...of a subject-specific TLD was so that it could be easily blocked. Don't want .xxx domains in your workplace? Filter any URL that uses it. Same here for those countries. It's not supposed to "promote" homosexuality, it's supposed to make it easier to identify.

I don't think the poster meant that patenting and commercializing is inherently evil; I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to download it for free and use it himself for fun.

My very own Evil Wil Wheaton action figure can be a reality!

...which you can only employ if you're actually in the room, which thwarts most burglars anyway.

...then I might have to run for office myself.

It occurred to me that it ought to be in the economic interests of any space agency to push for an astronaut core PRIMARILY made up of women.

They are (on average) smaller, lighter, and eat less, all advantages in an industry where every ounce of extra weight can cost hundreds of dollars.

In the early days of space flight, astronauts were converted test pilots who were all male due to military recruiting rules, which have now changed.

They are equal, if not better, to their male counterparts when it comes to mathematical and scientific ability, and we have finally reached a point where culture has stopped telling them otherwise.

And without a doubt, it would be a public relations coup for the first agency to send up an all-female crew into space.

..."building an app graphically" is to "learning programming" what "using a calculator" is to "learning math." You've replaced an actual understanding of the underlying process with a bunch of buttons to be punched.

It's only still "programming" if you have the knowledge to do it without the tools, but not the time.

That can generate just as many complaints. Recently, George Takei's Facebook page put up a funny photo which nevertheless contained a picture of an old man's naked butt. Complaints were made to Facebook, and Facebook immediately deleted the image. Not blocked, not hid -- deleted. Takei complained that it should be policy for Facebook to hold the image out-of-sight somewhere until a defense can be made by the one who posted it.

Admins can make it easy to remove stuff, or hard to remove stuff, but anything in between requires a lot of moderation which most admins are too easily bored by.

Obviously, if one nation has a substantially higher proportion of winners in a competition like this, it suggests there's something in the national culture that encourages it. Other nations would like to know what that is. It's not pride, it's post-game analysis.

Just because the men in the companies' marketing department don't see anything wrong with it, doesn't mean that other men don't see anything wrong with it. Please don't make the same mistake they do by painting an entire gender with a single broad brush.

Don't be silly. Little girls like to imitate their moms, and little boys like to imitate their dads. In this case, if the little girl is watching her mom raise ANOTHER little baby (gasp, parents having multiple children! In this day and age!), then she'll probably want to imitate her.

It's also learned from culture and TV, of course. But don't underestimate the simple and powerful influence of a caretaking parent.

Which reminds me: do you think he married her right after the IPO because he wanted to give all his attention to her on the honeymoon, or because he wanted to lock in his wealth before the prenup took effect?

In other shocking revelations, squares are not round.

Don't they use your distance from multiple cell towers to triangulate your position?