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  1. Re:DOOOOOOOMED on Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight · · Score: 1

    A doffer is a person who works in the textile trade, collecting full spindles and replacing them with empty ones.

    Maybe 'duffer', in UK slang someone who is stupid, and/or unskilled and/or bad at sport. Useless.

  2. Re:Really??? on UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? · · Score: 1

    In most of the UK £10 a day is a pack of cigarettes and a couple of cans of cheap lager. I'm in London and cigarettes here are £8+ per pack.

  3. Re:Surely a feminist language would be delcaritive on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only people who don't think the general view is women == people are 'liberals' who like to think they're superior for repeating simplistic rhetoric. In the UK at least females passed equality decades ago. The schooling system in the west is badly gynocentric, we've thought feminist for so long the male being a person of equal worth is in doubt.

    Feminism is a dogmatic ideology which believes gender to be entirely a social construct. It's as anti-science as creationism. It's an offshoot of Marxism which acts as a works union for just women. It uses propaganda based around sex and violence. etc

    Women aren't inferior, but they are different to males. Evolution leaves females more likely to enjoy working with people. Males in general preferring working with systems. Differences in computer science are not based around the ideological proposition of feminism, male discrimination via patriarchy (A construct only feminists can see, control the definition of and benefit from.)

    Simply: ~80% of females think computers are boring, because they're un-emotive abstract systems.

    Recommend:
    Original: http://vimeo.com/19707588
    English: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0tg8_hjernevask-brainwashing-english-part-1-the-gender-equality-paradox_news

  4. Re:Feminism on The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders · · Score: 1
  5. Re:BS on Harlan: a Language That Simplifies GPU Programming · · Score: 1

    I'd like a keyboard printed hash # (alt-3, replaced on keyboard with £) but both UK Apple keyboards in front of me have () [] {} ?

    http://www.apple.com/keyboard/

  6. Re: so what is porn? on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 1

    You've posted one of the most interesting opinions in this discussion. The only reason I saw it was because XcepticZP mentioned that, otherwise I wouldn't have known it existed. I too come here for this. +1 get an account please.

  7. Re:Give up on Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling · · Score: 1

    Command-delete moves things directly to the trash bin.

  8. Re:Television on RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    It's not your Internet, it's their Internet and they can do as they like with it.

  9. Re:A win for Flash and Silverilght on RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Attempts to regulate morality often backfire, Netflix will have DRM over the Internet, the open standard cannot affect that.

    I'm still wondering about my rights to engage in free communication with a company and willingly engage in a drm protected rental, and what I'd call someone who attempted to prevent me from doing so, and how they would have a better understanding of my needs.

  10. Re:So? on Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin

    Michael Wayne (Mike) Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the creator of the Internet adage Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011 he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board.

    https://www.eff.org/

  11. Re:So? on Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet · · Score: 1

    "For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress;"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

    Welcome, newfriend.

  12. Re:So? on Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet · · Score: 1

    I advertise my business and don't deceive anybody also. It's a necessary part of any post barter society, I can't just produce cheese if no one knows that's what I'm doing.

    The vast majority of advertising is for local services, my bath just exploded, how do I find a plumber ? An accountant ? Legal defence ?

    No advertising means all the unbiased-ish newspapers I read just disappeared and there's a new 'you can't speak positively about a product or service rule' ? This site just disappeared and we're not having this conversation.

  13. Re:Facebook logic on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    "According to contemporary biologists the premise of the story is not literally true; a frog submerged and gradually heated will jump out."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

  14. Re:Censorship on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 1

    Hey Hans, welcome to slashdot. As an introductionary gift you may no longer drink alcohol. It's really much better for everyone that way, and your hobbies just aren't important.

    Also, you're now vegan.

  15. Re:Please stick to "news", Slashdot on Independent Audit Finds Foxconn Violates Chinese Work Rules · · Score: 1

    Please can I ask what make/model of computer you're posting from ? It almost certainly contains Foxconn parts, and you almost certainly didn't do an ethics check on it before you bought it. The same applies to all clothing, food & services that you purchase.

    So the same judgement would stand ? I've identified that Daniel Phillips is morally and ethically challenged ?

  16. Re:No. on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes it does, you need a guilty mind and a guilty act to constitute a crime.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_in_English_law

  17. Re:In a not so distant future... on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 1

    You might start with this lady. She's starting mining ewaste now.

    Solve for X: Privahini Bradoo on resource reclamation
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePslxLgS9M