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  1. Come on guys stop acting stupid on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    It was cute for the first hundred posts pretending to be stupid, but then it just got old.
    Of course the entire point is it's from a Playboy centrefold and the kids googled for it, then went into Bevis and Butthead mode.
    The "if your precious snowflake cant handle the image of a beautiful womans face wearing a hat" tripe is missing the point by so far it may as well be on the moon.

  2. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Right. Because helping further the Victorian Era sexual repression that's ingrained in our culture is a good thing

    So the US school boards say and they set the rules in this context. Outside it is a different story.

  3. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    There's no contradiction there. Bare boobs is a historical drama or art gallery don't come with the same baggage as bare boobs in Playboy or a strip club and your Nun would have been very aware of that. She probably didn't see anything wrong with breast feeding in public either. There's "conservative" and there's the far side of crazy that wants to protect children from the merest hint of a nipple in any context.

  4. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    The story is not about the face. It's about students being told to look for it, finding more, and then going into Bevis and Butthead mode.

  5. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing the context of the "Lena" image as being a standard test for image processing.

    Not if the kids get it off the net as a Playboy centrefold.
    If the teacher had just provided the students with the image, even the full body one, instead of getting them to search for it there would be no story here. It's just a fuckup of breaching school policies due to a lack of preparation.

  6. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    How exactly does it create a hostile environment?

    The baggage of Playboy Magazine versus a Waterhouse nude (or whatever) that doesn't come with such baggage.

  7. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1
    Here is the fuckup in question:

    "My artificial intelligence teacher told our class to search Google for Lena Soderberg"

    Hence more than the face which is what they would have if the teacher had provided the image. While many worse things happen in schools it's still a fuckup and against the policy of just about every high school on the planet.
    So while it's probably not any more exposure to nudity than a school trip to an art gallery it's still a fuckup, even if it's only at the level where the teacher's Principal or Supervisor punishes the guy by simply telling him not to do something so stupid again.

  8. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    We have a definition collision here.

  9. Re:Friday Night Fights on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    I suggest you consider why I did not have to and perhaps be a little bit less of a little boy in a grown mans body in the process.
    Bringing race into it - what a loser.

  10. Re:Friday Night Fights on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    But if you don't replace it you'll get more modern viewpoints than the shit on offer.

  11. Re:It took 5 years? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 2

    that thousand of people looking at the source code are able to find bugs, trojans and backdoors.

    There is no source code available to look at in this case. The article is very short and you could have read most of it in the time it took you to post the above irrelevant post, but as it is you are not even aware it's so irrelevant that it looks very silly in context.

  12. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    For example, we Greeks are wrongly strereotyped as "lazy"

    Not as such, which is why it was strange that an American, a group who see a lack of mobility as almost a virtue, would use it. I'm writing misapplied labels and not about those in charge producing failure despite everyone's efforts.

  13. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    You are putting a very recent label (which was actually a joke that was been taken far too seriously) and applied it to something similar but not quite the same. The extreme strawman joke is not the same as reality.

  14. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    With respect, it falls into exactly the same category as the weirdo here (forgot his name) who uses the recent financial problems as an excuse to frequently assert that all Greeks are lazy - which is a pretty strange thing for anyone, especially an American to say.
    Similarly the "social justice warrior" absurdity fits the personality of almost nobody that actually gives a shit about social justice. It's a very strange strawman. The only people I've seen that came close were kids in University politics when I had the misfortune to be exposed to such stuff some decades ago. Meanwhile people who just want to see rapists behind bars get the SJW insult directed at them.

  15. Re:It took 5 years? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    You certainly didn't wait long enough to read the article before posting.

  16. Re:acceptance is the only fair outcome on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    Because, for instance, if you argue that all shoes are red based on a photo in an advertisement it's not much of an argument that all shoes are red.
    Extraordinary claims demand something more than such "lame" arguments.
    We don't see more women than men in the technical workforce so any claim that they find it easier to find work is wildly contrary to the employment statistics and so needs some real proof to back it up instead of a niche study of a few academic hirings.

  17. It's in the fine article - download "crack" on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK. how exactly is this Mumblehard malware loaded and executed on the server,without user action and without the user running as root?

    Via greed driving user interaction in the hope of a "free lunch". From the article:

    The price of the software is $240, but interestingly enough, there is a link to a site offering a "cracked" version of DirectMailer. ... The pirated DirectMailer copies contain the Mumblehard backdoor, and when users install them, they give the operators a backdoor to their servers, and allow them to send spam from and proxy traffic through them.

    So it's a parasite feeding on cheapskate spammers. I'm not sure whether to get annoyed with them or give them a medal.

  18. Re:acceptance is the only fair outcome on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 0

    I can see why you are posting anonymously. The 1950s called, but they think your viewpoint is too old-fashioned.
    WTF did all this neo-victorian shite come from?

  19. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    However excessive hype leads to "fatigue" and we end up with the "don't tell me about it until I can buy it at Walmart" attitude creeping into even places like this.

  20. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 2

    It took me years before I came to the conclusion that I have no clue how high temp super conductivity works. We've got some ideas that match what happens in one material and then another material that couldn't possibly conduct with that theory goes and does it. I'm no expert but I've been following it for a few decades and made up and examined some of the cheaper to fabricate materials.

  21. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    NASA had a manager forced on them who was most definitely a crackpot, but aside from that crackpot ideas do occasionally turn up in respectable places.
    Back when I was working in a University mechanical engineering department we had one of those massive fuel saving engine nuts, who was also a famous artist, turn up with his modified car engine that was tuned to idle instead of running under load. Sure enough, it didn't use much fuel, but that's because the power output was buggerall and you couldn't use it for anything. The artist was very paranoid that we would steal his useless work but we managed to work out what he'd done just the same and we had to break it to him gently that it wouldn't have been interesting news in 1880.
    So whether this is the next big thing or just something weird just having it tested by NASA is no sign of validity, it's what NASA say about it that matters. At the moment they are still saying it's something weird. That could go somewhere, but not "four days to Mars" as yet.

  22. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Which is very good but the yelping of "four days to Mars" distracts a lot from something that may have implications or may not. I know you are not doing the yelping, but there's enough of it about to obscure the issue and have anyone who asks "I wonder what is really going on in that machine" yelled down as a luddite.
    In a few years there may be an opportunity to put something like this above the atmosphere and see what happens.

  23. Re:Friday Night Fights on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 3

    I had to google MRA, but yes it's whiny entitled virgin who wants a supermodel but can't get one night indeed.
    Kids, talk to your grandad and you'll get a more modern, tolerant and less sexist viewpoint than is being shat all over the site when articles like this appear.

  24. Re:No more "social justice" crap here, please. on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    You are describing a strawman that started as a deliberate joke and became a net meme as a deliberate "out there" insult. I can't tell if you are being serious or joking from the above post, which should tell you something about how utterly ridiculous it all is if you are not joking.

  25. Re:Flip it around and... on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 1

    There is also the political bullshit of wanting to remove the reforms of the 50's, 60's and 70's to go back to the "good old days" and anything that makes life easier for people, especially women, in the workplace is in the crosshairs of those pricks.
    Women's rights is seen as a symbol of how Godless and socialist modern society is and an impediment of getting back to the situation where "you can't run a coal mine without machine guns".