Different apps. I haven't been in Cydia recently, but I'd wager that the variety of apps that leverage the "rootedness" of an Android phone outnumber what's on an iPhone. Similarly, there are a number of apps (Rocketdial, GoSMS, etc.) that require a jailbreak on iOS

I'm not sure that's the case... besides there are more app options for things that do not require jailbreaking (like custom keyboards for example).

As for the example of apps that require jailbreaking... since the basic assumption is rooted/jailbroken system, why is that an issue? You get to use them if you like either way then.

Well, at initial setup, there's not much that Google can ascertain - your Gmail address, your cell number, your phone carrier, and your location...

Whereas with an Apple tablet all it's going to get is your IP during activation (it asks on first run if you are OK with it collecting location info).

Because if you're rooting, and more specifically installing a custom ROM, carrier updates become irrelevant.

I'm not talking about carrier updates, I'm talking about installing new Google releases, which may have some new collection mechanisms you have not yet blocked or otherwise break your privacy software.

tl;dr: Android sucks, except for all the alternatives.

For out of the box privacy (esp. for the non-technical user) iOS is 1000x better than Android.

For jailbroken privacy for a very technical user, iOS is a tad better. But again it's a matter than the OS is not going to care that it's not collecting your data to transmit back.

The study shows people not making hiring decisions in a technical job. A lab technician in a biolab IS a technical job.

Not in the sense were are talking about on Slashdot, and as others have noted it's a pretty flawed study (including the interesting fact that women supposedly had the same bias, which means it's not men you should be worried about).

At this point you're engaging in outright denialism.

Basing your entire worldview on a single flawed study seems to be way more in denial to me, you simply don't want to admit the real world works differently than preconceptions you hold dearly.

However, your ORIGINAL claim is that people are rational.

*Technical workers*, and yes they are - outside silicon valley.

If you want to convince me, show me some evidence that people are in fact rational.

Get a job and see for yourself.

His example was a female student who couldn't work in group which was otherwise all males.

That is sexism, she is sexist. I had a female CS major in my class, she was pretty much the only female is most of the classes. She didn't care if some of the men were "awkward", she had no trouble in the class or the major for that matter.

I myself have been in groups at work (and at school) where I was the only male. I was able to work just fine, because I don't have any trouble with women and treat them professional as they do me.

Beware anyone who claims to have trouble if they are the only one of some self-identified group and uses that as an excuse for not being able to work.

drone operators would only need to glue razorblades on the tips of the rotors

Which would Only affect the entry aerodynamic stability of the craft, making it just as likely it would slit the operators throat on launch as it would be to slice through anything, or be controllable at all...

Step 1) Doesn't want Google observing them.
Step 2) buys Android tablet, wholly controlled by Google.

If you were going to root it anyway why not buy an iPad and jailbreak it? Nothing preinstalled even talks to Google without you setting it up, so you're already off to a better start.

Every Android update is going to fight to collect information about you. I don't see why you would buy into a system that by default will do exactly what you do not want.

The U.S. may have had an embargo with Cuba, the rest of the world did not. Consider just Canada alone, from which Cuba could have had any technology they wished.

So what do people imagine will change with the U.S. embargo lifted? Change has to come from Cuban leadership, if at all..

What is very telling is that the cuban community in Florida is really, really angry we are lifting the embargo - because all it does is empower the people that made Cuba what it is today.

That seems like a really good idea, sorry I have no mode points to promote.

Is Feng Shui deadly?

If you angle a mirror wrong it will FUCK UP someone walking into the space.

Not to mention that just one of the precepts of Feng Shui is that you not sit with your back to any openings in a room. They say it's for "good energy" but really it's so you can gun down every motherfucker that comes for you before they even see your face.

So you are claiming that all people are rational?

Enough are that it's not a problem in technical jobs. IN TECHNICAL JOBS.

As evidence there was a study a while back in PNA

I've seen the studies, they DO NOT APPLY TO TECHNICAL JOBS.

Yes they are VERY different. I totally believe that's an issue for other areas of the business. But from what I've seen the problem i reduced to inconsequential in the technical field - for one thing initial resumes are pulled by skills required, there's not a vagueness that allows for more arbitrary selection. For a second thing, once the technical people get the resumes to sort through, as I said they are way more inclined just to be looking at skills they need...

With the exception that these days there's so much angst around hiring women that if a woman's resume is encountered in that sorting list, she would be pretty much sure to be called in for an interview. Technical women are actually in a really good position these days in terms of getting interviews - now liking the culture once they start working at a place, that's a different matter. But all that's under discussion here is the hiring process.

1) Some of those links are about the ETHNICITY of the name/ Here we are talking about gender.

2) Not a single link as far as I could tell was about TECHNICAL positions. I make no claims for other parts of a business; in fact I would be inclined to believe they are a little racist or sexist. But Technical workers and hiring I have see is usually much more simply based on ability, and does not care about gender or race and therefore certaintly would not screen resumes because of those factors - if your resume is put aside it's because you don't know SQL, not because of your name.

Yes, Ed Asner. Sadly the only online clip I could find of it led to a YouTube entry that had been scrubbed.

It's come to mind countless times to be over the years, way more than any other skit SNL ever did for some reason. I can tolerate every other crappy thing SNL ever produced or will produce (and that is a LOT) just because that one skit was produced for humanity.

Are all tech workplaces just not attractive to women? What is different between a typical office, where people type spreadsheets and documents all day, and one where people type code all day?

The spreadsheet/document office requires much less specialized training and also lower skill.

But from what I have seen, it's also generally a more sexist environment than a tech workplace. That's why I'd like to see as many women get into tech as possible, because it's a way healthier work environment with people generally more welcoming and accepting women as equals.

Are efforts to help girls program going to be helpful if your workplace is just unwelcoming?

Actually yes, it's pretty simple math. The more women candidates there are, the more that will be hired. The fact is that MOST workplaces outside the startup scene around Silicon Valley are really good places for women to work. SV can do whatever to clean up their act, but for women overall in a technical field they are already better off in a technical job than most other fields.

So you increase the supply of people who for some reason you can't articulate don't want to be a part of tech?

That doesn't even make any sense. If you show more women more about what technical jobs entail earlier, more women who find it interesting that do currently, and will carry through. There's no need to quantify WHY they find it interesting, you simply need to show more young women what technical work is really like.

Just like water in nuclear reactors, you can't have too much hydraulic fluid in a rocket landing.

I don't buy into he shell-game concept where you try to increase "diversity" numbers at a company, especially if the number is higher than the overall percentage of qualified candidates - you are just shuffling a limited supply of a category of worker at the expense of some other companies numbers. Even just trying to maintain an average makes no sense, what if there's a company somewhere that has a much higher percentage of woman than normal because women really love working there? Isn't that OK?

To me if a workplace is not welcoming to women, it's probably not very welcoming to men either, so simply making the workplace better for everyone is the right thing to do, and will attract better candidates of all genders.

What I prefer to do (apart from treating women no different professionally than men) to address the lack of women in technical jobs is put money and effort towards increasing the supply in the first place. Efforts that try to help young girls learn to program or otherwise engage them in technical subjects are the way to truly improve the industry. By the time women (and men for that matter) are out of college it's very hard to move into a technical field, so it's really important to get someone interested while they are young.

We all know that the exact same resume with a female name is much more likely to be rejected without being considered.

I have been in a hiring position before, and had to review resumes - it makes no sense at all that ANYONE would be rejected because of the name. I never did, I accepted or rejected candidates based on the resume, not the name. I have never seen any other co-worker doing anything different either (but then why would they when some of them were also women).

If anything because of many articles like this one, I would assume a female name at this point would make it MORE likely you'd be considered as a candidate. I have a friend graduating soon with a CS degree, she has interviewed at every company she sent a resume to...