I understand and acknowledge that behaviors you describe are problematic and should be addressed. If I ever witness such attitudes I will attempt to act against them to best of my limited ability.
At the same time I must question "culture" of assuming that any given male is part of the problem. To me, this is "guilty until proven innocent" approach.
As a geek male I am already assumed to be creepy uncle/pedophile, and socially prohibited from interaction with unrelated children. Now, I also have to deal with being assumed conference grouper/rapist.
I also not certain that marginalizing my social group would lead to any improvements to women. In my limited experience geek culture is not known for violence, frat house culture, and "boys will be boys" attitudes. If anything, prevalence of these is much lower than general population.
>>>Nope, since there isn't a card or tattoo shared amongst all/none of rapists
This view creates strong disincentive to good behavior. If for example IRS assumed that all men are tax cheats, and acted on this belief, there would be less reason for men to honestly file taxes.
Can someone explain rape culture to me? As a human male I don't go around raping, leering, or harassing women, am I excused from this culture on the basis of good behavior?
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
>>>My personal hope for the autonomous car future is that people just stop owning cars
I understand many would disagree, but I see this as a dystopian future. I like owning cars, because that allows me to individualize it and tailor it to my tastes. A future of Corollas does not appeal to me.
Another point to consider is that if autonomous vehicles turn into public transport they will suffer from public transport problems - lack of availability due to underfunding. Why? Because people dislike paying taxes for 'common good' projects where they don't see tangible ownership. As a result it is all but inevitably will not be "optimal service" once novelty wears off.
>>>>they will drive off and transport someone else who needs a ride
This is interesting point that I think should be further discussed. Would you want *your* car to be used by somebody else? Perhaps. Still, I keep my cars very clean (A), some other people's cars look like insides of a trashcan (B). What happens when Group A's car ends up being used by Group B riders?
I guess you will have to have self-driving and self-cleaning cars. Otherwise ride-sharing is no-go for me, no matter how much it saves me or the planet.
We are not going to encounter any aliens until we are ourselves are past great filter. If we make it past great filtering, than social, evolutionary, and environmental factors imposing change on humanity over time-frames involved in below-speed-of-light space travel will produce plenty of "aliens". They will be our descendants but they will be nothing like us.
Have you looked at consumption in China? Energy use keeps growing and they have strong demographic reasons to weaken/cancel One Child policy. I think framing this problem as first vs. third word is what lead you to mistaken conclusion - nether camps are static, plus there are a lot of places that are in-between these classifications and are growing both population and energy use.
In the past we had wars and epidemics to keeping population in check. We largely mitigated these problems. Can you suggest something that would have comparable impact? Or are you suggesting that humanity suddenly changed over only couple generations?
You are correct in context that we have cheap oil energy available to produce these solar panels. While in theory Sun output exceeds our energy needs in any case short of Dyson Sphere scenario, in practice our present capability to effectively capture this energy is not that great, especially if you remove oil from the equation.
For the record, I am pro-nuclear/alternative/geothermal. Still, meaningfully diminishing fossil fuel dependency is not achievable at our present technological levels when faced with continuous population growth.
Most of your food is shipped from far away places and this is economically feasible only due to cheap energy derived from oil. Most of your food is grown with use of fertilizers produced from oil, without fertilizers yields will be greatly reduced. Reduced yields + less fertile climate = a lot less food.
Sure, we can learn to live in sustainable-energy-using urban centers and bike to work, but we can't learn to not eat. This is why oil is so crucial for our civilization.
I fully expect our civilization to collapse when we run out of oil. Any "migration off fossil fuels" scenario at present technological level means drastically reduced ability to support population. This will all but inevitably lead to nukes flying, making problem that much worse. Save black-swan technological breakthrough Western Civilization has "best before" date of 2070-2120.
Fortunately for you and me, "short term" should last our lifetimes.
I assume you are capable understanding that there is no such thing as perfectly secure system or completely bug free software? If so, then why does your brain takes a vacation when we start talking about petroleum?
Our civilization is built on oil-derived products, we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die.
Given our available shipping choices, pipelines are by far safest and energy efficient way to do it.
Shipping crude oil by railroads is not the case where industry was willing to engage in meaningful self-regulation. Railroads showed complete unwillingness to properly classify cargo (some forms of crude are outright explosive) or use proper equipment (modern tanker cars that resist spills/ruptures during derailment) or follow proper safety measures (multiple operators and not shipping through high-density urban areas). Instead, they are playing shell game where liability outsourced to low-asset holding company that rents everything from the mother company.
OSVDB is notorious for scraping NVD (NIST National Vulnerability Database) and both follow CVE and CCE standards that are maintained by Mitre. Both OSVDB and NVD are public vulnerability databases maintained by outside submissions. NVD/OSVDB do not conduct any kind of vulnerability discovery activity.
I don't see how OSVDB can claim any rights to this data. They certainly didn't produce it. Thankfully, if they stupid enough to claim it NIST will quickly put them in their place.
I have old Nokia cellphone (it only calls and texts), Galaxy Note WiFi tablet and old 3G USB cell modem. If I need portable data I use cell modem with my laptop, I then have an option to use laptop as a WiFi hotspot and connect to it. Free WiFi is everywhere, so I rarely have to use modem.
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I understand and acknowledge that behaviors you describe are problematic and should be addressed. If I ever witness such attitudes I will attempt to act against them to best of my limited ability.
At the same time I must question "culture" of assuming that any given male is part of the problem. To me, this is "guilty until proven innocent" approach.
As a geek male I am already assumed to be creepy uncle/pedophile, and socially prohibited from interaction with unrelated children. Now, I also have to deal with being assumed conference grouper/rapist.
I also not certain that marginalizing my social group would lead to any improvements to women. In my limited experience geek culture is not known for violence, frat house culture, and "boys will be boys" attitudes. If anything, prevalence of these is much lower than general population.
>>>Nope, since there isn't a card or tattoo shared amongst all/none of rapists
This view creates strong disincentive to good behavior. If for example IRS assumed that all men are tax cheats, and acted on this belief, there would be less reason for men to honestly file taxes.
Can someone explain rape culture to me? As a human male I don't go around raping, leering, or harassing women, am I excused from this culture on the basis of good behavior?
This must be another of these fake outrage threads.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Car Ownership as a Service (COAAS)? No thanks, not interested.
>>>My personal hope for the autonomous car future is that people just stop owning cars
I understand many would disagree, but I see this as a dystopian future. I like owning cars, because that allows me to individualize it and tailor it to my tastes. A future of Corollas does not appeal to me.
Another point to consider is that if autonomous vehicles turn into public transport they will suffer from public transport problems - lack of availability due to underfunding. Why? Because people dislike paying taxes for 'common good' projects where they don't see tangible ownership. As a result it is all but inevitably will not be "optimal service" once novelty wears off.
>>>>they will drive off and transport someone else who needs a ride
This is interesting point that I think should be further discussed. Would you want *your* car to be used by somebody else? Perhaps. Still, I keep my cars very clean (A), some other people's cars look like insides of a trashcan (B). What happens when Group A's car ends up being used by Group B riders?
I guess you will have to have self-driving and self-cleaning cars. Otherwise ride-sharing is no-go for me, no matter how much it saves me or the planet.
Is this wise? They know where you live. Plus, your car can tow away itself.
Early Access is a scam, where they expect "the community" to do free testing for them.
Early "access", "free" to play, micro transactions, always-online, Day-1 DLC...
While I still enjoy gaming, they succeeding in making it less enjoyable.
This is just too cruel.
Slashdot needs to do the same!
It compiled! If you still don't like it you can code the god damned A-T, C-G plus an artificial third base pair DNA yourself!
We are not going to encounter any aliens until we are ourselves are past great filter. If we make it past great filtering, than social, evolutionary, and environmental factors imposing change on humanity over time-frames involved in below-speed-of-light space travel will produce plenty of "aliens". They will be our descendants but they will be nothing like us.
Have you looked at consumption in China? Energy use keeps growing and they have strong demographic reasons to weaken/cancel One Child policy. I think framing this problem as first vs. third word is what lead you to mistaken conclusion - nether camps are static, plus there are a lot of places that are in-between these classifications and are growing both population and energy use.
In the past we had wars and epidemics to keeping population in check. We largely mitigated these problems. Can you suggest something that would have comparable impact? Or are you suggesting that humanity suddenly changed over only couple generations?
If "brain takes a vacation" insults your sensibilities, I am afraid I cannot advise you to partake in the Internet, kind sir.
You are correct in context that we have cheap oil energy available to produce these solar panels. While in theory Sun output exceeds our energy needs in any case short of Dyson Sphere scenario, in practice our present capability to effectively capture this energy is not that great, especially if you remove oil from the equation.
For the record, I am pro-nuclear/alternative/geothermal. Still, meaningfully diminishing fossil fuel dependency is not achievable at our present technological levels when faced with continuous population growth.
Most of your food is shipped from far away places and this is economically feasible only due to cheap energy derived from oil. Most of your food is grown with use of fertilizers produced from oil, without fertilizers yields will be greatly reduced. Reduced yields + less fertile climate = a lot less food.
Sure, we can learn to live in sustainable-energy-using urban centers and bike to work, but we can't learn to not eat. This is why oil is so crucial for our civilization.
I fully expect our civilization to collapse when we run out of oil. Any "migration off fossil fuels" scenario at present technological level means drastically reduced ability to support population. This will all but inevitably lead to nukes flying, making problem that much worse. Save black-swan technological breakthrough Western Civilization has "best before" date of 2070-2120.
Fortunately for you and me, "short term" should last our lifetimes.
>>>Crude oil does not explode in any of the common forms shipped by rail
This is incorrect.
>>>It requires an external source of oxygen to react
Atmosphere is a readily available and nearly unlimited source of oxygen.
I assume you are capable understanding that there is no such thing as perfectly secure system or completely bug free software? If so, then why does your brain takes a vacation when we start talking about petroleum?
Our civilization is built on oil-derived products, we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die.
Given our available shipping choices, pipelines are by far safest and energy efficient way to do it.
Shipping crude oil by railroads is not the case where industry was willing to engage in meaningful self-regulation. Railroads showed complete unwillingness to properly classify cargo (some forms of crude are outright explosive) or use proper equipment (modern tanker cars that resist spills/ruptures during derailment) or follow proper safety measures (multiple operators and not shipping through high-density urban areas). Instead, they are playing shell game where liability outsourced to low-asset holding company that rents everything from the mother company.
OSVDB is notorious for scraping NVD (NIST National Vulnerability Database) and both follow CVE and CCE standards that are maintained by Mitre. Both OSVDB and NVD are public vulnerability databases maintained by outside submissions. NVD/OSVDB do not conduct any kind of vulnerability discovery activity.
I don't see how OSVDB can claim any rights to this data. They certainly didn't produce it. Thankfully, if they stupid enough to claim it NIST will quickly put them in their place.
Please, engineering is the only reason we came down from trees.
I have old Nokia cellphone (it only calls and texts), Galaxy Note WiFi tablet and old 3G USB cell modem. If I need portable data I use cell modem with my laptop, I then have an option to use laptop as a WiFi hotspot and connect to it. Free WiFi is everywhere, so I rarely have to use modem.