I was going to say almost exactly this. +1 You are correct.

If in the end Anonymous' one single effect on the real world is to cause people to think cautiously about ridiculously hooking up everything to the internet for laziness, er ... convenience, they will have been nothing more than a boon to the wisdom of humanity. Let's hope that's all they cause.

Doesn't access to my Gmail account allow people to "recover" my password to just about everything?

The concepts of an iPhone and user freedom/control are mutually exclusive.

I did not comment on cultural or societal trends. Let's go over this again!

"There is only one kind of systematic prejudice in today's institutions."

And that is exactly correct. The only systematic favoritism that practiced in schools is to single out people who are not white or not male. That is absolutely indisputable fact.

It may please some goal you have to "fix" something you've seen. Just don't go around pretending that your "fix" is only affecting the people you've decided to care about. You cannot systematically favor everyone who is female without also targeting everyone who is male with disfavoritism.

But I get it. It doesn't bother you that a poor, disadvantaged young white boy, who may have instability or poverty at home has no one to give him that extra help he may need. But he does watch everyone else in a similar situation to his own get extra support while he gets none.

Do you think his heart will grow to let go of prejudices easily? Maybe its time your "protected status" crusade should include him as well.

Do you have any systematic rules that enforce that type of bias in an institution?

If I hadn't already posted here, I would UPVOTE this insightful. Because, if we are to have a meaningful workforce in 20 years, EVERYONE needs to know something about how a computer can be controlled. Otherwise, we will only have nearly useless button pushers protected by unions, the government or some other criminal element.

I never said they were a minority. But anything that today's institutions do targets everyone else except them for favoritism.

IF they do have some "privilege", it must come somewhere other than the systematic policies of modern institutions.

Is there a finite number of seats available in a class?

There is only one kind of systematic prejudice in today's institutions. And it is against white males. And if you happen to be heterosexual too, no one will target you for any favoritism.

We will truly evolve in our values when we finally return to egalitarianism. When we finally admit that you cannot push people ahead in line because of their race/sex/sexuality without simultaneously pushing someone else back in line because of theirs, we will be truly enlightened.

Oh, that's right! They increase mass surveillance 100% don't they?

That's great, but how much do they reduce mass surveillance?

I don't think MIT really gets what their lectures mean to the world. They aren't about a Puritan representation of the institution itself. They are about offering knowledge to the world, including poverty stricken areas whose culture may not yet have evolved to look down upon catcalling.

We don't need to debate any more of this idea that Slashdot has been taken over by the right-wing. Right?

... that make me so happy to run Linux Mint and CyanogenMod exclusively as my OS's ...