I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic.
"the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991." That looks like an increase in female representation to me.
"In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. " Another increase!
"By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent." Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do.
And the cincher: "Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. " "At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago." I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.
I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic.
"the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991."
That looks like an increase in female representation to me.
"In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. "
Another increase!
"By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent."
Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do.
And the cincher:
"Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. "
"At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago."
I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.
IANAL, but the guy who stole the data could be facing a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations alone if he released the prescription information attached to the patients' names and SSNs. This information is protected by the U.S. federal government, and rightly so, imo.
Of course, it looks like Express Scripts would only be on the hook for up to $25,000 for disclosing the information, if an investigation determines that they weren't protecting it adequately. A far shot shy of a million.
Meh. This is just a lot of words to say that I'll keep my privacy where I can, thank you very much, and I'm glad some of it is still protected at the federal level.
In case there are any more Pollyannas out there...
Reading all of the gloom and doom in the comments, I began to think that there's no way this act could be so bad. I mean, wouldn't this provide the government with more knowledge and power to defend my fair use if I referenced a Disney movie on Slashdot and big brother wanted to sue the everloving snot out of me for it? If it's my tax money paying for this, shouldn't I get some protection out of it? IANAL, but a quick search of the act for 'fair use', 'public domain', and 'commons' soundly tells me no.
I would like to remind everyone that EFF donations are tax deductible.
You can prove the Earth is round by looking at a lunar eclipse. Educated people have known the shape of the Earrh for thousands of years. I have no idea why they teach us as children that everyone thought Chris Columbus would sail off the edge of the earth.
My Uncle belonged to this society when he was in college in the 1970's. He likened it to the SCA. I love these guys because they will never, ever admit to the joke.
Mmmmm... convergent evolution... I'm under the impression that Dollo's Law refers to organisms evolving the exact same pathways to solve the same problem twice. When species evolve convergently, or even when one species re-evolves a trait, the same problem is usually solved in very different ways.
This site has the best definition that I was able to find, but I'm not sure how much stock I would place in its accuracy.
Dollo's Law... is also known as the Law of Irreversible Evolution--which basically states that organisms cannot re-evolve along lost pathways, but must find alternative routes (because the same fortuitous train of mutational events, being totally random, will never repeat).
I was not familiar with Dollo's Law before reading this story, and I may be misunderstanding some nuance or other... However, if mutations are truly random, isn't it necessary that they at least have the possibility to recreate a lost pathway, no matter how complex?
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I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic.
"the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991."
That looks like an increase in female representation to me.
"In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. "
Another increase!
"By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent."
Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do.
And the cincher:
"Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. "
"At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago."
I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.
I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic. "the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991." That looks like an increase in female representation to me. "In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. " Another increase! "By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent." Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do. And the cincher: "Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. " "At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago." I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.
IANAL, but the guy who stole the data could be facing a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations alone if he released the prescription information attached to the patients' names and SSNs. This information is protected by the U.S. federal government, and rightly so, imo. Of course, it looks like Express Scripts would only be on the hook for up to $25,000 for disclosing the information, if an investigation determines that they weren't protecting it adequately. A far shot shy of a million. Meh. This is just a lot of words to say that I'll keep my privacy where I can, thank you very much, and I'm glad some of it is still protected at the federal level.
In case there are any more Pollyannas out there...
Reading all of the gloom and doom in the comments, I began to think that there's no way this act could be so bad. I mean, wouldn't this provide the government with more knowledge and power to defend my fair use if I referenced a Disney movie on Slashdot and big brother wanted to sue the everloving snot out of me for it? If it's my tax money paying for this, shouldn't I get some protection out of it? IANAL, but a quick search of the act for 'fair use', 'public domain', and 'commons' soundly tells me no.
I would like to remind everyone that EFF donations are tax deductible.
You can prove the Earth is round by looking at a lunar eclipse. Educated people have known the shape of the Earrh for thousands of years. I have no idea why they teach us as children that everyone thought Chris Columbus would sail off the edge of the earth.
You bet your sweet ass I am! Now where's my beer?
My Uncle belonged to this society when he was in college in the 1970's. He likened it to the SCA. I love these guys because they will never, ever admit to the joke.
In Logan, it's plastic utensils only. Not heavy duty plastic, either.
Mmmmm... convergent evolution... I'm under the impression that Dollo's Law refers to organisms evolving the exact same pathways to solve the same problem twice. When species evolve convergently, or even when one species re-evolves a trait, the same problem is usually solved in very different ways.
This site has the best definition that I was able to find, but I'm not sure how much stock I would place in its accuracy.