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  1. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Short answer: you're wrong. Longer answer: there are physical and processing differences, "significant differences" in the connectivity of the brain in men and women. If you handed a forensic scientist a human brain, you would be told what sex it was.

    Start here, here, here, here and finally here.

    Yes, those aren't the technical articles, but they'll point you there.

    As for no difference in stomachs(5), you're wrong there as well.

  2. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    "personal instincts and inclinations" Instincts, I don't think you know what that word means. That's *why* there are cultural predilections, not the other way around. The bulk of humans share those instincts and inclinations. "If you don't know anything about a subject" Mote... eye.

  3. Lay off your kid. on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    First, as pointed out already, she's four. Hell, she hasn't even developed the faculty of rational thought yet (that starts around seven). Second, what makes you think you know best what profession she should aim towards? Unless she's being self-destructive - and I don't mean the SJW determined kinds - keep your hands off. It's her friggin' life, not yours. I have a daughter. She did fine without me meddling.

  4. Re:I got ignored on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Just being logically pedantic, if they don't like creating it, they don't truly understand it's value.

  5. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Your and their opinion is just that, an opinion, not some grand realization of a great "truth". Get over the pomposity.

  6. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's the new line that doesn't auto. They had all this information, but like I said, I wasn't submitting a bug report to you or even here to ShashDot so there was no need for all that info. You won't be trying to fix the bug, so you're not relevant to me. You are, however, making a good stab at pompous.

  7. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to type the quotes and then start a new line.

  8. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't submitting a bug report to *you* jackass. I described the general scenario. Why in hell would I put all that information into a friggin' SlashDot comment? To satisfy your pedantry? Piss off. No the auto-cap still doesn't work as per my bug submission to them. Your little misunderstanding pic notwithstanding.

  9. I'm surprized no one has said it. on Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization · · Score: 2

    This is just a two bit story.

    I apologize - kinda.

  10. Re:Not to be a buzzkill or anything but.... on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 1

    "What the hell..." Not a thing. He just wants the lime light back.

  11. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    And what principle would it be to not include a checkbox, a simple test and reverse the output of two blocks of text?

  12. Re:Missing the point on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bull. FOSS is about "the freedoms you have while using the software", including using the software as you see fit. It's not free if there's even an implicit "you should donate time" attached.

  13. Re:In the workflow? on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    That may perhaps be state specific, but it's been taken to court and won't hold in most places. Even if you sign. It's called duress.

  14. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    once the dev can follow your steps to reproduce it, he'll find it in short order

    Bull. See my comment about Libre Office auto-capping. Easily reproduced, just type "A sentence here." and then a new line. Won't (or didn't last I knew) work.

  15. Re:In my experience - on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 2

    "if you don't use it this way you are stupid" Ha! Oh the bell rang loud with that one. I attempted to get involved with Libre Office Writer once to see what was wrong with the auto-capping. Mind you, they have the feature to auto-cap the beginning of a line and it doesn't work properly. Their response - 'You shouldn't rely on that'. Why the hell have it if that's your attitude?

  16. Re:Ya, pretty much on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I enjoy programming even at home, but I only enjoy it for making things I use that aren't available, like personal book cover formatting and such. Those things are thought out, then designed and coded, tested and *done* and I do something else. An open source project would take time away from the things I do program for and quickly become a second job. I ain't interested in that.

  17. Re:they don't make it easy on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    READ.ME files are probably the worst way to approach anything, much less something as complex as a project requesting help from a disparate group of people.

  18. Re:Wallet more durable on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    You also don't have anywhere near the volume of information that's lost with the wallet.

  19. Re:Cash on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    You can pay for your membership with cash.

  20. Re:cashless is suicidal on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    Bet that little electronic charging mechanism cost a lot more than twenty dollars. Since he paid in cash, he didn't have erroneous charges either.

  21. Re: this is not what we're waiting for... on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    In a book, not in the movies or series, but one of Spock's claims to fleet fame was his finding a way to reduce the replicator overhead of coffee by 90%. Seems the humans liked the idea.

  22. Re:More than cash and cc on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    False security. Your credit card payment is not that much later if at all. Your contesting a charge won't be within that time frame anyway.

  23. Re:Lost!? on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    "everybody now pays with a card" No they don't. Don't project.

  24. Re: Lost!? on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    I do believe you're responding to one of the new fleet of attention deprived individuals. You know, the ones that can't carry on a conversation without allowing it to be disrupted by an incoming call or can't for the life of them *not* make an all important tweet. Focus and memory are inherently difficult for them.

  25. Re:Just wondering on Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights · · Score: 1

    Blather. "Get girls interested in coding"... As if it's a little friggin' switch you throw in the brain.

    By the way, your last paragraph is exactly what should be said to all those complaining. That's the problem entirely, *they* don't want to "fix" it, they want someone *else* forced into "fixing" it. Which pretty much sounds like what you want.