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  1. Neo Feminism Affirmative Action on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 2

    A woman in every seat, regardless of competence or skill set.
    This is the roar I hear from some of the more rabid members of the Neo-feminist movement, which is what I'm calling militant idiocy these days, as it resembles in no way true feminism.

    If you want "gender equality" (an absurd term if you consider it carefully) you have to start at birth, it's amusing to me so many woman do the child raising and so many of those women raise their daughters with the same mythology they were handed.

    Boys wear blue, Girls wear pink.

  2. Why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    What's the point? If they aren't there they don't want to be.

  3. Sigh on ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think we all knew Comcast was going to try again for the TW merger or move on to something else, this is too much for one corporation to control.

    In fact I think Comcast should be broken up by region and/or forced to upgrade their networks to at least South Korea levels.

  4. Huh on Holographic Principle Could Apply To Our Universe · · Score: 1

    I thought Sheldon gave up on string theory in the 5th season, or was it the 6th.

  5. Re:The Best Investment on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    I get how you feel, it's jaw droppingly huge, but I don't have the feeling of being small, instead the one feeling that was prominent was "I know there is life everywhere out there" and without a doubt I still believe it.

    I used to get intellectual vertigo thinking of an infinite Universe, so much so I had to think of it as a expanding sphere (and therefore finite) to settle my mind.
    Which then begged the question "What's outside the sphere?".

    So I don't bother any more =D

  6. Re:And who's fault is that? on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like a replicant...

  7. Except... on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    The new one doesn't fit in my back pocket...

  8. Re:No body guard? on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    That's all irrelevant, she didn't have a body guard in Pakistan, and was preaching against the status quo.

    It's a matter of when, not if you get murdered.

  9. No body guard? on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    You want to start up something useful get a kickstarter to hire these folks body guards.

  10. Are we this stupid? on Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body · · Score: 1

    Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body

  11. Hmmm on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Near the entrance of the chambers, they a found trove of strange artifacts: jade statues, jaguar remains, a box filled with carved shells and rubber balls.

    What's strange about any of that?

  12. Re:Hah on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    Also recording and applying audio effects (reverb, etc) at high sample rates allows several advantages.
    Some of which are covered here.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  13. Re:The Best Investment on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    lulz...

    Seems almost blasphemous...

  14. Re:Hah on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    I disagree as far as professional (or consumer since my GoPro does 4K at 30 fps.) videography, there are editing reasons to use 4K.

  15. The Best Investment on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I love the Hubble, love the pictures and the data, seriously one of the best investment we have made up there.

    The single most mind blowing photo for me?
    Hubble eXtreme Deep Field
    http://www.nasa.gov/images/con...

    Plenty Hubble photos are far more beautiful, but the sheer scale of it, the light of other times.

  16. I keep telling you... on Researcher Discloses Methods For Bypassing All OS X Security Protections · · Score: 1

    One of these days....

    OSX is insecure, Apple is either incompetent and/or complicit with the FBI/NSA.

  17. So maybe... on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 1

    Those were just wedding parties...

  18. Re:They should be doing the opposite on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    You don't understand copyright law

    STFU

  19. Hmmm on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    There's a war out there...

  20. Right Wing Neo Con on Security Companies Accused of Exaggerating Iran's Cyberthreats Against the US · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group"

    That alone shows why the article was propaganda, and both appear to be Jewish.

  21. Re:Wheee on Swallowing Your Password · · Score: 1

    Everyone but the robots.

  22. Laugh... on Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Order Lottery To Developers · · Score: 1, Informative

    Because none are interested.

  23. Wheee on Swallowing Your Password · · Score: 1

            with the mark of the Antichrist needed to buy or sell.

    Now I ask you, in this day of surveillance, digital money and computerized oppression does that really seem all that far fetched?

  24. You're a stupid asshole on Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up · · Score: 1

    Because you use Facebook.

  25. Re:They should be doing the opposite on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    I don't care what you call it, people have made some great music based off of other tunes or off a sample from another song.
    I don't see why musicians should get a 50 year copyright, fuck em they are just musicians.
    In the end this crap gets to all things made by humans, that's the end game here.

    "They" would copyright human DNA if they could (and they still might).