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  1. Re:Catastrophic event != Apocalypse on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:a fact not mentioned: women kill more men, too on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 0

    Feminists tend not to make a fuss about homeless men because homeless men don't do a lot of oppressing. But more seriously, the issues you are talking about are entirely down to a patriarchical society and expecting men to behave and exist in a certain way in order to be culturally accepted. Get rid of that and maybe men might be better off as well.

  3. Re:rape is *the* lowest category of violent crime on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    Once you start adjusting for exposure, women tend to be far worse off. They are not gang members or drug dealers and clearup rates are higher because it's usually their boyfriends/husbands that kill them.

  4. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    How is not receiving something you weren't receiving before "suffering"?

  5. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: -1

    OMG the poor menz who are better paid and 82% of CS graduates might not be quite as privilieged as they are now if this initiative succeeds. Seriously, tiny violin time people. Stop making excuses for your nasty, unpleasant industry. Just stop.

  6. Re:Now try this with an old Martin Guitar. on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 1
    Pre 1970(ish) D28s were built with Brazilian rosewood back and sides which makes a hell of a difference. Modern reclaimed BRW is not of the same standard.

    That said, personally I'll take a Collings over a 20s/30s Martin, but that's just me.

  7. You mean like we've been doing pretty much since the invention of measuring equipment?

  8. Re:Solved problem on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 1

    If someone claims to be Napoleon, rational debate will not make him any less certain that he is a short and somewhat acquisitive European emperor.

  9. Re:A better question: on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 1

    Mods, this isn't trolling, it's a sensible question, one that I'd love to know the answer to.

  10. Re:How to judge tech advice: on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 1

    If it comes from Bennett, RUN LIKE HELL.

  11. Re:End the Accounting tricks on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1
    I would like to sell you this contract to buy my share in three days. Price: that of one unit of stock.

    Also, most of the solutions here forget that you can sell stock anywhere, including under the shade of a buttonwood tree. Make the exchanges illiquid and people will just fuck off elsewhere.

  12. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    No, I don't think that is a reasonable expectation. Reasonable expectation is that of a dispassionate, rational person.

  13. Re:Air-gapped systems? on Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market? · · Score: 1

    I would be curious to know the proportion of nominally airgapped machines that in fact have storage devices, etc, inserted and removed regularly. The cynic in me says, quite high.

  14. Re:Should void warranty on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    Yah, and I hope you told your insurer that you're dicking around with your car's electronics, because if not good luck getting coverage when you do kill someone.

  15. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Actually, constructing an argument at common law that the unwritten contract includes the photographer only doing what the subject might reasonably expect at the time it was taken would not be difficult or beyond the wit of the courts. As far as I know no-one's gone down this route yet.

  16. Re:That money could pay for a lot of tracking syst on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Insurance never covers your whole costs - its an extremely important principle that insurance should never make the insured event as desirable as it not happening. Besides, crashes are not good for your passenger numbers.

  17. Re:Tracking` on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    One question for ya. Are the people paying for SAR the same people who'd be paying for the trackers? Oh. Thought not.

  18. Re:Why not upgrade to Chromebooks? on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 3, Informative

    One London council. There are about thirty of them covering different areas of Greater London.

  19. Re:Statistically Insignificant on Study: Exposure To Morning Sunlight Helps Managing Weight · · Score: 1

    Hi, care to present the calculations you did to establish statistical power? No? The please stop talking about statistics as if you understand the subject as opposed to parroting pop-stats bullshit.

  20. Re:Two years? on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 0

    They kept it quiet to try and find the rock before a collector did.

  21. Question on Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you think of Slashdot Beta?

  22. Re:Knowledge is Power on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Mass population screening is generally of limited value. Regular screening of at-risk groups is beneficial.

  23. Re:Wacky idea I had on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 1

    The engineering would be impossibly gargantuan. A variant which is commonly suggested is the opposite, lubricating the plates to try and get a series of small earthquakes rather than one large one. This would be ideal *if* you could guarantee that you wouldn't simply trigger the big one.

  24. Re:When should you abandon a service for error? on Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting · · Score: 1

    The issue with the UK banks is aging IT infrastructure, an aging/retiring skills base and the enormous expense of transitioning to something future-proof.

  25. Re:What a bunch of hooye, total garbage on Book Review: Money: The Unauthorized Biography · · Score: 1

    Oh lordy. So far off the map you're not even wrong.