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  1. You seem to be overestimating your own intelligence.

  2. Re:Maybe it's just who we are... on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 2

    It's not a problem. Women have access to the same documentation as men. They have access to the same tools. If they need their own special environment, they can gather like-minded people and start their own companies or projects. There is nothing stopping them.

    Forcing existing cultures to change just because you want to be a part of them is nothing short of tyranny. 1) you will be resented. 2) the culture you eventually join will not the be culture that existed at the start. On the other hand, if you join a culture and learn to live within it, it will change for the better simply due to your interactions within it. The more people like you that join, the more the culture changes organically, with no one being forced.

  3. Re:stop on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    Are you completely ignorant in your day job, too, or do you save it for slashdot posts?

    Affirmative Action is not about data, though of course data is used in enforcing it. AA is about punishing non-minorities for accidents of birth. Data is a tool, but not the purpose or goal.

  4. Re:Divide-and-conquer is an art on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    Why do you think "structured" implies interchangeable?

  5. Re:Who cooked up such a misleading summary?? on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    5/ The summary is a lie.

    But, not the cake, right? Right?! /sobs

  6. Re:I'm not convinced on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    Unix, never mind Linux, did not exist when TMMM was written.

  7. Re:Facebook SHOULD require real names on EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy · · Score: 0

    This x1000.

  8. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the real bullies were the school administrators. The victims should have beaten them to death and left their bloody corpses in the nearest public square as a warning. It's a shame that money always trumps justice.

  9. Re:No, it's about Legislated Famine on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    No, the GP can't. The GP is a braindead fuck-up who has clearly eaten too much non-GMO food. Based on comments in this thread, it is quite clear that non-GMO is extremely hazardous to humans, as their brain turns to mush.

  10. Re:This is not about science. It's about dependenc on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 0

    If you tried, for a single day, to not be an extreme moron, there are two likely outcomes. Either you would succeed, and no longer be a moron, or you'd die from the strain. Either way, the rest of us win.

  11. Re:And you call the Americans anti-science on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Is your day job writing plots for comic books?

  12. Re: And you call the Americans anti-science on Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-Out From Growing GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Millions of tons of GM food has been eaten by millions, if not billions, of people. Please provide evidence of health issues solely attributable to the genetic modification of the food.

    Go on. I'll be here in a couple millennia, when you get back.

  13. Re:What makes someone a Troll? on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    The absolute best thing that could happen to mankind at this moment is for your death to be painful, immediate and extremely messy.

  14. Re:Why Apple? on Reports: Telstra Customers Suffering Crippling Speeds To Any Apple Service · · Score: 1

    There are many legitimate reasons. If you need someone else to come up with one, you are the singularly most stupid person to be alive today.

  15. Re: There's an even greater flaw here. on New Attack Bypasses Mac OS X Gatekeeper · · Score: 1

    He's already a fucking idiot, because OS X doesn't prompt for files, only executables.

  16. Re:Insurance policy on Amazon Launches 'Flex,' a Crowdsourced Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    Where do you live that a) a taxi driver can bring in $60/hour on a regular basis and b) the minimum wage is at or above $18/hr? Because you sure as hell don't live in the US.

  17. Re:Question... on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    And wow... I apologize. Completely misread the phrase and apps like Netflix have a "don't use cellular" switch. Feel free to make fun of me :-P

  18. Re:Question... on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    Every single app has a "don't use cellular" switch. It's in Settings, where you should expect it to be. You might want to learn a bit about the basics of an iPhone before making ridiculous comments.

  19. Re:Wait for real reports on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, the feature doesn't give a shit what you're using the network for. It operates below the application layer, so it doesn't have a clue. It simply notices that the Wifi network is bad (whatever definition of bad Apple engineers chose) and drops the connection in favor of cellular. That's it. I've seen it happen in my apartment. (My Wifi AP is in a room which is essentially a steel cage, so signal often drops out at the other end of the apartment.)

  20. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you miss your flight because your phone isn't on a usable network, you, quite frankly, deserved to miss that flight.

  21. Re:Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    That's not the way it works. Apps don't need to request permission to use cellular connections. This, I would presume, is because most users want apps to use cellular if they access them while away from Wifi. You can, however, disable cellular access on a per-app basis. When this is done, requests made by the app fail immediately, with an appropriate error code.

    The feature you mentioned is intended for different use cases. Mainly apps that are intended to be used on local networks, such as business apps or apps that need to access a lot of data. These apps can self-limit to Wifi-only in order to improve the overall experience of the user.

  22. Re: Why? on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I suspect that your mother did crack-cocaine throughout her pregnancy. That's the most reasonable explanation for how you could be such a fucked-up, stupid and idiotic piece of trash.

    You obviously don't have any real idea of how modern networking is done. Apple doesn't have to play man in the middle to make this work. OS X has been doing the same kind of thing for ages... Start an SSH session on Wifi and plug in a cable. The OS notices and switches to the faster interface and your session keeps going like nothing happened. Other OSes can do the same thing.

  23. Re:Avoid the Microsoft tax! on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 1

    That's no surprise. I bet there are no pictures. When you learn to read, you might want to catch up. You seem to be missing a decade or two.

  24. Re:Avoid the Microsoft tax! on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 0

    Get your head out of 1999 and join the rest of us in the modern era. You might like it here.

  25. Re:Lies! on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    JIT can do runtime optimizations, which can take into account how the program is used, not just how it's written.