Except that in this case, only the names provided would hint towards male or female, and you can't judge looks on a name.

Then what's the point of getting a tablet if you're just gonna turn it into a laptop...

As a French Canadian, I use a QWERTY keyboard since that's the north-american standard. It's probably because of the habit, but the few times I've had to use AZERTY, even to type French text, I absolutely hated it and I can't understand its logic. I can't imagine what it would be like to program with that.

You can't really know the real value of what you're going to find until you actually find it. Thieves rarely steal exactly one item then retire from the thieving business. Chances are this guy either already stole other stuff, or will steal again in the future. If the cops recover the $200 phone and at the same time find thousands of dollars worth of other stolen goods, then all of a sudden, your waste of money just became profitable from your own calculations. And if catching the guy merely prevents him from stealing again, then we all end up better off in the end. Removing a thief from circulation, how much is that worth to society?

So what you're saying is that for something that has cost $0.99$, which once 13% sales tax is added (e.g. in Ontario), the merchant will up the price to $1.00 just to make sure he can rip you off of 2 cents, or that something which now costs $2.00 will be priced $2.02? Stores won't change their pricing scheme and everything will keep ending in .99 where it currently ends in .99 and everything will have nice (before taxes) rounded prices where they currently already have nice (before taxes) rounded tax.

Bitching about merchants who will rip you off for all of 2 cents because of this, without considering all the logistics they would have to go through just to do that reeks of tin-foil hatism from conspiracy theorists.

If it is done right (and that is one big if), those 6 guys also won't pass the background check, so it's not only about the money.

For an interesting read about the men's flatter curve, as well as the tendency to practice "peacock tail" skills, I recommend Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy F. Baumeister, American Psychological Association, Invited Address, 2007.

Teksavvy offers an unlimited plan on Videotron's cable, but it's outrageously priced (80$/month for 8/1 Mbps)

If OSX is inherently so much more secure than Windows, why is it that in competitions such as Pwn2Own, in almost every case, OSX is the first to fall? On the first day of the event last March, a fully patched Mac OS X 10.6.6 was made to execute arbitrary code and write files to disk outside of the sandbox.

Mac OS X is just as insecure as Windows, no matter what the raw virus-count in the wild says.

In this economy, there is a 9% unemployment rate. That means that you simply need to be better than the bottom 9% of people and still be able to land a job. If you're worried that some people in that 9% might outperform you and get the job you won't get, which will make you end up unemployed, it might simply mean you're not qualified enough to work for money.

Obviously, the 9% target varies wildly depending on the sector, but especially in IT, it's not all that bad. Even skills "below average" can net you a job. You really need to be near the absolute worst in your field to not convince anyone to hire you.

In a land of common law (as opposed to civil law), what the words say does not matter, it's how the judges interpret it that makes it law. Even if they change the wording of the law, if a judge interprets it as meaning it should also apply to people linking to YouTube, then you're screwed. The only thing that can save if is if a jury of your peers share your opinion on the matter.