I've worked with many women and constantly smile at them, also never been sued into oblivion or accused of being a creep. I even asked one out once, didn't seem to be a problem.

I think some guys are walking on egg shells all the time because they fear being accused of sexual harassment when actually there is very little danger. If it is as bad as you say where you work then your company has a serious problem. It might actually work out for you though because such insane policies are likely to be quite lucrative when you sue them for wrongful dismissal.

Are you sure it's just women that have this power? Have you tried falsely accusing a women of harassing you to see if she is instantly fired?

Personally I really like working with women. Cuts out a lot of the macho bullshit you get otherwise, and all the work environments that have been mixed have seemed a lot nicer than the male only ones I've experienced.

Well part of the problem is screwing backwards compatibility with older clients. I mean I personally have secured my website with SSL to the nth degree, but I can't even access it with IE8/9 on a Vista machine and that's a browser. Imagine the amount of older software that wouldn't work if we removed every cipher on a whim.

What made you think we have such a thing? The US constitution does not apply globally.

Yeah, the suggested method for generating passwords generates needlessly long passwords. The total entropy is good, but the entropy per character is pretty poor. You get much better entropy per character with abbreviation passwords, where you have a sentence or group of random words and you use the first letter from each, or second, or last, or alternating, or whatever suits you. It's still not as much entropy per character as a random pattern, but it's much better than writing out full words - and pops into your head just as fast (because it is, in essence, the same).

There is something deeper behind this. There is no technical reason why password length should be restricted as the resulting hashes are the same length effectively. Every time I see a max password length I can't help but wonder if the reason is limited space in a database column and that some braindead idiot is storing the passwords in plaintext.

Every time I come up with a password that has a maximum entry I ensure I use a strictly unique password.

The flaws in RC4 have been known about for a long time but were thought irrelevant in the scheme of SSL/TLS to the point where RC4 was the preferred cipher suit only a few years ago as it was one of the few that were able to mitigate the BEAST attack. So the GP's comment that there's no surprise since RC4 has been known to be weak for a decade isn't quite the full story.

It was only in 2013 where RC4 became strictly taboo for use in SSL/TLS with the exposure of new exploitable vulnerabilities on top of the several previous weaknesses identified, and last month RFC7465 effectively banned the cipher's use in TLS.

RSA probably feels that it's a technology conference, so using sex to sell products is inappropriate. It's not really the sexism, it's the fact that it harms the reputation of the conference as a serious technology driven event and not just another consumer tech party.

How did you get from my suggestion to give them more choices to "take away all their choices"?

Agreed!

Religious freedom only covers individuals, not businesses. It also doesn't seem to trump discrimination.

It's the same as how the US went through a phase of people suing for the most ridiculous reasons before it mostly calmed down to a sensible level. Of course most of those lawsuits were thrown out at the early stages, or if not turned out to have merit (like the infamous McDonald's "hot coffee" incident).

The UK is getting over its stupid reaction to PC as well. If you look at recent decisions Ofcom has been rejecting a lot of complaints from overly sensitive people. Same with Health and Safety - the government body for H&S even went as far as naming and shaming idiots who took it too far.

The other problem is that a lot of legitimate complaints about discrimination and harmful behaviour get labelled as "PC" when they are not. Personally I'm more worried about the increasing xenophobia in the UK, which seems to be partly a reaction to the misconception that complaints about discrimination and xenophobia are just "PC" and thus not really harmful or morally dubious.

Here's the video where he says "nigger" on camera: https://youtu.be/UraJ5FN80xo

It wasn't broadcast, but he did say it and it was recorded. That's his problem, he can't control himself. He likes to do risky and edgy stuff like using that rhyme, but can't handle it and ends up doing or saying something stupid.

That's the fundamental flaw in your argument. It assumes that consumers are informed and have enough money to make choices like this. Even if you are happy to blame people for not knowing enough about olive oil, you can't really deny that people with little money often can't afford to pay the premium for better quality products.

By raising the minimum level it ensures that there will be cheap but safe and reasonable quality olive oil available to everyone. Otherwise the market will do its usual thing of screwing consumers so corporations can make big profits. This is food we are talking about, it's too important to let the market run wild with it.

Lexus is a Japanese brand. The LFA is built in Japan.

Passive cooling towers don't work so well in hot countries where the differential with ambient is lower. France found that even modern supposedly passive reactors ended up needing a lot of water to cool them during heat waves, and the ended up dumping hot water into rivers and killing all the fish.