Yes, but according to her ex's account, she only started sleeping with him in may, and this was published in january. So, it's hard to see how this would be evidence of any kind of malfeasance.

That's probably because the word's most common meaning is gender-specific:

whore n.
1.a A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute, harlot.

(source: OED 4.0)

In any self-selected group that contains more than about 20 people you'll find at least one who's a complete and utter nutcase. Using the most extreme to discredit the entire group is a very dubious tactic.

The allegations are quite serious. I hope the evidence against her is good. Please provide links, because I haven't seen any that amounts to more than rumours.

I haven't watched her videos, but the impression I get is that they are typical feminist fare: slightly exaggerated, maybe even overreacting to minor points. Perhaps even some of the things she says are untrue, I don't know. How this translates to it being reasonable to figure out her home address and send her death threats, I'm not entirely sure.

Sure, we've now reached the point of equality in terms of the actual market for games. But there's still a horrible lack of equality in:

* People who develop games (only 4% female). This is much worse than the general software developer situation, despite that being bad enough in itself (29% female).
* People who write about games for magazines, etc. I can't find any good stats on this, but thinking about the magazines and sites I read, I'm going to guess the figure is probably somewhere in the 15-20% range. For other fields of journalism, the figures are usually around the 30% sort of range, so again I *think* the gaming press is doing worse than average here.

These statistics show that this is much worse than a "few vocal idiots".

In any realistic deployment of computer systems, the environment changes. There is practically nothing that can be done to prevent this.

Sure there are. But how many open source platforms are there that cannot be used with modern hardware, or cannot be used at all due to widespread security vulnerabilities or bugs that haven't been patched?

Ones that spring to mind: Borland Pascal 7. The drivers for several pieces of hardware that I used to use. An administration program for a router that depends on an obsolete and insecure version of Java and will not run with more recent ones. There are more, but most of them are so long ago I no longer recall exactly what they were.

Nope, and still not likely to be accepted as [a]n organization is not notable merely because a notable person or event was associated with it. As all coverage of this organization I can see is either (1) not in a reliable source or (2) relates to this specific incident, there are still no "good reliable secondary sources" as the deletion reason you quoted above put it, so a new article would likely be immediately deleted. There may be enough coverage for an article about the incident, though.

In England, since 2006. Are the US courts really so far behind the times that they still don't consider email a valid method of service?

Understanding those algorithms is still important, though, even if you're just using the available APIs. I know that depending on what framework I pick, the API's sort function will either be an implementation of quicksort, quicksort with an optimization to prevent worst case performance on presorted data, mergesort or (rarely) a handful of others. In many cases it is important to know which one is being used. Is resorting an already sorted list going to give me poor performance? Will elements that compare equal be maintained in order or would they be psuedorandomly transposed? If I know the details of common sorting algorithms I can tell this at a glance, and can easily remember which applies to which framework. If I don't know the details, I'll have to dig into documentation (or, quite frequently, stack overflow questions) to find the answers, which will take much longer.

And the other thing that CS teaches is that there are alternative approaches: why are you using a sort function, when you could be keeping your data in a tree structure instead?

Right. Local machine is the admin's desktop, running the X server, and the remote machine is the network server, running the X clients. I don't see the problem with this setup. It doesn't leave the server running X, and there's no security implications because you need to be able to connect to the server via ssh to get anything to work.

No. It degrades over time for entirely different reasons. But it *does* degrade over time. There's plenty of software I used to use which I now cannot for various reasons (e.g. contains known unpatched vulnerabilities; not compatible with modern hardware; suffers from Y2K-related bugs; depends on operating systems that contain known unpatched vulnerabilities; depends on operating systems that are not compatible with modern hardware). Were it open source, I doubt this would have happened.

The latest set of Microsoft security patches fix a vulnerability that could plausibly be exploited to remotely execute code and which has affected all versions of Internet Explorer since 6.0. This probably has significantly worse impact than Heartbleed did, and is such a regular occurrence that nobody has bothered pointing it out for special attention. Heartbleed was news simply because we expect open source to do better.

Heartbleed was a subtle bug that was fixed after 2 years and 1 month of being in the release branch of openssl. Looking at the "critical" and "important" bugs in the latest round of Windows patches, I see one that has been open since IE6 was released (13 years), one for windows 8 (21 months), OneNote 2007 SP3 (35 months), SQL Server 2008 SP3 (35 months), Windows 2003 (11 years) x2, SharePoint Server 2013 (18 months), and .NET Framework 2.0SP2 (5 years).

It looks to me like open source is working just fine here; Hearthbleed appears to have been fixed much faster than an average important security flaw in a closed source package.

Yes, but for some reason I find hard to fathom it attracts attention away from other products that would be just as good at fulfilling the same goals and *are* completely open. I have no doubt that if, say, Olimex's OLinuxIno sold in similar quantities to the RPi it would be available at about the same price, rather than a slightly higher for a much better board, as it is currently.

I'm personally a fan of Olimex's boards. They're open hardware, and tend to have superior boards to the RPi at only slightly higher prices. E.g. their entry level board (details here) is £28 versus about £20 for a RPi model A. It has a much faster processor (1GHz superscalar Cortex A8 vs 700MHz previous-generation single-dispatch ARM11, so probably about twice as fast), more GPIOs (74 pins vs RPi's 26), USB-OTG, audio-in, RTC, plus uses a processor that does not rely on an undocumented proprietary DSP to boot. And did I mention it's open hardware, so you could build your own if wanted to?