Sadly, I'm not compatible with DRM so I guess I can't use that new browser.
It's not about you.
The mainstream browser that doesn't support protected media play is damn near extinct.
The browser itself is under threat of being eclipsed by the walled gardens of the mobile, app-oriented, world. Imagine if Netflix began adding live news and sports feeds to its streaming media content.
Assange's legal team says that Assange's letter has been mischaracterized, and that it is in fact not a request for asylum per se; instead, they assert, the letter merely expresses Assange's "willingness 'to be hosted in France if and only if an initiative was taken by the competent authorities.'"
"Hosted?"
How gracious of Assange to say he would willing to trade his Ecuadorian broom closet for a rent-free garden flat in Paris, if France would be kind enough to send him an engraved invitation.
There are two particularly flavorful Yiddish words that come to mind here, "chutzpah" being one of them.
So I just use a 3d printer and "print" a finger after capturing an image and guessing at the depth of the ridges
But will your makerbot plastic finger reflect sound in the same way as the real thing?
So is removing them and pretending those places dont exist is a better solution?
It hurts my head when a geek asks a loaded --- smartass ---- question like this and gets modded up +5, Insightful.
Scientist Tim Hunt responds to criticism of 'girls in labs' comments
Transcript of BBC 4 "Today" clip. 10/6/2015
''I did mean the part about having trouble with girls,'' he said.
''It is true that people - I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field.
''I found that these emotional entanglements made life very difficult.
''I'm really, really sorry I caused any offence, that's awful. I certainly didn't mean that. I just meant to be honest, actually.''
Tim Hunt's version of events changes a little even before a friendly interviewer.
His brief remarks contained 39 words that have subsequently come to haunt him.
'''Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry,'' he told delegates.
''I stood up and went mad,'' he admits. '' I was very nervous and a bit confused but, yes, I made those remarks --- which were inexcusable --- but I made them in a totally jocular, ironic way. There was some polite applause and that was it, I thought. I thought everything was OK. No one accused me of being a sexist pig.''
[Hunt's wife] clutches her head as Hunt talks. ''It was an unbelievably stupid thing to say,'' she says. ''You can see why it could be taken as offensive if you didn't know Tim. But really it was just part of his upbringing. He went to a single-sex school in the 1960s. Nevertheless he is not sexist. I am a feminist, and I would not have put up with him if he were sexist.''
The next morning, as he headed for Seoul airport, Hunt...recorded a clumsily worded phone message [for "Today.''] ''It was a mistake to do that as well. It just sounded wrong.''
Tim Hunt: ''I've been hung out to dry. They haven't even bothered to ask for my side of affairs''
The audience at the conference was expected to be about 40% Asian. "If you don't know Tim..." as well as his wife? No in Seoul could be reasonably be expected to know him that well. No one in the audience for Radio 4.
Connie St-Louis, on June 8th, reported on apparently sexist remarks made by Sir Tim Hunt, a nobel prize winning scientist, during an event organised for women in sciences
The event was the World Conference of Science Jormalists
Hosted by the Korea Science Journalists Association and the World Federation of Science Journalists. The first to be held in East Asia.
The morning session of the opening day kicked off with Tim Hunt speaking on "Creative Science - Only A Game?"
and Deborah Blum on "Listening to the Past - Why history makes journalists smarter." WCSJ 2015 Program Schedule
Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Poisoner's Handbook, a page-turning introduction to the coming-of-age of modern forensic science.
All Tim Hunt was asked to do was to stay on message and not step out on the stage wearing one of Matt Taylor's lingerie print tee shirts.
It wasn't a single reporter who did him in but hundreds broadcasting to a global audience. The morning-after apology for something you said that blew up in your face never comes across as entirely convincing.
Hunt hasn't seen the inside of lab in years, but he remained a powerful voice inside the top-tier committees which award research grants and fellowships --- and that had many women crying foul.
You don't think there's any gay nerds?
The conservative media take on the Supreme Court is that it has become "technocratic."
Meaning it has become aligned with the dominant forces of the 21st Century economy. Hollywood in entertainment, Silicon Valley in tech, Amazon in retailing, and so on.
Conservatives need such an explanation for why the wheels have fallen off their little red wagon.
After a momentous week, same-sex couples can now marry in all 50 states, the Confederate flag's historic hold on the political institutions of the Deep South is fraying by the hour and Obamacare, after defying another attempt to dismantle it, is now reaffirmed as the law of the land.
What about low income boys
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, right?
The lead sponsor of this program is the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
Because boys get more informal opportunities for computing experience outside of school, this lack of formal computing education especially affects girls and many youth of color.
That doesn't exclude others from sponsoring similar programs for low income boys.
Is that a cricket I hear chirping?
Exactly, because the 20 million teenage boys torrent their music.
Then why not put all your assets into production for the girls who are willing and able to pay for your product?
Who the fuck cares about Facebook?
Like this is going to get you modded down on Slashdot.
The better question to ask is "Who on Faceback gives a damn about Slashdot --- or even knows that it exists?"
The problem isn't unique to the geek forums: almost no one on the net makes the effort to open channels of communication with those outside their own group.
I see we now have a balloon, a stained glass window icon and the real-life Microsoft logo appearing in-line with the headline.
Thankfully without obscuring the text. This time.
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'War' on it?" -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc
