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  1. Re:But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    So when we don't force women into tech and nobody joins, what do we do? We still have this huge tech disparity between the genders. And someone things this is WRONG. So the next stop is, what, pay women twice as much as men for the same job?

    Also, before someone brings the wage gap up. If women were getting paid less for the same job as men in engineering, wouldn't companies what to fill their rank with women in order to save money? As far as I know the wage gap only exists because men and women tend towards specific jobs. I am all for eliminating the stigma of a female truck driver or a male housekeeper... but aside from either giving out incentives that are unfair to another group... what can we do?

    And yes, I am aware that there are still "boys club" or brogrammer organizations out there. Yes, this should be stomped right out. I haven't worked for one in over a decade though, so I don't know where they are. None of the major companies that employ around here would dare have sexist or racist hiring policies.

  2. Re:But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    created equal

    Equal opportunities, not equal outcomes.

    Socialism I can live with, people should help one another out. How we do it and how much it costs are debatable. But Social Marxism where nobody is allowed to succeed at all? Where we force people into roles and jobs that don't want to have? What the hell, man?

  3. Obligatory on Has the Native Vs. HTML5 Mobile Debate Changed? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are Target and I just want to see what you have available in your store, then no, you don't need an app.

    If you farm out to lazy app developers that simply ask for every permission on the phone, then no, you don't need an app.

    And if you make a phone-specific version of your site, it will almost always end up crippled.

  4. I disagree on Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming · · Score: 1

    Fax machines have always sucked. Even in their day.

  5. Re:Any other examples that anyone's spotted? on How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows · · Score: 1

    But how many of the entries on that page are hoaxes about being hoaxes?

  6. Internet Association on Why Is the Internet Association Rewarding a Pro-NSA Net-Neutrality Opponent? · · Score: 1

    Are 4chan, reddit, imgur, and cheezeburger part of this association?

    Then it does not represent the internet.

  7. Re:Your illogical narrative does not compute on Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous · · Score: 4, Funny

    My computer beat me at chess... but I beat it at kickboxing.

  8. Re:Explains a lot. on Taxpayer Subsidies To ULA To End · · Score: 1

    Actually I was referring to the order to implement bureaucracy article from a few days ago, but this is a good point as well. I was watching that launch live when they shut it down at the last moment. I wonder how much an abort like that costs SpaceX and NASA?

  9. Siege Warfare on Secret Service Plans New Fence, Full Scale White House Replica, But No Moat · · Score: 2

    What I want to know is how they will be defending against trebuchets.

  10. Re:Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The door wings both ways though. Sometimes six-months-ago-me is a pretty cool guy.

    Like that time I was searching for an answer to a problem on Stack Overflow. At first I thought "Ha, what a coincidence, the top rated answerer has the same name as me." It was not a coincidence... it was me.

  11. Explains a lot. on Taxpayer Subsidies To ULA To End · · Score: 1

    No wonder ULA's buddies in the Air Force have been trying to sabotage SpaceX.

  12. He watched Idiocracy on Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Hey, guys, let this dumbass out!"

    Every day it seems more like a documentary. At least this time it wasn't Americans being the complete idiots.

  13. Re:Obviously on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate it when I have to debug some other asshole's code.

    I hate it more when the asshole is six-months-ago-me.

  14. Re:Well how will ULA survive if they don't? on US Air Force Overstepped In SpaceX Certification · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Where you you think these Colonels and Generals will be getting cushy jobs at when they retire. SpaceX? Not bloody likely.

  15. Re:18F is not a tech firm - it's the government on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I thought "18F" was the string that precedes "/New York".

  16. Re:Here's MY test on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    But if you are missing the point you will probably get benched.

  17. Re:Here's MY test on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Racism and sexism do offend me. Even when it is against white males, or when it is women degrading women or minorities degrading minorities.

  18. Re: Great idea... on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps he means that not having individual temperature control is fucked up?

  19. Re:One-sided relationship on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because American voters can't see past the end of their noses. If congress enacted laws that increased prices on their Wallmart goods, they would be voted out so fast. Coupled with this the fact that the lobbies of corporations want to keep the status quo that keeps them rich.

  20. Re:Meanwhile... on Finland To Fly "Open Skies" Surveillance Flight Over Russia · · Score: 0

    Sure, they shoot them down without any attempt to contact the aircraft.

  21. Re: Idiot Parents on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Of course the mom would say things like this, it is natural. Though I would like to say that any parent that raises a kid that does stuff like this probably did not have good parentage.

    What I do have an issue with is that someone thought it was newsworthy enough to include in the article. Who cares what his parents think? I want to know what the evidence is, and I want to know why more people like this are not being locked up.

    Perhaps if he did smoke, drink and have tattoos he would have not done this, because he would have a life.

  22. Re:List culled from public sources, and here it is on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Careful, that Colonel Jack O'Neil with one L has no sense of humor at all.

  23. Re:If you go back 18 years on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    10 years ago isn't long enough. Go back 15 and everyone that wasn't drinking the kool-aid already knew it was complete garbage, and yet Microsoft kept trying to force it down people's throats.

  24. Re:America on A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute · · Score: 2

    And anyone that wants to improve their looks is a fat-shaming shitlord.

  25. Re:Anonymous Coward on A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute · · Score: 1

    Suckering people into registering by calling them cowards if they don't. That's news?

    -Anonymous Coward

    Well done sir.