When it wasn't you who earned it.

Which one?

And I have a problem with people who are privileged...claiming they weren't and getting upset when called on their privilege.

How in the hell is it racist to say "racism and various kinds of bigotry exists" In what kind of crazy world do you live in?

You're even funnier with your "la la la racism doesn't exist" thing.

Again, which would you rather be? After all, if affluent white male is "easy mode with cheats on" then "poor AND black" is "hard mode", isn't it?

Well it IS men's fault, who's running Madison Avenue and the Fortune 500? Men. Who make the locker-room attitudes that turn women off in tech industry...Men.

This whole damn issue is "Men behaving badly and whining when they're asked to cut it out" Suck it up dudebros, your privilege is showing.

That's right, because for some reason, women tend to not be such jerkasses as certain over-privileged white-guy-with-power are. They tend to be less selfish and more willing to put the group first.

That's never been the case. The real reason for the drop in male schoolteachers is the money, men to be more selfish and think of their wallet first these days. You'll notice that they still do go in secondary education where the pay is higher...where there are teenage girls? So it's not sex that keeps them out of elementary, it's prestige and money..and the fact that modern men consider anything involving younger kids that doesn't involve sports "womenstuff"

I didn't say that, now did I. It's one strong factor, you can also throw income in there. But would you want to be an ethnic minority in America? Would you willingly give up white privilege?

I'm racist to point out that racism still exists and that we should do something about it?

Leveling the playing field is NOT punishing you. It's merely asking you. "don't be a jerk."

Yes it is, you have money that doesn't belong to you, it belongs to someone else.

Come now, we know that the standard behavior of ATM's is to NOT give extra money away.

That's not a gift, it's a machine error. Gifts are done by "intent" not accident.

How is trying to remedy discrimination "stealing" from you? What are we supposed to do about it then?

How is saying to the people with the vast majority of wealth and power: "Stop being bigoted jerks to everyone that isn't like you."...hurting you.

But that's what Jim crow, sexism, racism, slavery, homophobia are! Selective favoritism towards white males!

So trying to level the playing field is discriminating against you? Let me ask this, if there was a magic pill that could turn you "black", how much would you have to be paid to take it. Or would you never take it because you know that being a racial minority is a serious disadvantage, and being a racial minority AND poor is even worse.

None of those appalachian whites would ever trade their whiteness for blackness. They may complain, but they know how it is.

Yes we do, there is thing called "politics" and "elections" by participating in these things "together" we can work to un-rig it. Yes, it's hard, but we really do have to try.

I agree on that.

I agree on that, but better this than nothing.

The summary is misleading. It's not about overclocking at all, but actually letting your NVidia card run at full speed under Nouveau. See, Nouveau doesn't have the ability to dynamically set your GPU's clock, so it boots in the normal low power state and then can never go up, no matter what.

Using the proprietary driver, the card is clocked based upon graphics needs.

Under Nouveau say, a GT640 rev 2 would always run at 405Mhz, NOT the full 1124 Mhz even if you ran a 3D using application. Using the proprietary driver, if you're just browsing the web and then start up something uses 3D it'll ramp right up to full speed.

Time to dust off that Acorn Archimedes!

No, that would be implementation defined behavior.

Which makes you the exception that people trot out to say how "The system works" and how "everyone can succeed"

You....were...lucky. You may have worked hard, yes, but no matter how hard one works, if the breaks don't come your way its for naught.

If we agree the game is rigged, then why the fuck don't we un-rig the fucking game, then succeeding won't depend so much on luck or how much money your parents had, but on your own abilities.

And how many times over the decades did some good ol boy sergeant or officer from Texas/Mississippi/Georgia get his infractions ignored because he was white and a "good ol boy", or the son of some long career officer.

Hell, John McCain himself benefitted from that, he should have been court martialed for the stunts he pulled, notwithstanding kicked out of the academy.

yeah it's easy to say something like this, if your dad worked at Bell labs and you had a Unix terminal at your house in the 80's...but advantages and disadvantages matter. And with enough disadvantages and effects of same you will NEVER catch up.

As an example, lets talk about that discussion of AP CS classes

http://developers.slashdot.org...

I don't recall seeing mention in the discussion of schools that don't have such classes. Such classes are basically an urban magnet school/suburban thing. You take some kid who's had that kind of enrichment and have them compete with kids who may have been lucky to have a keyboarding class. The "game" is rigged.