I've often wondered about the motivation for this kind of behavior...is it simply a form of self-reassurance, or bolstering of one's ego to confirm that a given decision (i.e. Android versus Apple) was the "right" decision? Or is it a way to possibly makeup for thinking that one has, in fact, made the "wrong" decision? What's the motivation to take sides and hoot like bands of rival monkeys at a waterhole??
I can't speak for any underlying psychobabble cause; but for some of us it feels more like an expression of our values. For example, I have an iPhone 6 and I support a few dozen of them at my job. I hate these things with the passion of a thousand hells specifically because the business model revolves around sweeping all of the blatantly obvious problems under the rug. The troubleshooting steps for any error you might ever come across for any application on this platform are as follows: 1.) Restart the phone. 2.) Reinstall the application. 3.) Format the phone and reinstall the application 4.) RMA the phone. That's it. If none of those steps work, you will be abandoned by any technical support team out there specifically because they all know that the cause will be some underlying edge case bug that Apple refuses to address or even acknowledge. You want log files? F-U, Apple fanboys don't need no stinkin log files so they don't exist despite Unix being one of the pioneers of this concept. You want an error code? Nope, can't help you there, they don't exist; you're lucky if you're told that a problem occurred at all. You want to roll back to a previous version of a software package where this problem didn't exist? Nope, never going to happen not even diagnostically because I guess no one who ever wrote code for the Apple platform has ever made a mistake.
As for the animosity toward Apple fanboys? I suppose that it stems from a feeling that they are the ones that are propagating this culture of "There is no problem as long as you ignore the problem until you buy your next device.". It's a bit infuriating to be told by one of them that "You have to stop pretending that you can fix everything.".
I'm confused, I usually see this exact statement posted as an argument against the kind of thing I just posted. But I would suspect that, as a non-AC, you've actually done a cursory google search and found that it's actually an argument in favor of the point I'm trying to make: http://www.whattoexpect.com/pr...
The problem isn't that these people got sick. It's that they have incurred these radical medical bills as a result of contracts between the hospitals and the insurance companies to intentionally drive up the prices. This is the definition of collusion and for the insurance companies it borders on racketeering. Every hospital in the US is just as guilty as every medical insurance broker and until we call them on their shit you're only going to make things worse by enabling them.
But who cares as long as you can go to bed feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, right?
At the most basic level you're right of course, but are you honestly saying that you don't see any point in "fine tuning" this stuff? For instance, for most people exercising twice a week is fine. But Jim-Bob is a 6'0" predominantly white male, over the age of 35, working 50 hours a week and living in a subarctic climate. Jim-Bob should be going to the gym more often than you and he should be taking more vitamins to not only make up for the lack of sunlight due to his latitude but also his above average amount of time spent in the office under fluorescent lights. He should focus on cardio more than strength building or speed training meaning swimming would be his best option. Whether it is more beneficial to go before work or after is dependent on the level of stress he experiences at his job since it will directly impact his motivation to stick to the program. This list goes on for quite a while, ask a personal trainer not your PCP since the former actually make a career out of putting into practice exactly what I'm talking about. It's the kind of stuff we didn't realise 20 years ago and I promise you that there are more "hidden factors" just like these that are yet to be discovered. Evolution hasn't caught up with urbanization and we can't afford to wait for it or half ass it with general statements like "Exercise a couple times a week". We need to be taking more efficient measures to survive as individuals.
How much exercise? What is the correct balance of food? What is the baseline and how do we adjust for age, height, climate, altitude and yes even ethnicity? These are the questions that should be addressed. One hugely effective thing that seems to be proven over and over again only to be immediately forgotten a month latter is that you need to time your meals with your circadian rhythm i.e. only eat at certain times of the day based op when you wake up and when you go to bed. These are the kinds of improvements on efficiency that the rest of us are looking for.
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of like that they are teaching both nearly contradicting sides of these topics. I think, in a rare moment of idealism for myself, that it encourages a more flexible mind compared to this dogmatic "This is how it is or else you're some dumb redneck" ad-hominum BS that most "intellectuals" preach everywhere they go. The scientific method requires us to prove the same thing, over and over and over again, it doesn't matter that you think of it as a waste of time, that's how it has always been. How are you going to motivate people to experiment when you just say "Don't bother, we already know the answer. Look it up in your textbook."? You can't. In some ways it's even better that we are starting with stuff that is easily debunkable, that allows their minds to build momentum. It allows them to build confidence by actually achieving something for a change. I don't even care that they then have to deal with the pinheads that are going to tell them they are wrong, because dealing with those people diplomatically is yet another life lesson to learn.
Exactly, the only profiling here is being done by the press, otherwise this stuff happens all of the time. Even back in my day, I grew up as a middle child a little less than 18 months from my older brother. I kid you not, every other week one of us would come into school with a black-eye or a busted up lip. Was it because our parents were beating us? No, it was because one was getting back at the other for the previous week. Eventually, by law, the school had to investigate and the only thing they found is what they already knew; that my brother and I were a couple of assholes. It's the same principle here. The school has to investigate even the slightest possibility based on the evidence in front of them. They knew ahead of time what they would find in both cases but they had to do it anyway. The only reason this is in the news is because the boy is Muslim and he made a typo.
The reason that homebrew projects were so awesome is that they were developed by talented people looking to build out their CV's and earn recognition. Those talented people have now been hired into soul-crushing monotony while their projects have been handed down to those of a more mediocre ability by comparison. Things will stagnate until the next generation of talent hits the labor market and then it will all start over again. Don't worry, your exploitation of those with drive and ambition can resume in another year or two. Until then, you'll just have to find another way to look smart in front of your friends.
Remember to consider how "devoted" these Bitcoin guys are to their wonderfully alternative and unregulated currency. It's not even a dice roll at this point, it's more like a game of pogs. You know you're going to score points the next time you throw your slammer, the only question is if you are good enough to make it worth your while.
At $380+ USD per BTC I'm sure I can grab enough of it low to just about pay off my car when the knuckleheads delude themselves that this sinking ship is in recovery. For all of you clowns who said that it's too late to make any money on Bitcoin, pay attention to the next few months. This is why you're wrong.
Windows? Which is taking away control of your computer and sending analytics to the mother ship whether you agree or not?
As opposed to Apple where you never had any control over any of their devices to begin with? Apple IS the worst of all possibilities; they are overpriced, have ZERO support options outside of the "Mac Geniuses", nothing is documented and there is no ability to customize their software or tweak the system performance. You might be as happy as a pig in shit with a device that just does one thing adequately right out of the box and is useless for anything else, but this is a site for engineers; not social runoff that thinks it's too smart for Facebook.
I somehow doubt that there is an actual "dial" on the device, be it digital or analog. I feel like that feature is referring to a field serviceable warhead that can be swapped out; as opposed to one that is fixed in place from the OEM. Although your idea is not without merit, the US has experimented using nuclear fallout as an area denial weapon in the past. That just doesn't sound like the kind of thing that they can sell to Obama.
Diablo looks bad by ?starting with the display of digital noise.
This brings up an interesting point, I think what we really have here is an exploit in the NVidia drivers rather than a "Super Scary oh noze mine pr0nz gots pwnd" privacy issue. What if next time, instead of stills from your latest crush fetish video, your VRAM was sitting on a call to "glGetTexImage()" and pulls an arbitrary instruction onto your stack? It is basically telling us that read-after-release is possible and DMA can be a lot of fun in the "right" hands. This is a lot more interesting than this rather pedestrian article is making it out to be. More importantly it finally illustrates that "Don't worry, it's a Walled Garden" is just as dumb of a security measure as it sounds.
Consider for a moment that those of use who are doing the cracking have already bought the game. It's not about piracy or theft for some of us, it's a puzzle. Since becoming a Dad I haven't had anywhere near enough time to be familiar with this scene, but from what I remember it can be extremely engrossing. Piracy is a byproduct of cracking, not the otherway around.
"just 36 percent of the graduates in 2015 scored high enough on the ACT, SAT or similar tests to meet Missouri's definition of 'college and career ready.'"
There is your evidence right there. These passing rates are based on either state, county or district standards. As soon as these kids are held up to the standards of a national test, the numbers drop right back down to where they were before her "miracle cure" was instated. There is no doubt that what she is doing is a good thing and that in the long run, if the area can sustain it economically, there will be a positive net impact on the community. But these numbers are clearly from low or non-existent test standards.
It's ad revenue. Twitter finally noticed that the "tweets" that often get erased by these bozos are being captured on screenshots anyway and being shared via imgur or some other image hosting site so their action of taking this down over the summer had only a minimal net effect on protecting the people who complained about it. Now that they have started this branch of their service up again, there will be no need for anyone to screenshot and repost the offending comment so the revenue from the ads will go into Twitter's pockets instead of another sources.
You only have to look at any major national newspaper's want ads to realise that "Political Twitter Correspondent" is an actual job. The candidates probably have some say in what gets posted, but they are not the ones typing this stuff out anymore then the actors who hire publicists to do the exact same thing.
I have never seen someone try so damn hard to sound smart and end up sounding so unbelievably stupid, it's no wonder you posted as AC.
Maybe you've embraced socialism to its fullest and chose to live in government subsidized housing for your entire life, but the rest of us know that the cost of rent varies from place to place and you also have other options if you don't want to pay the full price. You can move in with a relative, a friend, sibling or a total stranger if you are desperate and if you don't want to, or cannot, pay the full amount of rent and want to mitigate the cost; you do not have this option with taxes. You can choose to be homeless if you don't want to pay rent, it's not a great option but it is an option. But guess what? You still owe taxes for any income that you've earned over $X and you don't have a choice to not pay for healthcare regardless of whether you need it or not. Do you see the difference yet? In both cases men with guns can lock you up for not paying a debt you owe, but in one of the cases you have an option of not incurring that debt to begin with. And no, those of us who are socially functional individuals can't just move. Humans are a communal species and disrupting our friendships, families and love lives isn't an option for us. Nor would we want to just because dysfunctional libtard "progressives" like yourself can't do basic fucking math or see when they are being ripped off.
Yeah I think I have read all I need to to write you off as a nutjob...
Dismissal and Ad-Hominum attacks instead of dialog, the sign of a true progressive. I don't like Trump and I think he'd be the worst president our country has ever seen. But at the same time, as a New Yorker, I can tell you that between HIllary Clinton and people committing welfare fraud, the later is a better use of US tax dollars. This woman literally accomplished nothing for her entire term in the New York Senate and the only time you'll see her name behind some committee or senate vote is after it has hit national headlines. And here you knuckle-heads are talking about voting her into presidential office? Why, so that America can be seen as progressive by electing a female president? We have bigger things to worry about than the worthless opinions of some stuck up isolationist countries who have next to zero influence on the world stage. Who's the real nut-job here?
He has, on several occasions, mentioned that he was raised Jewish. He seems to intentionally avoid divulging whether or not he still practices the religion though, or else I've just never seen evidence of it one way or the other.
What people don't seem to understand, or else they intentionally neglect, about him and Facebook is that he doesn't get paid per "Like" or per "Share"; he gets paid per hit just like any other advertiser. (This by the way is why he looks like an incompetent dill weed when it comes to cracking down on scams). Because "Save the whales" pays the same as "Neo-Nazis-R-Us" and just as well as "Check out this latest pyramid scam". If at the end of the day, 'Projected_Ad_Revenue' > 'Potential_Lawsuit' then the post stays. Or do you idiots honestly think it's just a coincidence that there is a certain level of favoritism toward the posts made in English?
... they bumped me to 50/5, which is now 200/20, all at less than $40/month. Competition rocks.
For anyone who wants some perspective on internet pricing in other parts of the US. I'm in Western New York (Buffalo), paying the same company, Time Warner, $65 a month for 25/10 (burst) with the only form of competition being Verizon ADSL which although it is in my area, it is not actually available where I live, nor is it adequate for my needs. My office was paying about $150 a month for 35/10 (burst) and one static IP in a slightly more rural area until we switched to nearly $400 month for 10/10 (dedicated) fiber. All of this is with the same company that the user I am responding to uses. To top things off, our Mayor was publically in favor of the Time Warner Comcast merger, so I don't expect our government to put any effort into actually making anything better.
Yet clearly the dropping numbers of women entering tech show that it's an intimidating environment for young girls to get into.
Or it could show that the women who finish college don't want to bother with an industry that is being saturated with H1B's. Or it could show that more women realize that they can make more money applying the same talents elsewhere. Or it shows that women are as interested in coding as men are in being hairdressers. Look, coding isn't anything like cooking, for example, where it's up to the individual to find their passion for it. It takes a certain level of raw talent that even most people in the industry severely lack. And even after your find that you have that talent, you must be willing to consign yourself to a job that pays far less than it is worth; while working hours that would send any sane person postal. Let's face the facts, efforts like these stem from hundreds of rooms full of lonely nerds looking around and saying "Why can't we have any hot girls in our office like the sales people do?".
I can see where the addition of the draft papers, and therefore more material to read, matters on/. where discussion is done by civilized and informed people who just finished reading the article on hand.
I bet articles like these are going to do more damage to people than any actual malware infections. How many people do you think are going to actually be walking around with an infected pacemaker? It's not like you can open up your chest and run Malwarebytes on the damn thing. So when some hospitals patient files gets hacked, and Joe Shmoe gets a phone call or an Email implying that if he doesn't pay up his heart will explode, he's going to be breaking out his checkbook just to be safe.
On the other hand, this is really just another reason to go with an external pacemaker.
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I've often wondered about the motivation for this kind of behavior...is it simply a form of self-reassurance, or bolstering of one's ego to confirm that a given decision (i.e. Android versus Apple) was the "right" decision? Or is it a way to possibly makeup for thinking that one has, in fact, made the "wrong" decision? What's the motivation to take sides and hoot like bands of rival monkeys at a waterhole??
I can't speak for any underlying psychobabble cause; but for some of us it feels more like an expression of our values. For example, I have an iPhone 6 and I support a few dozen of them at my job. I hate these things with the passion of a thousand hells specifically because the business model revolves around sweeping all of the blatantly obvious problems under the rug. The troubleshooting steps for any error you might ever come across for any application on this platform are as follows: 1.) Restart the phone. 2.) Reinstall the application. 3.) Format the phone and reinstall the application 4.) RMA the phone. That's it. If none of those steps work, you will be abandoned by any technical support team out there specifically because they all know that the cause will be some underlying edge case bug that Apple refuses to address or even acknowledge. You want log files? F-U, Apple fanboys don't need no stinkin log files so they don't exist despite Unix being one of the pioneers of this concept. You want an error code? Nope, can't help you there, they don't exist; you're lucky if you're told that a problem occurred at all. You want to roll back to a previous version of a software package where this problem didn't exist? Nope, never going to happen not even diagnostically because I guess no one who ever wrote code for the Apple platform has ever made a mistake.
As for the animosity toward Apple fanboys? I suppose that it stems from a feeling that they are the ones that are propagating this culture of "There is no problem as long as you ignore the problem until you buy your next device.". It's a bit infuriating to be told by one of them that "You have to stop pretending that you can fix everything.".
The readership is more intelligent than the average Reddit user,...
I'm always glad to see that /. is held to such high standards.
I'm confused, I usually see this exact statement posted as an argument against the kind of thing I just posted. But I would suspect that, as a non-AC, you've actually done a cursory google search and found that it's actually an argument in favor of the point I'm trying to make: http://www.whattoexpect.com/pr...
The problem isn't that these people got sick. It's that they have incurred these radical medical bills as a result of contracts between the hospitals and the insurance companies to intentionally drive up the prices. This is the definition of collusion and for the insurance companies it borders on racketeering. Every hospital in the US is just as guilty as every medical insurance broker and until we call them on their shit you're only going to make things worse by enabling them.
But who cares as long as you can go to bed feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, right?
At the most basic level you're right of course, but are you honestly saying that you don't see any point in "fine tuning" this stuff? For instance, for most people exercising twice a week is fine. But Jim-Bob is a 6'0" predominantly white male, over the age of 35, working 50 hours a week and living in a subarctic climate. Jim-Bob should be going to the gym more often than you and he should be taking more vitamins to not only make up for the lack of sunlight due to his latitude but also his above average amount of time spent in the office under fluorescent lights. He should focus on cardio more than strength building or speed training meaning swimming would be his best option. Whether it is more beneficial to go before work or after is dependent on the level of stress he experiences at his job since it will directly impact his motivation to stick to the program. This list goes on for quite a while, ask a personal trainer not your PCP since the former actually make a career out of putting into practice exactly what I'm talking about. It's the kind of stuff we didn't realise 20 years ago and I promise you that there are more "hidden factors" just like these that are yet to be discovered. Evolution hasn't caught up with urbanization and we can't afford to wait for it or half ass it with general statements like "Exercise a couple times a week". We need to be taking more efficient measures to survive as individuals.
How much exercise? What is the correct balance of food? What is the baseline and how do we adjust for age, height, climate, altitude and yes even ethnicity? These are the questions that should be addressed. One hugely effective thing that seems to be proven over and over again only to be immediately forgotten a month latter is that you need to time your meals with your circadian rhythm i.e. only eat at certain times of the day based op when you wake up and when you go to bed. These are the kinds of improvements on efficiency that the rest of us are looking for.
Maybe it's just me, but I kind of like that they are teaching both nearly contradicting sides of these topics. I think, in a rare moment of idealism for myself, that it encourages a more flexible mind compared to this dogmatic "This is how it is or else you're some dumb redneck" ad-hominum BS that most "intellectuals" preach everywhere they go. The scientific method requires us to prove the same thing, over and over and over again, it doesn't matter that you think of it as a waste of time, that's how it has always been. How are you going to motivate people to experiment when you just say "Don't bother, we already know the answer. Look it up in your textbook."? You can't. In some ways it's even better that we are starting with stuff that is easily debunkable, that allows their minds to build momentum. It allows them to build confidence by actually achieving something for a change. I don't even care that they then have to deal with the pinheads that are going to tell them they are wrong, because dealing with those people diplomatically is yet another life lesson to learn.
You should setup a Google Voice number for this just so that it messes with them.
Exactly, the only profiling here is being done by the press, otherwise this stuff happens all of the time. Even back in my day, I grew up as a middle child a little less than 18 months from my older brother. I kid you not, every other week one of us would come into school with a black-eye or a busted up lip. Was it because our parents were beating us? No, it was because one was getting back at the other for the previous week. Eventually, by law, the school had to investigate and the only thing they found is what they already knew; that my brother and I were a couple of assholes. It's the same principle here. The school has to investigate even the slightest possibility based on the evidence in front of them. They knew ahead of time what they would find in both cases but they had to do it anyway. The only reason this is in the news is because the boy is Muslim and he made a typo.
The reason that homebrew projects were so awesome is that they were developed by talented people looking to build out their CV's and earn recognition. Those talented people have now been hired into soul-crushing monotony while their projects have been handed down to those of a more mediocre ability by comparison. Things will stagnate until the next generation of talent hits the labor market and then it will all start over again. Don't worry, your exploitation of those with drive and ambition can resume in another year or two. Until then, you'll just have to find another way to look smart in front of your friends.
Remember to consider how "devoted" these Bitcoin guys are to their wonderfully alternative and unregulated currency. It's not even a dice roll at this point, it's more like a game of pogs. You know you're going to score points the next time you throw your slammer, the only question is if you are good enough to make it worth your while.
At $380+ USD per BTC I'm sure I can grab enough of it low to just about pay off my car when the knuckleheads delude themselves that this sinking ship is in recovery. For all of you clowns who said that it's too late to make any money on Bitcoin, pay attention to the next few months. This is why you're wrong.
Windows? Which is taking away control of your computer and sending analytics to the mother ship whether you agree or not?
As opposed to Apple where you never had any control over any of their devices to begin with? Apple IS the worst of all possibilities; they are overpriced, have ZERO support options outside of the "Mac Geniuses", nothing is documented and there is no ability to customize their software or tweak the system performance. You might be as happy as a pig in shit with a device that just does one thing adequately right out of the box and is useless for anything else, but this is a site for engineers; not social runoff that thinks it's too smart for Facebook.
I somehow doubt that there is an actual "dial" on the device, be it digital or analog. I feel like that feature is referring to a field serviceable warhead that can be swapped out; as opposed to one that is fixed in place from the OEM. Although your idea is not without merit, the US has experimented using nuclear fallout as an area denial weapon in the past. That just doesn't sound like the kind of thing that they can sell to Obama.
Diablo looks bad by ?starting with the display of digital noise.
This brings up an interesting point, I think what we really have here is an exploit in the NVidia drivers rather than a "Super Scary oh noze mine pr0nz gots pwnd" privacy issue. What if next time, instead of stills from your latest crush fetish video, your VRAM was sitting on a call to "glGetTexImage()" and pulls an arbitrary instruction onto your stack? It is basically telling us that read-after-release is possible and DMA can be a lot of fun in the "right" hands. This is a lot more interesting than this rather pedestrian article is making it out to be. More importantly it finally illustrates that "Don't worry, it's a Walled Garden" is just as dumb of a security measure as it sounds.
Consider for a moment that those of use who are doing the cracking have already bought the game. It's not about piracy or theft for some of us, it's a puzzle. Since becoming a Dad I haven't had anywhere near enough time to be familiar with this scene, but from what I remember it can be extremely engrossing. Piracy is a byproduct of cracking, not the otherway around.
FTA:
"just 36 percent of the graduates in 2015 scored high enough on the ACT, SAT or similar tests to meet Missouri's definition of 'college and career ready.'"
There is your evidence right there. These passing rates are based on either state, county or district standards. As soon as these kids are held up to the standards of a national test, the numbers drop right back down to where they were before her "miracle cure" was instated. There is no doubt that what she is doing is a good thing and that in the long run, if the area can sustain it economically, there will be a positive net impact on the community. But these numbers are clearly from low or non-existent test standards.
It's ad revenue. Twitter finally noticed that the "tweets" that often get erased by these bozos are being captured on screenshots anyway and being shared via imgur or some other image hosting site so their action of taking this down over the summer had only a minimal net effect on protecting the people who complained about it. Now that they have started this branch of their service up again, there will be no need for anyone to screenshot and repost the offending comment so the revenue from the ads will go into Twitter's pockets instead of another sources.
You only have to look at any major national newspaper's want ads to realise that "Political Twitter Correspondent" is an actual job. The candidates probably have some say in what gets posted, but they are not the ones typing this stuff out anymore then the actors who hire publicists to do the exact same thing.
I have never seen someone try so damn hard to sound smart and end up sounding so unbelievably stupid, it's no wonder you posted as AC.
Maybe you've embraced socialism to its fullest and chose to live in government subsidized housing for your entire life, but the rest of us know that the cost of rent varies from place to place and you also have other options if you don't want to pay the full price. You can move in with a relative, a friend, sibling or a total stranger if you are desperate and if you don't want to, or cannot, pay the full amount of rent and want to mitigate the cost; you do not have this option with taxes. You can choose to be homeless if you don't want to pay rent, it's not a great option but it is an option. But guess what? You still owe taxes for any income that you've earned over $X and you don't have a choice to not pay for healthcare regardless of whether you need it or not. Do you see the difference yet? In both cases men with guns can lock you up for not paying a debt you owe, but in one of the cases you have an option of not incurring that debt to begin with. And no, those of us who are socially functional individuals can't just move. Humans are a communal species and disrupting our friendships, families and love lives isn't an option for us. Nor would we want to just because dysfunctional libtard "progressives" like yourself can't do basic fucking math or see when they are being ripped off.
Yeah I think I have read all I need to to write you off as a nutjob...
Dismissal and Ad-Hominum attacks instead of dialog, the sign of a true progressive. I don't like Trump and I think he'd be the worst president our country has ever seen. But at the same time, as a New Yorker, I can tell you that between HIllary Clinton and people committing welfare fraud, the later is a better use of US tax dollars. This woman literally accomplished nothing for her entire term in the New York Senate and the only time you'll see her name behind some committee or senate vote is after it has hit national headlines. And here you knuckle-heads are talking about voting her into presidential office? Why, so that America can be seen as progressive by electing a female president? We have bigger things to worry about than the worthless opinions of some stuck up isolationist countries who have next to zero influence on the world stage. Who's the real nut-job here?
He has, on several occasions, mentioned that he was raised Jewish. He seems to intentionally avoid divulging whether or not he still practices the religion though, or else I've just never seen evidence of it one way or the other.
What people don't seem to understand, or else they intentionally neglect, about him and Facebook is that he doesn't get paid per "Like" or per "Share"; he gets paid per hit just like any other advertiser. (This by the way is why he looks like an incompetent dill weed when it comes to cracking down on scams). Because "Save the whales" pays the same as "Neo-Nazis-R-Us" and just as well as "Check out this latest pyramid scam". If at the end of the day, 'Projected_Ad_Revenue' > 'Potential_Lawsuit' then the post stays. Or do you idiots honestly think it's just a coincidence that there is a certain level of favoritism toward the posts made in English?
... they bumped me to 50/5, which is now 200/20, all at less than $40/month. Competition rocks.
For anyone who wants some perspective on internet pricing in other parts of the US. I'm in Western New York (Buffalo), paying the same company, Time Warner, $65 a month for 25/10 (burst) with the only form of competition being Verizon ADSL which although it is in my area, it is not actually available where I live, nor is it adequate for my needs. My office was paying about $150 a month for 35/10 (burst) and one static IP in a slightly more rural area until we switched to nearly $400 month for 10/10 (dedicated) fiber. All of this is with the same company that the user I am responding to uses. To top things off, our Mayor was publically in favor of the Time Warner Comcast merger, so I don't expect our government to put any effort into actually making anything better.
Tl;dr: Monopolies suck
Yet clearly the dropping numbers of women entering tech show that it's an intimidating environment for young girls to get into.
Or it could show that the women who finish college don't want to bother with an industry that is being saturated with H1B's. Or it could show that more women realize that they can make more money applying the same talents elsewhere. Or it shows that women are as interested in coding as men are in being hairdressers. Look, coding isn't anything like cooking, for example, where it's up to the individual to find their passion for it. It takes a certain level of raw talent that even most people in the industry severely lack. And even after your find that you have that talent, you must be willing to consign yourself to a job that pays far less than it is worth; while working hours that would send any sane person postal. Let's face the facts, efforts like these stem from hundreds of rooms full of lonely nerds looking around and saying "Why can't we have any hot girls in our office like the sales people do?".
I can see where the addition of the draft papers, and therefore more material to read, matters on /. where discussion is done by civilized and informed people who just finished reading the article on hand.
I bet articles like these are going to do more damage to people than any actual malware infections. How many people do you think are going to actually be walking around with an infected pacemaker? It's not like you can open up your chest and run Malwarebytes on the damn thing. So when some hospitals patient files gets hacked, and Joe Shmoe gets a phone call or an Email implying that if he doesn't pay up his heart will explode, he's going to be breaking out his checkbook just to be safe.
On the other hand, this is really just another reason to go with an external pacemaker.