You started off right: the only solution is to change the culture. So why this digression about guns? When we arrive at this better culture, people won't want to shoot each other -- so it won't matter whether they have guns or not, and nobody will care one way or the other. And getting rid of guns now won't make people any nicer, and will make it harder to stop evil people from doing mean things. Talking about guns is just a distraction from your real solution.
I don't understand your comments about religion. You seem to want everyone to act like an atheist in public, which seems pretty intolerant to me. Won't the better culture need to accommodate people who think differently? What's wrong with a little diversity here?
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And throughout history, women have been spat upon, threatened, battered, and gangraped by the same men you'll find here on slashdot. For all I know, you yourself are one of those same ACs.
Typical feminist rant: hysterical, defamatory, and false. I'd be surprised if there are any gang rapists on slashdot. And history is lots, lots longer than the few years slashdot has been running... or the few tens of years that slashdot readers have been alive.
Ask yourself what you gain by contributing to this climate of fear and hate.
Good question. Now, the only contribution I've seen to the climate of fear and hate is Anne Marie's article. I read at +2, so I don't see the ACs, and I wouldn't see this "all slashdot readers are rapists and that's all they are" nonsense if the moderators would be just a little more thoughtful. Folks, there's no shortage of feminist screeds on USENET. Is that really what/. should be for?
...If you go around taking extensive notes on products and prices, I've no doubt you'll be stopped as well.
That's right. I've overheard a guy at Circuit City giving a sales pitch for a minirecorder -- "I use this one to take notes when I cruise through the other stores and look at their prices... they sure won't let you just walk through with a clipboard"
You're right: nothing has intrinsic value, not gold, not paper money. But gold is not exactly as "virtual" as dollars or EQ tokens, because the supply is comparatively stable -- you can't easily print more bullion.
I don't see how this is going to help. $91M put into curriculum development might help. More research funding might help. But more money for CS undergraduates? Don't think so.
I sometimes think about attacking the security problem by creating red teams that deliberately, systematically damage sites with bad security. Advantages: we get a better market for security products. A particular vulnerability can be exposed gradually over time, instead of exploited everywhere at once by a real adversary. Disadvantages: it's a nutty idea.
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I don't understand your comments about religion. You seem to want everyone to act like an atheist in public, which seems pretty intolerant to me. Won't the better culture need to accommodate people who think differently? What's wrong with a little diversity here?
Typical feminist rant: hysterical, defamatory, and false. I'd be surprised if there are any gang rapists on slashdot. And history is lots, lots longer than the few years slashdot has been running... or the few tens of years that slashdot readers have been alive.
Ask yourself what you gain by contributing to this climate of fear and hate.
Good question. Now, the only contribution I've seen to the climate of fear and hate is Anne Marie's article. I read at +2, so I don't see the ACs, and I wouldn't see this "all slashdot readers are rapists and that's all they are" nonsense if the moderators would be just a little more thoughtful. Folks, there's no shortage of feminist screeds on USENET. Is that really what /. should be for?
That's right. I've overheard a guy at Circuit City giving a sales pitch for a minirecorder -- "I use this one to take notes when I cruise through the other stores and look at their prices... they sure won't let you just walk through with a clipboard"
You're right: nothing has intrinsic value, not gold, not paper money. But gold is not exactly as "virtual" as dollars or EQ tokens, because the supply is comparatively stable -- you can't easily print more bullion.
I sometimes think about attacking the security problem by creating red teams that deliberately, systematically damage sites with bad security. Advantages: we get a better market for security products. A particular vulnerability can be exposed gradually over time, instead of exploited everywhere at once by a real adversary. Disadvantages: it's a nutty idea.