Hmmm... How about we flip this scenario. What if everyone on the Cocoa-dev mailing list changed their names to a female name. Thus everyone is assumed to be a woman. No more trolling of female based names. No one can claim that women are treated differently. No one can tell what is between their legs so people will stop bitching about it and everyone can get the hell back to business.

I don't really think there will be much of a change in the percentage of female involvement in open source coding no matter what we do (unless Mattel introduces Open Source Coding Barbie).

But barring that how about:

* Starting an all woman coding project.

* At conferences, instead of having evening happy hours with 100-to-1 guy girl ratios, split them up to hit the local bars to hit on women who are actually interested in being hit on and better looking that the ones that are of only interest because they are the only ones there. This will help take the focus off of the women beyond their coding competency.

* Level up the socially awkward geeks who are bugging these women because they are pretty much the only female contact in their life. Direct them to resources on how to lose weight, get in shape, dress better and improve their social skills & social life.

Any other solution I hear out there consists of yelling at men and calling them neckbeards instead of actually trying to find solutions. Of course this approach isn't well received and ultimately results in idiotic yelling matches between people who want nothing more than to insult each other based on gender issues. And yes, this is why most people ignore this shit. The people involved are more focused on degrading other people than building them up.

I don't see it spelled out anywhere.

What is the write speed of duplicate data?

Shocked! Absolutely shocked I say that people would gladly accept a letter from Santa wizard when offered for free, but question is value if asked to pay for it. I don't see how on earth he came to the determination that people highly valued a Letter from Santa wizard? I call bullshit. Perhaps he asked in a follow up questionnaire. Sure people will respond favourably when there are no strings attached. But I wouldn't pay a dime for that service. 5 minutes with google images & Microsoft word and I have something pretty darn similar.

The flaw with this statement is that pretty much everyone would prefer to have services and goods given to them for free. And while I do enjoy(ed) many free services, some were valuable enough and reasonably priced enough for me to want to upgrade or donate.

Other services just were not valuable enough for me to want to pay for, or there were alternatives that were better, or stayed free, or the licensing terms were so onerous that it just wasn't worth the time and money.

Pile on top of that, there are many many products out there that people will try for free. But after evaluation, they determine it isn't worth a dime to them or even wasting time with the product or service at all. The market place is filled with competitive products people just have no interest in. Why does the author think that free products or services are critically evaluated on a similar basis.

...mammoths turn out to be venomous, highly intelligent, fast, stealthy, have a taste for human flesh and can open doors.

Wouldn't health insurance agencies & self insured companies stand to save a fortune in providing low cost solutions for expensive health issues?

Name one non-raptor based animal that uses flapping or wing like features to increase running or walking speed.

We have all sorts of mammals and snakes that use skin flaps for gliding. Unless we have examples of non-rapture creatures that use skin flaps of some sort to do increase walking/running speed, I would think the answer is obvious.

All I want are inexpensive e-ink displays. There are a lot of things I would like to do, but the ones I've found so far are small and expensive.

That isn't as clean cut as you think. I found a wallet in a bar. I gave it to bartender in case the owner of the wallet came looking for it. It turns out the wallet belonged to a friend. We go back to the bar. A different bartender returns the wallet sans a few hundred dollars (my friend is an idiot who can't keep a bank account).

So doing the "right thing," doesn't always mean the right thing happens.

So when are you going to kick out Linux services? I've been waiting since I swapped OSes.

Yup. Constant crashes are what is driving people away from firefox.

So now that officers are going out to the top ten hot spots more often, there will probably be more arrests in those areas. As this new data gets fed into the computer system, it will reinforce and magnify certain preexisting selection criteria.

The computer analysis will always be confirmed to be correct.