You don't even need a weapon. Passengers on a hijacked plane know that it's not just their lives in danger, but thousands of people on the ground. They will overwhelm any attacker with sheer numbers, even unarmed.
I don't understand. What was your motivation to give her your passwords? The relationship was over, so you weren't getting anything in return. And for that matter, 11 years later and you're calling her 3 times a week... dude get a life!
Why did you exchange passwords in the first place? There's never a good reason to share passwords. If it ever seems like a good idea to share a password, that's a symptom of a poorly developed user permissions system.
Is it really that hard to be mean to someone who thinks you're a rapist? Or worse, someone who knows you're not (as you said, she wouldn't have approached you if she did) and treats you like one anyway?
The fifth amendment prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation. We need an amendment that prohibits the taking of public property for private use without just compensation.
It's not necessarily that you buy what you pirated. Even if you don't buy what you pirate, you're more likely to buy other works by the same people, or you're more likely to talk other people into buying the work. When viewed in aggregate, it all averages out anyway. Don't focus on individual purchases. If piracy leads people to increase their entertainment budget, than piracy is good for the entertainment industry as a whole.
I guess I'd be more comfortable with/less bothered by this if I had a story that I could point to where a sale was driven by a download of pirated copy, but I don't have one yet (which of course doesn't mean it hasn't happened).
Being supportive of the cause means contacting your representatives, not abstaining from wikipedia. Go ahead and use a workaround, just don't forget to call.
Now we're talking. I agree with all of this. Cultural factors are the overwhelming influence in almost all gender roles. I just feel that assuming biology is irrelevant is counter productive, because deniers will always point to that assumption. If instead we accept that biology matters, and measure how much it matters, then we have the evidence to assert that culture matters more.
That's a fair criticism. Women shouldn't get any special treatment. Whether that's creepy behavior when they get acknowledged for their technical skill, or for when they get extra recognition for simply having any technical skill at all. Both are sexist.
Alas, we live in reality where women do get treated differently. Hiding your identity is one pragmatic way to deal with that.
I didn't say Arch was fun, I said fun was my motivation for putting it on a couple computers. I could have had the same fun with any distro, but Arch seemed to be a good choice for the reasons I described in my earlier post.
I did say Debian was crufty. And yes, that's probably subjective. Just the sheer number of packages makes it harder to figure out what the best way to do something is. It's not a major criticism and I don't dislike Debian for it. I still use it on anything important.
I'm not offering any proof, I'm saying the biological hypothesis shouldn't be rejected out of hand without proof. There are actual physical differences in the brains of males and females that lead to functional differences. There's no reason to assume that these don't matter.
I will say that on the whole most of our gender differences are clearly cultural, and in this case probably overwhelmingly so. But I disagree that we can ignore the influence of biology.
Clearly, there is an additional factor dissuading them from participating in open source. What biological factor related to their brain development would you posit is related to this?
You're asking for wild speculation, so you'll get it. Women might be biologically more social than men, perhaps because they raise children more often than men. If social parents are more successful than anti-social parents, then that would provide selective pressure for females to be more social then men. If that's the case, then women may choose to spend more of their free time socializing, than writing open source code in their basements.
Now I don't think this is a correct explanation, but it's plausible and deserves to be examined before discarding it.
When the topic is an actual female geek, who has actively done something cool (Like that girl who did a "howto" on building your own iPod charger a couple of years ago), the comments jump from the creepily fawning to completely dismissive like a bipolar Chihuahua on a cup of espresso.
Mostly because the project in question would never have gotten anyones attention except for the fact that it's a tech project done by a female.
If any female hackers want to get recognized for their skills and not their gender, all it takes is a gender neutral handle.
I see no reason to think there's a gender-related basis for programming... do you?
Given the physical differences between male and female brains, I see no reason not to think that there's a gender related basis for programming.
"Differences in interest" sounds like a nice way of saying "girls like dolls, boys like guns." There is no particular biological basis for this
But, there is. Raise a biologically male child to play with dolls and he'll make them fight. Raise a biologically female child to play with action figures, and she'll play house with them.
This experiment has been done, and the results are in. Male psychology is different from female psychology for reasons that are unrelated to nurture. That leaves nature. The fact that we haven't pinpointed the exact brain structures that cause the difference is only due to our lack of understanding of the brain at this time.
Or, to put this another way... what you are claiming here is equivalent to claiming that transexuals have a choice.
No bullshit. This was a retail copy of XP that my GF had bought for an old Gateway that came with some version of 9x. This wasn't the first time we changed hardware on that PC and had to re-activate. The first time we tried to re-activate it went exactly as you say, so I'm pretty sure the key is legit. After switching to another PC, the same key was refused activation over the phone.
I'm sure that 99.9% of the time it's as easy as you say. But not always. And if you're unlucky, there's nothing you can do about it.
Reviewers getting early copies of games has at least the appearance of impropriety. Someone should start an independent review site. Buy all your games at retail and review them without any input from the publisher. Such a site would get a lot of attention I think. Of course, it would have to find an audience patient enough to wait for a review a while after release.
That's kind of the point. They're trying to kill PC gaming and get everyone to move to locked down consoles. Thankfully the PC is open, and as long as its open there will always be games for it. They're likely to be better games than the mass market console stuff too.
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You don't even need a weapon. Passengers on a hijacked plane know that it's not just their lives in danger, but thousands of people on the ground. They will overwhelm any attacker with sheer numbers, even unarmed.
I don't understand. What was your motivation to give her your passwords? The relationship was over, so you weren't getting anything in return. And for that matter, 11 years later and you're calling her 3 times a week... dude get a life!
Most people, even those who work with computers all day, have no idea what "plain text" is.
Sites should provide a way to allow joint access or multiple passwords.
It's called user accounts and permissions. This is yet another reason why "Web 2.0" is a huge step back. This problem has been solved for decades.
Why did you exchange passwords in the first place? There's never a good reason to share passwords. If it ever seems like a good idea to share a password, that's a symptom of a poorly developed user permissions system.
Is it really that hard to be mean to someone who thinks you're a rapist? Or worse, someone who knows you're not (as you said, she wouldn't have approached you if she did) and treats you like one anyway?
The fifth amendment prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation. We need an amendment that prohibits the taking of public property for private use without just compensation.
It's not necessarily that you buy what you pirated. Even if you don't buy what you pirate, you're more likely to buy other works by the same people, or you're more likely to talk other people into buying the work. When viewed in aggregate, it all averages out anyway. Don't focus on individual purchases. If piracy leads people to increase their entertainment budget, than piracy is good for the entertainment industry as a whole.
I guess I'd be more comfortable with/less bothered by this if I had a story that I could point to where a sale was driven by a download of pirated copy, but I don't have one yet (which of course doesn't mean it hasn't happened).
Start pirating. You'll find yourself buying more.
All the people here already know, but how many of them have already called their representative?
Being supportive of the cause means contacting your representatives, not abstaining from wikipedia. Go ahead and use a workaround, just don't forget to call.
Let's not forget, you can render a really nice smooth teapot for peanuts, but you can't tell a good story
Wait.. what?! What does rendering have to do with telling a good story?
What's a political speech? Are you sure the Reverend wasn't giving a sermon?
Now we're talking. I agree with all of this. Cultural factors are the overwhelming influence in almost all gender roles. I just feel that assuming biology is irrelevant is counter productive, because deniers will always point to that assumption. If instead we accept that biology matters, and measure how much it matters, then we have the evidence to assert that culture matters more.
That's a fair criticism. Women shouldn't get any special treatment. Whether that's creepy behavior when they get acknowledged for their technical skill, or for when they get extra recognition for simply having any technical skill at all. Both are sexist.
Alas, we live in reality where women do get treated differently. Hiding your identity is one pragmatic way to deal with that.
I didn't say Arch was fun, I said fun was my motivation for putting it on a couple computers. I could have had the same fun with any distro, but Arch seemed to be a good choice for the reasons I described in my earlier post.
I did say Debian was crufty. And yes, that's probably subjective. Just the sheer number of packages makes it harder to figure out what the best way to do something is. It's not a major criticism and I don't dislike Debian for it. I still use it on anything important.
I'm not offering any proof, I'm saying the biological hypothesis shouldn't be rejected out of hand without proof. There are actual physical differences in the brains of males and females that lead to functional differences. There's no reason to assume that these don't matter.
I will say that on the whole most of our gender differences are clearly cultural, and in this case probably overwhelmingly so. But I disagree that we can ignore the influence of biology.
Clearly, there is an additional factor dissuading them from participating in open source. What biological factor related to their brain development would you posit is related to this?
You're asking for wild speculation, so you'll get it. Women might be biologically more social than men, perhaps because they raise children more often than men. If social parents are more successful than anti-social parents, then that would provide selective pressure for females to be more social then men. If that's the case, then women may choose to spend more of their free time socializing, than writing open source code in their basements.
Now I don't think this is a correct explanation, but it's plausible and deserves to be examined before discarding it.
When the topic is an actual female geek, who has actively done something cool (Like that girl who did a "howto" on building your own iPod charger a couple of years ago), the comments jump from the creepily fawning to completely dismissive like a bipolar Chihuahua on a cup of espresso.
Mostly because the project in question would never have gotten anyones attention except for the fact that it's a tech project done by a female.
If any female hackers want to get recognized for their skills and not their gender, all it takes is a gender neutral handle.
I see no reason to think there's a gender-related basis for programming... do you?
Given the physical differences between male and female brains, I see no reason not to think that there's a gender related basis for programming.
"Differences in interest" sounds like a nice way of saying "girls like dolls, boys like guns." There is no particular biological basis for this
But, there is. Raise a biologically male child to play with dolls and he'll make them fight. Raise a biologically female child to play with action figures, and she'll play house with them.
This experiment has been done, and the results are in. Male psychology is different from female psychology for reasons that are unrelated to nurture. That leaves nature. The fact that we haven't pinpointed the exact brain structures that cause the difference is only due to our lack of understanding of the brain at this time.
Or, to put this another way... what you are claiming here is equivalent to claiming that transexuals have a choice.
Fraud is illegal, whether you defraud one of your customers or all of them.
No bullshit. This was a retail copy of XP that my GF had bought for an old Gateway that came with some version of 9x. This wasn't the first time we changed hardware on that PC and had to re-activate. The first time we tried to re-activate it went exactly as you say, so I'm pretty sure the key is legit. After switching to another PC, the same key was refused activation over the phone.
I'm sure that 99.9% of the time it's as easy as you say. But not always. And if you're unlucky, there's nothing you can do about it.
Reviewers getting early copies of games has at least the appearance of impropriety. Someone should start an independent review site. Buy all your games at retail and review them without any input from the publisher. Such a site would get a lot of attention I think. Of course, it would have to find an audience patient enough to wait for a review a while after release.
You've been lucky. I've witnessed a retail version of windows XP be refused activation after a hardware change. Calling microsoft was unproductive.
That's kind of the point. They're trying to kill PC gaming and get everyone to move to locked down consoles. Thankfully the PC is open, and as long as its open there will always be games for it. They're likely to be better games than the mass market console stuff too.
This shouldn't have been modded down. It's a good question, well stated, that provoked a number of thoughtful responses.