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  1. Re:Oh, for fuck's sake... on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    the point of the poster before you is: most propably your girl/boy will like this stuff. YOU may think you want to press her/him into another role, but the toy manufacturers do not care about "wanted" roles, but about stuff that will be liked and bought. So the selection of items in the store is quite a mirror of the demand.
    Maybe your little girl/boy does not like it, but there is a big propability (s)he will, if you ask her/him.

    (Sorry for gendering the whole post, but here it seems apropritate)

  2. People are different on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    You may discuss, if you really need to get people into something, they would not consider themselfes. If you want them to try it anyway, it's a good idea to make it somehow compatible to their current interests. So if you discard the "girl focused" toys, you will not reach the girly girls (while the tomboys will use the boy tech-toys anyway). So there is some purpose in it. If they will stay longer than needed for seeing "okay, it starts girly, but then it gets seriously STEM, which is not my beer" is another question. The tech women i know have no problem to use standard tech without womenizing it first.

  3. That's the point on Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It · · Score: 1

    they want you to use a mircrosoft account instead of a local account. you pay with your data.

  4. Re:At the risk of getting downvoted into oblivion. on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    and in facebook you have a profile picture. so you point is ...?

  5. Re:A better policy: on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    why should we even have a policy of one account per person?

  6. Re:Facebook ignorance. on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    tells us anonmous coward.

    seriously, there are a lot of idiots on facebook posting with their realname. more idiots than the pseudonymous users of some other websites.
    "real" identity is NOT a reason not to post something.

    and it's a basic right to be anonymous.

    In germany every service MUST provide the option to use it pseudonymously, if there are no real reasons against it (like a shop may ask for your real address).
    This holds for facebook as well ... facebook just does not care about it.

  7. Re:Do not... on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    oh, someone got a joke. congratulations!

  8. The reason not to use facebook on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    they require your realname
    they may ask you to prove it (hey, what site should be allowed to see any id documents? None!)
    they may block you
    you may use a pseudonym and feel clever, they can stop you anytime.

    Do not use it. else your create a dependency. Lose all your contents / contacts or provide a real name? Good thing, i told all my contacts, how to reach me, without having facebook. So facebook cannot block me from contacting them.

  9. Don't you think, the scientists know very well, what they need to test for depression/frustration, etc.? Neuroscience is their job, not yours. They will know their basics.

  10. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    math gives you two limits, one being 0, one being 1.

  11. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    you algorithm may take care of it.
    This does not mean to set 0/0 = 0, but like "if(denominator == 0){converged=True}"

  12. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Infinity like java knows it is okay. this constant obeys the usual rules like inf + x = inf

  13. Strange understanding of math on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    1/1 = 1
    1/0.1 = 10
    1/0.00001 = 10000 ...
    1/0 = 0

    erm, okay. graph that function and ask yourself, can this be right?

  14. Re:The other annoying trend on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    Your browser contacting 30 different DOMAINs for a single webpage ...

  15. Bullshit article on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    The ESA will have thought of possiblities and had reasons to do it this way. They are not fucking beginners.

  16. Re:Codeword on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    why riddle the caller? Just have some voice controlled computer asking the basics like "did you try to turn it off and on again" with the shortcut of saying "yes" before the sentence is completed (a computer is not annoyed by this). Then you will enter enough information like "yes, it says 'timeout' every time" for the real support guy.

  17. Re:Silly marketing people on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    keyboards are used by nerds, the typical DAU uses a tablet by now.

  18. What a stupid idea on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Its forseeable that cortana will (soonish) start to be always listening and react to the user saying "okay cortana" (or similiar), so no button will be needed.

  19. Re:alternatives should be considered. on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 1

    Oh great. I guess palemoon/ublock will fix this some time ...

  20. Re:Fuck you Mozilla on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 1

    His sucking was to oppose EME, to speak the truth.

  21. Re:Not that stupid, actually on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    Hmm, interesting. I just doubted, if the denerating and the repair/replicate process can be seperated and have the same speed (slow/fast depending on the temperature)

  22. Re:alternatives should be considered. on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 1

    why no ublock?

  23. Re:Not that stupid, actually on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    And why do you warm it up?

  24. Re:Fuck you Mozilla on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 1

    This was the official statement.
    But kicking someone because of his private personal opinions (even when they are mean) is something no company should do. It's not like he was "let's integrate anti-gay propaganda into the firefox startpage".

  25. Re:Next up on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 1

    systemd as init for boot-to-gecko, including the renderengine.