No, RTFA. The type of radiation found in space sterilizes female fetuses.

It's entirely possible that the criteria for autism are defined in such a way that they favor its presentation in boys and men.

Is it? By whom? Certainly not by anyone involved in gender studies. Be wary of science that too easily reinforces gender stereotypes.

You can't swing a cat in the Bay Area without hitting a dozen ex-Googlers. I totally believe that there are tons of "Xooglers" at Facebook... because there are tons of Xooglers at every tech company within 100 miles of Mountain View. It's just a matter of the numbers. Google is enormous—5% of their workforce could staff all of Facebook—and there's a steady stream of people coming and going. I'm sure good engineers have left for Facebook, and I'm equally sure that good engineers have left for other companies as well.

imagine if you couldn't use your phone because the network was always full of other people's traffic?

I don't have to imagine that. It's a fact of daily life in San Francisco, and it's maddening.

If it's important, I verify.

The hell you do. Do you personally redo experiments that prove the effectiveness of medical procedures? Your faith vs. empiricism dichotomy is false. Nobody personally verifies every single thing they're told.

I would say that telling other peoples what to call their own cities is incorrect and pretentious.

There is no such crime as "sex by surprise." This fictitious crime was invented by Dana Kennedy at AOL News and has been widely debunked. Assange is accused of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. See http://jessicavalenti.com/2010/12/10/aol-news-at-the-center-of-%E2%80%9Csex-by-surprise%E2%80%9D-lie-in-assanges-rape-case/

I know this is probably asking too much of Slashdot, but in discussing the rape allegations against Assange, let's please remember that it's well within the realm of possibility for all three of the following to be true simultaneously:

1. Wikileaks is important, and we should promote its continued existence.
2. The tactics in use by various governments to pursue the rape allegations against Assange are politically motivated.
3. The rape allegations are true and Assange should be held to account.

(Please note that I am saying these three things can all be true at the same time, not that any one or all of them necessarily are.)

Many falsehoods have been spread about the allegations against Assange. In addition, the circumstances surrounding the allegations, as well as certain actions by the women who made them, have been used to discredit those women. But these are, as Kate Harding puts it, "tactics used to discredit rape victims every day, and not Really Convincing Special Facts About This Particular Case." [1] (I very strongly urge you to read her piece in its entirety.)

Please don't let your admiration for Assange's work with Wikileaks prevent you from taking seriously an accusation of rape. Rape is a serious crime, and accusations of rape need to be taken seriously, even if—perhaps especially if—they are made against people we otherwise consider to be heroic.

[1] "Some Shit I'm Sick of Hearing Regarding Rape and Assange": http://kateharding.info/2010/12/16/some-shit-im-sick-of-hearing-regarding-rape-and-assange/

They also started the Tea Party movement

FTFY

I know they're trying to pretend they're sending "messages", but what they ended up with is virtually identical to the standard in C except in superficial syntax.

They're not pretending, and the difference is anything but superficial. Messages are dispatched and resolved at runtime. Go disassemble a program written in Objective-C if you don't believe me. The object and the message name are pushed onto the stack and then the Objective-C dispatcher is invoked.

Levar Burton has offered his assistance to NASA:
http://twitter.com/levarburton/status/541379696533505

LOUD NOISES

Yeah, it makes no sense for me either.

It only makes no sense if you're committed to believing that our ideas about gender are innate and in no way cultural despite all evidence to the contrary.

You might have a look at u—, a new distraction-free writing environment:
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/1169153343/only-you