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Comment More feminist FUD (Score 0, Flamebait) 239

Maybe, just maybe most games appealed to more males, so males were more drawn to them. This is of course a consequence of sexism in early decades discouraging women from taking up programming and making games themselves.

This is all being corrected, naturally, it's just going to take time.

There isn't disdain for women in gaming, it's just that women are the minority in games and tend to play games that the majority looks down upon (The Sims, Candy Crush etc), although even this is changing. There are plenty of girls who play GTAV, Injustice, COD etc and are amazing at them.

Articles like this don't help, they hurt. They spread FUD and misinformation without any facts, only serving to promote a continuation of the idiotic war of the sexes.

Comment Re:So we can't call anyone stupid anymore (Score 1) 622

A young woman dressing provocative in a dangerous area where rapes are known to occur is stupid, and is partly at fault.

Just like if I wear expensive jewelery and flash it around a neighborhood known to have muggings.

Ideally the victim is never at fault. In reality, when there are multiple choices of what to wear and which neighborhoods to walk for, the victims are not always faultless.

Comment Re:Slackware (Score 1) 303

This is nonsense. It certainly used to be true, but it isn't anymore.

Slackware has fallen prey to trying to compete with Ubuntu and ilk. Now you need to have a full install and the community isn't willing to support uou if you have anything less than that.

This used to be fine, but now they have made it so that there are crazy dependencies. You can't install mplayer without installing Samba for example, because mplayer was compiled to be able to play files over SMB shares.

It was important to me to have a clean, well maintained, minimial unix system.

Arch looked perfect, but I don't like the fact that it is a rolling release/bleeding edge. Alpine Linux seemed interesting, but it's really more suited to a firewall type device. The rest of the Linux distros don't really meet my requirements and OpenSolaris is dead, which means I had to look to the BSDs.

I will never run OpenBSD, as I don't think they understand what security is, and do a lot of showboating. They are great OpenSSH maintainers though. FreeBSD is just too big, and s hard to get minimal. There is no advantage in running FreeBSD over NetBSD for me.

Enter NetBSD. It seems absolutely perfect. It has package sets like Slackware and a full install still fit's on a CD. It's under 300MB without a desktop environment. It's stable, and only has major releases about once a year. Security updates are pushed out, it can run linux binaries for software you can't compile, and it has some very interesting security features. Specifically kernel level file monitoring for executable and config files, full disk encryption, and a port of PaX which I think is a superior implementation of ESP when contrasted with W^X.

Of note to me also, is the Linux teams attitude towards security. Linus and Greg K-H have gone on record multiple times stating that security issues do not deserve special treatment and do not need to be fixed sooner than other bugs, since they are "just bugs". That is a dangerous attitude, and leads to things like the 'Wunderbar Emporium' exploit allowing root across many major kernel version releases.

The NetBSD team takes security seriously, and issues security updates as a priority as needed.

For anyone truly looking for a secure, minimal and clean *nix system as a replacement for Slackware, I can't recommend NetBSD enough.

Comment Re:Robin (Score 1) 20

You don't seem to have read any of the modern iterations of the comic.

The robins have *ALWAYS* been a core part of the Batman Mythos.

Since the New 52, Batman had a Robin called Damian who was his biological son, trained to be a killer. The series "Batman and Robin" deals with him trying to establish a relationship with his son who has become Robin and trying to change his ways.

A huge crossover event at the moment involves Batman going against Darkseid to reclaim his sons body back.

An amazing Batman story in the 2005 was "Under the Red Hood", which deals with Jason Todd and is a continuation of "A death in the family".

Robin has almost always been present, in almost all iterations of the character. The only exception are stories set in Batman's early years before he had a Robin, stories where he is not the main character such as the Justice League stories (Robin has the Teen Titans) or stories focused on detective stories, where the story works better without Robin. These are the exception however.

Comment Re:OS Decay is largekly a myth. (Score 5, Insightful) 577

Hi,

You're incorrect.

As I stated, the registry as an optimized database. A few extra records do not affect query time.

I will be happy to met money that my 3 year old install of Windows 7 will not have any speed decrease over a new install on the same hardware.

If the OS slows down, it is because there is something causing it that you can remove. It isn't due to "decay".

Comment OS Decay is largekly a myth. (Score 1) 577

Since..let's say Vista, OS decay doesn't happen.

  • No need to defrag anymore.
  • Leftover registry entries don't slow down anything (the registry is an optimized database. Having a few extra records does not affect query time).
  • Having extra disk space used up by unused applications likewise does not affect performance

You know what does affect OS performance? Malware. Silly PC users not installing updates and getting infected, or just infecting themselves because a dancing pig said it was a good idea.

Microsoft doesn't have to fix OS decay. They need to continue to educate their users about security and then make a version of notepad that can understand unix newlines.

Comment This is why piracy is just and will flourish (Score 1) 363

Content owners only need very limited rights so they can profit of their work for a short time.

They certainly shouldn't have the right to deprive people of information, because they haven't paid, or because they didn't pay for a new media format, or because they are using a VPN!

The more ridiclous these attempts to lock people from accessing information, the more they will be circumvented. Methods to circamvent will continue to improve, becoming ever more convenient until these idiot companies die or wise up.

Donation model ONLY. Money paid gets a copy, maybe something extra cool, that's it. If you give a copy to someone or copy it to your computer you are not a criminal and should not be treated like one.

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