Steven Colbert's entire schtick is about double standards and how absurd some people can get. I seriously doubt you are getting the humor of his persona (and that is all that it is) of his Colbert Report.
The interesting thing is to see how much of that persona is going to carry on with the Late Show or if he will be more himself.
Oh, you mean what Symantec did. Sorry, you lost me there, at first there was talk about the security industry, for some odd reason I didn't associate Symantec with that...
Tons, my favorite example is encrypting ransomware that messed up key length and as a result could be brutforced.
How does that support that the security industry is somehow part of the problem? They found a simple and convenient way to give the ransomware the boot, what's your point?
Google can afford to audit the code, and has reasonable expectation of meaningful results. The rest of us? Not so much.
Are there any decent automated code auditing tools that could be used by smaller shops?
We are? Sorry, the US prison practice had me fooled.
I don't know what country you hail from, but it seems to be the US. And if it is, yes, this doesn't look too good. It seems gender roles still seem to be very firmly entrenched where you are.
I can't help but notice around here (Europe), the traditional roles started to break up a while ago. Most project managers I had to deal with lately were female, as was the PM-head. Many department heads in the company I worked with lately (a national, pretty big logistics corporation) were female. Their interface development team was 3:1 female:male staffed. Granted, back office development was all male, though their SAP floor was about equal male:female staffed.
Most of our local grocery chains have a female management level with mostly male stockers, cashiers is about 50:50 mix.
An odd development I noticed lately is that we get more and more male hairdressers, which used to be a traditional female occupation around here. And these males are by no means flaming or even close to in any way. "Odd" because there are actually very few traditionally female occupations that I could think of right now, about 25 years ago when I was young a male hairdresser would've been considered
Times are changing rapidly around here. Though I'm still waiting to find my first flaming gay mechanic.
'scuse me, I might be from a different corner of the planet where we don't dump a metric ton of fabric on our females until you can't see them anymore, but unless you happen to be from such a place, how the hell were boys favored to the exclusion of girls by any institution when it came to programming?
If anything, the problem is parents/relatives/peer groups trying to press girls into traditional female roles, telling them that they can't do that or that they should busy themselves with more "girly" things. But that's hardly something a school or government can remedy. Or, rather, should. I'm no fan of handing over to a school or other institution what values my kids should learn. Even if that carries the risk that some idiot parents keeps telling their girls that their job is to be bare foot and pregnant.
Huh? Is there any kind of backup for that drivel? How the hell do girls fall behind in areas like coding if it's offered to them at the same conditions as it is to boys?
I can see the additional grant money for disabled, considering that they can require a lot more overhead, access help and additional/special teachers, but how the hell does this apply to girls? They're not cripples, sorry, "people with special needs" for crying out loud!
If the teacher can only hope to get paid if he teaches girls, it pretty much means boys are disallowed from participating.
Tell you what: Try to start a contest like that with the stakes reversed. I.e. get paid for boys and get jack for girls. Then watch the shitstorm.
Even hardcore feminists start to disagree with "positive discrimination", i.e. preference of women to men when hiring. Because it defeats the goal of equality and equal treatment.
As long as it remains, the misogynists will have the argument that the woman only got her position because she's the "quote female", the woman that had to be hired to fulfill some kind of bullshit law. She can be successful, she can be not only good at her job, she can be better than any man in the role, yet still she's going to be the "quota woman".
If you want equality, start at being equal. Slap every HR idiot with the book of law if he doesn't hire you because you're a woman, but don't insist in getting a "woman quota". You're hurting the struggle for equal rights more than the HR idiot ever could.
Try, just TRY to offer any kind of job in a discriminatory way biased towards men. Yes, as a private company.
Equal opportunity laws already reach such an insane level around here that jobs that can only be done by a certain gender still have to be offered "gender neutral". Dare to show openly that you'd rather hire a man than a woman and be prepared to be sued into oblivion.
The difference is probably that the majority of players of a game (rather than people in an environment) actually has an interest in a "clean" game environment simply because that's what they come into the game for and it's not just a secondary concern. They come to play a game rather than troll.
If the majority of people that come to your game come to troll, I guess it's time to reevaluate the amount of fun people gain out of playing your game "sensibly"...
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