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Money. Money buys legislators. Money buys institutionalized corruption. The Supreme court says that organizations can make unlimited campaign contributions, yet individuals are limited. Until we take money out of politics, it will only get worse.
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most comic book artists and writers are male, most readers are male, a big chunk are teens, and males like pretty/nude/curvaceous females, most teen males likes big breasts and many teen females want to have big breasts

The TV show Mad Men is set in the early 1960s USA, when the same thing could be said of the professional world. "Everyone who works here is men, our clients are men, our customers are men" etc. And yet there was a lot of discrimination and sexism then. And things have changed (in the professional business world) then.

the college/PC/lesbian/feminist litmob doesn't care about that, then it's not talked about

Sure they do. Here's a series of blog posts about how twilight has terrible characters. http://skepchick.org/2011/11/twilight-breaking-wind/
Exactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics?

What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page?

America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.
Actually, it took me a while to figure out why "Photos" didn't take my to My photos, but to a photo stream of all of my friends. (Also, Win7 did not add the "My" prefix back to computer, documents, pictures, or anything.)
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When leaving my grandparents' house for a long journey home, everybody was always instructed to give three rings when they get home safely. To this day I always let a phone ring three times before answering, partly in case it's an "I'm OK" message and partly because waiting for somebody to answer gives the caller time to think what they actually want to say.

My grandparents didn't have caller ID and so had no idea who was telling them they'd got home safely, but they could guess based on timings pretty well.
Wouldn't it be trivial to create a female privilege checklist?

Sure. And if you do that in the spirit of saying, "gosh, these are also nice problems to fix one day", that's great. But mostly people bring that argument up in the sense of "Gosh, your life is not 100% shitty, so I'm going to go back to pretending everything is fair now."

This argument is so common that it appears on the "Derailing for Dummies" guide: http://derailingfordummies.com/#butbut (Note that they include as an example your false equivalence between circumcision and female genital mutilation.)

Also, that there are reasons somebody might be a sexist jerk does not excuse them being sexist jerks. Suppose there's a correlation between sex hormone levels, lack of female attention, and rape. Do we say, "Gosh, that's not unexpected" and tell women to be more accommodating?

Honestly, your attempt at victim-blaming here is kinda repulsive. There's no particular reason to believe that the sort of sexism described by the article is experienced by the people who failed to be nice enough to (by which you mean: have sex with) the guys who are being jerks. And if they were the same people, then I'm still not seeing any justification: your theory appears to be that guys are somehow entitled to sexual attention just for being guys. Which, hello, is exactly the sort of sexism driven by male privilege the article's author is calling out.
I think it's wrong to encourage students to major in science.

People should think for themselves and pursue whatever career interests them most.
The fact remains that something like congress (a group of people to vote on literally everything we do) is required in a democracy, and "a group of people" is never going to know everything there is to know about everything.

You aren't convincing me that this is a great idea.
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I get a "Subscribe/Join AAAS or Buy Access to This Article to View Full Text." for the PDF page.
He glorified cluster bombs and marvelled at mass murder, if there's a heaven then he probably isn't in it.
> Some geeks certainly deny the sexism -- he gives an example of one -- so I think an article on male privilege has to start out there.

How is sexism a privilege? Sexism may be a bias, or as the grandparent hypothesizes, a lack of empathy;

Privilege may arise as a result of these biases (just as much as it would arise as a result of any other bias, against rural people, people with non-majority ethnicity, against unattached males over a certain age, etc.), but contrary to the title, the article is about sexism and not about privilege.
tmux is also still being developed, and screen is not. And you dont have to patch to get vertical splits.
Sure, it's sad men don't get to spend as much time with the kids, but the point is, they can have their career, and have at least some time with their children. Women very often just don't have that choice, and are forced to take just the kids. That sounds worse to me. (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/18616558/ns/today-books/t/why-...)

Also, women are actively punished for asking for more money, or being aggressive: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07... That has nothing to do with dangerous jobs, and that's a legitimate form of sexism that feminism has every right to address.

Do you have any figures for the "men are paid more because they take on more dangerous jobs" assertion? From the AMAs I've seen on Reddit, trash collection is not dangerous--just a low-status job, albeit a high-paying one with short hours.

Also, yes, I play vido games. I have not played Assassin's Creed, but my understanding is that historically, monks were men, so if you're going to assassinate the pope, he's going to be surrounded by men. I have, though, slaughtered a lot of male and female citizens of Vault City while playing Fallout 2.

The vibe I'm getting from your post is, "feminism isn't doing enough to eliminate the negative implications of gender roles for men, and it is therefore invalid." Or maybe it's something more like, "hey, men suffer a lot too, why are you spending so much time paying attention to women?" In which case, the simple reply is that while gender roles can negatively affect both genders, women seem to have the worst of it.

I mean, black men have this reputation for having gigantic dicks and being able to dance, which reflects badly on white men in comparison, but you'd have to be insane to prefer being a black man to a white man in America. I hear Eminem has a hard time being a white rapper in a black man's world, but it would be silly to feel sorry for him. And in a similar vein, I don't feel nearly as sorry for men as I do for women.
A little javascript/canvas birthday "card" I made for my girlfriend. Thought it would be more fun and thoughtful than going to Hallmark. The code is not the cleanest I've written but it gets the job done.
this isn't a shaggy dog joke about the moon having an orbit closely conforming to a polygon with 13.37 (1337) sides?
Look at all these comments. I see a lot of geeks denying that sexism exists. The appeals to hunter-gatherer psychology are especially precious.
alias scp="rsync --progress --partial"

and voila! You can resume big file transfers now.
Amazing what happens when you read the whole article: you discover that a) this is a market research survey guy, and b) his theory is due to the fact that the women are better educated, and therefore better qualified.

Which means that this is definitely not evidence that evidence that women get paid the same as men when all else is equal.
Google doesn't have a monopoly on search technology, they just have market saturation. They are free to post what they will on their landing page. This is a critical issue, and the congressional committee involved has decided to reconvene on December 21st to make a decision. The major news media companies are blacking out this issue, because their lobbying has led to the creation of this bill, and they know it would not garner any public support if people knew about and understood it. It is the responsibility of the companies that compose the backbone of the Internet to inform the public about the danger of this kind of legislation.
It's even more useful than that! Some coffee shops restrict traffic over port 80, but don't touch 22. So set up a SOCKS proxy and you have free internet. Tethering to T-Mobile and getting sick of them downsampling images for you? Start up a SOCKS proxy -- they can't downsample what they don't see. Or just in general, if you're on any WiFi network that you don't trust, set up a SOCKS proxy and tunnel everything through it.
I've actually been having a similar internal debate with an app I'm working on now, although for me it's between "My Whatever" and just "Whatever." Currently leaning towards "My."

"Your Whatever" isn't even an option though... don't like it at all.
Great idea! It would be awesome to couple this with a planner type system as well so you can plan your adventures with your fellow travelers. A hook into AirBnB or another service to get discounted room & board with other people might be another cool idea.

Nice work!
I wrote a succinct expression of my position and reasons therefore and then faxed it to my Congressmen (both House and Senate). Note that this was not a "form" letter but something into which I put some significant thought and effort. I understand that that makes a big difference in the impression that a communication makes with them.

My knowledge may be a bit outdated, but my understanding is that a (cogent) personal letter carries more weight than emails or calls -- not that the latter are without value. And I've used faxing a few times to ensure that such letters reach their destination in a timely manner.

Since my phone landline is acting up at the moment (thanks, AT&T), I availed myself of YC's HelloFax (https://www.hellofax.com/). It was quick and painless and worked flawlessly.

Plus, they have a "free" level that gives you 5 pages for free -- depending on your rhetoric, enough to fax at least one member of Congress. (I signed up for their basic paid level, both out of thanks and because the product proved so easy and useful.)

P.S. HelloFax people, if you read this: While I'm not overly paranoid, I'd prefer to keep my identity separate from this pseudonym, in public communication. Thanks.

Also, it should be apparent that I have no personal nor financial connection with HelloFax. I'm just a (new) happy user.
My understanding is that everything is copyright automatically, unless given to the public domain. Your post here, for example, is copyright by you.
This doesn't help that much, almost certainly. It prevents having to recomposite the canvas to the page, but the drawing to the canvas still has to happen....
I have this at the end of my ~/.bash_profile:

# run under screen if we are connected via ssh
if [ "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] ; then
rm -f .ssh/auth-sock
if [ -e "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] ; then
ln -s "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" .ssh/auth-sock
fi
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/auth-sock
screen -d -R
logout
fi
> Wouldn't it be trivial to create a female privilege checklist?

Yes:

http://www.the-niceguy.com/articles/Checklist.html

http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/2008/06/08/female-privil...

http://mensresistance.wordpress.com/female-privilege-checkli...

(Note: I don't necessarily agree with or endorse everything on every one of these lists, but the point is very much made.)
The error page is pretty funny :) http://tripl.com/themes/html5/img/error-pages/503-bg.png
No prob, glad ya like it :)
Ask HN: Does addons.mozilla.org have too much chrome?
To me it looks great, but too "flashy," by which I mean you can't move the mouse without Something Happening. It's a tremendous accomplishment for all involved, and like I say it looks great, but usability-wise I think it falls down quite a bit.
Here in Portugal I remember people using "missed calls", particularly some years ago (when calls where much more expensive) with a code: one missed call to say 'yes', two missed calls to say 'no'.
Are you seriously equating topless men and topless women as socially equivalent, disempowering sexual objectification?

That seems of a piece with your theory that the point of topless men in Playboy ads and action movies is to appeal sexually to women.
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Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It’s his latest response to a legal battle he’s fighting with the social networking giant over his Like Store.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-suing-mark-zu...
Is that the music he is listening to or is that just ambiance music added by twitch.tv?
Hi! It turns out that discussions about privilege are not entirely novel. If you would like to avoid making an argument that is a) missing the point, and b) common enough to be listed in a catalog, start here:

http://derailingfordummies.com/

Arguments of that form are already all over this thread, so you can also use this as a bingo card.
Uh, here in Portugal I pay exactly the same - 8 eurocents/min - for any network, both mobile and landline. And we don't pay for receiving calls.
If you look outside the tech sphere, you'll find remarkably little reporting and communication on it.

Notwithstanding, I agree with your point that the real end to this would/will be the impending demise of the careers of the sponsors of such legislation, both public and private.
I presume that despite the name it's also not full of porn or violence.
I've gotten further with this:
http://pronou.net/code/jtvdump
I use vanilla Eclipse on a 3 year old Dell Studio laptop (2.53Ghz C2D, 4GB RAM, 2x320GB 7200RPM HDD, AMD Mobility Radeon 3650 HD, Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64) and it runs perfectly smooth. Just as smooth as in Notch's video. I have no idea what people load their computers with to make them run so poorly :-/
Wiping off the condensation works on Safari 5.1.2, too.
I too am amazed by this. I watched him program NoiseMap (which I assume is a random map generator, all trial and error. he went from double = double * double; to double = double * double * double * double;) and now he is applying it to the actual game world. Pretty amazing.

I should be coding
He seems to use a lot of "magic numbers" at first, but later on replacing those with proper variables. Is that common? I can't keep track of the meaning of such numbers while programming, so I tend to use variables straight away.
How the House sees SOPA
> On the other hand, women are a huge majority among rape victims

No one is even going to listen to a man complaining he has been raped, so I very highly doubt the validity of those numbers.
The first & second parts certainly seem like evolution to me.

The slower performance than native JS issue remains to be seen. I believe Dart, when fully baked, will generate code very similar in performance to "native" JS. In fact, I think it'll probably be better than your average hand-rolled JS code that doesn't use something like Google's Closure Compiler already. In any case, unless the generated code is substantially slower than "native" JavaScript (which there is no basis to believe will be true), this is a bit disingenuous of an argument coming from the web crowd who also advocate writing mobile web apps instead of native apps where you're taking a big speed hit for other benefits. Software is all about making trade-offs (hopefully the right ones).

As far as a more difficult debugging experience -- I think Dart will offer the opposite, a much richer debugging experience for the developer's own code in the form of debugging within the native Dart VM. The non-Google developer shouldn't have to debug issues that arise due to the JS translation layer, that's on Google to get right, and again if they don't get that right developers just won't use the technology. I certainly think that whatever Dart's debugging experience ends up being will be much better than the debugging experience for CoffeeScript and other X->JS languages that the JavaScript-only crowd like to reference when talking about how JavaScript is already an adequate "VM".

As far as Google shoving it down everyone's throat -- what is your basis for that claim? What have they shoved down everyone's throat so far? Wave? With all due respect to Google, they don't have the power to shove anything down developer's throats. They can simply develop new technology and hope that it offers developers enough real-world benefit that they will adopt it organically.
Murder is an incredibly rare occurrence in most countries and social environments. On the other hand, women are a huge majority among rape victims, and this is not exceptional: 5 to 10% of all women are sexually abused at some point (depends upon the country, again).

Rape makes up only 6% of violent crimes, and men are much more commonly the victim of violent crimes than women. In fact, excluding rape, as the severity of violent crimes increase, so does the probability that the victim is male.

And couldn't I also say that, while rape is relatively rare, men are over twice as likely to be the victim of severe physical domestic violence (the ratio of murder to rape and rape to severe physical domestic violence is the same). Or that perpetration rates for physical violence as a whole are significantly higher for women than men.

I personally think that these are all bogus arguments because they trivialize rape. At the same time, trivializing murder is no better than trivializing rape, unless you believe that men are expendable.

Perhaps the focus of people like you should be to think about your attitude, just like this article conveniently talked about? Your arrogance and close-mindedness are astounding. Oh, before you ask, I'm a white, straight male too.

Nice ad hominem.
I would very much hope that browsers don't implement canvas that way. Surely no one can be that stupid?
Here is the paper:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4xc57v4jfmdc1k3
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> they can have their career, and have at least some time with their children

Unless mommy divorces them and takes their kids away, at which point they can have their career, and they can pay for the kids, but they can't actually spend much time with them.
It is interesting to me that Subversion barely gets a mention. There should be a 7.5 which is along the lines of:

cvs was great and all, but we couldn't version our directories, branching and merging was a mess, the wire protocol was hard to use, it had a ton of security holes and the storage format took up too much space. So, Subversion was created as a way to do a better cvs, without thinking about the larger intrinsic issues with the current state of version control. Thus, missing the whole 'distributed' boat and letting Linus eat our lunch.

Note: I worked at CollabNet during this time and watched a lot of the discussions around Subversion. I have great respect for the Subversion developers. Karl is an awesome and brilliant guy. It was a bubble, technology isn't anywhere where it is today and I think we were all misguided at that time. We all made a lot of mistakes.
Stallman repeats two idea that are intentionally misleading. He says that proprietary software controls the user instead of the user controlling the software. This is not true and it really depends on what "features" you are comfortable with having in programs you buy. Stallman likes to say iTunes is a jail but to him that feature is restrictive while to others it's simply convenient. If I buy a copy of Windows or Office or iWork I do control the software. I'm able to control the input and output. It certainly has limitations but depending upon what knd of user I am I may not care to extend the application or modify it or learn how to do so. If I really wanted those "free" abilities then I'll choose free software but Stallman assumes we all want to be free as it relates to software. Not everyone does.

The other idea I'd disagree with is how he says free (as in liberty) software can be sold. In theory it certainly can have a price tag but when the source is just out in the open there's no incentive to use the paid version as someone will certainly put out some slightly modified free (gratis) version. That's the bulk of why proprietary software exists in the first place.

One more thing that irked me was that Stallman implies that only proprietary software makers will put malicious code in their products. Really? So everyone who's on board the Free Software Movement has only good will towards man and would never dare try to harm another user for their own ends?

In the end I think Stallman makes some good points but unfortunately he ends up sounding like an ideologue and at times even a conspiracy theorist. That turns me off. If he's all about freedom then he should also accept that we have the freedom to choose free or proprietary these days and there are people who choose no free software because we don't mind being tied to a certain ecosystem. I love my Mac and I so far, while Lion does treat me like an idiot at times, don't mind the "restrictions" at all. In fact I barely notice them because they're just not important to me. That's my choice, the same choice everyone else has. I also have a Linux box which I love for different reasons. In the end I'm able to have it both says and I think everyone does.
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Sure, there's a way to tell. There are lots of ways of telling which platform you're on (#defines), and platforms can document the expected behavior. If a platform doesn't, then complain to the vendor.

Yes, it sucks to resort to conditional compilation around "close", but it's already been explained why it's necessary. POSIX was not created in a vacuum as a theoretically ideal OS specification.
The word 'encourage' is key here. They're still free to go into retail, office or plumbing (and those fields are fine) but if they're not exposed to science and its way of thinking they won't be inclined to take it up.

One of his main points in his two AMAs is that children are born curious but if they don't get taught how to be scientifically literate they won't pursue science and waste their potential. Thus we should encourage students to pursue science from an early age so that we have more and more people who didn't get put off of all the memorization and boring math.
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If you like Xxxterm but feel like it isn't quite your cup of tea, try one of these other similar alternate web browsers:

- Luakit: http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ My favourite in this list. Just webkit + lightweight lua shell. Infinitely customizable.

- Surf: http://surf.suckless.org/ From the same people who created wmii and dwm

- Uzbl: http://uzbl.org/ Haven't had much luck with this one, but it's quite interesting. A while back, there was some work into getting this to play nice with emacs (google: Ezbl)
While the NFL is finally coming around on concussions, I think information from G-meters might be something they would rather not know. We all know the game is violent and NFL fans love a great hit. I don't think people want to know just how violent it is though.
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For me it's more a matter of cognitive simplicity.

I can use a POSIX environment anywhere. It's one less hurdle if that's the tool I'm using.

I've learned (and forgotten) numerous proprietary system languages. I prefer sticking with stuff that will be around. POSIX/Unix/Linux have demonstrated staying power.
A "dating" site for travel partners, nice!