Traffic fatalities barely outnumber peacetime firearm fatalities. Actually, we are talking 32,000 traffic related deaths vs. 30,000 gun releated deaths per year.

The UN definition of GENOCIDE also includes using force. So do you want Amnesty International now to investigate burglary?

Still thinking someone just wants to sling mud.

You got it reversely. At first, it's the parents and the grand parents and other relatives who gives princess clothes as presents and then act gleefully. Only after that positive reaction, girls show interest in being a princess, and then parents and grand parents give new girlish presents and again show happiness if the girl smiles. Don't underestimate the amount of impression you make on a child until it conciously expresses interest in some thing and disdain for others! Each toy shop with "girl aisles" and "boy aisles" enforces the gender disparities. Each clothing shop with pink clothing for girls and blue clothing for boys enforces the disparities again. You radiate a message to the child with your bias, which behaviour you consider normal and acceptable and which one you would rather classify as non-typical.

I've seen it unravelling with my daughter. At first she showed interest in the stuff her older brother played with, and in the neighborhood, there were (just by chance) mainly boys. Then a new family moved in with two daughters, and suddenly princesses and horses were all the rage. But when the family left again, the interest in both diminished, princesses were forgotten very soon, horses were of interest until age 9, and now she's mainly interested in computer games, watches countless "lets play" videos, bought a Wii U and a PS4 from the money she begged from the relatives instead of birthday and christmas presents, refuses to wear dresses at all, and in junior high, she took Robotics as optional topic. She likes dystopial novels and movies. And no, she doesn't want to go into STEM, she wants to become a writer for a living (I don't know how this will work out in the end).

People who discount the enormous environmental influences on the choices of young people and who believe in a "natural" interest of boys into STEM and of girls into everything non-STEM seem to be oblivious of the actual situation.

Of course people are also researching the bias leading to medical schools with 90% women. You just don't hear too often about them, because you are not working in the field. Your disdain is mainly fed by your confirmation bias. One of my main customers is a large health care provider with about 15,000 employees, and if I am on site, I see the information announcing research papers about exactly that topic: Where does the gender disparity in the health care professions come from?

And thus I conclude, that there is similar research in the field of construction workers or garbage men, you just don't know about it, because you are neither a construction worker nor a garbage man.

Rather than concluding that the current situation is somehow normal and will never change, we should look in the past and in other regions of the world, where the biases were and are different and thus the numbers of men and women in particular jobs differ from what we see here. And then we wouldn't blame it on "girls and boys are different", because then we would know that it has not so much to do with the differences between girls and boys but more with the choices we as parents, as relatives, as teachers, as classmates and as a society make conciously or inconciously for our children.

As I have a daughter, I know better. Of course bias is a big part of it, expressed verbally and non-verbally. Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias. Parents who at the same christmas complain if the daughter plays to much on the new computer express a bias. Television programming where the only computer affiliate is a dorky guy who might be brilliant at computers but is awkward at anything else expresses a bias.

Yes, you can actually spark interest in computer science. Yes, you can actually kindle the awakening interest and encourage it. Yes, you can actually make a point in not mentioning that interest in computer science is not a typically girlish thing.

Pretty well actually. As in your class, there were only a few women to begin with, chances of you to find a spouse there were minimal. Same for your wife, who probably hadn't had many men being in the same class.

While many of your female co-students found a mate in the engineering class, and many of the male nursery students are now probably married to a nurse.

Child abuse, as horrible as it is, has how much to do with wrongful incarceration?

This is just either mudslinging on your side, or it is showing that you have no idea what Amnesty International is about.

I don't expect Greenpeace to talk about government overreach, and I don't expect the taxpayers union to report on human rights violations in a country on another continent. Why do you expect Amnesty International to investigate cases of child abuse?

In Europe, I've seen Roman roads that are still maintained (and upgraded).

Actually, the same sector of a spinning disk can not be overwritten for the entire life of the disk. I have some old systems around (some of them running since more than 20 years) with old 2- and 4-GB-SCSI disks. While they read fine, you should not try to write onto them. If there is any upgrade necessary, we do it by imaging a 73 GB disk and replacing the old drives (and even the 73 GB disks are leftovers from the old days).

And no, those machines are no all purpose computers, they are phone switches which just boot up, read their OS and configuration data from disk and then work solely from memory. Configuration changes which might cause a sector to fail after a write are seldom, but can still be handled by spare sectors on the disks.

Maybe there are shortcuts which require the ship to be exceptionally fast, because they open and close quite frequently?

And with locks, you have a layered security. You can have the lock of the front door designed by someone different from the designer of your vault. Thus even if your locksmith turns bad onto you, he might get into your front door, but not into your vault, and vice verse the vault designer would not make it through your front door to even get to your vault.

I have one issue: Edward Snowden never sold any documents to the Russians/Chinese. Yes, he has been repeatedly accused of doing so, but so far, no document is known that was sold to them.

Thus, claiming Edward Snowden sold documents to the Russians/Chinese amounts to a blatant lie.

Come on, dude. You REALLY believe that the .gov contract does not go to the cheapest bidder, the one who uses off-the-shelf components?

Computing has an interesting problem right now: The most viable, the most powerful, the cheapest components are the ones available to consumers (or at least very closely related to them), because of the sheer amout of units shipped and the harsh competition in the market. Any we-don't-use-off-the-shelf-components attempt at computing right now is doomed to be late, extremely expensive, full of bugs, and at least two generations behind.

We don't need examples of failed products (for each successful one, there are ten which failed).

The point of the article is that the same people constantly prove to be early adopters of products that don't succeed in the market.