Not really. Most of this answer is still true: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13550632/1953590 Android 4.4+ fully supports Java 7, but that's what, about 1% of the device market right now?
My password is written down in a place where it's not obvious that it's a password. I figure if somebody wants my password bad enough to locate and identify it, they'd find it much easier to break into my house while I'm at work and install a hardware keylogger.
Hasn't it been shown that only the least massive black holes will evaporate from Hawking radiation? The radiation emitted by larger ones is less than the mass/energy they absorb from the CMB, so they will continue growing...
It's the culture of 20th century sci-fi, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, popular science, memorising digits of pi, tech gadgets, of course computers and coding.
True, it is that. But there's nothing intrinsically masculine about any of those things. I'm inclined to think that most women aren't into those things because they were conditioned not to be. And not because those are masculine things (most men are conditioned against them as well) but because they're nerdy things. And that may be set to change on its own, because nerds are heroes now.
Unfortunately, personal observations and theories are all anybody's got on this issue. Scientists can't ethically experiment on children, so they're left to try to tease causality out of statistical regressions. There might be a data set out there from some longitudinal study that happens to suggest the causality for women's lack of interest in CS. But either nobody has looked, or someone did look but then didn't publish it because the truth wasn't politically correct.
Meanwhile, I'll be giving my daughters rockets and Legos.
Uh-huh. Give an inner-city high school kid who's interested in mobile apps and social networks a 486 with QuickBasic and see how how long they stay interested.
I think that stereotype is less deserved than it once was. One does not need to make so many social sacrifices to succeed in CS. And in some ways, geeks have become social heroes.
I think CS has a culture, but what culture it does have is all its own. There is nothing intrinsically white or male about it, as evidenced by the fact that it's totally alien to the majority of white males.
But perhaps the white males who thrive in CS do have one quality that enables them to succeed where others fail: the ability to assimilate into an alien culture without considering yourself a victim of its unfamiliarity. I suspect that all humans are born with this ability, but some people are taught that every difficulty they encounter in life is some form of victimization.
The white male dominance of computer science begins with little girls being given dolls instead of engineering toys, and poor children (which includes many racial minorities, although not because they're racial minorities) going to shitty schools where they're lucky if their education is only twenty years out of date.
You're missing the point. Of course T3 doesn't claim the copyright. There can be no licensing control without a copyright, and there can be no copyright on a government work unless T3 has substantially modified or added to the work, which would be an even bigger story.
If I created a piece of art using public domain media, I would still own the copyright on the art... but only if it substantially altered or added to the original public domain work. Either T3's copyright is invalid, or they've just been given permission to rewrite our history.
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This is what Trojan Magnums are for.
Not really. Most of this answer is still true: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13550632/1953590 Android 4.4+ fully supports Java 7, but that's what, about 1% of the device market right now?
Android developers are forced to use Java 6. I don't know if I should be more pissed at Oracle or Google right now...
Yeah, but what about those Quake breaks?
My password is written down in a place where it's not obvious that it's a password. I figure if somebody wants my password bad enough to locate and identify it, they'd find it much easier to break into my house while I'm at work and install a hardware keylogger.
Hasn't it been shown that only the least massive black holes will evaporate from Hawking radiation? The radiation emitted by larger ones is less than the mass/energy they absorb from the CMB, so they will continue growing...
More to the point, even if they can be, there's no guarantee that they are. Most existing desktop software won't benefit much from multiple cores.
If you do drugs, the CIA will definitely use an overdose to assassinate you.
Quit dicking around with your JavaScript, Slashdot. The site worked fine before.
It's the culture of 20th century sci-fi, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, popular science, memorising digits of pi, tech gadgets, of course computers and coding.
True, it is that. But there's nothing intrinsically masculine about any of those things. I'm inclined to think that most women aren't into those things because they were conditioned not to be. And not because those are masculine things (most men are conditioned against them as well) but because they're nerdy things. And that may be set to change on its own, because nerds are heroes now.
Unfortunately, personal observations and theories are all anybody's got on this issue. Scientists can't ethically experiment on children, so they're left to try to tease causality out of statistical regressions. There might be a data set out there from some longitudinal study that happens to suggest the causality for women's lack of interest in CS. But either nobody has looked, or someone did look but then didn't publish it because the truth wasn't politically correct.
Meanwhile, I'll be giving my daughters rockets and Legos.
In the 19th Century, pink was a boy color. It's all in the marketing.
Uh-huh. Give an inner-city high school kid who's interested in mobile apps and social networks a 486 with QuickBasic and see how how long they stay interested.
But none of those conditions apply to the works that T3 will be digitizing.
Exactly.
I think that stereotype is less deserved than it once was. One does not need to make so many social sacrifices to succeed in CS. And in some ways, geeks have become social heroes.
But perhaps the white males who thrive in CS do have one quality that enables them to succeed where others fail: the ability to assimilate into an alien culture without considering yourself a victim of its unfamiliarity. I suspect that all humans are born with this ability, but some people are taught that every difficulty they encounter in life is some form of victimization.
The white male dominance of computer science begins with little girls being given dolls instead of engineering toys, and poor children (which includes many racial minorities, although not because they're racial minorities) going to shitty schools where they're lucky if their education is only twenty years out of date.
You're missing the point. Of course T3 doesn't claim the copyright. There can be no licensing control without a copyright, and there can be no copyright on a government work unless T3 has substantially modified or added to the work, which would be an even bigger story.
If I created a piece of art using public domain media, I would still own the copyright on the art... but only if it substantially altered or added to the original public domain work. Either T3's copyright is invalid, or they've just been given permission to rewrite our history.
I'm paid primarily to write software. Then I go home and write more software.
Better to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, than the wrong thing for the right reasons. Obama has a long track record of the latter.
Go back to that part where parliament is not violating laws.
It wasn't until I got to the link that I had any idea what the fuck I was reading about.
Maybe the carjackers were the security service.