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  1. Re:Thanks.. on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I can't say I, as a man in tech, have any clue as to the harassment my female coworkers go through. I can be sympathetic of it, but I cannot speak from experience of being sexually harassed, or harassed because of my gender. Do you not see the difference here?

    I also don't claim to be an expert on the harassment that women in tech go through. Even if I were to transition to female (as Wu allegedly did), I would not claim to be an expert on the harassment that women suffer in tech.

    On the other point I was trying to make, claiming to be an expert on the discrimination that women face in development, while only ever working as an indy developer, itself only a very small subset of the group developers, makes little sense. Do you not see what I am trying to say there?

    I have heard some of my female coworkers complain about the amount of money they make, but when delving deeper into it, they make MORE than a male with the same amount of experience. This is unfortunately so much in the media of late that it is just expected that women make less than men when it just isn't as true anymore.

  2. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    Yeah...that removes my room to talk about California, my own state is just as insane about "weapons". Heck, they also jailed some poor kid for using a katana as a self defense tool (since guns are near impossible to own around here...).

    http://nypost.com/1999/11/30/c...

  3. Re:credit to slashdot and brianna for doing this on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree, the amount of sexism from the interview was amazing. Wu really should clean up that attitude, it hurts her cause far more than helps.

    Oh...you meant the comments asking valid questions about Wu's harassment and doxing of others and the questions of what sex Wu was born, as that relates pretty heavily on her positions. Sorry, continue on.

  4. Re:Thanks.. on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A man can speak from a position of sympathy, but never a position of experience. This is the difference. Just as an Indy developer cannot speak from a position of experience compared to all women developers.

  5. Re: So the good questions were ignored. on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly what I was thinking reading through this. She answered not a single negative comment, only the positive ones. Just like Cosby, if you don't respond to critics, they will bury you.

    I am still very curious about her response to the accusations of her harassment and doxing of others. If she truly thinks these things are wrong when used against women, how can they be acceptable when used for a woman against people she disagrees with.

    Also, though it is hardly my business, I would have loved to see her either confirm or deny all the comments about her being trans. There is nothing wrong with being this way, but it does kind of reduce credibility of her cause which may be why there was no answer either way.

  6. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    They are in California, who knows what lengths the gun hate goes to there.

  7. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    I want to mount a SAW to my truck like a technical, that would be awesome!

  8. Re:Google was not immediately available for commen on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+goog...

    It looks like Google comments pretty badly against themselves in fact.
    Maybe the Journalist should have tried harder.

  9. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    None of those items are required to be on the CAN-bus. However, if they are CAN-bus sensors, there is no requirement for them to be on the same bus that controls the engine/steering/transmission/brakes/accelerator.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    This is an operational communications bus used for the engine to comunicate to the computer. There are already several buses in a car, so it isn't like this hasn't been done before. There are also one way communications firewalls like the AC above me suggested could be used to partition the communications from a receive only device.

    Do you use your entertainment system to control the cruise control or something?

  10. Re:Er...how? on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they will invest in a net gun, or a few weighted bolas.

  11. Re:More by whom on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 2

    Or smash the windows of the car blocking the hydrant.

  12. Re:Finally, a win against the Republicans! on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Make an account just to claim that? Silly is as silly does.

  13. Re: $805M budget on Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit · · Score: 1

    That goes right along with you never leaving your parent's basement right?

  14. Re:Works for me - whatever that is worth on Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds · · Score: 2

    Or perhaps you don't understand how mail spam filtering works?

    If I send a message to a mailing list server, and it resends the message claiming that it is me, this is wrong.

    C22@mail.com - > ML@MAILlist.com
    ML@MAILlist.com -> user@list.com (as C22@mail.com)

    list.com will always say MAILlist.com isn't mail.com, why is it sending me mail. This is a misconfigured mail relay problem, not a spam problem. MAILlist.com is not an authorized mail server of mail.com, it is completely valid to reject it as a spoofed message as it is a spoofed message.

  15. Re:Sapphire on Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    If you can come up with a better process, you can make some serious cash.

    There is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... however, it is not as strong as sapphire. When you start talking about $1000 windows though, some people decide it just isn't worth the trouble.

  16. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the nature of the exploits being described:

    They put this system on the CAN-BUS, which is used to control engine and control systems. There is NO REASON for an entertainment system to be on this bus. On-Star has the same issues. If you want these devices to have functionality that is on the CAN-BUS, it should be duplicated outside the CAN-BUS. Security researchers have been trying to explain this to the car industry for 10 years (at least) now, and the car industry keeps being willfully ignorant of the security implications of what they are doing. This is far past defect, it is more like intentionally dangerous and possibly malicious.

  17. Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a on Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat · · Score: 1

    The vehicle was put into neutral. How is this any different than the loss of control of....running out of gas? Had this happen to me a couple weeks ago. I managed to merge from the left lane to an exit and eventually on the shoulder without rolling any vans.

    If you are unable to deal with an issue such as this happening, you really shouldn't be a driver as this is a common enough occurrence that they teach you how to deal with it in drivers ed along with what do do when your gas pedal is stuck or breaks fail.

  18. Re:Apparently... on Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest · · Score: 1

    theodp writes:

    Slashdot doesn't have editors. Slashdot has people with the title of editor who are really story approvers. They very rarely do anything you might consider to be editing.

  19. Re: $805M budget on Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit · · Score: 1

    Price Range Weekdays $68
    Price Range Weekends $68

    Seems like possibly it is supporting itself, while providing entertainment and a few jobs. Why would you cut that? Do you understand that military is on call 24/7? Would you prefer they went farther away from base to find the same entertainment?

  20. Re:There's no reason to go to the moon again on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    http://www.spacefuture.com/arc...

    There is your product, or at least the source of the product. Next you do orbital manufacturing, and start building. Build what you say?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    or even spacecraft, tugs, mining vessels, trading vessels

    There are places to go as well, we could start moving out into this solar system, and begin the process of building interstellar spacecraft. Generation ships are the way to go to get to other stars, while we continue to work on the possibilities of superluminal travel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). But of course, it is people who look to the future who build the technologies of the future, not those who constantly doubt, such as those who doubted we would ever reach space ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

  21. Re: More Republican corporate welfare on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    I think at this point it is -1 troll or -1 flamebait. There is no way someone is that ill informed.

  22. Re:More Republican corporate welfare on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    On a defense contract? You are funny.

  23. Re:Am I the only one who is depressed, not inspire on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    A moon base would be a good spot to refine low gravity mining techniques that would easily transfer to asteroids. This would kick start orbital construction which is useful if you ever want to get further out than this single rock.

  24. Re:Sapphire on Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials · · Score: 1

    Expense. It is hard enough to grow a sapphire crystal big enough for a watch lens, a window would be much more difficult.

  25. Re:Global Climate != Local Climate on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah, the East Coast had deep freezes this past winter. Alaska and CA and Russia though had exceptionally warm winters this year. It all balances out.