannot tell the difference between:
"people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating"
and
"people with new degrees by the leading companies isn't matching the mix of people graduating from certain schools"?
The article and yourself makes it seem as if there is a mismatch in general. The data does not support this assertion.
Note of course that these are companies also complaining of a shortage.
Of course they are - the only reason that this whole (for the last two years at least, anyway) SJW controversy was manufactured and marketed is to provide a downward force on salaries in tech/CS. There is no shortage at the right price. I fully expect more "studies" to come out that have even less data than the data in this article. If the studies were at all honest they'd at least acknowledge that eastern races are disproportionately represented in CS, far above any other demographic.
TBH I'm no longer appalled by the brazen intellectual dishonesty of the social sciences; the multitude of non-science studies that are being paraded as science have desensitized me to caring about their cause.
These SJW articles are getting weaker and more desperate by the minute.
FromTFA:
But fresh data show that top schools are turning out black and Hispanic graduates with tech degrees at rates significantly higher than they are being hired by leading tech firms.
What's weak about that?
You know, you have really poor science skills. The production of the resource as measured by the first limited group highlighted above is not exclusively consumed by the second limited group highlighted above, and the consumption of the resource as measured by the second limited group highlighted above is not exclusively constrained to the first limited group above.
The quoted statement is extremely weak and misleading to the point of dishonesty. It gives the impression that their data suggests that leading tech firms have a skewed and/or biased hiring process while the data itself suggests nothing of the sort.
There are countless accounts of women facing gender related problems studying CS. What is your argument against those accounts? Are they lying? Perhaps you dismiss their problems, or claim that men face equal problems. I'm interested to know your position.
Anecdotes do not a study make. Those countless anecdotes wouldn't be about non-tech people like Zoe Quinn, Brianno Wu, etc, would they?
Who?
Not just ignorant, but you *also* don't watch big bang theory?
Have you ever produced anything of note, notability commensurate with your celebrity status? Have you ever demonstrated any technical ability?
I've read this sentiment a few times ("scary international lenders") and I'm curious about why that phrase is being used. From my perspective, it seems like a person or govt should only borrow what they can afford and the blame shouldn't be on the lenders.
When the lenders make a risky loan, should they be allowed to pass on the default to the state?
And voters in Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, etc. will be asking why they are paying higher taxes to bailout Greeks
They didn't bailout Greeks, they bailed out private bankers. They should be asking tough questions like "why the hell did you use my taxes to buy the Greece debt from private banks?".
Which is a mode I've never been able to use under linux. All I can get is 80x25 text mode or graphical text mode that uses the monitor's maximum resolution. (which can maybe be capped) Configuration is very arcane and hidden. (it's very easy in DOS and Windows)
What? Your xterm doesn't work anymore?
And yet people incompatible with the organisation are are shown the door.
You are unusually accurate. This is exactlywhy Ellen has been shown the door. Shutting down other other opinions merely by whining about how hurt your feels are turned out to be incompatible with reddit.
In reality, the world seriously does not care how hurt you claim your feels are.
I can't give you an absolute or who to trust, or trust more, but Qihoo ranks at the bottom of the list IMHO.
This thread has got me really depressed about AV software - even the one you recommended would cause me to think twice - from their FAQ:
Yes! Both VIPRE Antivirus 2015 and VIPRE Internet Security 2015 automatically remove your existing antivirus program and replace it with VIPRE.
Any software that wants to remove/disable existing AV is going to be regarded as suspect. I did a quick search for a tripwire system and found this which appears (on the face of it) to be legit. Will look at the sources for it once I get home, but at least an open-source system won't be as compromised as a downloaded binary.
http://www.360.cn/ is malware.
That site certainly sets off the alarm bells. The one I used doesn't set off any bells - look at the corporate non-apology they issued for being accused of cheating. I'm pretty certain the reputable Labs that accused them of cheating would have made it known if it was malware.
I can't name the company, but I was tasked with cleaning up a network and its PCs. I found this throwing all sorts of suspicious activity on the network and installing PUPs (Possibly Unwanted Programs) in the background. It's a suite of crapware and quite invasive to the overall Windows UI.
Now, it's possible there was a crafted malware version that looked like a legitimate program, but I'm not going to take the risk with the "legitimate" version of 360 Security.
I can't say I blame you. It's getting harder to tell malware from legit software. I might just roll my own tripwire type system for windows - all I need to do is log to a network machine every single process that opened a file for writing :-)
360 Total Security IS MALWARE!!! Sorry, to tell you, but you've been had. And yes, it's pervasive in the Chinese market.
http://www.wiki-security.com/w...
The one you linked to doesn't sound like the one I linked to/one I installed. There are too many differences between the two. The one I linked to differs from the one you linked to as follows:
1. It doesn't prompt for payment; it just quarantines then deletes.
2. It hasn't stopped the other AVs running nor flagged them as virus.
3. The other AVs don't detect it as malware. I'd have expected at least the MS AV to flag it.
4. It wasn't bundled with anything else.
5. I haven't seen any pop-ups from it (from anything, actually)
6. The only times it connects to the internet is when I click on the "analyse" button (Due to large bandwidth charges I log all my internet traffic).
7. It is significantly newer than 2009 - the one you linked to appears to be from 2009?
After all, I *did* say it /appears/ to behave in a legitimate manner. Realistically, it does not push any of my "be careful of this" buttons. Also, the previous poster responding to me posted a link to the El Reg article which says that, while it may not be effective/cheat on AV tests, it certainly isn't malware.
What? This is the Chinese antivirus vendor that was caught cheating in antivirus tests not long ago.
In China, local antivirus software vendors have a reputation of being shady, often bundling questionable software and forcibly removing their competitors' software (imagine that!). I heard the "international" versions are less aggressive, but personally I still wouldn't let any of them near any of my computers. This is the first time I heard someone outside China using those.
See, this is where the value in /. comes from - the comments to the article, not the article itself. I honestly haven't kept up to date with AV news and didn't know all this (good thing I didn't pay them already!). If I could I'd mod your post up.
I can never understand why people use or even buy antivirus software from not-so-trustworthy vendors when Microsoft offers one for free that is fast and effective.
I already have security esstentials and ClamAV and one other one that I don't quite remember right now (bitdefender?) installed. I figured it couldn't hurt to add another one. TBH, the software itself doesn't look at all dodgy even if it does have UI issues. It looks and appears to behave in a completely legit manner.
Fuck McAfee Mod +5 Insightful because you know it is.
How about the best free alternative to McAfee?
I've been using this product which appears to catch quite a lot of different viruses. Now, I'm not really an expert on viruses so it is possible that it false-flags innocent things and makes itself look *really* impressive to me without actually being really impressive. However I'm so impressed that I intend buying the full product. The McAfee crapware that came with the PC was raising alerts for things like "no internet protection" yet failed to find any viruses, while this product found quite a few on my PC that the default windows AV missed.
When it isn't sure about a file it uploads it (or maybe just a hash) to their server where it then compares with others who have the same file. Sometimes it comes back with "safe" for the files it uploaded, sometimes "still known" and sometimes "malware".
The last psychiatrist you'll ever need :-)
Also, the trackpad is not as precise of a trackpoint.
Sure, and using a joystick is more accurate than using a mouse, right?
Those who can code create companies that are ranked #5, #280, and #4 by market cap, while Steve Jobs creates #1. Good point.
Steve Jobs could code, and he did. He preferred not to, though.
My source of disgust is directed towards the tech media punditry. Because what they're demonstrating is that they don't have a clue what reddit management did wrong. They're just either covering up management's (Pao's) fuckup in the name of professional "sisterhood", or just care about how another startup is going to have lost investor money.
I dunno, I thought my write up on Ars was pretty good. -Lee
Link?
If German made cars end up priced out of Greeks budget, wouldn't the materials and equipment required to build Greek cars also be?
You're making the incorrect assumption that cost of manufacture is the same everywhere. You're also ignoring that most countries in Greeks position import used cars - a just-out-of-warranty high-end bmw can be had for $6000 or less if you shop carefully ($40k - $60k new). Google for used chinese cars. This is actually the reason that a common currency helped Germany; if the euro had not been implemented Germany would have effectively priced themselves out of the market (not just cars) due to a floating exchange rate.
Well yeah, but it's still a pain, and requires a contiguous file, and multiple commands to set up, and isn't the default.
So I'm sticking with - Windows-like swapfile support.
TBH, for 99.999% of computer users it really doesn't matter; the slowdown from a fragmented swap is unlikely to get noticed in most things. For high performance and/or scientific code it will result in a small speed advantage in low memory situations. The fact that partition is ever so slightly better than swapfile for a tiny fraction of users just doesn't matter anymore. Use the swapfile - it's more convenient anyway.
I don't think that there's any evidence that the linux swapfile performs better - and in any case why would it being unfragmented be an advantage? Memory access is random, and so swapfile access is random, and so why does having it non-contiguous cause an issue?
While memory access is indeed random, memory usage is not. Fragmented memory for MxN array accessing would blow chunks because the data is not localised.
Added to which, SSDs are becoming much more widespread, meaning the fragmentation issue vanishes.
I do not know about this - I would hazard a guess ... the issue will still be there, due to caching on the SSD. I imagine pages of fixed size would be cached by SSD controller and non-localisation of your data on SSD would result in multiple cache misses, while localised/non-fragmented data would not.
The resulting currency devaluation will make greek goods cheaper and exports will boom.
Greece can't export tourism.
Tourism *is* an export - foreign money comes in, services go out. Fair enough, the services occur locally, but they still go out while money comes in. Thus it's an export.