There is no SJW movement. The anti-feminists are just trying to make out that there is a war going on and they are being attacked. In reality it's a few YouTube videos and a few blogs/articles written in response to death threats against one person. Hardly a coordinated movement.

On the other hand the anti-feminists have a couple of github pages they organise their attacks around. See TFA, it's full of interesting links. They love being the victims.

Well then, Intel must be pretty dumb. The article says that gaming is so mainstream now everyone does it and gamers are no longer a small, hardcore minority. Intel should be happy, that means more sales of their CPUs and moderately crappy graphics chips.

People keep saying this over and over again, but that doesn't make it true. All we have is a blog post from an ex-boyfriend. No-one has been able to find the article that was allegedly written about Quinn's game, because it doesn't exist. All anyone ever comes up with is the fact that it was at the top of a long list of indie games. The original claim was sex for favourable reviews, and it's demonstrably untrue.

This has nothing to do with what anyone wrote. It is about the fact that there is a fairly well organized groups and their sustained attack against an imaginary foe. Go read their guide on Github, it's full of information about how to misrepresent the situation and the site's position to manipulate advertisers into withdrawing their material.

The whole thing would have died down months ago if it were not for the anti-feminists keeping it going with endless videos and tweets, all talking about a war that isn't actually happening.

The problem is you are not really listening to what is being said, just getting angry about it. There isn't some huge assault on men happening. Most of this kicked off because of a few short YouTube videos, FFS.

Look, it's not about 50/50 male/female. It's not about only women being portrayed badly in the media. Unfortunately the arguments being put forward are slightly more complex than that, so require more than 5 seconds to encapsulate in a soundbite. For that reason the anti-feminists can easily spread these misconceptions and make you angry, but you are getting angry at something that doesn't exist outside of your own mind.

Presumably you are referring to Zoe Quinn, and those claims have been thoroughly debunked. This is just a standard 4chan style "op" designed to fight the imaginary war against feminists and SJWs. You can read all about it here: https://github.com/GamerGateOP...

By withdrawing advertising over these complaints they are taking a position. They are saying that they support this campaign of harassment against women and anyone else who supports equality and reasonable treatment for both genders.

No, it's easy. Since Vista all apps have been using a virtualized registry and filesystem. Each app is segregated into it's own little area, even if it thinks it can write files and registry keys all over the place.

She didn't demand the "right" not to be offended, she just said she was offended and Facebook decided to do something about it because they realized they had made a mistake.

Honestly, stop trying to be a victim here. There is no political correctness, no agenda, no-one is out to take away your rights. It's just a normal complaint about something Facebook probably never intended in the first place and was happy to fix.

GCHQ claims to be able to access any iPhone, jailbroken or not. It stands to reason that it is possible, since clearly the jailbreak exploit itself is cable of exploiting a non-jailbroken phone. Other malware could discover and use the same weaknesses.

Remember when you could jailbreak just by visiting a website?

In 2003 the Tokaido Shinkansen managed an average delay of 6 seconds over the year, including delays due to earthquakes and other natural disasters.

The step up from 160km/h to 210km/h was a major breakthrough and required the development of several new technologies. It wasn't just a case of fitting a bigger motor and pushing the throttle a bit harder.

One of the biggest problems was oscillation in the suspension, which required a new type of dampener to be developed to prevent the train derailing at high speed. They also had to develop new pantographs to avoid destroying the overhead lines at high speed, and a new completely electronic and automatic signalling system as normal signals pass by too quickly for the driver to reliably see.

Over the 50 years of operation their safety record has been pretty much spotless, in a country that has regular major earthquakes. Punctuality is incredible too. In 2007 the average delay from the advertised schedule was 18 seconds, including delays due to natural disasters.

The current 320km/h is limited by concerns over noise. The trains are rated for about 380km/h, but they need to improve tunnels to prevent the noise created when the train emerges before they can go that fast.

Macs get it just as badly, as does every OS that allows programs to install things that hook into the OS or run in the background. For example, if you install an app that lets the Finder show thumbnails of some image format it previously could not display you have just added extra code that needs to be loaded, and extra RAM use to store it. Your computer got a bit slower. Similarly if you install an app to show some extra data on your desktop, now it is running when you boot your computer (longer boot time) and use resources (RAM, CPU time).

My friend installed Norton on his Mac years ago, it was crippled instantly. He removed it eventually and everything was fine again. There is nothing magical about Mac OS.

The registry is a database. It is designed to store vast numbers of keys in a hierarchy, and a default install of Windows will have tens of thousands of them. Even the most bloated apps will only add a fraction of a percent to that. Performance of the registry really isn't the issue.

Performance problems come from app that hook in to other things, particularly explorer. That is done via the registry, but the registry itself isn't the problem. For example, if you install Adobe Reader it sets up a DLL with a hook that makes Explorer load it in order to provide thumbnail previews of PDF files. This slows the machine down because now Explorer takes longer to load, uses more memory and executes extra code when a PDF file is displayed as a thumbnail.

Actually that's exactly what Windows has been doing since Vista. Both the filesystem and registry became virtualized, so apps couldn't shit all over them any more. Apps that attempt to write into virtualized directories are transparently redirected to safe locations.

To be fair it did break some stuff, but not much. The main issue was that it was slow, but they fixed that in Windows 7.