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  1. Sounds like they have a lot of money to spare on Brown CS Department Hiring Student Diversity, Inclusion Advocates · · Score: 1

    You could have hired lecturers instead, but I guess this is more important.

  2. Re:Just a thought... on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a programmer ask another what gender they are.

    If they knew she was a woman, it was because she told them.

    Maybe women who tell others in an otherwise fairly gender-agnostic environment that they are women are less popular.

  3. To Switzerland on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    They have a clinic there

  4. Re:Gay Kay Kay? on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 1

    Just like anti-racists are the most hateful racists because they repress these feelings within themselves?

  5. Re:Comments here kind of tell a tale as well. on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    >And people wonder why some form the opinion of developers as sexist?

    No, I don't - it's because they are insane, hypersensitive and paranoid animals.

    "Dick" is widely used. "He is a bit of a dick". Nobody would perceive that as sexist. Hence, thinking of "pussy" as sexist is literally insane, and people who think this way have no reason to be involved in any important work.

  6. Awful summary, this was a backdoor targeting 8chan on Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan · · Score: 2

    Imgur for some reason ran malicious javascript.

    The javascript downloaded further obfuscated javascript from several servers, registered behind anonymity in Panama and using hacked cloud instances. One of those was 4cdns.org, imitating 4chan's 4cdn.org.

    This inserted code into the localStorage object for 8chan, 8ch.net. 8chan was set up to include localStorage on every page.

    The code was one that periodically requested further code from a command and control server. The C&C server was inactive when this was discovered. In the minutes this was tracked down, the "further javascript" was changed on the fly - the person doing this was basically responding to the investigation as it happened.

    The end result was that every user of 8chan had a rudimentary back door, which through the localFavorties object requested code to run at every page refresh from a C&C server to be activated at some time in the future.

  7. Re:Gender/Racial makeup of the results was behind on Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search · · Score: 1

    "it's little to do with inherent ability and a lot to do with where your parents came from and your perceived position in society."

    If you had the ability to justify a scholarship like that, you should know that you're just voicing your own pseudoreligion as truth.

    Maybe you were the quota.

  8. They just spent $300m on a "diversity drive"... on Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intel just spent $300 million on a "diversity drive". But $6m for a race-and-gender-neutral science talent search was too much for them.

    Of course, there's a radical subset of the population who hates that I point this out.

  9. Re:Actual paper says team did NOT confirm EM Drive on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    They also detected thrust in their setup. The reason they caveat it is the potential for experimental error.

    The headline is predicated on "detected thrust = confirmed". Which will look reasonable to some.

  10. Re:Blimey on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    I wrote a post about this above. 90% of the posts here are clueless.

    Ion engines use reaction mass you have to carry with you.

    Photonic rockets, what you ask about, use radiation, which still generates thrust because radiation has a Planck-sized amount of momentum, and exert this thrust on their emitter. Problem is that it's REALLY LOW. Like, so low that using it for propulsion anywhere near a gravity well is pointless.

    The EMdrive is similar to photonic rockets in that it's reactionless and generates microwaves which are kept resonating inside a chamber, and it's theorised that they push against a non-flat space time or virtual quantum particles or whatever. Although the initial thrust detected was tiny, it is FAR HIGHER than photonic rockets.

  11. Some clarifiications on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 3, Informative

    Every post here are ignoring that there's THREE types of engines they are talking about. An ion thruster has reaction mass and expels atoms rearwards, i.e. solid fuel. It may be able to scoop this fuel up, but yeah, it's a standard engine.

    A photonic rocket does not use reaction mass, and expels massless photons, i.e. radiation. You simply heat something, and the heat emissions generate opposite thrust. This generates thrust as photons lack mass but do have momentum, relating to the Planck length. The problem with photonic rockets is that this is REALLY REALLY LOW. Quoting Wikipedia: "If a photon rocket begins its journey in low earth orbit, then one year of thrusting may be required to achieve an earth escape velocity of 11.2 km/s if the vehicle is already in orbit at a velocity of 9,100 m/s"

    The EMdrive does not require reaction mass, and simply expels microwaves which are kept in a resonant mode inside a chamber made of copper. The theory is that they basically push against _something_ like irregularities in space, or a virtual quantum plasma, or whatever. Remember that the casimir effect is already mainstream science - pairs of virtual particles appear and disappear - so there's at least something weird with space itiself. But anyway, it's similar to a photonic rocket in that it doesn't use reaction mass, but far, far more efficient and thrust-generative based on early signs.

  12. A question on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 1

    Considering the hypersexualized models you chose for Revolution 60, what's the possibility that you're transsexual due to autogynephilia (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) ?

  13. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    The concept is "not bad" if you ignore that it's pretty much impossible to create. Here's a list of other things that would be "not bad": * Toaster with telepathic user interface (can read your mind how brown you want your toast) * Cows that raise and butcher other cows and deliver the steaks to us (saves a lot of work) * Car that does not use any fuel or energy (very cheap and easy to travel around) * A computer that is as powerful as I want it to be (does not have to upgrade for new games etc.)

  14. We lucked out on Jack Thompson Will Be Featured In BBC Film 'Grand Theft Auto' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Jack Thompson was a man. That was the #1 winning point.