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  1. Re:How will the "For Men!" version work? on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    It's clear and you only need one nail to get the job done. Also there's not reason you couldn't put it on like a drink stirrer. Think outside the box before you cry "what about the men".

  2. Re:In 14 years practising emergency medicine on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    That's why we tell people to exercise and watch their diet like, all the time in every form of media there is. Why can't we handle this with even a modicum of the same respect? Teach people that sex is only to be had with positive consent from both parties, under no influence from drugs.

  3. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    And the fedora-wearing neckbeard crawls out of his slime pit.

  4. Re:Discreet? on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    You are posting this idea on pretty much every thread but it makes no sense. It requires that someone be paranoid enough that they know about this nail polish and would want someone to test their drink, but lazy enough to not actually get it themselves and paradoxically trusting enough that they would accept that person's word about the veracity of their test. And, of course there will be drugs that it cannot detect. This is just a proof of concept. That does not make the whole idea worthless.

  5. Re:The world we live in. on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    Umm... you know that just because it is called "nail polish" doesn't mean that it won't stick to other things, like a drink stirrer, right?

  6. Re:How many women are raped each year on campus? on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    That article is so full of shit. They admit that at least 1 in 40 college women are raped. If the same percentage of them got, say, meningitis, that would be all over the news as the worst epidemic in decades. Stop downplaying the seriousness of the situation.

  7. Re:Rational decisions? on Women Founders Outpace Male Counterparts In Certain Types of Kickstarter Funding · · Score: 0

    Or because women who start Kickstarter projects have ideas that are more interesting to women. The causality could be flipped.

  8. Re:Kickstarter Goals? on Women Founders Outpace Male Counterparts In Certain Types of Kickstarter Funding · · Score: 0

    It could be that women have interesting ideas for products that are useful to other women, but that wouldn't get funding through traditional means. So it might not be that women are funding projects because they are started by women, but that because they are started by women they are projects that are interesting to other women.

  9. Re:Men and women not the SAME!! on Maryam Mirzakhani Is the First Woman Fields Medalist · · Score: 2

    The bullshit is strong with this one. Maybe link to some actual research instead of talking out of your ass about things you don't understand. Like, for instance, this article which debunks the idea that men naturally have a higher variance in intelligence: http://www.pnas.org/content/10.... It turns out that whole idea was based on one flawed study from the 80s, but since it matched so well with the world view of a bunch of privileged white guys on the internet it spread like wildfire. Do some of your own thinking for once maybe.

  10. Re:Makes sense on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure increased strength does not cause higher levels of testosterone. Higher testosterone might make it easier to build muscle, but there is no reason that people interested in power lifting would have higher testosterone.

  11. Re:Nonsense in scientific language on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    Lets suppose some of those things are true. They might be, who knows because, as you say, not a lot of people are talking about them. Fucking do something about it then instead of just complaining. "We have problems too, so therefore your problems are invalid and we should all live in shit together" is not an argument. Feminists are trying to fix problems that matter to them. You try and fix problems that matter to you.

  12. Re:the name indicates more than race on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    What you describe is exactly racism. Being judged on what family you were born into and now on your own qualifications. How do you not see that?

  13. Re:Buses do not operate on Sundays on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    Do you live in Europe? In the US it is exceedingly rare for public transit to be closed on holidays. So much so that I have never heard of a city where it happens.

  14. Re:bars, restaurants, dry cleaners, art galleries on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you mean by "cost of living." It is actually much easier to be poor in a city than in a rural area. Public transportation means that you don't have to own a car or pay for gas/insurance. You have much easier access to social services, food banks, etc. You can survive on a lot less money in the city than in more isolated areas. The problem comes when you start to want more space.

  15. Re:Why is location irrelevant for some groups? on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except that immigrants to the US are a self-selecting group. Only the most motivated people are going to go through all the hassle and work that it takes to actually get here, so of course they are more likely to be successful once they do. There are also a lot of successful black people that grew up poor. But there are just a lot more black people overall, and as a group they didn't choose to be here in a country that is constantly shitting on them. As to your claim that there is no oppression any more, that is constantly disproved by studies that show having a "black" sounding name will result in fewer job interviews, less support from university faculty, harsher law enforcement treatment, etc. It is a reality that you cannot deny.

  16. Re:Translation (Rough) on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, do you think that college is harder than working a manual labor job for 8-10 hours a day? Because it's not. It's much easier than pretty much any real job. Why else is college synonymous with drinking and partying? Unfortunately, many people can't afford to go to college because of exorbitant tuition prices. Not everyone has mommy and daddy that can pay it for them.

  17. Re:Good thing the copyright has expired on Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures · · Score: 1

    The original painting is in the public domain, but the museum's photograph of the painting may not be. In the US it would, but I gather that in other countries (and this work wasn't done in the US) the situation can be different.

  18. Re:Statistics on Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? · · Score: 2

    Statistics is incredibly important for understanding algorithms and complexity theory. Many modern algorithms are randomized, and not understanding the statistics involved in using them can be a huge problem.

  19. Re:Love the gender examples on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm not sure what those examples were about. It seems like there should just be one letter that is somewhere in between the boy and girl one, emphasizing the "cool" factor along with the good job prospects and flexible working conditions.

  20. Re:Computer Science curriculum on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much equivalent to a CS 101 class in college. Basic object-oriented design, introduction to programming, simple data structures and common algorithms, etc.

  21. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 2

    Except VB6 is not a central tenant of any religion that I have ever heard of.

  22. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    I only meant to say that, while more guns might stop some kinds of violence, it might also encourage or foster other types. Maybe gang violence will become more prevalent with more guns. Or maybe people will just adjust their attitudes and become more aggressive, instead of merely robbing you at gun point and letting you go they could just shoot you and take your stuff. No opportunity for you to pull your own gun.

  23. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    How then do you account for cities with high amounts of gun-on-gun violence i.e. shootouts, gang violence etc.? They know that the other person has a gun, and it doesn't matter. Everyone has a gun. They are still shooting each other.

  24. Re:Fundamental problem . . . on After the Belfast Project Fiasco, Time For Another Look At Time Capsule Crypto? · · Score: 1

    One-time pad.

  25. Stupid summary on New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients · · Score: 1

    That's not an insignificant set of conditions that must be present for a successful attack

    But it is exactly the point of TLS, to protect against such an attacker. If you know you don't have a man-in-the-middle then you don't even need it in the first place.

    True that the server might not be running that version, but a non-trivial number of them are.