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  1. So people with both a dick and cunt (to continue your use of vulgar language rather than the proper one) should always be treated as men? Even when they are physically and mentally women, can be mothers and one have to do a close examination to realize that the larger than normal clitoris is actually a penis?
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    The science is that external sexual characteristics isn't what determines the gender of the brain - the one thing that makes humans different from other animals. This have been backed up by several studies that shows that people that considers themselves transgender also have similar brain structures as the gender they identify with. Before any hormone treatment etc. BTW.

  2. Re:Less moving parts. on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    My oldest notebook computer is from 2000 - well used and have no faulty keys nor any other mechanical failures. So that's 100% bull droppings.
    Most computer keyboards are fully functional when thrown away, the few that aren't are mostly mechanically fine and killed by spilled liquids.

    I've seen notebook computers and desktop keyboards that failed mechanically - often because a kid found out that the keys can be removed with a screwdriver or knife, in some other cases when (after spilling some liquid) an adult tries to "fix" it without a basic understanding of how to fix things.

    TL;DR keyboards doesn't fail mechanically in reality.

     

  3. Re:Valid Action on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the position is a little bit more nuanced that your simple statement on banning Mexicans and Muslims.

    On Mexicans, he is proposing that we remove Mexican's/Latinos that came into the country illegally.

    Really? His statements indicate that Mexico (as an entity) exports murders and rapists to the US. For someone that is familiar with extreme right wing groups (mostly National Socialists) this linking of a state/race with a plan is common in both negative and positive sense. That isn't the only likenesses with Trumps statements and that of the extreme right, it is relatively safe to say he is a crypto-fascist.
    Observe that nobody have claimed that the US (as an entity) exports murderers and rapists to the rest of the world - but if one argues that the Trump claim is factually true that is _also_ true!

    On Muslims, he proposed a suspension of travel until we figured out what was going on with respect to terror and the religion of peace.

    We already know: Muslims are more likely to be targeted for terrorism. Not what you wanted to hear? Well then, just ignore facts.

  4. Re:Double Standard on Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Whether it's Assad's regime using chemical weapons on the Syrian people or ISIL committing all sorts of atrocities, there are no good guys in the fight.

    IOW: it is an ordinary war.

    Both sides are Islamic, and both are clearly in the wrong.

    Only if you define "in the wrong" as being Muslim. Yes "both" (the actual war is among a huge amount of groups affiliated with some other groups) are in the wrong but the use of religion as a bait is universal, even non-religious groups like the German National Socialist movement used Christianity (and also Islam(!!)) in order to get stronger support from various groups of people. The Syrian government is a version of the Baath party which (as the one previously in Iraq) is essentially secular.

    ISIL has committed numerous attacks around the world, slaughtering innocent civilians in cowardly terror attacks. We'll probably learn more about the attacks on the Syrian people by the Assad regime in this data breach. Again, all of these evils are done by Muslims in a war that is very much about Islam.

    And here I though it was a fight over who should control Syria! Good that someone enlightened such as yourself could correct that misconception!

    In the West, we're constantly told that Islam is a religion of peace. Those who point out the violence in Islam are branded as bigots or dismissed as fools. Islam is called a religion of peace and is given a free pass for the violence committed in its name. However, a Christian baker who refuses to bake a cake for an LGBT wedding gets widely criticized by the media and Christianity is labeled a religion of hate.

    Almost good enough to take a bite but no, it is too transparent. Why? Because the skewed representation of what actually is said "In the West" (whatever that is).

    The Christians aren't stopping the LGBT couple from getting married ad there are plenty of other bakers willing to bake that cake. Yet Christianity is routinely attacked by the media as a religion of hate, while Islam is considered a religion of peace and gets a free pass. Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?

    Hint: while relatively good (I almost want to correct you) making the strawman argument so transparent leads to people understanding that you are a troll.

  5. News: DHL delivers the first prototype to users on SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts (go.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The inflatable module design is interesting, the delivery company not.

  6. Re:Not one paraplegic quarterback in the NFL! on VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. How about learning what the word means?

  7. Re:Keep Bruce Willis safe! on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 2

    Why don't you go wank to a war movie? You complain about someone that doesn't care much for the military - is there some requirement to have a hard-on for military to post on /.? He didn't even say something about not protecting the military - just that he doesn't think it is a priority.
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    Space armor is mostly using a spaced (!) armor with relatively lightweight materials combined with a spall-liner. The reason is that using something that can stop the (natural) high speed projectiles a spacecraft can be bombarded with isn't technically feasible due to weight. For smaller (but still high-speed) projectiles a spaced design is a good solution.

    However you are wrong that metal foam isn't a space armor, the reason you list isn't true as this foam is part of sandwich - the actual catching/slowing down of the projectile is done by the ceramic strike plate. If one want to make a stronger anti-meteorite armor for space metal foam is a good candidate for several reasons including weight, strength and (using the right materials) extra protection against radiation.

    But I don't see what's new about this - metal foams have been used for composite armor for a while now.

  8. Re:OS designers, not the customers are stupid. on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they can. If by motherboard you mean the USB port as each individual port have protection circuits. There have been some circuits designed to bypass those protections but those aren't cheap.

  9. Re:OS designers, not the customers are stupid. on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Require the user to verify the unit before accepting it as a input device. One way is to require the use of a known good keyboard (like that integrated on a laptop computer or the keyboard that have been plugged in since booting) another is to generate a codeword and require using the new keyboard to be used to input that.

  10. Re:People are stupid on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Operating systems are stupid.

  11. Re:Fuck him on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    ^ should of course be "... isn't worth the minimal extra security!". Bah!

  12. Re:Fuck him on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But he is correct? There _are_ costs, potentially involving people being killed. To me (and I assume you) those costs are worth it. So do your work and try to convince people that exposing communication to criminals and government isn't worth the minimal extra dangers!

  13. Re:Seeya! on HackingTeam's Global Export License Revoked · · Score: 1

    Here's a dollar ($), go buy yourself a clue. Just as one can't legally export classified information by arguing that doing it piece-wise one can't do that with restricted software.

  14. Re:Looks like Intel/Micron 3D-Xpoint won't rule... on Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry's First 10-Nanometer Class DRAM (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually no. 3D XPoint isn't (at least at the time) a replacement for DRAM as it is slower, it is a good replacement for (some) flash memory as it is persistent and have significantly better access times. Intel and Micron have never claimed otherwise.

  15. Re:Quality education, right there on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The leftmost. Not even IBM with their (IMHO) illogical big-endian design* change that order.

    (* bits are numbered from the most significant to the lowest so bit 0 is the MSb - makes extension of registers "fun")

  16. Re:His Son Wanted Privacy on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    *Sigh*
    No he didn't - FFS go read about this before spouting shit!

  17. Re:Something tells me on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Something tells me you forgot to take you medication.

  18. Re:It's sad, but should have thought ahead on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When I grew up my family trusted me and I trusted them. How about you tried that instead?

  19. Re:I don't believe it for a second on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    You are just another paranoid freak. Go out of your parents basement and try to live in the real world for a while. People being human? Maybe that is uncommon for you (being a paranoid aspie) but in the real world it is the rule, not the exception.

  20. Re:Apple needs to stand up to the FBI... on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How this was rated "5 insightful" is beyond me unless nobody actually read the linked article. The Father _did_ have access until the phone turned off.

     

  21. Re:Apple needs to stand up to the FBI... on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So being human and allow for others being human is something worthy of this reply? No, you can FOAD or (alternatively) grow up and actually read and understand the point of the poster.

    FUD? You clearly don't know what it means.

  22. Re:This, even with this whopper of a fallacy on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hypocrite.

  23. Re:Intert? on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    There are a lot of high explosives that could be considered (practically) inert in the standard form. Without a proper initiator most military explosives are almost impossible to get to explode, requiring something like an intensive fire triggering a high speed deflagration that transform to a detonation that in turn triggers the explosive. Very unlikely.

    But I agree that this is probably an imitation using something like modelling clay with traces of some explosive in it.

  24. Re:Ssss...boom...AHHHHH!! on Toshiba Recalls More Than 100,000 Faulty Laptop Batteries (cpsc.gov) · · Score: 1

    Nobody plans for making bad batteries but things do go wrong sometimes. Recalls are for being on the safe side, most or all of the batteries recalled will have no problem. There isn't something to learn from this unless you want weaker batteries that are more expensive - and if so they are already available.

  25. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder what you are comparing to? The USB is a good standard and all common devices need no specific driver. Keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, Ethernet adapters etc. just simply work with a common USB stack. So why do you call it shitty?

    The complication we are talking about here is that the _cable_ between a host and a device surprisingly need to be specified to tolerate the currents it conducts (yes it's a strange thing). Enumeration is between the host and the device, not between the cable, the host and the device.

    This isn't a problem with the USB standard, it is a problem of manufacturers making crap and not caring of potential hazards.