She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or see them leave key IT jobs because they fail to provide day care at work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.
In English, that's called gender discrimination, plain and simple.
W(here)TF is Turkey? They might have problems with censorship and stuff, but they're part of Eastern Europe... And these guys already got many comments about Turkey being part of Europe.
I've been using Firefox in Linux so long, I got used to Firefox slowing down every inch of my laptop when I go to sites that use transparent PNGs or javascript (digg and sourceforge are a major slow-downers for instance - I don't go there anymore... and I can't comfortably use slashdot's new commenting system)*
So when I read this item, I told myself "oh, so... what I'm experiencing isn't normal. it can be news in slashdot... wow." Firefox has different effects on different people I guess...
* Using a clean profile + a nightly build doesn't help. Submitted bug reports do not get any interest from devels except tagging it with "perf" (I know, they're busy, but look - it's news on slashdot when it's Safari on Mac).
bugs in question? so far, I was lazy enough to file just these: 366728; 368365; 368908; 369044; 369682; 370697
pls don't reply w/ "worksforme". I spent considerable time trying to not reproduce the slow down effects, as you might guess...
We are not ignorant of Marxism, we have just learned from its failures already.
This part will be very offtopic but, what you mean is "we observed how some people practiced Socialism, we witnessed the ones who screwed up by going imperialist, and as for the rest, we are currently doing our best to crush them into pieces via embargoes and secret and open plots"...
Common sense is not being used.
What I am saying is: if you use "common sense" in such a society for security, you will have such new concepts like "Flying while Muslim", "Flying while Muslim", "Flying while Woman", "Flying while Black", "Flying while Poor", "Flying while Foreigner" etc in your hands...
If they ship Linux pre-installed, that means they included the proper F*all caps*G hardware that work with Linux... That means I don't have to look for Linux-compatible hardware with the idea "omfg, will they accept my return if it doesn't work?" in my head...
Now those who modded the parent insightful, please mod me *redundant*...
And what's to stop you from putting another router/firewall behind the Comcrap router?
Good point. The answer is: if my connection starts to not work anymore, they will not be able to tell me "hey, we don't support the OS you're using PLUS the router+modem you're using"... Another aspect is: router+cablemodems are not cheap and not guaranteed to work with "your ISP" (again, no support)... and, of course, Comcast has to do something so your new router+modem works (ie they should change the HWadress) and I'm pretty sure they'll screw it up somehow and then come back to me and tell "hey, something is wrong with your thingy and we don't support it"...
see, that's how companies force stuff down your throat if you are not willing to waste time to fix their errors.
Comcast rebrands a router+modem thingy with crippled features (such as being able set only a 6-character-or-so password, not being able to shut down wireless for good etc)... they charge you about $5 a month for those things and to be able to keep charging you, they make it hard for you to set up your own (how: well, you can guess how a company can force their ways onto you... lack of support if using other hardware etc)...
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now this was a troll
W(here)TF is Turkey? They might have problems with censorship and stuff, but they're part of Eastern Europe... And these guys already got many comments about Turkey being part of Europe.
I'm not sure how much of what I wrote above is joke and how much is serious...
Here's a blog (not mine) that is extremely helpful on how to do clean and nice presentations...
Wow, you actually are serious(ly imbecile).
Correction: In Soviet Russia, you pwn cursors! So you might want to live in Soviet Russia... Sorry.
I expect this environment to be slow like a duck. Can't they just fix the browser first?
Expect a similar move from the Turkish government soon.
I am Turkish, and I feel cheated and humiliated by this ridicule court order...
So when I read this item, I told myself "oh, so... what I'm experiencing isn't normal. it can be news in slashdot... wow." Firefox has different effects on different people I guess...
* Using a clean profile + a nightly build doesn't help. Submitted bug reports do not get any interest from devels except tagging it with "perf" (I know, they're busy, but look - it's news on slashdot when it's Safari on Mac).
bugs in question? so far, I was lazy enough to file just these: 366728; 368365; 368908; 369044; 369682; 370697
pls don't reply w/ "worksforme". I spent considerable time trying to not reproduce the slow down effects, as you might guess...
the hardware works PROPERLY with Linux out of the box, it's okay... no one expected Dell to break Microsoft's heart anyway...
You are coming to a sad realization, deny or allow? (tm) (c) (whatever)
and here I go thanking that MS Windows just uses DRM... wow
But for the class-less (a.k.a. ignorant of basic Marxist ideas) American mind that is my audience, I should have stated my caution as follows:
"Common sense" is very dangerous when applied to security in a society that is plagued with inequalities based on gender, race, and class...
Or let me put it like this: when applied to security, your average "common sense" gives you the concept of "Driving While Black"...
Approaching security with "common sense" in a racist, sexist and capitalist society is dangerous at best...
Now those who modded the parent insightful, please mod me *redundant*...
see, that's how companies force stuff down your throat if you are not willing to waste time to fix their errors.
Comcast rebrands a router+modem thingy with crippled features (such as being able set only a 6-character-or-so password, not being able to shut down wireless for good etc)... they charge you about $5 a month for those things and to be able to keep charging you, they make it hard for you to set up your own (how: well, you can guess how a company can force their ways onto you... lack of support if using other hardware etc)...