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Comment Re:Social or Biological? (Score 1) 588

Unfortunately, teachers are not well-payed, so it's hard to get people into the field, period, let alone men.

... Since men are better at math (and generally smarter), they're less likely thwarted by the job interviewers at schools to take the crappy teaching job for ideological reasons. There, fixed that for you.

Comment A good moment to clean up? (Score 1) 399

I don't back up (well I do, because I can, but I'm convinced I don't need to). More importantly, I don't recover. Everything of value I produce goes into a repository or to a client. If my disk doesn't crash I usually wipe it after a year anyway. Worst that ever happened to me was the loss of one day of work and the loss of another day to get the new system like I wanted it (meaning without all the crap I installed on it over the months).

There are plenty good solutions in this thread, but I'd say don't bother recovering, just learn the lesson and move on. I'm pretty sure you'll waste less time that way. Especially since the time wasted will not be yours it looks pretty good to me.

Comment Re:The focus should be on the account. (Score 3, Informative) 231

i.e. Hackers whose goal in life is to disrupt access to the system rather than to break in.

Those type of hackers are rare and have less resources. There isn't any point in pure vandalism you see. In any case research has shown that it's not a primary motive.

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/htcb/htcb006.html

Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 130

SpringSource is _THE_ standard IoC container for the Java Language

It's flattering, but incorrect. First of all SpringSource is the company employing the vast majority of Spring committers, but there is a difference between the framework and the company.

Second, Spring is in fact not a standard. It is the de facto standard, which sounds cool to people who give a damn about standards.

I think both of these things are good, you don't want any company to own your framework of choice and you don't want your framework of choice to be polluted by the designed by committee stuff that we've got way too much of already.

If you haven't figured this out and like to be informed: SpringSource pays my salary each month, but I'm speaking on my own terms here.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 458

Interesting problem here: on the one hand there is a valid objection to administering mood stabilizing medicines in this manner, but on the other hand drinking water might be unnaturally devoid of certain essential minerals.

I'm not particularly against unnatural things, but I can't find solid arguments against adding something to the drinking water, provided it is proven that this addition makes it healthier.

Comment Re:South Korea is a tribal democracy (Score 4, Insightful) 177

The grandparent just offers his analysis. No judgement is expressed if you read carefully. You may disagree, but from your post it seems that it was a good post sparkling an interesting discussion. I'm confused why you think that is "trolling at its worst".

Further more, you write about the statements being "unqualified" and "cannot be substantiated in ANY way", while you offer no arguments to back this up other than "no justice system can operate on such a weak foundation" and "is also simply wrong".

I'm reading: parent is so clearly wrong that I won't bother to give arguments, and because he is wrong he must be trolling.

I'd like to see grandparents claims substantiated or refuted. Modding grandparent down will lead to less readers, and therefore the chances of someone offering more information, or refuting the claims will go down.

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