Yeah, this is an argument I've had with a number of people about the whole misogamy discussion. A lot of these people don't care about your gender or your cause, they are just assh*les through and through. If you're a women they'll hit you on that point, especially if you're proud. If you're a guy they'll find something else, call you a noob, a some racial/sexual epithet. My take was that - unless we find a reasonable way to deal with the troll situation (how, I'm not sure, I don't want to have an ID card to get online) - then the situations of discrimination are going to get overwhelmed by unrelated static.

What the trolls care about is the RESPONSE. The bigger, the better. Yes, there are Elliot Rogers type people out there, but for every one of those there are probably a few dozen or even hundreds of trolls who really only care about the lulz, which in their mind is "it's fun to get a rise out of people by doing outrageous things." The only thing that these people remotely care about in regards to this woman is "what is the best way I can raise shit to cause a public reaction so I can high five my equally trollish friends and chuckle about it.

In this case, the reaction has been pretty severe, which is likely making the trolls very very happy, and establishing a feedback loop between them and the publicity of the issue while almost completely drowning out any reasonable discussion.

While Wu may be a victim of trolling, I'd say that it victimizes all of us by shutting down reasonable dialog and progress.
Identifying a few of the bigger trolls who make death threats might help solve the issue a bit, but then I see the video of that anti-gay redneck who was recently taken down in the airport SMILING as he's hauled off and I wonder if some people are so damaged that even that might make it worse.

These days when the local ISP's give out routers, there is a stamp on the router that has the default login, wifi ESSID, and wifi login. You can change these of course, but the defaults are not the same between customers.

When I setup my firewall, it *WOULDN'T* work until I first set a password. This was the very first step.

This isn't customers - many who are less tech savvy - being lazy, it's the manufactures. There is absolutely no reason that they can't either package a unique password or simply require the users to create a password before the first use.

Sorry, maybe I worded that a bit off, I didn't mean to say that *you* were threatening her, but rather that so long as people were reasonable disagreeing then their import is acceptable, and for those that *are* giving death threats criminal charges are also acceptable.

I totally agree that many people are using outliers to shut down reasonable discourse. Politicians etc also seem to be using this, and I suspect that, rather than just having sock-puppets that support their angle, many are actually using sock-puppets that actually *criticize* them - but in the most objectionable/boorish manner possible - in order to deflect legitimate criticism. I'm seeing that in a lot of articles in my home-press. No matter what the issue, some idiot comes on and criticises or blames it on the gov't. I'm fairly sure nobody is quite that stupid, so what it actually appears to be is a tactic where you produce ineffective criticism in order to drown out the legitimate criticism.

Not sure if that's the case here. I've received internet threats before. I'm not quite famous enough that somebody might look up my home details, though. By having a strong public reaction to this, it may be an attempt to garner support and paint the overall opposition as offensive and belligerent.

So call her a troll, point out the crap, but don't threaten to kill her. Seems fair enough.
Death threats are still death threats, and really have no place regardless of the actions of the target.

I've often gone to eBay etc to pick up my electronic odd-and-ends. I'd have to say that for stuff like SD cards - though you do pay the price locally - it may be a safer bet to buy in a B&M than online.
The amount of fake cards is staggering. I'm not just talking about a "no-name" brand that's labelled as Samsung, or a class 4 listed as a class 10, but cards that are labelled as 16, 32, 64GB etc, are IDENTIFIED BY THE OS as the labelled capacity, but actually contain only 2-4GB and have modified firmware causing them to report as larger. That means the card seems to work fine initially, but when you go over the 2GB/4GB mark it actually starts overwriting existing sectors/files resulting in rampant data corruption.

If you want to test your card, you can use a utility like h2testw It will tell you if the card is having bad writes - which could indicate a faulty card - but also tells if it's doing stuff like writing back over existing files (which indicates a fraudulent "over-capacity" card).

[h2test2 is windows software. Sorry but I'm not sure if there's a 'nix equivalent. One could probably make a script that DD's numbers across various sectors and then checks afterwards whether they overwrote previous sectors).

And the display shows "Candidate X" while actually sending tokens to "Candidate Y" ...

It's still not legitimately verifiable

If you need the screen fine, but print results ON PAPER. Make the paper easily scannable, and then load and scan. Speed of electronics, verifiable by an average human being. The paper is what Joe Average sees that confirms the vote, and the paper is the ultimate source of confirmation.

Their job is to make money in a parasitic relationship between the job seeker, their recruiting corp, and the employer. I actually got placed in my current position by a recruiter. It was initially a temp position, and I was very clear I was looking for the possibility of a long-term.
They tried to put language where I'd not be able to interview for a permanent position with a company they'd placed me in (for 3 months after end of placement). I got that taken out, but later found they're put language into the employer's section where *THEY* had to pay a penalty for accepting me as a permanent employee. Keep in mind this is after they were already making 20-40% above what I got paid for the time they placed me as a contractor.

Then, AFTER the company has decided it was worth paying the blood money to keep me rather than a fresh interviewee, I'm settled in for a few months when the same recruiting agency comes back and asks me if I'd be interested in [position] elsewhere. Yes, the company paid them to keep me, and months later they're trying to poach me away already. Not ethnical at all, IMHO.

I work in IT because I like it. I'm also good at what I do. I'm not sure which influences the other more, but at least part of part of that is likely that I don't stop learning at work, I enjoy trying new things and new tech. It's not required of me, but it interests me and thus I tend to keep up-to-date on a variety of technical fields etc.

Then again, at my employer we've recently had several "lunch and learn" seminars. I generally avoid those because my break is time to collect thoughts and the topics often don't fall within my general interest. If it's a lunch conference on some tech I find interesting, I'd more likely attend so long as I wasn't already overloaded from daily work.

Question: Do you find that HFA individuals work better with other people having a similar affliction, or worse?

Is it like having a room full of stubborn bulls always butting heads, or as a group do they tend to skip the fluff and get to work?

Because hot-to-trop tech people are even less likely to locate to a relatively small city where the pay-to-mortgage-ratio is more reasonable, but there's not 24hr sushi, pizza, and nightclubs around?

More importantly, I would generally expect more of somebody with 2-3 years of *RECENT* experience, as opposed to 5+ years of experience but no practical experience in the last few years.

20+ years ago the average competent adult had a few numbers memorized, and the rest were written down on a piece of paper or in something like this.
I've got a lot less phone #'s memorized these days, but there's plenty of other stuff to remember: SIN #, Visa #, IP addresses, etc.

Who chooses? A lot of students choose courses based on what academics advisers recommend?
"Oh, you're good at art but terrible in English and with computers. It sounds like you might want to take X, Y, and Z"

Hell, my wife was looking at applying for a position at the local Uni. When she talked to an advisor, they said the recommended requirements for the position was... "a degree." Not a degree in business, tourism, or IT, but "a degree". When she mentioned she already HAD "a degree" but was looking at changing fields, they suggested some other courses etc that might be helpful.

Part of the problem is there is an industry built around pushing people into a system that's high cost and low reward. Many of them aren't sure exactly what they want to do, and are taking the advice of so-called "professionals" which are close ties to the for-profit education system.

Works for a little while. But if/when the senior classes all have a 90%+ failure rate then it's not going to last.

"Eh, technically they're not lying"

And technically they're not telling the truth either. If they want to throttle *ALL* customers down to 1kb/s and then give some "unlimited" data at that speed, fine. But if they're singling out people who have the unlimited package and applying throttling whilst everyone else gets 10MB/s (or whatever), then I'm sorry but that's not going to fly.