For that geeky male scientist out there, perhaps an equally geeky female scientist, or vise-versa.
Up to a point. But if what you want is geeky and brainy, there is evidence that there are more men than women at both ends of the IQ bell curve, which means that while there are a lot of very smart women out there, they're vastly outnumbered by the very smart guys. (And likewise, the male morons outnumber the female ones.) I've read in a couple places, though haven't found the source material to back this up, that at IQ 175, there are 47 men for every 1 woman. Take that particular number with a grain of salt, but the point is, it's not a happy 50-50 split at the high end of the IQ chart.
Yeah,.NET alternative, whatever. Wake me up when I can actually run the current Oracle database release on the current hardware from Sun! We just bought a bunch of Sun's new dual-core AMD boxes and we have to install Linux on them to run Oracle 10g in 64-bit mode -- Solaris AMD64 support is supposed to come "in the first half of 2006." Kind of sad considering the way Sun and Oracle sing each other's praises all the time. Scott McNealy even spoke at an Oracle conference over a year ago about how Solaris 10 was the Oracle platform of choice! Um, yeah, right, if it actually worked it might be.
I was pretty skeptical about that show when it started, but it grew on me. Its big saving grace is that the lead does a great job of acting like a bit of a dork most of the time.
The show has an ongoing storyline, which stars off kind of slow but takes a pretty wild turn late in the season. Sadly, we'll never know how it ends, since the season-ending cliffhanger was the last episode. So beware if you start in on it -- you will be left hanging.
I suppose it's possible Sci-Fi could do a movie-of-the-week or two to wrap it up, like the "Alien Nation" movies did for that show. That would be swell. But I'm not holding my breath.
Some banks now offer a way to generate a temporary credit card number with a reduced credit limit or a shortened expiration time. (MBNA's implementation is called "ShopSafe.") So if you have to supply a credit card number to get a freebie from some company, and they say they'll charge you if you don't cancel, just give them a newly generated card number that expires at the end of the month or that has a credit limit lower than their monthly fee.
I've gotten in the habit of using a temp card number for most of my online purchases, mostly so I don't have to go through the annoyance of changing the card numbers on all my subscriptions if some website's credit card database gets hacked and the bank has to invalidate the cards of all the site's customers. It's also a decent way to protect myself against credit card fraud.
Meanwhile, Western leftists think that the occasional terrorist mass murderer getting slapped around is much more worthy of attention and support than peaceful political dissidents in leftist dictatorships, even dictatorships that have strayed from the "faith" like China.
Far be it from me to stop a self-satisfied rant from completely mischaracterizing the political views of tens of millions of people, but are you talking about Western leftists like Amnesty Interational? Or maybe you mean Human Rights Watch. Hmm, no, that's not it. Well, please provide examples, since you're obviously quite certain.
Ignore the possibility, of course, that you're living in a Western country, and thus are more likely to hear about protests directed at your own government. Or that China is successfully covering up some percentage of its internal discord, so you're never hearing about it. Or that China has been crushing its citizens for decades, while the West's adventures in fabrication-based nation building are more recent, and thus more likely to garner comment. Or that Western countries have more of a tradition of listening to their citizens, and thus the citizens are more likely to speak out about their own governments' policies with the expectation that it might actually do some good.
Concentrating effort where it's most likely to have an effect is clearly way too abstract a concept for wacko yogurt-eating Birkenstock-shod lefty nutjobs, so it must just mean they're hypocrites with no sense of proportion.
and more familiar with newer technologies at the same time!
If that's true of you, you have only yourself to blame. Age has nothing to do with it. I'm pushing 40 myself and I still make it a habit to regularly devote time to playing with new technologies that might end up turning into something useful down the road. And once familiar with those technologies, I look for places to apply them. Yesterday I spent most of my day working on a real-time streaming AJAX UI for a multi-user financial application, hardly a technology that went out of fashion with disco and bellbottoms.
There are a lot of capable young IT workers out there. I have the pleasure of working with a bunch of them at one of my jobs right now. But there are also a lot of boneheaded young IT workers who are only in the business because it looked like a lucrative thing to major in, and who will be sick of the whole thing and looking to switch careers by the time they're 30. I've worked with some of them too. Trouble is, employers can't always tell the difference between the two. Meanwhile, as a going-on-veteran-status programmer, I have a resume with lots of references from past employers who can confirm that I'm worth what I charge. There are lots of companies out there who value a proven track record, and I doubt that'll change any time soon. Only time can give you a track record of any kind.
In my observation, it's far more about your attitude than your age. If you can maintain an attitude of, "Wow, that's neat, I need to learn more about that and try it out," you'll probably do quite well no matter how old you are. If your attitude is, "I've learned how to do X, and that's what I do, so don't ask me to do Y," then yeah, familiarize yourself with the employees-only section of your local fast food joint, because the demand for X will dry up at some point.
Anyone who still likes Bush will do one of (a) not believe the report, (b) blame the situation on a liberal something-or-other (or focus on some bad thing a left-wing person did in the past, on the theory that two wrongs make a right), or (c) say "we're at war, so whatever he does is okay, even stuff we would have gone apoplectic about had a Democrat done them." Hmm, or (d) say "if this turns out to be true, I will be first in line to call Bush to account for it," then when it does turn out to be true, claim they never meant it. Those seem to be the four things a Bush loyalist does at the first sign that something might be rotten in Crawford.
I have to admire, though, the way Bush has managed to run roughshod over just about every conservative ideal there is while still managing to keep a sizable percentage of the country fiercely loyal to him.
Moral behavior: Photographic evidence of torture by US troops. (With the Vice President lobbying strongly to stop torture from being banned by Congress, it takes a special kind of thinking to truly believe there was no official sanction.)
Isolationism: Nation-building exercises. (Remember the term "nation-building" from the Bush vs. Gore debates? Yeah, it was that thing Bush promised never to do, but shh!)
Frugality: The biggest, most expensive new social program in decades (the Medicare prescription drug plan) not to mention massive budget deficits.
Privacy: Surveillance with no court orders or oversight by other branches of the government, see current story.
Piety: Here's a fun quote for you. "But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." I defy any Bush supporter to name one instance in which Bush's foreign policy has followed this rather central tenet of the religion he claims is so important to him. I sure haven't seen it. Yet somehow he manages to hoodwink the religious right into thinking he's a born-again, devout believer.
I could go on, but as I said, why bother? Anyone who doesn't already see the darkness is never going to be swayed by words.
And before you say it: No, I'm not particularly left-leaning. I think conservatism has a lot of good things to offer. If only it were actually being practiced.
And not easy numbers either- really messy numbers that if they were even.0000000001% different than they are, we would not have evolved in the same way- perhaps not at all.
Google "anthropic principle" to see what's wrong with that tautological line of thought. In short: If things were.0000000001% different, or even 98% different, then whatever form of intelligence would arise under those conditions would be sitting around saying, "Wow, isn't it amazing that the rules of the universe are just right for us to exist!?!"
The fact that we're here to ask about the rules necessitates that the rules are compatible with us being here. There is nothing even slightly remarkable or miraculous or noteworthy about it -- it's an inescapable logical implication, and it's irrelevant to the question of the existence of a god.
Agreed -- my house is partially solar powered (I feed power to the grid by day, draw from the grid at night) and I'd want to just plug my hydrogen generator into the wall and make use of the locally-produced electricity during the day.
Still, one thing at a time. This is just a prototype for now and I'm glad to see people working in the right direction.
Interestingly, SoapCity offered paid soap opera downloads for quite some time (it's a division of Sony, so the downloads were all legit.) They stopped earlier this year, claiming it wasn't economically viable.
I know I'd want my money back if I bought an anti-virus program and discovered the authors didn't even know how to pluralize the word "virus."
Wow, no mention of the best feature of the game
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Review: Dungeon Siege II
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I'm surprised the review and the comments I've seen so far don't mention the single thing that makes this game (and its predecessor) absolutely rock: you can walk from one end of the game world to the other and never see a "Loading..." screen. There are few things that pull me out of a game experience more than stepping through a doorway and having to wait thirty seconds to see what's on the other side. Granted, in DS2 you still have to wait a few seconds when you use a teleporter, but that's under your control and is much more bearable.
It's 2005. Computers are fast enough to load the surrounding landscape's data in the background when you get near the edge of an area. If you want to know what good those up-and-coming dual-core CPUs will be for games, well, there's one answer.
Game developers: My gaming money will go to a game with a lower frame rate and no annoying interruptions in gameplay before it'll go to a silky-smooth game that makes me twiddle my thumbs on a regular basis. I bought DS2 specifically to show my support for no-loading-screen games -- and (I hope) it won't be the last game I buy for that reason.
Natural disasters happen everywhere. Earthquakes, for example. Only in California, you say? Of the largest quakes in US history, California barely makes the top 10. (Missouri and Alaska are much worse places to be, quake-wise.) Volcanoes erupt. Rivers overflow and dump flood waters into cities.
Speaking as a Californian, I am happy my taxes are paying to help out the folks in Louisiana and Mississippi. And should disaster strike where I live -- which it will, given enough time -- they'll help me out as well, and we'll all end up better off.
Now, that said, I'd hope that the rebuilding effort takes this disaster into account and that whatever replaces the devastated areas will be built such that it comes closer to withstanding another big hurricane. (Obviously it's impossible to build a city that'll survive unscathed if the storm is big enough.)
The federal government spends billions on a lot of stupid things I feel are a total waste of my money. This isn't one of them.
Re:Max Headroom had this idea 20 years ago
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Video Tombstones
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I was going to post the same observation. Max Headroom got a lot of stuff spot on. Too bad they didn't see the Web coming, but I guess you can't predict everything. I still go back and watch some of those episodes from time to time.
My last couple years of in college I was an intern at Sun. I displayed some talent and found myself working on some projects that would normally have been given to much more senior engineers. All well and good: the work was interesting and challenging, I was getting exposed to lots of new technologies, and I got to see my stuff used in the real world.
Then I graduated. I was enjoying working at Sun, so I decided to stay there. Since I wasn't an intern any more, they gave me a promotion -- to the lowest entry-level rung on the technical job ranking ladder, the only place their HR rules would allow me to proceed from an internship. On its face that might not seem unreasonable, but even before graduation I was already doing the work of people two or three ranks higher.
Okay, fine, I figured, I'm sure I'll get promoted up to an appropriate level before long. Nope! Once again, Sun's HR rules kicked in: it's not possible to promote people at more than a certain rate. I would have to stay for several years before my job title and pay matched the work I was doing.
Still, I liked working there, so I got over the annoyance and plugged away for a while.
A year or so later, I got a job offer from a small company for about 40% more money than Sun was paying me, plus a decent chunk of equity, to do work that was just as interesting. My manager at Sun couldn't match the money; he had already maxed out my salary for the pay grade I was in, and HR wouldn't let him promote me for another 6 months or so. I took the offer, and I've never worked at another big company since.
Now, I don't regret my time at Sun, but I guess the moral of the story is, keep your eyes open and make sure you don't get sucked so far into the first interesting place you work that you miss out on other opportunities. It's a fluid job market out there.
Clearly the writer was hired after answering one of those late-night TV ads promising he could "earn up to $1,000 a day, or more!" Which I suppose is truth in advertising: it's safe to assume that if you answer the ad you'll earn some amount of money that's less than, equal to, or greater than $1000.
I have a server at a hosting company that gives me up to a terabyte a month of traffic on a reasonably fast net link. Since my site normally doesn't come anywhere near that, I've taken to seeding a bunch of legal torrents (Debian and Ubuntu distros, Project Gutenberg DVD, etc. -- lots of the same stuff ibiblio is hosting.) I think of it as giving a little something back to the net at large.
Seeding lots of torrents on a server is somewhat annoying to do in that, as far as I can tell, there's no good non-GUI tool for seeding a bunch of torrents and capping their total bandwidth usage. I've been using NX to run Azureus remotely (NX will let you disconnect from a running X client and reconnect to it later from a different X server, pretty nifty) which works but is a real memory hog and even with NX's acceleration is still sometimes kind of painful to administer because you have to navigate the remote GUI.
The Osprey site still seems very light on technical details, but I'm hoping its Permaseed component will let me cut way down on the couple hundred megabytes of memory I'm using for my seeding, not to mention make it easier to offer up my server as a semi-permanent seed for other people's torrents.
It was really bothering me that American network equipment manufacturers were able to sell so many units to foreign governments and companies. This should take care of that problem lickety split.
Oh, I'm sure the economist weenies will start crying, "The trade deficit is too high already!" Claptrap. You want a trade deficit you can really sink your teeth into? America is barely even working at raising the trade deficit. But this sort of move is a great step in the right direction. Focus the entire country on eliminating exports. The whole world will be safer.
Lame pandering to marketing strategies
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iTMS Launches in Japan
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iTMS in Japan is great! If you're in Japan. Which I'm not, so thanks to the record companies' annoying and self-defeating marketing strategies (I know! Let's make it impossible to buy artist X's work in country Y! We'll make tons more money that way!) this does me about as much good as the US iTMS did for people in Japan.
I've started listening to a bunch of Mandarin-language music lately, and for track-at-a-time sampling, I pretty much have no choice but to listen to unlicensed Internet radio stations (= piracy) or download from P2P networks (= piracy). I'd happily pay to sample a few more tracks by the artists I've heard on those radio stations, but there's no way for me to do it, and it's not worth paying through the nose to import a CD from overseas only to find that the track I heard was the only one on the disc worth listening to.
Oh well, yet another case of "I want to give them my money, but they won't let me." (See: DVD region coding, etc.) Guess I need a fancy MBA degree to see how that makes good business sense.
The public has this idea that spaceflight is or should be risk-free
I think that's a bunch of baloney. I think the truth is that politicians and pundits have this idea that the public has this idea that spaceflight is or should be risk-free. Nobody ever asks the public about it, they just say "the public wants X."
I know a fair number of non-geeks and none of the ones I've chatted with about the shuttle (shuttle safety being a current event and thus fair game for casual conversation with non-space-nuts) have a problem with the idea of it being risky.
Many people are risk-averse when it comes to their own personal safety. Many more people are risk-averse when it comes to the personal safety of their families. But I really question how widespread the "Won't somebody think of the ASTRONAUTS?" meme actually is among people who aren't running for elected office or competing for TV ratings.
You said it. I've given up trying to explain to my mom when she should single-click and when she should double-click. Until she got a computer it never even occurred to me that someone could be confused about that. Single-click to select, double-click to activate, or alternately, single-click then double-click if the thing you expected to happen didn't happen. But clearly I've lost my ability to look at a computer from the point of view of a complete newbie.
So now I just let her double-click on everything, from desktop icons to "OK" buttons. Less stress for me to just accept it, less stress for her to not constantly have to ask how many times to click.
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Up to a point. But if what you want is geeky and brainy, there is evidence that there are more men than women at both ends of the IQ bell curve, which means that while there are a lot of very smart women out there, they're vastly outnumbered by the very smart guys. (And likewise, the male morons outnumber the female ones.) I've read in a couple places, though haven't found the source material to back this up, that at IQ 175, there are 47 men for every 1 woman. Take that particular number with a grain of salt, but the point is, it's not a happy 50-50 split at the high end of the IQ chart.
Yeah, .NET alternative, whatever. Wake me up when I can actually run the current Oracle database release on the current hardware from Sun! We just bought a bunch of Sun's new dual-core AMD boxes and we have to install Linux on them to run Oracle 10g in 64-bit mode -- Solaris AMD64 support is supposed to come "in the first half of 2006." Kind of sad considering the way Sun and Oracle sing each other's praises all the time. Scott McNealy even spoke at an Oracle conference over a year ago about how Solaris 10 was the Oracle platform of choice! Um, yeah, right, if it actually worked it might be.
The show has an ongoing storyline, which stars off kind of slow but takes a pretty wild turn late in the season. Sadly, we'll never know how it ends, since the season-ending cliffhanger was the last episode. So beware if you start in on it -- you will be left hanging.
I suppose it's possible Sci-Fi could do a movie-of-the-week or two to wrap it up, like the "Alien Nation" movies did for that show. That would be swell. But I'm not holding my breath.
I've gotten in the habit of using a temp card number for most of my online purchases, mostly so I don't have to go through the annoyance of changing the card numbers on all my subscriptions if some website's credit card database gets hacked and the bank has to invalidate the cards of all the site's customers. It's also a decent way to protect myself against credit card fraud.
Far be it from me to stop a self-satisfied rant from completely mischaracterizing the political views of tens of millions of people, but are you talking about Western leftists like Amnesty Interational? Or maybe you mean Human Rights Watch. Hmm, no, that's not it. Well, please provide examples, since you're obviously quite certain.
Ignore the possibility, of course, that you're living in a Western country, and thus are more likely to hear about protests directed at your own government. Or that China is successfully covering up some percentage of its internal discord, so you're never hearing about it. Or that China has been crushing its citizens for decades, while the West's adventures in fabrication-based nation building are more recent, and thus more likely to garner comment. Or that Western countries have more of a tradition of listening to their citizens, and thus the citizens are more likely to speak out about their own governments' policies with the expectation that it might actually do some good.
Concentrating effort where it's most likely to have an effect is clearly way too abstract a concept for wacko yogurt-eating Birkenstock-shod lefty nutjobs, so it must just mean they're hypocrites with no sense of proportion.
Mmm, tasty mastadon burgers.
If that's true of you, you have only yourself to blame. Age has nothing to do with it. I'm pushing 40 myself and I still make it a habit to regularly devote time to playing with new technologies that might end up turning into something useful down the road. And once familiar with those technologies, I look for places to apply them. Yesterday I spent most of my day working on a real-time streaming AJAX UI for a multi-user financial application, hardly a technology that went out of fashion with disco and bellbottoms.
There are a lot of capable young IT workers out there. I have the pleasure of working with a bunch of them at one of my jobs right now. But there are also a lot of boneheaded young IT workers who are only in the business because it looked like a lucrative thing to major in, and who will be sick of the whole thing and looking to switch careers by the time they're 30. I've worked with some of them too. Trouble is, employers can't always tell the difference between the two. Meanwhile, as a going-on-veteran-status programmer, I have a resume with lots of references from past employers who can confirm that I'm worth what I charge. There are lots of companies out there who value a proven track record, and I doubt that'll change any time soon. Only time can give you a track record of any kind.
In my observation, it's far more about your attitude than your age. If you can maintain an attitude of, "Wow, that's neat, I need to learn more about that and try it out," you'll probably do quite well no matter how old you are. If your attitude is, "I've learned how to do X, and that's what I do, so don't ask me to do Y," then yeah, familiarize yourself with the employees-only section of your local fast food joint, because the demand for X will dry up at some point.
I have to admire, though, the way Bush has managed to run roughshod over just about every conservative ideal there is while still managing to keep a sizable percentage of the country fiercely loyal to him.
I could go on, but as I said, why bother? Anyone who doesn't already see the darkness is never going to be swayed by words.
And before you say it: No, I'm not particularly left-leaning. I think conservatism has a lot of good things to offer. If only it were actually being practiced.
Google "anthropic principle" to see what's wrong with that tautological line of thought. In short: If things were .0000000001% different, or even 98% different, then whatever form of intelligence would arise under those conditions would be sitting around saying, "Wow, isn't it amazing that the rules of the universe are just right for us to exist!?!"
The fact that we're here to ask about the rules necessitates that the rules are compatible with us being here. There is nothing even slightly remarkable or miraculous or noteworthy about it -- it's an inescapable logical implication, and it's irrelevant to the question of the existence of a god.
Still, one thing at a time. This is just a prototype for now and I'm glad to see people working in the right direction.
Interestingly, SoapCity offered paid soap opera downloads for quite some time (it's a division of Sony, so the downloads were all legit.) They stopped earlier this year, claiming it wasn't economically viable.
I know I'd want my money back if I bought an anti-virus program and discovered the authors didn't even know how to pluralize the word "virus."
It's 2005. Computers are fast enough to load the surrounding landscape's data in the background when you get near the edge of an area. If you want to know what good those up-and-coming dual-core CPUs will be for games, well, there's one answer.
Game developers: My gaming money will go to a game with a lower frame rate and no annoying interruptions in gameplay before it'll go to a silky-smooth game that makes me twiddle my thumbs on a regular basis. I bought DS2 specifically to show my support for no-loading-screen games -- and (I hope) it won't be the last game I buy for that reason.
Speaking as a Californian, I am happy my taxes are paying to help out the folks in Louisiana and Mississippi. And should disaster strike where I live -- which it will, given enough time -- they'll help me out as well, and we'll all end up better off.
Now, that said, I'd hope that the rebuilding effort takes this disaster into account and that whatever replaces the devastated areas will be built such that it comes closer to withstanding another big hurricane. (Obviously it's impossible to build a city that'll survive unscathed if the storm is big enough.)
The federal government spends billions on a lot of stupid things I feel are a total waste of my money. This isn't one of them.
I was going to post the same observation. Max Headroom got a lot of stuff spot on. Too bad they didn't see the Web coming, but I guess you can't predict everything. I still go back and watch some of those episodes from time to time.
Good thinking!
Where I was clearly not majoring in English...
Then I graduated. I was enjoying working at Sun, so I decided to stay there. Since I wasn't an intern any more, they gave me a promotion -- to the lowest entry-level rung on the technical job ranking ladder, the only place their HR rules would allow me to proceed from an internship. On its face that might not seem unreasonable, but even before graduation I was already doing the work of people two or three ranks higher.
Okay, fine, I figured, I'm sure I'll get promoted up to an appropriate level before long. Nope! Once again, Sun's HR rules kicked in: it's not possible to promote people at more than a certain rate. I would have to stay for several years before my job title and pay matched the work I was doing.
Still, I liked working there, so I got over the annoyance and plugged away for a while.
A year or so later, I got a job offer from a small company for about 40% more money than Sun was paying me, plus a decent chunk of equity, to do work that was just as interesting. My manager at Sun couldn't match the money; he had already maxed out my salary for the pay grade I was in, and HR wouldn't let him promote me for another 6 months or so. I took the offer, and I've never worked at another big company since.
Now, I don't regret my time at Sun, but I guess the moral of the story is, keep your eyes open and make sure you don't get sucked so far into the first interesting place you work that you miss out on other opportunities. It's a fluid job market out there.
Clearly the writer was hired after answering one of those late-night TV ads promising he could "earn up to $1,000 a day, or more!" Which I suppose is truth in advertising: it's safe to assume that if you answer the ad you'll earn some amount of money that's less than, equal to, or greater than $1000.
Thanks! I must have missed that one when I looked around at my seeding options. Looks like just the thing.
Seeding lots of torrents on a server is somewhat annoying to do in that, as far as I can tell, there's no good non-GUI tool for seeding a bunch of torrents and capping their total bandwidth usage. I've been using NX to run Azureus remotely (NX will let you disconnect from a running X client and reconnect to it later from a different X server, pretty nifty) which works but is a real memory hog and even with NX's acceleration is still sometimes kind of painful to administer because you have to navigate the remote GUI.
The Osprey site still seems very light on technical details, but I'm hoping its Permaseed component will let me cut way down on the couple hundred megabytes of memory I'm using for my seeding, not to mention make it easier to offer up my server as a semi-permanent seed for other people's torrents.
I look forward to checking out this new software.
Oh, I'm sure the economist weenies will start crying, "The trade deficit is too high already!" Claptrap. You want a trade deficit you can really sink your teeth into? America is barely even working at raising the trade deficit. But this sort of move is a great step in the right direction. Focus the entire country on eliminating exports. The whole world will be safer.
I've started listening to a bunch of Mandarin-language music lately, and for track-at-a-time sampling, I pretty much have no choice but to listen to unlicensed Internet radio stations (= piracy) or download from P2P networks (= piracy). I'd happily pay to sample a few more tracks by the artists I've heard on those radio stations, but there's no way for me to do it, and it's not worth paying through the nose to import a CD from overseas only to find that the track I heard was the only one on the disc worth listening to.
Oh well, yet another case of "I want to give them my money, but they won't let me." (See: DVD region coding, etc.) Guess I need a fancy MBA degree to see how that makes good business sense.
I think that's a bunch of baloney. I think the truth is that politicians and pundits have this idea that the public has this idea that spaceflight is or should be risk-free. Nobody ever asks the public about it, they just say "the public wants X."
I know a fair number of non-geeks and none of the ones I've chatted with about the shuttle (shuttle safety being a current event and thus fair game for casual conversation with non-space-nuts) have a problem with the idea of it being risky.
Many people are risk-averse when it comes to their own personal safety. Many more people are risk-averse when it comes to the personal safety of their families. But I really question how widespread the "Won't somebody think of the ASTRONAUTS?" meme actually is among people who aren't running for elected office or competing for TV ratings.
So now I just let her double-click on everything, from desktop icons to "OK" buttons. Less stress for me to just accept it, less stress for her to not constantly have to ask how many times to click.