The only thing silverfish brings to mind is mothballs, which is exactly what M$ will do with the development team when it fails to succeed with a package that no one wants or has any interst in, mothballed that is of course;). I wonder how many events M$ can pay off to be silverfish only and how the advertisers will feel when no one is watching their adds.
So what you are saying is it makes sense for ballmer to work with one yahoo shareholder to oust a successful board, a board that is far more unsuccessful than the MSN board and insert a puppet board that will sell yahoo or it's assets on the cheap. Now that might make sense for M$ buying yahoo on the cheap based upon questionable activity and possible side agreements with icahn but what sense does it make for the majority of yahoo stockholders. It is time for ballmer to put M$'s shareholders money where his mouth is and simply offer sufficient cash so that the majority of yahoo shareholders will accept it and not attempt to cripple yahoo by attempting to put a dud board into yahoo.
The even more ludicrous issue is, this law basically empowers the slashdot spell check freaks. A criminal offence in you mistype you name, go to jail for hitting the adjacent key on the keyboard. Only the idiot control freaks in the US.
The principle of law however should be adhered to in that Myspace et al make not effort to ensure a valid form if identity is required to ensure you are who you state you are ie. they really don't care. If they had required a valid form of ID to be used and you supplied a fake form of ID and there were subsequent cost that resulting from the us of the fake ID them possibly there would be a charge to answer to.
In this case it is the simple filling out of an online form, with a one way limited agreement. Rule of thumb when speaking to the police, admit nothing, deny nothing and remember nothing because in cases like this, far more often than not, it is impossible for them to prove you did anything but if you open your move you give yourself every opportunity of sticking your foot in it and convicting yourself.
Here is a citation from the article written by Richard "The LA Times reported that his foundation spends five to 10% of its money annually and invests the rest, sometimes in companies it suggests cause environmental degradation and illness in the same poor countries". So the B$ article as given on the blog is wildly inaccurate as well as of course the intro to this thread.
Read the actual parent article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm on the BBC and you will see it is far milder than the over the top forthy beat up, so is Neo(not so)Smart just one the those blogvertising sites that ballmer was going on about as the future of marketing or is that blogger just as bad as many slashdotters on occasion can be when it comes to RTFA.
More importantly, there are in fact a whole range of GUI's to choose under Linux not just an older versions of KDE. Actually this time around after fooling around with KDE4 for a bit I decided to give the latest version of Gnome a much longer run ie Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu, so far it seems to going pretty well.
More likely the google marketdroids and psychologists can set up an automated process for analysing a person viewing preferences in order to more effectively manipulate the viewers choices via psychologically targeted marketing. The googlites a very big on accessing every bit of information about you they can, including which advertising campaigns in the past have effectively altered your choices so they can target that style of add at you in the future.
This time around google seems to be rolling over and willing to give a away what they consider to very valuable information, obviously that just want the whole thing to go away and for people to forget how much information google tries to gather about each and every individual who use the internet.
Your identity can never be stolen. What is happening is that lazy people are failing to ensure the validity of the credentials they are being supplied. These same people are they illegally attempting to charge an innocent party for the blunder they made when they accepted the false credentials.
Want to kerb identity theft then start applying some hefty penalties when companies accept false identification and increase the severity of the penalties for the level of risk ie. video store accepts false id low fine, bank accepts false id major fine.
The whole yarn of identity theft is all about pushing the problem back onto the end user and making them suffer with the consequences and keeping greedy corporations free of the legal, moral and fiscal responsibility for their mistakes and their subsequent criminal actions in attempting to force innocent parties into paying for it.
Most specifically P2P is an alternate publishing method and, they is why the publishers want to ban it. It basically is a very low cost publishing method which allows people to produce their own content and get it globally distributed with out large infrastructure costs and publishers commissions.
Technically speaking in the publishers attempting to ban P2P they are in fact engaging in anti competitive practices and attempting to block creators of content from being their own publishers. Just because a few people abuse it doesn't not give any corporation the right to attempt to censor every independent content producers who wishes to economically self publish.
Of course it never is really just $70 dollars per year. If the whole family is attemtping to use cheap UMPC say a typicaly family of four, thats about $1200 on hardware, then add the windows OS to use on those pc (just forget the whole vista issue which doubles the cost of hardware before you vene pay for the OS), now add the office suite on top of that.
Of course you can stretch the hardware out for a few years but that family will be paying for that software every year, $280 or they lose their data. The whole thing is mind boggling silly as the family a limited users who will make very little use of the features of a full office suit so they are far better off using a free office suite.
No. It is all down to random chance as the player loses the ability to do some important things, like trying to read opposing players and, learning to send false signals. Bluffing is the difference between winning and losing in poker, learning how to vary you bets, learning how others players tend to bet based upon their hand.
So playing against a computer is just going for dumb luck, no real skill involved at all.
More specifically by emphasising privacy and confidentiality you are implying that the information will be recorded over the long term and used. When it is just given as an arbitrary question, people feel they can simply deny the truthfulness of the response and, claim they were just joking as the survey was of no great import as implied by the questioning method.
For a more realistic response, don't just ask about cheating generically but about specific recent events and requesting details where the response could have real consequences.
It is when their selling used cars or insurance but, then of course they are not really friends, just people who use some else's trust for their own personal gain.
It is hard to tell who would be the slimiest, so called friends sticking you with advertising or the googlites for patenting and delivering it.
What next will google be patenting the offering of commissions on sales for supply positive reviews on crap products, where the sucker 'er' friend accepts the review and acknowledges the reviewer or maybe perhaps a commission of sending in your 'friends' personal contact details, private email address, private telephone numbers, home address etc. (of course google can already dig that out of your email if you use gmail so perhaps they wont bother).
EBay is simply an auction house, facilitating the auctioning of products. If people commit criminal acts viua EBay auctions then those individuals should be pursued, EBay should simply ensure that those people offering products for sale can be identified and should EBay fail in ensuring that the sellers of products can be identified then EBay should be held accountable.
So it is simply up to EBay to ensure it is not facilitating the anonymous selling of stolen or misrepresented products.
As for counterfeit products, as long as the buyer knows they are fakes who cares. The only thing you really end up paying for with 'genuine' fashion products is the bloated advertising costs as often enough the counterfeits come out of the same third world factories as the 'genuine' article.
No, it has nothing to do with profitability of corporations. The underlying basis is power and lust. The RIAA/MPAA works for organisations that target most of their works at children. Their desire is for unlimited power and control. They want to be the only source of information, the only point of access for self 'sic' expression, they want to totally define public thought and they wish to force adoration for them from the general public.
This is clearly demonstrated by their willingness to punish children, to control their lives, sending them to jail for copying music whilst simultaneously promoting the self destructive practices within that age group via that same content, in affect priming them for intimate contact with publishing executives.
The only constraints that will limit the corruptive practises of these organisations are the ones forced upon by the general public, those that appreciate that the quality of an industry is not defined by the profit it makes but by the nature of the products it produces and whether that product supports a healthy society or as is clearly apparent the product in fact attacks society, tears down family values and, even promotes criminal behaviour.
The principle is let the students decide what they want to believe in the appropriate class. In the science class, the obvious lessons to be taught are based upon current scientific thinking and the accepted scientific theories, those that have be tested and verified. If you want to teach religious believes do in in the religious class rooms and you can make up what ever fantasies you choose to. Of course the government when there is no seperation between church and state, should enforce the principle that all religious beliefs should get equal time in the religious class to avoid publicly advocated racism and prejudice.
So it is time for the scientific and intellectual community to stand up for the public auditing of religious education classes to ensure that those classes are not racist or prejudiced and that they do adhere to the principles of religious freedom and teach all religions and belief systems with out bias. It should all be based upon the education and legal principles as being espoused by the creationist community and the same laws should be enacted to enforce the requirement that all religious classes be forced to teach all religions and belief systems and they should not be tainted or contaminated by the biases of the teacher who would be doing enormous harm to the students by denying them the opportunity to form their own unique belief systems.
So I don't advent teaching any religious system in formal education class rooms but, I see nothing wrong where you start to mix church and state and you enact laws to force the teaching of religious beliefs that those same laws are also required to force the open teaching of all regions in any religious classroom as failure to do so could be considered to be doing dangerous psychological harm to children.
There is no comparison between the simple act of changing a radio stations and attempting to use a hand held mobile phone whilst attempt to formulate a message with as few characters as possible, a task that obviously takes a lot of hand eye coordination as well as concentration. Changing radio stations on a car radio is no more distracting than changing gears in a manual, or activating the windscreen wipers etc.
People text when they want to send a simple one way message with out an immediate reply, something that could be effectively replaced by more widespread use of voice mail a practice that would be far safer.
Feature bloat, of the pointless variety, has very little to do with competitiveness and much more to do with marketing. It is the means by which, costly and productivity destroying upgrades are made more sellable but, of course everything comes to an end. So office 2007 and Vista have proven to be 'a bridge to far' that nobody wants to cross and a pointless waste of M$'s share holders money.
Rather unfair to blame that failure on Bill as it was largely ballmer's fuck up, a trial run to see how the company would function under ballmer's sole control, as it pans out, not very well. As a result ballmer's position is under real threat and he feels it, which is why the defensive public announcement that he will not retire for 10 years, quite clearly he will not voluntarily leave the position regardless of the blunders he continues to make.
M$ as it currently stands can not succeed in OSS as the most important part of generating a income out of OSS is customers service and support, of being able to establish and maintain a quality relationship with customers. Treating them like the enemy with bogus EULA's, licence audits, B$ marketing and some very public deceitful practices makes it virtually impossible to achieve success it what will be a very competitive market, proof of that is M$ continuing failure with MSN.
M$ has no real public, no customer desire, a prime example of that is the complete failure of Zune, even the name shows the level of M$'s customer disconnect. M$ needs to undergo a complete personality transplant and lose the arrogance, ego and bullshit and that will only happen once current management has crippled it's value and made 1/10th of the company it is today, after a shareholder revolt.
By the same logic aren't they entitled to used 'enhanced' interrogation techniques to inspect the data in your brain. After you once you get into the country you might write down a copy of that information or draw a picture of an image from memory.
So is your electronic data an extension of your mind, a enhancement to your memory in affect part of your personal digital life.
So arbitrary confiscation, copying and inspection of your personal digital memories is Ok, then why not your biological ones. Why shouldn't they be able to strip you naked, force water into your lungs and generally brutalise you in order to extract your other memories. Simply put, with out due cause, with out a warrant they should be emphatically forbidden from invading your personal space, when there is no possible immediate threat.
Quite clearly there can be no immediate threat from the importation of knowledge, except of course for religious and political fundamentalists, who hate and fear knowledge and don't trust anyone with free and independent thoughts, especially those who have been dealing with foreigners.
Well, dang, you just gotta remember slashdot is a forum for the good old computer geek/nerd network and not a forum for corporate marketdroids. Yup, one thing to remember about computer geeks/nerds they have really good memories and things that happened one or five or ten years ago are all just like yesterday and they will take the piss out of misbehaving corporations as often as it tickles their fancy to do so.
Personally I think Sun had a few rough patches with open source as the reward from open sourcing a lot of great software, might not have been as great for the bottom line as they had expected and it them a bit anxious and pushed them into making some skewed decisions. Of course now the rewards for pushing open source are coming into to sight and it is becoming apparent that the beast of redmond has been neutered and open source is where you need to be today to open up future opportunities.
Actually I believe you a quite wrong about the only way to overthrow a government is via a military coup. Based upon a outsiders perspective it is quite clear that there is another way to overthrow a government.
You simply gather together a bunch of morally bankrupt lobbyists and get major corporation to fund them and provide them with sufficient capital to funnel that cash to a bunch of criminal politicians. Also you arrange for a proportion of those bribes to go to, well, somewhat less than Christian leaders of the various Christian right organisations, to ensure a whole lot of blind, listen to the words but ignore the actions, voters , do the right 'er' wrong thing.
To push it all along you get the government department that is meant to ensure that mass media organisations do not become monopolistic, do not become a one eyed voice for the majority shareholders ands sociopath corporate executives, to do the exact opposite a work towards turning mass media into a propaganda network for endless war and corporate fascism.
Now it also helps if you get the telecoms to start monitoring everyone who disagrees or might even consider disagreeing as well as every opposition politician and their supporters, to keep one step ahead of them and to ensure you can enact measures to isolate them.
There you go, everything you need to over throw a government and blow me down but, you don't have to look to far to see the evidence of it. Now I can think of one reason why the immunity bill might make it through. It really all boils down to how much dirt the telecoms were able to dig up on the various political leaders and how much of this dirt would appear as evidence if those telecoms were prosecuted. Take a very careful look at the ones voting for immunity, they are likely not voting for the telecoms immunity from prosecution, so much as they are, voting for their own immunity from prosecution, really nasty stuff.
Well it wasn't free and it wasn't going to be sold with the end user wasting time viewing pointless adds. Google was the customer and, it simply looks like they felt it was going to be cost effective not to pay for the technology per use and simply appropriate it and then fight it out in court.
Obviously end user weren't really interested in paying that much just to get data out of outlook (a really crazy concept why would they use outlook if you have to pay to get the data out, crazy). So google wanted to offer it free and, it doesn't really make good business sence to buy something at around $20 per user (mind you just to port outlook emails) for just a minor part of the overall suite, with just limited adds to pay for it (especially cheap entry level adds).
So it is far cheaper to borrow the technology, claim it as their and pay a one time development cost to reproduce another 'version' code.
OF course the developers who had the product 'borrowed' of course are going to be really concerned as they know it has a very short shelf life ie. the more successful alternates to M$ outlook become and the more rapidly the market for products to get you data out of outlook shrinks. Now, you can also add, the expansion the ODF document standard to eventually kill all those products necessary to readily enable you extract data out of closed proprietary document formats.
Tell, since you want to wallow in the physical, does it count whether you get them pregnant or not and how often. Is double digits better than single or does it not matter whether you can achieve the same count as a jackass on stud achieves as long as you can make the same noise when firing blanks.
For all the female computers geeks who want to achieve success in the field, I am sure the appreciate being relegated to being targets for e-stalking;).
The underlying personalty traits required are, you either are a computer geek/nerd or you are not. You either enjoy keeping up with changes in computers and software, learning new skills, effectively applying your continually changing skills, the technical side of computer hardware and software, or you don't and after a short uninspiring career you become a computer salesperson, a drone.
I can't help it, I'd rather be a university gaining new knowledge, than be on an overseas holiday. I rather spend all night configuring, adjusting and tweaking computer hardware and software than be getting drunk in some crap night club. I'd rather be/.ing than mindlessly myspaceing and so for me a career in computers just ain't boring even if a do find some elements somewhat tiresome like coding.
So the grads are just leaning the computers skills are more difficult than other grad choices and the big entry level salaries are gone eliminating blind greed as the only reason to choose a career in computers, so reduced numbers are to be expected and generally it is better for the whole industry, less drones sucking up space doing more harm than good and of course the actually computer geeks/nerds get to enjoy higher salaries and better conditions.
Well technically speaking the people that the RIAA and the MPAA represent could be charge with child abuse as they do produce content that is often intended to promote self destructive life styles that is often targeted at children. The only thing really lacking has been the proof of intent, so perhaps this law change is a could idea.
So lets target the mass media companies and the marketing companies, now proof of intent should be required, just the clearly evident consequences and a 'belief' of the intent and hence guilt, so what should be the penalty for a whole bunch of corporate executive child molesters.
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The only thing silverfish brings to mind is mothballs, which is exactly what M$ will do with the development team when it fails to succeed with a package that no one wants or has any interst in, mothballed that is of course;). I wonder how many events M$ can pay off to be silverfish only and how the advertisers will feel when no one is watching their adds.
So what you are saying is it makes sense for ballmer to work with one yahoo shareholder to oust a successful board, a board that is far more unsuccessful than the MSN board and insert a puppet board that will sell yahoo or it's assets on the cheap. Now that might make sense for M$ buying yahoo on the cheap based upon questionable activity and possible side agreements with icahn but what sense does it make for the majority of yahoo stockholders. It is time for ballmer to put M$'s shareholders money where his mouth is and simply offer sufficient cash so that the majority of yahoo shareholders will accept it and not attempt to cripple yahoo by attempting to put a dud board into yahoo.
The principle of law however should be adhered to in that Myspace et al make not effort to ensure a valid form if identity is required to ensure you are who you state you are ie. they really don't care. If they had required a valid form of ID to be used and you supplied a fake form of ID and there were subsequent cost that resulting from the us of the fake ID them possibly there would be a charge to answer to.
In this case it is the simple filling out of an online form, with a one way limited agreement. Rule of thumb when speaking to the police, admit nothing, deny nothing and remember nothing because in cases like this, far more often than not, it is impossible for them to prove you did anything but if you open your move you give yourself every opportunity of sticking your foot in it and convicting yourself.
Read the actual parent article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm on the BBC and you will see it is far milder than the over the top forthy beat up, so is Neo(not so)Smart just one the those blogvertising sites that ballmer was going on about as the future of marketing or is that blogger just as bad as many slashdotters on occasion can be when it comes to RTFA.
More importantly, there are in fact a whole range of GUI's to choose under Linux not just an older versions of KDE. Actually this time around after fooling around with KDE4 for a bit I decided to give the latest version of Gnome a much longer run ie Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu, so far it seems to going pretty well.
This time around google seems to be rolling over and willing to give a away what they consider to very valuable information, obviously that just want the whole thing to go away and for people to forget how much information google tries to gather about each and every individual who use the internet.
Want to kerb identity theft then start applying some hefty penalties when companies accept false identification and increase the severity of the penalties for the level of risk ie. video store accepts false id low fine, bank accepts false id major fine.
The whole yarn of identity theft is all about pushing the problem back onto the end user and making them suffer with the consequences and keeping greedy corporations free of the legal, moral and fiscal responsibility for their mistakes and their subsequent criminal actions in attempting to force innocent parties into paying for it.
Technically speaking in the publishers attempting to ban P2P they are in fact engaging in anti competitive practices and attempting to block creators of content from being their own publishers. Just because a few people abuse it doesn't not give any corporation the right to attempt to censor every independent content producers who wishes to economically self publish.
Of course you can stretch the hardware out for a few years but that family will be paying for that software every year, $280 or they lose their data. The whole thing is mind boggling silly as the family a limited users who will make very little use of the features of a full office suit so they are far better off using a free office suite.
So playing against a computer is just going for dumb luck, no real skill involved at all.
For a more realistic response, don't just ask about cheating generically but about specific recent events and requesting details where the response could have real consequences.
It is hard to tell who would be the slimiest, so called friends sticking you with advertising or the googlites for patenting and delivering it.
What next will google be patenting the offering of commissions on sales for supply positive reviews on crap products, where the sucker 'er' friend accepts the review and acknowledges the reviewer or maybe perhaps a commission of sending in your 'friends' personal contact details, private email address, private telephone numbers, home address etc. (of course google can already dig that out of your email if you use gmail so perhaps they wont bother).
Idiot alert, that why the fwits are trying to change the law, grow at least half a brain.
So it is simply up to EBay to ensure it is not facilitating the anonymous selling of stolen or misrepresented products.
As for counterfeit products, as long as the buyer knows they are fakes who cares. The only thing you really end up paying for with 'genuine' fashion products is the bloated advertising costs as often enough the counterfeits come out of the same third world factories as the 'genuine' article.
This is clearly demonstrated by their willingness to punish children, to control their lives, sending them to jail for copying music whilst simultaneously promoting the self destructive practices within that age group via that same content, in affect priming them for intimate contact with publishing executives.
The only constraints that will limit the corruptive practises of these organisations are the ones forced upon by the general public, those that appreciate that the quality of an industry is not defined by the profit it makes but by the nature of the products it produces and whether that product supports a healthy society or as is clearly apparent the product in fact attacks society, tears down family values and, even promotes criminal behaviour.
So it is time for the scientific and intellectual community to stand up for the public auditing of religious education classes to ensure that those classes are not racist or prejudiced and that they do adhere to the principles of religious freedom and teach all religions and belief systems with out bias. It should all be based upon the education and legal principles as being espoused by the creationist community and the same laws should be enacted to enforce the requirement that all religious classes be forced to teach all religions and belief systems and they should not be tainted or contaminated by the biases of the teacher who would be doing enormous harm to the students by denying them the opportunity to form their own unique belief systems.
So I don't advent teaching any religious system in formal education class rooms but, I see nothing wrong where you start to mix church and state and you enact laws to force the teaching of religious beliefs that those same laws are also required to force the open teaching of all regions in any religious classroom as failure to do so could be considered to be doing dangerous psychological harm to children.
People text when they want to send a simple one way message with out an immediate reply, something that could be effectively replaced by more widespread use of voice mail a practice that would be far safer.
Rather unfair to blame that failure on Bill as it was largely ballmer's fuck up, a trial run to see how the company would function under ballmer's sole control, as it pans out, not very well. As a result ballmer's position is under real threat and he feels it, which is why the defensive public announcement that he will not retire for 10 years, quite clearly he will not voluntarily leave the position regardless of the blunders he continues to make.
M$ as it currently stands can not succeed in OSS as the most important part of generating a income out of OSS is customers service and support, of being able to establish and maintain a quality relationship with customers. Treating them like the enemy with bogus EULA's, licence audits, B$ marketing and some very public deceitful practices makes it virtually impossible to achieve success it what will be a very competitive market, proof of that is M$ continuing failure with MSN.
M$ has no real public, no customer desire, a prime example of that is the complete failure of Zune, even the name shows the level of M$'s customer disconnect. M$ needs to undergo a complete personality transplant and lose the arrogance, ego and bullshit and that will only happen once current management has crippled it's value and made 1/10th of the company it is today, after a shareholder revolt.
So is your electronic data an extension of your mind, a enhancement to your memory in affect part of your personal digital life.
So arbitrary confiscation, copying and inspection of your personal digital memories is Ok, then why not your biological ones. Why shouldn't they be able to strip you naked, force water into your lungs and generally brutalise you in order to extract your other memories. Simply put, with out due cause, with out a warrant they should be emphatically forbidden from invading your personal space, when there is no possible immediate threat.
Quite clearly there can be no immediate threat from the importation of knowledge, except of course for religious and political fundamentalists, who hate and fear knowledge and don't trust anyone with free and independent thoughts, especially those who have been dealing with foreigners.
Personally I think Sun had a few rough patches with open source as the reward from open sourcing a lot of great software, might not have been as great for the bottom line as they had expected and it them a bit anxious and pushed them into making some skewed decisions. Of course now the rewards for pushing open source are coming into to sight and it is becoming apparent that the beast of redmond has been neutered and open source is where you need to be today to open up future opportunities.
You simply gather together a bunch of morally bankrupt lobbyists and get major corporation to fund them and provide them with sufficient capital to funnel that cash to a bunch of criminal politicians. Also you arrange for a proportion of those bribes to go to, well, somewhat less than Christian leaders of the various Christian right organisations, to ensure a whole lot of blind, listen to the words but ignore the actions, voters , do the right 'er' wrong thing.
To push it all along you get the government department that is meant to ensure that mass media organisations do not become monopolistic, do not become a one eyed voice for the majority shareholders ands sociopath corporate executives, to do the exact opposite a work towards turning mass media into a propaganda network for endless war and corporate fascism.
Now it also helps if you get the telecoms to start monitoring everyone who disagrees or might even consider disagreeing as well as every opposition politician and their supporters, to keep one step ahead of them and to ensure you can enact measures to isolate them.
There you go, everything you need to over throw a government and blow me down but, you don't have to look to far to see the evidence of it. Now I can think of one reason why the immunity bill might make it through. It really all boils down to how much dirt the telecoms were able to dig up on the various political leaders and how much of this dirt would appear as evidence if those telecoms were prosecuted. Take a very careful look at the ones voting for immunity, they are likely not voting for the telecoms immunity from prosecution, so much as they are, voting for their own immunity from prosecution, really nasty stuff.
Obviously end user weren't really interested in paying that much just to get data out of outlook (a really crazy concept why would they use outlook if you have to pay to get the data out, crazy). So google wanted to offer it free and, it doesn't really make good business sence to buy something at around $20 per user (mind you just to port outlook emails) for just a minor part of the overall suite, with just limited adds to pay for it (especially cheap entry level adds).
So it is far cheaper to borrow the technology, claim it as their and pay a one time development cost to reproduce another 'version' code.
OF course the developers who had the product 'borrowed' of course are going to be really concerned as they know it has a very short shelf life ie. the more successful alternates to M$ outlook become and the more rapidly the market for products to get you data out of outlook shrinks. Now, you can also add, the expansion the ODF document standard to eventually kill all those products necessary to readily enable you extract data out of closed proprietary document formats.
For all the female computers geeks who want to achieve success in the field, I am sure the appreciate being relegated to being targets for e-stalking ;).
I can't help it, I'd rather be a university gaining new knowledge, than be on an overseas holiday. I rather spend all night configuring, adjusting and tweaking computer hardware and software than be getting drunk in some crap night club. I'd rather be /.ing than mindlessly myspaceing and so for me a career in computers just ain't boring even if a do find some elements somewhat tiresome like coding.
So the grads are just leaning the computers skills are more difficult than other grad choices and the big entry level salaries are gone eliminating blind greed as the only reason to choose a career in computers, so reduced numbers are to be expected and generally it is better for the whole industry, less drones sucking up space doing more harm than good and of course the actually computer geeks/nerds get to enjoy higher salaries and better conditions.
So lets target the mass media companies and the marketing companies, now proof of intent should be required, just the clearly evident consequences and a 'belief' of the intent and hence guilt, so what should be the penalty for a whole bunch of corporate executive child molesters.