To all slashdot (male) commenters, I suggest they do a little experiment. Create a new (female) online identity, clearly female by the mail address and displayed name. Then start contributing to a project, or start discussing in a forum. Try to see the differences in how are you treated.

I suspect there are lots of women using male nicknames or neutral emails for this reason.

The danger is not in the bite, is in the germs it carries. Mouses are dirty animals. They eat our stored food too.

If you want to request your own records, do so ASAP: Even while stalling on responses to pending requests and appeals -- some unanswered after almost 2 years -- the DHS has recently moved to exempt more of this data from disclosure or requirements for accuracy, relevance, etc. Even more Privacy Act exemptions for PNR's and other "Automated Targeting System" data are pending, and could be finalized at any time. BTW, if you travelled to, from, or via the EU, or on an EU-based airline, or made reservations or bought tickets in the EU or through an EU-based company, or if your reservations were stored in the EU-based CRS Amadeus, you also have the right to request your travel records from these travel companies.

It is a homophobic law because it was a law that discriminted against homosexuality, even in private.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing#Conviction_for_gross_indecency

IANAL (no pun intended), but I don't think it is related to anal sex in particular but "gross indecency" between males:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_Amendment_Act_1885#Section_11

Finally, about the word "homophobia". A word's meaning goes beyond its etymology. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophobia

What I have been surprised at, in this discussion and when the subject was originally posted, was that for the chance to be the first to explore Mars, even if its a one way trip and the individual will spend the rest of their life as a first "Martian" the chance to explore and experiences in transit, exploration and survival on Mars would be "Worth-It" to a lot of people.

The comments have been largely takig the perspective of a suicide voyage, but that is only a very narrow perspective. There is a difference between "Being Alive" and "Living" and for some, "Living" with the experiences of attempting to survive on a different planet would be a very easy decision.

I think you misunderstand my meaning. Of course it wasn't actually difficult to do once public opinion backed it (although it is still politically embarrassing), but that doesn't mean it wasn't a big deal. Admitting to the mistake is a line in the sand that has now been drawn.

Compare the government saying, "Turing is a national hero who saved our asses and we treated him like dirt, and we can do better, and we will do better," with the government saying nothing at all.

In this case, I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong. Perhaps you think this event will cause gay rights proponents to fade away? Maybe all the gay marriage activists will be placated now that, at long last, the Prime Minister has apologized for Turing's treatment?

I'm pretty sure we both know this isn't going to happen. If anything, this apology will have the opposite effect.

Tomorrow's /. headline:

Scientists create next superflu via quantum superpositioning.

You say you would like to see female engineers and scientists, (as if there were none?). Why? It shouldn't matter to you if there is female, male, queer or transgendered engineers and scientists.

That wasn't the user, her account was compromised by btards after they hacked a christian dating site. See this or do a google search for "4chan hacked facebook".

No, men do not go around wailing. I think that they try and take their revenge against women.
Historically and biologically, men always were the ones without value.

A war starts? men are sent to fight and die.

Men are the ones who have to fight each other to get the best woman, a woman just picks the best.

A catastrophe strikes? "women and children first".

Men don't have the valuable biological asset: the vagina, a woman always has something of value: the pleasure she can provide to a man. A man can have absolutely nothing to offer, a woman at least has always her body to offer. Men have penises that are ugly, AND they are afraid to lose them. There is no constant demand for penises, but there is constant demand for vaginas.

Men pay women so they can touch them.

Men paint, fotograph and film nude women so they can look at them and dream about touching them.

Men make life-sized dolls imitating a woman's body, so they can touch it.

Yes, all this is unfair to man. All this is demeaning to men. All this paints men in a pathethic light. But they can do nothing, it's the way biology works. So they demean women everytime they can. They become mysoginistic and frustrated. They start to hate women. They make laws and rules that women cannot break: a woman has to be pure, virgin, marry and stay at home. A woman must not have a voice. All this to try and control women, to bring them down from their priviledged position. They tried to get even with women during all human history.

We say stop it. Enough is enough.

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english is not my first language.

Exactly, I have encontered myself many times wanting to buy, only to see that it's impossible: it's impossible to connect a paypal account with an argentinean debit card, for example. At least, last time I tried it was. Not so long ago, it was impossible to buy from amazon or ebay without a credit card. I haven't checked since.

In argentina, is not that common for people to use credit cards. We use cash, and from the last ten years we started using debit cards. I don't like credit cards, I don't want to have one.

Another problem we face is corrupt customs/mail people that steal our shipments. I ordered some cds that never arrived: ordering things is a roulette, you are never sure if the product is going to arrive or be stolen along the way.

But what I can't understand is how there isn't something like an "internet buying card" where I can specify some money limit and use that to buy things instead of compromising the security of my entire bank account and identity every time I want to buy something.

For example, I imagine it being something like this: I buy a $300 card, with cash, in a store. I use that card to buy things off the internet. Even if the card number is stolen, my identity is safe, and the max amount of cash that can be stolen is $300. One could choose the exact amount of cash the card contains, and after it's spent a new card must be bought. Why is it that something like this doesn't exist? I think the amount of people spending money on something like this would be HUGE.

You are an idiot.

Have you ever heard of contraceptives? They are little thingamagiks that allow anyone to have sex, without having children! isn't it amazing?

By the way, paris hilton has more money than what you will dream of having in your entire life, so why is it again she should not have sex?

If that was what you liked, by all means, do it, be happy. :)

"It's not really that much different to how it used to be in Europe, it's just that we had about 150 years to further develop ourselves. Sucks for current-generation Chinese, but their grandchildren can bask in luxury we won't be seeing in that age."

Bullshit. Europe and USA are "basking in luxury" thanks to the third-world countries they control, that are providing them with raw materials and cheap hand-labor.