WIPP was designed, owned, and run by the government, or at least by contractors who may as well be government employees. The problematic waste was packed by employees of Los Alamos National Labs, a government facility. I don't know exactly where you intended to go with this, but I very much doubt anyone involved felt that they were somehow beyond government accountability.

It's not revenge when there is no victim. It is control by fear.

Hunger Games are merely a concentrated and purified form of the divide and conquer strategy which is the "two party" system.

actively supporting unpopular political views or oppressed ethnic groups is a felony in the US.

Don't be so sure.

I doubt the FBI is overly concerned about the amateur lawyers on Slashdot accusing them of entrapment. A more likely explanation is that there is some sensitivity (legal, security, law enforcement strategy, whatever) surrounding what originally made the FBI suspicious of him.

TIL a troll can have no idea what he's talking about but can somehow manage to find "solipsism" in the dictionary.

It's not entrapment if they just ask you to do it and you do it without any resistance. If they went to the guy and then begged and pleaded with him telling him some sad story about why they need it and convinced him to do it after he said no, then that would be entrapment.

Really good guide to what entrapment is

That's complete bullshit. Sony Pictures has absolutely nothing to do with SCEA. The only thing they have in common is the same parent company. That don't share even the tiniest bit of IT infrastructure.

I don't know. I'll get back to you after I get home from work and have some time to think about it. One possibility is, as I said in my first comment, economics. It's possible that in very competitive economies with high unemployment and not so great standard of living, women feel pressured to choose more remunerative or stable careers or careers in high demand. Since we're asking questions, why do you believe it's really just culture and not also partially an innate difference? It is uncontroversial that men have (on average) superior spatial reasoning. It seems at least plausible that this difference would lead to men and women choosing different careers, all else being equal. I'm not trying to argue that women shouldn't or can't be engineers or that there are no cultural factors at all. Sex discrimination on an individual basis is wrong, and we should all work harder to get over our prejudices. But that doesn't imply that our goal state should be equal representation. It's entirely possible that at some point along the way to achieving that, a point we've perhaps already sailed past, our encouraging of girls will become more like arm twisting. I'm rambling now, but I worry about what we're communicating to boys with all this stuff. Young children perhaps don't understand why girls are being particularly encouraged. Boys are already about a third less likely to go to college, a problem not many seem very concerned about.

Several months ago I read an article about women in STEM in countries that are not known for being particularly egalitarian, like India and Iran. (I may be remembering the countries incorrectly.) The gist was, they are beating out the United States in terms of women achieving parity in STEM careers.

Some take this as a great embarrassment. Iran is beating the US! What a stunning indictment!

The author of the article had a different hypothesis. Maybe the difference is (partially) explained by the fact that women in the United States have more, not less, freedom (social and economic) to choose the careers they want, and the overall result of those freely-made choices is lots of women in health care and so forth and not so many in STEM fields.

Yeah I think the article is overrated. Alcohol has been around for a long time, and so has the ability to process it AND its effects on brains.

See this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...

You're quite right: ports really isn't difficult. It's just "different" from what I'm used to, so any difficulties are personal and self-inflicted. :)