More appropriate good luck when you walk into a place and they start punching your details into a Windows 10 slaved computer, no matter what you do with security and your computer, you are still going to be well and truly probed by windows 10 without your permission or even a free dinner. You seriously think M$ will care one bit about whether or not they have permission to pry into you private life before they start storing and analysing your data gleaned from the entire botnet that is windows 10.
So that would just leave the corporations in charge. It is pretty bloody obvious that the problem is those corporations who are too big to be allowed to exist corrupting government. Government ain't the problem, the corporations corrupting government are the problem. The symptom is corrupt government, the disease is bloated obese corporations run by psychopaths, time to put those ass hats on a rather severe diet.
Crack the FBI, it seems pretty much like both the NSA and CIA have shattered the FBI with purposefully planted agents as well as recruited FBI agents. If anyone needs to crack crypto it is the FBI and they need to crack both the CIA and NSA otherwise democracy in the US is likely to collapse under the corruptive weight of extortion schemes ("we will let you continue to commit crimes as long as you do these things for us").
I take a more customer supplier route. I still with windows 7 until many customers band together and force M$ to produce Windows 10 SE with all the anal probe crap gone. This done not just as individual customers bit also as business seeking to keep the system secure and maintaining security around what ever methods provide them business advantage without M$ doing tech analysis and selling those business advantages to the highest bidder. This is a real customer threat and a huge breach of acceptable practice, something that should be directly actively tackled, not something that should be let slide but tackled head on.
Remember this shit will be spying on peoples children in school, spying on every member of your family, spying on your doctors and dentists, spying on every business interaction you make whether you have the anal probe installed or whether the business you are dealing with has it installed and when you pass by the accidentally stick it in you. So you can not keep secure by securing your computer you actively have to work at making every computer system your private information travels across secure.
So when M$ spies on your data on someone else's computer are they not still spying upon you without your permission regardless of what operating system you use or whether or not you even fucking use a computer!!!
Consider you theory of doctorates next time you need to visit a medical doctor or dentist, I'm sure it makes you feel all warm and cost inside. The only reason there is pride in ignorance is because of that ignorance.
Computer Science is a straight up misnomer, it is actually a 'discipline' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to which other sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and arts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are applied. A whole range of sciences and arts goes into computers from biological sciences in haptics and presentation of data, to the full range of expressive arts in terms of menu structures, icons, programming languages and of course the physics, mathematics and chemistry required for their production.
So computer use and theory should be added to all other higher education subjects and all other higher education subjects should have inputs into the Computer Systems discipline.
More accurately they can drop other manufacturing countries small arms and munitions to regime change countries, so that the claim the manufacturing country was interfering in the regime change country, so that the country actually supplying can 'er' help to secure the recipient country from the source of manufacture country but not the actual supply country with a military base or two. So why is the US already supply confiscated Russian manufactured and munitions arms to countries instead of properly destroying them.
So it all has become rather pointless and should likely really just end, if for no other reason than the very politically incorrect title playboy, 'play' in this case relating to non reproductive sexual proclivity and 'boy' being an prepubescent male. Nothing lasts forever and pretty much playboy or more politically correct meaningfullrelationshipman, sort of has no market any more.
Nukes might have all the flash but make no mistake biological weapons are still by far the most dangerous and one warhead can have impact across the whole globe, not just at the point of impact. This detector just traces reactors and not existing weapons grade material nor it's transport from one location to another. So nothing about stealth cruise missiles tipped with nuclear weapons or cargo ships with them hidden on board and wandering suit case warheads and those three represent the greatest threat.
Taking into account the current corrupt global arms trade (international law should be, if you can not make the weapons, then you should not have them) and it's ability to fabricate wars, the ability and desire to shift weapons grade material when profits are high enough is inevitable.
More appropriately secure is a relative term. Take the US justice system it is secure for the rich because they mostly get off and it is secure for the rich because the poor mostly get convicted, so it is secure in one regard. So the mail servers were secure, they kept private questionable communiques away from investigatory eyes and should push come to shove they could be 'hmm' be edited prior to handover, so yes quite emphatically they were 'secured'. Just they way the politically corrupt would like them secured and generally not the way the informed public would like them secured (no lost communiques). Keep in mind the era and how other corporate emails from the likes of M$ and HP were being obtained by the courts and becoming part of court battles (leading to regular email auditing and deletions to ensure safer track records for court proceedings). The intent is clear, that they conspired to cheat government record keeping systems, it is also clear and that government officers were brought into the conspiracy was also clear, hence many laws were most emphatically broken and should be deserving of investigation and prosecution. Whether or not the 'remaining?' emails show secured data on the laws or criminal intent is arbitrary, the crime had already been committed in conspiring to intentionally thwart government record keeping of government communiques.
The reality is there is only one plan that works. Think gold will protect in a collapsed society, why, you can eat it and of course if someone else wants it they will use a gun to take it. Think a gun and ammo are you path to safety, then a sniper will kill you before you even notice they are there. Bunkers at all and nothing more that tin cans to be opened for the goodies inside and that might well include the people inside as consumables.
Want to be safe, quite simply have more people on your side than any possible threat. The only thing in reality that can protect in times of crisis, is the same as what protects you right not and you would be unsafe right now without it, community. Best plan in times to crisis, who the community can quickly come together to support each other, how resources will be gathered and distributed, provisions for health care and of course policing.
Think you are safe in your personal private prison, not if someone wants something you have or your prison has been buried under rubble and people couldn't be bothered digging you out. I would have to say any government that hid it's arse underground whilst leaving the bulk of the public exposed, should straight up be buried and left there as a bad memory.
The completely absurd idea that "That is a concern of the fringe minority, those who post on Slashdot perhaps, but it isn't a major concern of the average Joe" is just so patently absurd. Hint FUCKING Hint, the cheetos crowd do not buy PCs, they buy smart phones and game consoles (they do buy notebook for the equally techno limited children for school use) but they are not PC buyers now now will they ever be PC buyers (some of them were for a short while but that was because it was all the market had to offer).
The PC market is shrinking back to business and computer geeks and nerds, the consumer PC market, Big Screen PCs, tablets, smart phones and game consoles are the larger but significantly different market. M$ is hugely fucking up by trying to force computer nerds and geeks into the cheetoos crowd market, empty consumers of palp rather than who they are. It is mind bogglingly stupid by M$ to fail to produce Windows secure edition for computer geeks and nerds because they will retaliate and ruthlessly attack M$ for their abuse of the privacy of computer geeks and nerds and, they will spread that attack as far and wide as they can (that being of course a consumer style boycott attack and counter marketing).
The most ignorant thing about pushing all this in the current global climate with the contortionists US twisting with regard to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist/Rebels, everyone will blame America and Americans, everything bad in the TPP and it's ugly sibling TTIP will be blamed on American corporations and sales will suffer accordingly. Want your citizens and country to maintain any semblance of freedom boycott Large US Corporations (small ones run by real Americans apparently are fine, so oddly enough help America rebuild Main Street and protect you own country by working together globally to gut Wall Street).
This represents a major savings over autocratic structures because it removes the most non-productive individuals, the managers and the middle manages that produce nothing and often spend more time trying to inflate the egos and salaries, rather than effectively managing anything.
One thing about guns that is very similar to drugs, legal varieties of course. Want to reduce their use, then ensure the taxes on them reflect the harm they cause. User pays means the group that users those items, drugs or guns should pay for all the damages caused by those items, no more privatising the profits and socialising the losses. There should be sufficient tax placed upon guns and bullets to ensure that all the damage caused by their illicit, ignorant, clumsy, foolish use is paid for and not by people who do not have or use them. So somewhere upwards of 100% tax and this should apply to used guns as well.
Encryption of course is directly tied to the principle of freedom. A free person owns there privacy, a slave's privacy is owned by someone else. The more privacy you lose, the more a slave you become. Loss of privacy extends to physical sexual assaults (body search), where you are no longer private to your person but others are allowed to molest you, strip you naked and, sexually assault you and you whole family at will, exactly as they would for any other group of slaves.
Only a free person has privacy and a slave never does and that is a core social principle since time immemorial. So slave or free person, you decide who owns your private life, you or some one else, not just information but also your physical person.
Hmm, devices an interesting term to use, rather than computers. So for decades M$ for licensing terms called multi-core cpu as multiple instances of a device, so is a quad core computer one device or four devices. I for one will never run Windows anal probe 10. Until they produce a secure version of windows I will not run it on any device ever.
Yeah, we all know exactly what they are aiming for, unlimited numbers of suicide bombers. The most innocent person falsely confessing to the worst possible crimes, hell, why stop there get them to commit the worst possible crimes. What else, slavish loyalty for everyone but the people controlling those agencies (1% rest assured you wont be in control, just in case they will line you up against the wall and you will be happy to be there). Most sane countries would turn around a write empathic legislation that only medical authorities are allowed to conduct that research for health benefits only and the any military or similar research is strictly banned with life imprisonment penalties for doing so.
I am trying think what the fuck is going through the sick fucking doctors minds who are doing this research and their total psychopathic indifference to the Hippocratic oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., here is a link as those people involved have obviously forgotten what it is.
The question put forward by the article was about how to get more women into FOSS projects not about prior FOSS projects. The right answer to that question is to bring more focus to other aspects of those projects. Mate, my full growth beard sees you as being more than just a little bit misogynistic. That you would so misread a humorous response to the actual question put forward by the article. Surely that bit of humour about fast and small, wasn't all that bad, sorry if it personally belittled you, well, not really;D.
Now that is pretty childish. FOSS coder leaves project to produce own fork, nothing at all wrong with that, what ever their reasons, I hope they produce successful work. The best way for any open source code to move forward is with forks that explore other methods, it is how you test to see if something else will work better. If they do something really well, then it will return to the original that produced the fork. In the FOSS world nothing is ever lost with a fork and much can be gained by it.
Give up on the nanny state stuff. Look at the rich and greedy, they demand nannies (us) do everything imaginable for them, yet they scream at us about a nanny state. They want nannies to cook for them, they want nannies to bring their din dins, they want nannies to clean after them, they want nannies to drive them and, they want nannies to feed their ego, this whilst simultaneously demanded none of corporate taxes they bleed off us as profits pays for nannies for us. Whether they be the nannies that look after our children in school, or the nannies that look after when we are sick in hospital or the nannies that patrol our streets for criminals. Believe the corporate propaganda, nannas (our typical nanny) are evil and must be stopped, else they will look after you, instead of having all of them wiping the collective arses of the rich and greedy (yet they want nannies to do everything imaginable for them).
Android, don't like something that is in it, take it out and that us a whole lot easier than sticking some thing in it that is missing. Seriously WTF Porsche, do a better job on you clearly collusive marketing, so who paid who to install the software or is Porsche IT actually as incompetent as they claim. In order to make the software desirable that stuck in pretty much everything reasonable they could think. So Porsche PR=B$ (especially for their products) are you claiming Google supplied the software as closed source and legally barred you from removing any modules.
You rather 'A' responce provides the exact answer to the question. How to get more women into open source, focus less on the code and more on other things. Women tend to be more social than men, more communication orientated (bringing up baby you know, coded in the genes, rather than stealthily waiting in silence to attack anything that threatens mother and child). So usability studies, documentation, manuals, teaching tutorials, product promotion and maybe just maybe perhaps a little more friendly social interaction in the various projects. Chain to a desk punching out code, fighting over whose is better, faster and more compact (something that is rumoured to be less than satisfying for women), is not often the most conducive to producing a successful project. There is far more to FOSS than just code, people are more important than the code, without the people there is no code and no use for the code. Your comment proves exactly why more women are needed in FOSS.
By far the majority of creative people and thinkers are amateurs, just because they do not get paid (often just one lucky break and more often someone they know) does not be they are not in the 'trade'. This nonsense of separating people, of claiming somehow professionals a separate exceptional people and everyone else in an ordinary nothing, a fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fan or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Besides how often is 'fandom' just a PR fabrication and how often is it real, how few fans are out there, whether hand held (actual fans) or mechanical (nothing more than main stream media marketing).
Just a blatant liar. Why bother , yeah sure then can transport their animals to market on a dirt track, yeah sure not problems. Do you have any idea at all of the difference between a gravel road and a bitmen paved road (the bitumen water proof coating to extend the life of the compacted road). Clearing, grading, placing gravel and compacting the material all cost more than the final bitumen coating (the problem with the bitumen coating, getting it to location from metropolitan areas), were as the gravel to produce the base can be sourced relatively locally from a suitable source. Laying that cable has nothing at all, not in the slightest on producing a road..
You obviously have no idea about how comics are produced. They are drawn and scripted by artists and writers no computer geeks or nerds. Hence many artists and writers attend, so basically a cross section of intellect and creativity and never to forget the cheetos crowd how never left immaturity also attend but for non creative or intellectual reasons. A slice through the whole available spectrum rather than one single end. However they are actively promoted on the internet between internet types and they then as the result of viral marketing tend to dominate, so more creative and more intellectual types and fewer cheetos types. So in many ways it does actually represent the cross section an international airport represents because the cheetos types often can not afford to fly far.
What the non-geeks really hate about the Big Bang Theory, we know exactly what, they are stilled mired in the high school jealously of not being able to learn as easily as some, no matter how hard they tried before the gave up in humiliation and sought other methods to strike back at those who learn so much more with no visible effort.
Consider this for every other species on the planet, that would be considered a good thing. How many is too many, wait before the whole system collapses and the species ceases to exist or start effective birth control that has impact even in cases of intoxicated boredom and too lazy to do anything about it but that OK some one else can look after it and pass on the intoxicated bored lazy genes.
So which is it, a few billions things going wrong or a few billion things going right, which is going to be by far the most likely demise of humanity, mass human sterility or a planet sterilised by human waste.
Anything that triggers hormonal changes of course, can be changed, like duhhhh!
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More appropriate good luck when you walk into a place and they start punching your details into a Windows 10 slaved computer, no matter what you do with security and your computer, you are still going to be well and truly probed by windows 10 without your permission or even a free dinner. You seriously think M$ will care one bit about whether or not they have permission to pry into you private life before they start storing and analysing your data gleaned from the entire botnet that is windows 10.
So that would just leave the corporations in charge. It is pretty bloody obvious that the problem is those corporations who are too big to be allowed to exist corrupting government. Government ain't the problem, the corporations corrupting government are the problem. The symptom is corrupt government, the disease is bloated obese corporations run by psychopaths, time to put those ass hats on a rather severe diet.
Crack the FBI, it seems pretty much like both the NSA and CIA have shattered the FBI with purposefully planted agents as well as recruited FBI agents. If anyone needs to crack crypto it is the FBI and they need to crack both the CIA and NSA otherwise democracy in the US is likely to collapse under the corruptive weight of extortion schemes ("we will let you continue to commit crimes as long as you do these things for us").
I take a more customer supplier route. I still with windows 7 until many customers band together and force M$ to produce Windows 10 SE with all the anal probe crap gone. This done not just as individual customers bit also as business seeking to keep the system secure and maintaining security around what ever methods provide them business advantage without M$ doing tech analysis and selling those business advantages to the highest bidder. This is a real customer threat and a huge breach of acceptable practice, something that should be directly actively tackled, not something that should be let slide but tackled head on.
Remember this shit will be spying on peoples children in school, spying on every member of your family, spying on your doctors and dentists, spying on every business interaction you make whether you have the anal probe installed or whether the business you are dealing with has it installed and when you pass by the accidentally stick it in you. So you can not keep secure by securing your computer you actively have to work at making every computer system your private information travels across secure.
So when M$ spies on your data on someone else's computer are they not still spying upon you without your permission regardless of what operating system you use or whether or not you even fucking use a computer!!!
Consider you theory of doctorates next time you need to visit a medical doctor or dentist, I'm sure it makes you feel all warm and cost inside. The only reason there is pride in ignorance is because of that ignorance.
Computer Science is a straight up misnomer, it is actually a 'discipline' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to which other sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and arts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are applied. A whole range of sciences and arts goes into computers from biological sciences in haptics and presentation of data, to the full range of expressive arts in terms of menu structures, icons, programming languages and of course the physics, mathematics and chemistry required for their production.
So computer use and theory should be added to all other higher education subjects and all other higher education subjects should have inputs into the Computer Systems discipline.
More accurately they can drop other manufacturing countries small arms and munitions to regime change countries, so that the claim the manufacturing country was interfering in the regime change country, so that the country actually supplying can 'er' help to secure the recipient country from the source of manufacture country but not the actual supply country with a military base or two. So why is the US already supply confiscated Russian manufactured and munitions arms to countries instead of properly destroying them.
So it all has become rather pointless and should likely really just end, if for no other reason than the very politically incorrect title playboy, 'play' in this case relating to non reproductive sexual proclivity and 'boy' being an prepubescent male. Nothing lasts forever and pretty much playboy or more politically correct meaningfullrelationshipman, sort of has no market any more.
Nukes might have all the flash but make no mistake biological weapons are still by far the most dangerous and one warhead can have impact across the whole globe, not just at the point of impact. This detector just traces reactors and not existing weapons grade material nor it's transport from one location to another. So nothing about stealth cruise missiles tipped with nuclear weapons or cargo ships with them hidden on board and wandering suit case warheads and those three represent the greatest threat.
Taking into account the current corrupt global arms trade (international law should be, if you can not make the weapons, then you should not have them) and it's ability to fabricate wars, the ability and desire to shift weapons grade material when profits are high enough is inevitable.
More appropriately secure is a relative term. Take the US justice system it is secure for the rich because they mostly get off and it is secure for the rich because the poor mostly get convicted, so it is secure in one regard. So the mail servers were secure, they kept private questionable communiques away from investigatory eyes and should push come to shove they could be 'hmm' be edited prior to handover, so yes quite emphatically they were 'secured'. Just they way the politically corrupt would like them secured and generally not the way the informed public would like them secured (no lost communiques). Keep in mind the era and how other corporate emails from the likes of M$ and HP were being obtained by the courts and becoming part of court battles (leading to regular email auditing and deletions to ensure safer track records for court proceedings). The intent is clear, that they conspired to cheat government record keeping systems, it is also clear and that government officers were brought into the conspiracy was also clear, hence many laws were most emphatically broken and should be deserving of investigation and prosecution. Whether or not the 'remaining?' emails show secured data on the laws or criminal intent is arbitrary, the crime had already been committed in conspiring to intentionally thwart government record keeping of government communiques.
The reality is there is only one plan that works. Think gold will protect in a collapsed society, why, you can eat it and of course if someone else wants it they will use a gun to take it. Think a gun and ammo are you path to safety, then a sniper will kill you before you even notice they are there. Bunkers at all and nothing more that tin cans to be opened for the goodies inside and that might well include the people inside as consumables.
Want to be safe, quite simply have more people on your side than any possible threat. The only thing in reality that can protect in times of crisis, is the same as what protects you right not and you would be unsafe right now without it, community. Best plan in times to crisis, who the community can quickly come together to support each other, how resources will be gathered and distributed, provisions for health care and of course policing.
Think you are safe in your personal private prison, not if someone wants something you have or your prison has been buried under rubble and people couldn't be bothered digging you out. I would have to say any government that hid it's arse underground whilst leaving the bulk of the public exposed, should straight up be buried and left there as a bad memory.
The completely absurd idea that "That is a concern of the fringe minority, those who post on Slashdot perhaps, but it isn't a major concern of the average Joe" is just so patently absurd. Hint FUCKING Hint, the cheetos crowd do not buy PCs, they buy smart phones and game consoles (they do buy notebook for the equally techno limited children for school use) but they are not PC buyers now now will they ever be PC buyers (some of them were for a short while but that was because it was all the market had to offer).
The PC market is shrinking back to business and computer geeks and nerds, the consumer PC market, Big Screen PCs, tablets, smart phones and game consoles are the larger but significantly different market. M$ is hugely fucking up by trying to force computer nerds and geeks into the cheetoos crowd market, empty consumers of palp rather than who they are. It is mind bogglingly stupid by M$ to fail to produce Windows secure edition for computer geeks and nerds because they will retaliate and ruthlessly attack M$ for their abuse of the privacy of computer geeks and nerds and, they will spread that attack as far and wide as they can (that being of course a consumer style boycott attack and counter marketing).
The most ignorant thing about pushing all this in the current global climate with the contortionists US twisting with regard to Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist/Rebels, everyone will blame America and Americans, everything bad in the TPP and it's ugly sibling TTIP will be blamed on American corporations and sales will suffer accordingly. Want your citizens and country to maintain any semblance of freedom boycott Large US Corporations (small ones run by real Americans apparently are fine, so oddly enough help America rebuild Main Street and protect you own country by working together globally to gut Wall Street).
This represents a major savings over autocratic structures because it removes the most non-productive individuals, the managers and the middle manages that produce nothing and often spend more time trying to inflate the egos and salaries, rather than effectively managing anything.
One thing about guns that is very similar to drugs, legal varieties of course. Want to reduce their use, then ensure the taxes on them reflect the harm they cause. User pays means the group that users those items, drugs or guns should pay for all the damages caused by those items, no more privatising the profits and socialising the losses. There should be sufficient tax placed upon guns and bullets to ensure that all the damage caused by their illicit, ignorant, clumsy, foolish use is paid for and not by people who do not have or use them. So somewhere upwards of 100% tax and this should apply to used guns as well.
Encryption of course is directly tied to the principle of freedom. A free person owns there privacy, a slave's privacy is owned by someone else. The more privacy you lose, the more a slave you become. Loss of privacy extends to physical sexual assaults (body search), where you are no longer private to your person but others are allowed to molest you, strip you naked and, sexually assault you and you whole family at will, exactly as they would for any other group of slaves.
Only a free person has privacy and a slave never does and that is a core social principle since time immemorial. So slave or free person, you decide who owns your private life, you or some one else, not just information but also your physical person.
Hmm, devices an interesting term to use, rather than computers. So for decades M$ for licensing terms called multi-core cpu as multiple instances of a device, so is a quad core computer one device or four devices. I for one will never run Windows anal probe 10. Until they produce a secure version of windows I will not run it on any device ever.
Yeah, we all know exactly what they are aiming for, unlimited numbers of suicide bombers. The most innocent person falsely confessing to the worst possible crimes, hell, why stop there get them to commit the worst possible crimes. What else, slavish loyalty for everyone but the people controlling those agencies (1% rest assured you wont be in control, just in case they will line you up against the wall and you will be happy to be there). Most sane countries would turn around a write empathic legislation that only medical authorities are allowed to conduct that research for health benefits only and the any military or similar research is strictly banned with life imprisonment penalties for doing so.
I am trying think what the fuck is going through the sick fucking doctors minds who are doing this research and their total psychopathic indifference to the Hippocratic oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., here is a link as those people involved have obviously forgotten what it is.
The question put forward by the article was about how to get more women into FOSS projects not about prior FOSS projects. The right answer to that question is to bring more focus to other aspects of those projects. Mate, my full growth beard sees you as being more than just a little bit misogynistic. That you would so misread a humorous response to the actual question put forward by the article. Surely that bit of humour about fast and small, wasn't all that bad, sorry if it personally belittled you, well, not really ;D.
Now that is pretty childish. FOSS coder leaves project to produce own fork, nothing at all wrong with that, what ever their reasons, I hope they produce successful work. The best way for any open source code to move forward is with forks that explore other methods, it is how you test to see if something else will work better. If they do something really well, then it will return to the original that produced the fork. In the FOSS world nothing is ever lost with a fork and much can be gained by it.
Give up on the nanny state stuff. Look at the rich and greedy, they demand nannies (us) do everything imaginable for them, yet they scream at us about a nanny state. They want nannies to cook for them, they want nannies to bring their din dins, they want nannies to clean after them, they want nannies to drive them and, they want nannies to feed their ego, this whilst simultaneously demanded none of corporate taxes they bleed off us as profits pays for nannies for us. Whether they be the nannies that look after our children in school, or the nannies that look after when we are sick in hospital or the nannies that patrol our streets for criminals. Believe the corporate propaganda, nannas (our typical nanny) are evil and must be stopped, else they will look after you, instead of having all of them wiping the collective arses of the rich and greedy (yet they want nannies to do everything imaginable for them).
Android, don't like something that is in it, take it out and that us a whole lot easier than sticking some thing in it that is missing. Seriously WTF Porsche, do a better job on you clearly collusive marketing, so who paid who to install the software or is Porsche IT actually as incompetent as they claim. In order to make the software desirable that stuck in pretty much everything reasonable they could think. So Porsche PR=B$ (especially for their products) are you claiming Google supplied the software as closed source and legally barred you from removing any modules.
You rather 'A' responce provides the exact answer to the question. How to get more women into open source, focus less on the code and more on other things. Women tend to be more social than men, more communication orientated (bringing up baby you know, coded in the genes, rather than stealthily waiting in silence to attack anything that threatens mother and child). So usability studies, documentation, manuals, teaching tutorials, product promotion and maybe just maybe perhaps a little more friendly social interaction in the various projects. Chain to a desk punching out code, fighting over whose is better, faster and more compact (something that is rumoured to be less than satisfying for women), is not often the most conducive to producing a successful project. There is far more to FOSS than just code, people are more important than the code, without the people there is no code and no use for the code. Your comment proves exactly why more women are needed in FOSS.
By far the majority of creative people and thinkers are amateurs, just because they do not get paid (often just one lucky break and more often someone they know) does not be they are not in the 'trade'. This nonsense of separating people, of claiming somehow professionals a separate exceptional people and everyone else in an ordinary nothing, a fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fan or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Besides how often is 'fandom' just a PR fabrication and how often is it real, how few fans are out there, whether hand held (actual fans) or mechanical (nothing more than main stream media marketing).
Just a blatant liar. Why bother , yeah sure then can transport their animals to market on a dirt track, yeah sure not problems. Do you have any idea at all of the difference between a gravel road and a bitmen paved road (the bitumen water proof coating to extend the life of the compacted road). Clearing, grading, placing gravel and compacting the material all cost more than the final bitumen coating (the problem with the bitumen coating, getting it to location from metropolitan areas), were as the gravel to produce the base can be sourced relatively locally from a suitable source. Laying that cable has nothing at all, not in the slightest on producing a road..
You obviously have no idea about how comics are produced. They are drawn and scripted by artists and writers no computer geeks or nerds. Hence many artists and writers attend, so basically a cross section of intellect and creativity and never to forget the cheetos crowd how never left immaturity also attend but for non creative or intellectual reasons. A slice through the whole available spectrum rather than one single end. However they are actively promoted on the internet between internet types and they then as the result of viral marketing tend to dominate, so more creative and more intellectual types and fewer cheetos types. So in many ways it does actually represent the cross section an international airport represents because the cheetos types often can not afford to fly far.
What the non-geeks really hate about the Big Bang Theory, we know exactly what, they are stilled mired in the high school jealously of not being able to learn as easily as some, no matter how hard they tried before the gave up in humiliation and sought other methods to strike back at those who learn so much more with no visible effort.
Consider this for every other species on the planet, that would be considered a good thing. How many is too many, wait before the whole system collapses and the species ceases to exist or start effective birth control that has impact even in cases of intoxicated boredom and too lazy to do anything about it but that OK some one else can look after it and pass on the intoxicated bored lazy genes.
So which is it, a few billions things going wrong or a few billion things going right, which is going to be by far the most likely demise of humanity, mass human sterility or a planet sterilised by human waste.
Anything that triggers hormonal changes of course, can be changed, like duhhhh!