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  1. Re:Missing a key statistic: conception rate on Sperm Counts Among Western Men Have Halved In Last 40 Years, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    The theory is that with more women who are educated, birth rates go down. This doesn't hold true in much of Africa. After an initial decline from 6 to 4.5, birth rates aren't following historic trends elsewhere.

    And they've got a LOT of people. More than twice as many as all North America. More than all the Americas. Barely a bit less than China. They're going to surpass both China and India soon enough.

  2. Re: Pthalates and bromides. on Sperm Counts Among Western Men Have Halved In Last 40 Years, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Religion is hereditary? Only to the same extent as stupidity.

  3. Wrong, more than one sperm is required. The sperm spin the egg to cause the equatorial region to thin out enough for one to penetrate.

  4. Re: Wild guess on Sperm Counts Among Western Men Have Halved In Last 40 Years, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know. I'm no where near overweight (around 15% BF) and my wife and I are having some trouble with conceiving, so I got my sperm levels checked and they are quite low. Oddly my T-levels are on the high side of normal. I'm fit and run 30-40 miles per week. No grey hair and no guy at all.

    145lbs and 37 years old.

    You're probably too skinny. Too low a body weight also lowers sperm production.

    A man's fertility may be affected by his weight, a new study shows. Men who are either too fat or too thin may find that they have lower sperm counts, often low enough to be classed as 'impaired fertility'. The study, undertaken by researchers in Denmark and published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, could lend weight to the possibility that high levels of obesity in Western societies may be contributing to fertility problems.

    The researchers studied 1558 Danish men, comparing their sperm count to their body mass index (BMI - a measure of weight in relation to height). They found that men with either a low or a high BMI had differences in reproductive hormone levels as well as lower sperm counts than men of the recommended weight. Men with a low BMI (below 20) were, on average, found to have a 28 per cent lower sperm count and a 36 per cent lower sperm concentration than men with a normal BMI. Men with a high BMI (above 25) had a 22 per cent lower sperm count and 24 per cent lower sperm concentrations.

    So if you're already borderline, all that running will make it worse. Same as too high a level of testosterone will.

    Also, what do you mean by "no guy at all?"

  5. Re: No it won't on Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you know that I mentioned pepper spray and taser? Or did your mind go blank after 7 words like all gun nuts?

  6. Re:Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    2 factor authentication. It's a thing.

  7. Re:The heap isn't big enough? on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because they know something about the dealings with Deutsch Bank doesn't mean that they know everything. And yes, it's already been reported that they suspect that the people at Deutsch Bank dealing with Trump have received some form of assurance from someone, most likely Russian, that the loans will be backstopped. Why else would Deutsch Bank lend to Trump when so many other banks won't because he's burned them?

  8. Re:Another bubble. on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but your great reputation doesn't necessarily get seen, especially if the person looks at it and automatically thinks "too old - next". Plus they expect that a lot of your description of how great you are is puffery, or too narrowly targeted - especially the latter, because, well, in their eyes you're old and less flexible and more likely to be about to go past your sell-by date.

  9. Some people do sign these agreements. Not what I would do, but that's neither here nor there in this discussion. They still have the right (as does everyone else) to lobby the government at all levels to make these agreements illegal. So how am I a "weasel".

    Also, nobody has to sign such an agreement. The original premise of "sign or starve" is bs. They can negotiate to have the clause removed, they can move elsewhere that bans such practices to get a job, they can start their own business, they can change careers into an industry where such agreements are extremely rare, look for a sugar daddy or a honey money, retire early, etc.

  10. Re:Another bubble. on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Guess you haven't been keeping up with the news. Google is currently under investigation for discriminatory employment practices. If you illegally discriminate in one area, it's more likely that you don't have systems in place to catch discrimination in other areas.

  11. And non-disparagement clauses are an unreasonable restriction on complaints about such clauses with the government and the courts, which is where you head when you run into this crap. Just filing the lawsuit get's it on the docket. Even if you don't do anything else and lose by default, the details are still there in your complaint and the default judgment. So, mission accomplished in terms of blowing the whistle publicly.

  12. Re: Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Sure, because if there is such a large volume of "oops - someone used your email address by mistake" that my marking it as spam is the straw that broke the camel's back, the're already f*cked, so why should I care?

    As for unsolicited flyers in my mailbox, if I put a "no advertising" note on my mailbox, you don't dox them, you complain to the gov't and let them deal with it. That's what we have laws against delivering flyers to mailboxes where the recipient has said they don't want it.

    If you don't have similar laws, sucks to be you. Thee's nothing to stop you from pushing for such laws.

  13. Re: Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    I have never seen an unsolicited sign-up that complies with anti-spam laws, because by definition unsolicited email is spam (see definition and link below). And as far as I'm concerned, if they try to claim an existing business relationship to spam me, I will treat it as spam because if I really wanted to, I would sign up on my own initiative.

    There is no legitimate sign-up that should be contacting me out of the blue. That's the very definition of unsolicited commercial email.(UCE)

    You don't know what you're talling about. first hit for definition of UCE

    UCE (unsolicited commercial email)

    UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) is a legal term used to describe an electronic promotional message sent to a consumer without the consumer's prior request or consent. In the vernacular, this kind of e-mail message is called spam.

    So I can safely mark as spam anything coming to my email address that I haven't already white-listed.

    I would expect this level of nonsense from an anonymous coward.

  14. Re:Another bubble. on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Given the rampant ageism in tech nowadays, you'd better have an exit plan.

    Oh, no. I don't have a plan. This sounds like a real problem.

    And then there's the widespread discrimination based on sex and ethnicity.

    lol nevermind. haha I almost took you seriously.

    Right back at ya. Doesn't matter what you say, nobody takes an anonymous coward seriously.

  15. Re:Doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you emailed yourself from the same email account? Seriously, why would you want to see a bunch of password resets from your email account? Don't have have 2-factor authentication? Then maybe you are too irresponsible to be on the internet in the first place. They can guess your password and never know, then move on to other guesses. So again, how is the "just delete everything that has a from address from your email account"? bad advice.

    And don't say "I only have one email account." If you don't have a secondary account, you're an idiot.

  16. Re:Who said anything about a crime? on Are Nondisparagement Agreements Silencing Employee Complaints? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
    You ignored the premise of my post, even though you quoted it.

    If they think twice because you successfully blew the whistle on illegal activity

    You wrote

    especially if what they whistleblew on is ill founded.

    So Leah Row was a poorly chosen example, since you admit her complaints were ill-founded (in other words, were not successful).

  17. Re: Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Only if you actually open the email. Anything from Uber is spam. Anything from Microsoft is spam. Anything from Amazon is spam. Anything from any health insurance company is spam. Anything from Apple is spam. Anything from a business that I don't do business with is spam. Anything from a whole slew ot TLDs is spam.

    And especially anything from ANY online petition is spam. I don't do slacktivism.

  18. No, because there are ALWAYS more that 2 choices. You can move (or even leave the country), join a commune, go into business yourself, many take early retirement, hook up with a sugar daddy or honey mommy or MILF, etc.

  19. Re:I'm confronting you on this Barb on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You aren't "confronting" me. You're just making a public fool of yourself again. You don't get it - you have zero credibility.

    The only positive value you bring here is (1) entertainment, and (2) target practice.

    Speaking of which, Bombs Away!

    You sound like Trump, attacking someone over a physical handicap because I'm seeing someone to help me with it. BOOM!

    It must really piss you off that I can legally pee in every woman's washroom in every state that has passed a bathroom bill. As a matter of fact, I'm required to. They all say I have to go into the bathroom which belongs to the sex on my birth certificate, which says I was born female. So even the crazy states have to treat me as a woman. And nobody can object because that's the law. :-)

  20. Re:Who said anything about a crime? on Are Nondisparagement Agreements Silencing Employee Complaints? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet they have to hire risk management people to basically blow the whistle on the company before things deteriorate. If the person has shown previous judgment in the past, not hiring them is an illegal discriminatory tactic. THAT is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

  21. Re:Another bubble. on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not the pay level of H1Bs. It's that the massive influx of people into the field, including H1Bs, is going to result in an even worse situation than the 2000 dot-com bomb. Too much supply, not enough demand, so if you're 35 or up get the hell out before you hit 40. The longer you wait, the harder the transition will be, and the more people you'll be competing against who are in your age group who are doing the same thing.

    We've been here before. It wasn't pretty the last couple of times. It won't be better this time.

  22. Re:Another bubble. on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 2

    Famous last words. Read the link. The attitude is pervasive. Wrong, but pervasive. You're not going to change it because you'll never get to see the person who can change it, because you'll be weeded out just on age.

  23. Re:Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Spam me, I'll damn well mark it as spam. Why don't you instead do what anyone else will do in such cases - wait. After a few failed attempts at getting messages from you, maybe the penny will drop and they'll fix their email address. This should have been part of the original sign-up process - that they can't use the account until THEY confirm it from the email address they originally gave when trying to set up the account.

    Fix your process. It's broken. Besides, why would you want to let people sign up with a fake/wrong email address?

  24. Re:Reverse the role on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Unsubscribe lets the sender know it's a valid email address - exactly what spammers want. If your email system is stupid enough that one user marking something as spam blocks it for all users, you need to find another job, because clearly your company is grossly incompetent.

    Hmmm - maybe you really work for a spammer and that's why you're giving out bad advice?

  25. Re:Doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's quite simple. Given your example of him having an iTunes account, dump everything from iTunes into spam.. He can temporarily disable the filter if he's doing a password reset). Seriously, how hard is that to figure out?