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The tide seems to be turning against the RIAA/MPAA, damages 100s of times the cost of legitimately downloading the song are being questioned, the ruling that an IP address != a person and other stuff that is making it less likely that the copyright groups will be able to mass litigate going forward so they are starting to look for extrajudicial means.

The scariest thing to me about this article is this: This is basically a system of penalty, based on enforcing the government's laws (even though lobbied for by the RIAA et al), that is not dealt with in courts. In the US at least we have the idea that our judges/juries are either our peers or are elected by our peers. There is a sense that they act on behalf of the collective will in transparent ways and are always accountable in some sort of way. It's a way for the community to enforce its norms on its members (for better or worse).

In the system propsed in this article there are consequences to the file sharers. And there is no accountable system for doling out these consequences. These are not our peers judging us. These are corporations who have very vested interests, which are not the interests of the populous it is enforcing them upon. I'm worried that this will become something of a precedent.

I think another really good example of this in action is the Visa/Mastercard embargo on Wikileaks. Operating outside of any judicial framework they barred funds to Wikileaks and its host for months. Then as soon as they get sued, and there is the prospect of having to account for their actions based on real laws they cave in, implicitly acknowledging the illegality of their stance. It seems that however powerful this government/corporation blanket of control thinks it is it still fears having to account for itself in the courts. An independent judiciary is a great check to power. The RIAA/MPAA are attacking one of the few checks on power that still give me hope that the idea of government the USA stands for can be salvaged.
I'm in Europe, € are totally OK
I'm not sure why Google is getting a free pass on the public profiles requirement. Every other social network I've used has an option to block search engines from indexing your profile.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it correct to say that there are two genders, but not that there are two sexes? Since gender is only a social construct, presumably the prevailing views of the society in question are what defines it?
That sounds like a great option for use within your account. On the other hand, someone could easily want to be referred to as "he" in his UI, but not want to present that to other users.
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Firstly, this is a great idea. That said, it needs to be stressed (and then stressed again!) how important it is that the simplification of the interface does not remove from the seriousness of its application; you should not lead investors to treat the market as a 'game'.

It is important that investors are well educated about their actions. Simplification must not lead to less-thought-out decisions.
At first glance at your comment I said "how would that help". Then I thought about it a second time, and I think this is actually a legitimate way to approach the problem of gender identification. So +1 for me.

Wonder what others think
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Somehow or another, I'd believe that if that was useful. My proposition makes the basics of it seem like pure joy or surely, it's correct. I'm incapable of error.
A-star is not limited to performing just pathfinding; consider it more a graph traversal algorithm (which fits well with this state space). I would use one variant in particular, IDA-star, for solving this game. If we consider one or more nodes connected together as a "cluster", starting with an "empty cluster", the start state is a set of clusters, and the end state is one single cluster that represents a cycle. A "move" would connect two clusters together.

There is nothing particularly publish-worthy although it would make an interesting state space for a graduate-level AI class assignment.

(Another state space -- game -- that we can use A-star to solve are sliding tile games, which have nothing outwardly to do with pathfinding per se.)
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Guys, lets not get carried away by the issue here.

The issue is NOT about gender identification. It is Google+ not providing the ability to hide your gender on your profile (I won't say they're FORCING you to post your gender).

The issue of Gender Identification is merely an example provided to justify the usage of such a feature. So let's avoid a massive gender debate here, when you can read all about it in the post itself.
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It just ensures that I don't put much of use in my profile.
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Came here to mention it. I've been using Ghostery for ages now, on all my browsers.
not yet ;)
Errors like this is what me and my coworkers jokingly refer to as US-UTF8 (no offense meant). In a country that's dominated by ASCII, "supporting" UTF8 means "emitting the same data as usual but declare it as UTF8).

Sure there might be some misunderstandings with special punctuation characters as evidenced by the article, but such issues generally get low priority.

In countries where the language isn't representable in ASCII, we can't use US-UTF8, but have to resort to "real-UTF8" which means dealing with legacy systems that don't do UTF8 (which is what happened in the article we're currently commenting on), dealing with browsers who lie about encoding, and dealing with the fact that a string length isn't its byte length any more even if it doesn't contain "fancy" punctuation characters.

All that makes me wish I could do US-UTF8 too :-)
Not really. Who gets to decide what the prevailing views of the society are? For that matter, which society? A non-binary construction of gender is not limited to post-industrial cities in the United States.
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Not saying it warrants a visit from the SS, but if I were Apple I would be concerned too. Some people could potentially distrust Apple stores because of this which would result in loss of business.
This seems like a really pointlessly long rant that boils down to a feature request: Change the "other" category to "other/not-disclosed".

Also do these women who don't want to disclose their gender really need Randall Munroe to file the bug report for them?
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I vote for the text field option.
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I don't get this trend at all. Something is wrong with priorities and perceived risk vs. real risk.
It's pretty difficult to assault someone physically over the internet (http://bash.org/?4281). On the other hand, woman broadcasts her gender when in public. Will x years from now we all be walking in some kind of uniform enclosures as to protect from anyone knowing if one is male or female?

Also, in some languages name is very clear indication of the gender. And even some ambiguous nickname won't help, because in some languages you usage of verbs, adjectives etc. differs depending on gender.

Recently I saw a story about some kindergarden in Sweden where kids were not allowed to say "he" or "she" when talking about person but rather had to use something equivalent to "it" (I don't think English has equivalent to that, Russian language has "оно" for neuter nouns).
To me it looks extremely stupid. But I guess it is easier just to ignore our differences than teach to cherish them and respect the other side.
these pages aren't your "identity", hasn't years of facebook abuse taught people anything? these pages exist to tune an ad matching algorithm. hel-lo, this is what google does even better than facebook. your freedom to expand or contract your profile will be consistent with google's ad targeting agenda. people who want a free-form digital identity should get their own domain and move on. i know we're in a honeymoon here where google can do no wrong, but randall is just showing himself up here as a second rate thinker...the real answer to owning your identity is to not equate it with a database row
Even at tech giants like Google or Facebook, you can usually try anything as long as you can justify it. (Google also gives you 20% of your time to try things you can't justify.)

I can't help but get the sense that the author has never worked anywhere except places that are terribly managed. The reason lots of employees don't have the freedom to try things out usually isn't because they're working on important problems or have brand-name cofounders. It's because their boss is an idiot.

Of course, looking for companies without a prayer of success is one good way to select for bosses that are idiots.
But alas, my friend, as long as the current exchange rate prevails, there would be many opting for the easy way.
Mandatory labeling of race, religion, and, yes, gender is rarely wise...
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And that's a separate issue to what Randall is raising.
Sydney-sider here. I got a Northeastern accent as well. Although it may be worth noting I was born in Adelaide but moved away while young.
I think they unambiguously want to be indexing everyone's whole social graph. Facebook and others certainly do it anyways, but under the pretense that some people are to remain hidden and others are not...
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That's because there are really two questions at play here:

1. What gender do I want to identify myself as?

2. Do I want to publicly publish this information?

The issue is being muddied because some people that answer 'no' to question #2 are using the gender of 'Other' as a hack around the system, when in reality their gender identity is not 'Other.' This in effect co-opts the gender identity of 'Other' from the people that truly want to be gender-identified as 'Other.' Now when you view a profile with a gender of 'Other' you can't be sure if the person really identifies as 'Other' or if they identify as male/female, but are trying to hide it.

We could easily frame this problem in a different light without getting into the "OMG! There are really only two genders! I hate all this PC bullshit!" discussion. If Google+ made mandatory both choosing a gender (only a binary male/female choice) and publishing that choice publicly, then a lot of women that wish to hide their gender would choose 'Male.' Now the gender field is useless because you've designed a system that doesn't fit your users' needs, forcing them to provide you with wrong information.
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True, but most of that is not spent performing. It is spent waiting to perform.
I don't smoke the chronic, thanks for making an assumption and reducing the level of debate here to a juvenile level.

Laws aren't natural, they're man-made things and they can be removed if they cause more problems than they solve.
Lets propose that you have a child, and in your wisdom, decide that letting your child roam on the streets is low risk and thus ok.

Do you then proclaim to everyone that they must let their children roam alone on the streets as the real risk is low?

What is important is people have a choice to act on their perceived risks. In your example, the ability to wear clothes to hide their gender is their choice, it is not imposed on them.

In this case, they do not have a choice that is sufficiently suitable.
I'm just glad Google+ has an "other" option to begin with. Facebook lets you hide gender (which would be nice to have in google+), but they only offer male/female.

Really, I'm more disgruntled that Google+ lets you put down your relationship status and types of relationships you're looking for, but no way to specify which genders if any you are interested in talking to. I've been mulling over removing that part from my google profile because I can't mark that I'm only interested in women for relationships and dating. I have some female friends that would prefer to talk only to other females as well, it doesn't even have to go as far as preferences for dating.

Human sexuality and gender is so complicated that I'm willing to give a pass to any company that at least tries to make an effort to be more inclusive. They sure fall short here and there, but maybe with better education and awareness and bug reports, that will change.
> It is Google+ not providing the ability to hide your gender on your profile ...

Seriously, what am I missing?
I vote for the solution below which asks "how do you wish to be identified" instead of "what is your gender".
There's a lot of nuance in that choice that's unlikely to come across in a comment.

You want to be in a company where you are accountable for your mistakes. You do not want a company where those mistakes follow you. It's a very subtle difference between them, but basically you need to be in a culture where each mistake is a learning experience, not a shaming experience. Don't make it again, but also don't worry about having made it.
it wouldn't take that long and they should be getting paid for their work as well. why not ask someone to volunteer and do this so they can get back to work on VLC itself? why not ask for some donations?
Clearly, gender should be represented as a user-chosen 32-bit value with separate R, G, B, and A channels, and conveniently represented as an 8-digit hexadecimal number.

In this Portable Network Gender (PNG) system, the R channel is degree of traditional female gender; the B is degree of traditional male gender; the G is a catchall for other gender expressions (or perhaps a lookup table rather than a magnitude); the A indicates the overall transparency/importance of the other values.

On the other hand, this only offers around 4 billion unique combinations, which may not be enough to represent the diversity of the planet's 6-billion-plus individuals (not to mention situational identities). Everyone deserves gender-appropriate and gender-precise targeted advertising! So ultimately, a new Gender Protocol offering 128-bits of resolution may prove necessary (GPv6).
My reality is not what it appears. 77 users in my group, 6000+ downloads, no buzz to speak-of. My reality is far from normal in other ways, so, surprise surprise.

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I don't know. I had the feeling you were raising a contradictory point? Or am I mistaken.
If you don't have a chip on your card, an ATM must ask the issuing bank to validate your PIN each time you type it in. Almost all communicate using the ISO-8583 protocol.

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This changes everything. I just started using google calendar when they changed the design (looks pretty now). I would love to use the task but it sucks. Now there are so much googletask alternatives. Now i just need som graphicsal changes and ill be set.

gtasker looks perfect. I am using wunderlist because it is minimal and super pretty, but i miss beeing able to see more than one list at a time.
Black people broadcast their skin color when in public. In some languages, name is very clear indication of race. Therefore, let's add a drop-down to your profile so you MUST choose from one of the following: White, Black, Other.
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Someone at compete should probably fix this, they are pretty off.
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It hasn't prevented the advancement of internet three strike laws in Europe. In fact they are way ahead of the US on that lousy path. Ireland, UK, France, etc...

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"But too often he lost sight of the fact that most of his online audience members were from the non-geek general public."

Really?

I may be way off, but I doubt most non-geeks are even aware that Facebook has events like this where they introduce new features. Much less care. Much less actually watch them.
Sex is physical. There are more than two sexes. Some examples are female, hermaphrodite, and male (among others).

Gender is social. There are more than two genders. Some examples are masculinity, femininity, and androgyny (among others).

Edit: (expanding upon the above)

Sexuality is social. There are more than two sexualities. Some examples are heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality (among others).

A person's sexual identity is the triplet defined by these three items. For example, one could be an androgynous male homosexual.
This is a United-States-ian stance. In other countries, there are more than two genders.

There's more than two sexes, as well. It's ... complicated, to say the least.
Right, and I don't think Randall's long-winded post really made that clear at all IMO.

Basically, the request is: don't make the Gender checkbox mandatory when signing up - or - I guess make it so I can completely hide my Gender.
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Counter-points:

* When you're a women on a forum/chat/irc/etc, you are pretty much guaranteed to get a deluge of messages/comments/etc from guys, especially socially awkward guys that would never think of attempting such a thing in person.

* You're missing out on this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

* It's easy for people to develop obsessions at a distance that are based on no actual reality before ever meeting someone in person. See celebrity stalkers for examples. Most of these cases are people that have never actually met the celebrity in question, but are in full out crazy mode by the time that they enter physical proximity to the celebrity.

* There's a difference between inferring gender, and broadcasting it. From the article this is portrayed as the difference between saying, "Hi, I'm Randall," and "Hi, I'm Randall and I'm a man." While both of these statements may seem logically equivalent (since you could deduce gender from the name), they are not equivalent in human interactions.
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It has nothing to do with assault over the internet and everything to do with the way others perceive you. I would love to imagine I live in a world where it doesn't matter what chromosomes and sex organs you were born with, and really, I have kind of found that in the Cocoa developer community. That is why I enjoy talking to those people.

But just /join an IRC channel with a female nickname. Play online games and talk with a female voice. Someone somewhere is going to make some kind of fuss over it and it is incredibly annoying. I like to do things like raid in WoW...and most raids want people to join ventrilo/mumble voice chat. I never talk unless a friend is in there with me or unless I hear another female voice. Period. I do not want to hear "IT'S A GIRL (or prepubescent boy)!! /whisper Can I see your tits?".

So I may not care about hiding my gender on my google+ profile because it's mostly just a bunch of people that know me already some other way in circles, but there are definitely places where even my thick skinned attitude towards "tits or gtfo" can't help and I don't want anyone to know what I might be. I understand some people may think that about google+ and fully respect and support their desire for such a feature.

I can't say I know the best way to deal with this problem, but I don't think it has as much to do with ignoring differences as much as it is not infusing our own gender biases into the way children think and learn about how to interact with each other. In a way, ambiguity can foster a sense of respect (or at least, caution).

There is no other reason for me to be running around with gender ambiguous usernames on websites, IRC, chat, and more where I am interacting with people I don't know.
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It's not a "trend". We came out of the cave and realized that gender is not a simple binary. Or are you under the impression that it is?
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I've always found Munroe's position on gender equality weird - despite what he says, he 'others' women in his main work. Female stick figures have long hair, even if the strip has nothing to do with gender. Male stick figures have no such indication. That is: 'male' is 'default'.
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