In some areas, literally 100% of drivers are speeding. Does that mean they're all selfish assholes, or does it mean the speed limit is too low?

No, that's not it: at my company, the hours are actually pretty close to the normal 40, and QA works just as many hours as programmers (if not longer, since they have to be around for deployments).

You are quite rude with us.... Many contributors are not native English speakers but we make an effort to do everything in English to have a wide audience and ease the translations.

FTFY.

So yes, gender diversity sucks in tech, but when women aren't applying for the jobs, how can we diversify?

This is the real issue: women just aren't as likely to want to be programmers as men.

I work at a company where almost all the programmers are male, while QA is probably close to a 50/50 mix or even majority-female. Seeing the (female) QA person on my team write some SQL during the course of her testing and being obviously competent at it, I asked her if she'd ever want to be a programmer instead of QA.

She laughed in my face and said something to the effect of "oh HELL no!"

I have no idea why. Keep in mind that she could be working at the exact same company with the exact same coworkers and the exact same supervisors and be in the exact same environment, and the only difference is that she'd be doing programming instead of testing. And her reaction is that, while she likes testing, she apparently would hate programming. I'm mystified by that -- I'd be saying "oh HELL no" to doing QA! -- but that's why there are few women programmers, not discrimination.

Or, would you rather a world where the prosecutors just pursue the most egregious criminals given the limited resources they have, and put everyone else right back out on the streets with no deterrent whatsoever?

YES, GODDAMNIT!

That's EXACTLY what we want and what you should want -- unless you're a fucking totalitarian sociopathic boot-licker -- because we're living in a goddamn police state that contains 25% of the WORLD's prison population even though we only have 5% of the world's population overall. Damn right we need to only pursue the "egregious criminals," because in every civilized country on the planet, what you call the "egregious criminals" are the only criminals!

The alternative is the prosecutors office being required to pursue every single case. 5-17 year old took a nude picture of herself? Child Porn charges. kill in clear self defense? Murder charges. transpose two digits on your tax return? Tax Fraud charges. There wouldn't be enough people to serve on the juries for the people that missed jury duty! There wouldn't be enough people to serve on the juries for the people that missed jury duty!

GOOD! Then we might finally get some of these arbitrary, capricious, unconstitutional, bullshit laws off the books!

The law frequently gives a range of punishments, e.g. upper and lower limits for fines or jail time, and the judge can pick something lower if the defendant saves everyone a bunch of time by just admitting it.

You misspelled "...and the judge can punish the uppity defendant for having the audacity to actually insist on due process!"

If someone creates the cure for the common cold and keeps it secret even to their grave, that's entirely their business.

In that case, does it even count as "information?" It might as well have never existed, since it makes no difference. It also, of course, would have no value, because nothing was ever done with it.

It would also have no legal protection. Patent law wouldn't apply, because it wasn't disclosed to the patent office. Copyright law wouldn't apply, because it wasn't published. It wouldn't even qualify as a trade secret, because there was no "trade!" Such a piece of alleged information would really be no such thing, because it would be effectively nothing at all.

In other words, information figuratively "wants" to be free because until an idea is shared, it doesn't even count as "information," and once it is shared, it's fundamentally impossible for the originator to prevent it from being shared further.

Poor Dr. King... he never dreamed his children would actually be judged on the quantity and pettiness of their lawsuits.

they have to have some sort of evidence that you might be involved in child pornography. Even flimsy evidence.

"Your cellphone includes a camera and there is a park/school/daycare/child of any sort somewhere within a 10-mile radius."

forfeiture is sometimes better than incarceration

Sure, except that's not the damn choice! The actual choice is between due process (i.e., outlawing civil forfeiture) and lack of due process (i.e, shitting all over the Fourth Amendment), and that should be an easy choice for anyone who isn't a totalitarian sociopath.

Choosing between fines and prison as a punishment after trial and conviction is a wholly separate issue.

Because now they have found the link between sender and receiver. With email if you get one person, you can then start looking for other connections that person made and see where that leads you.

What are you talking about? It's spam. The terrorist sends it to a million random addresses; one of which is the other terrorist who knows how to interpret it.

NSA, Google, same diff...

The ONE TIME one of those weird gibberish leet-speak "first-post-bsd-is-dying-you-fail-it" spam posts would be on-topic, I can't find one to cite!

It should read "Google discloses more Windows bugs."