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Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 166

I wouldn't mind a return of the series, either a reboot or an effective sequel. I just don't think it'll work with the old cast. Their stories were pretty much run into the ground about 2 decades ago. Have some new blood pick up the threads and what happens when they give them a tug.

Comment Re:Oh good.... (Score 3, Funny) 166

Yeah, after close to 20 years, they really should have their replacements take up the x-files. As it is, I have my doubts about Sculley being able to still be so dismissive of Mulders weirdo theories, and let's face it, at his age, Mulder just can't jump to conclusions the way he used to.

Comment Re:OMFG (Score 2) 294

So you are an advocate for reverting society to a non-technological subsistence living then?
Innovations in efficiency do cause issues for individuals on the short term scales, but do wonders for society over the long term.
After all, that's why we aren't just scattered tribes of hunters & gatherers and can now use increasing amounts of our capability for other endeavors. You know, like this internet thingie that allows us to communicate like this over vast differences in location and time. :P

Comment Re:Here's MY test (Score 1) 522

Or due to the lack of participation of women in programming any expectation of them to have an equal representation in projects by that field is just plain stupid.
The real issue is the lack of women that are programmers, not that they don't have an equal influence on the results despite only being a small percentage.
Face it, if one group is only 10% of the workforce, you can't expect them to have 50% of the credit.

Comment Re:Here's MY test (Score 2) 522

As have the socio-economic pressures to excel at sports, crime, or whatever, when other opportunities for self betterment are primarily excluded by cultural and economic restrictions. You grow up poor and black in the ghetto, you are a lot more likely to go into pro-sports than get an engineering degree at Harvard simply due to expenses you can't pay and education quality that wasn't available to you.

Do you know why historically the Jews were so into banking? It's because stupid discriminatory laws of many countries in Europe used to ban them from almost all other professions. You earn a living in whatever way society will let you.

Comment Re:Here's MY test (Score 1) 522

Discrimination is discrimination, though trying to apply that gender test to software is blatantly stupid.
As was pointed out, there tends to be a huge gender gap between the representation of the sexes in software programming.
Before you can start worrying about silly things like this, maybe people should concentrate on finding out why, and resolving the issues, as to why there are so few females in programming before you start whining about how little they impact the projects they're on.

Comment QA (Score 2) 99

Did somebody forget to test their new defs before posting? :P

To those who think it's strange that an antivirus can be detected as a virus or other malware. They have definitions of the what they seek, and yes, those look like the same thing they look for, so yes, they can easily flag on those if the programmers aren't careful.
Also, to be effective, they have to use certain techniques that are done by almost no software other than various malwares and antivirus programs, so again, a false positive is easy and the programmers must take special care to avoid that.
I guess somebody at Panda forgot all that and neglected to test.

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