Straw man argument. You are arguing that attempts to prevent harassment should be resisted because some imaginary foe of the MRA might try to abuse it.

How do I know you are an MRA? You question my manhood. I'm not afraid of having my manhood challenged though. I don't define myself by ridiculous, toxic notions of what a man is. I'm not constantly worried about doing or saying something that might seem less than alpha male.

Tumblr, the most reliable source of information on the internet.

Wow. Just wow.

You are saying that calling for a workplace free from harassment and threats is actually itself harassment of men. Because men must be free to harass...

I'm a man and I don't need to validate myself by harassing people, and I don't feel harassed or oppressed when people suggest I shouldn't abuse women. If you do, then there is something seriously wrong with you.

The MRAs are really screwing up Slashdot. +5 insightful for this crap?

So you link to their "support" of handing out the S.C.U.M. is... I'm not sure, are you saying they should have deleted the comment that seems to be suggesting that the parent is an extremist and so should hand it out? The link really doesn't seem to support your claim that they support this document, quite the opposite in fact.

As for the conference, it seems that someone wanted to give a talk not really related to information security, and the conference organizers asked the Ada Initiative for advice. They suggested that as the subject matter may be problematic for some attendees that they should consider if the material is appropriate for people expecting an information security conference and if there should be warnings. It's an IT conference, and talk about sex and drugs doesn't really fit. The talk was then cancelled by the organizers. I don't see a problem here.

BT's goal is to milk their existing copper network as much as possible before being forced to upgrade it by the government. There is very little competition, and in many areas none at all. Zero incentive to upgrade the network if they can force you to simply pay the same amount for a shitty copper line and ADSL.

I see the moderation abuse has started early in this thread.

Can you adequately compensate someone for death or serious and unfixable health problems?

Wouldn't it just make more sense not to pollute in the first place? Why clean up a mess when you can easily avoid making it in the first place, especially when the mess is likely to do permanent damage to people's health?

When there is justification, i.e. no other reason, that's fine. "I just prefer polluting" is not acceptable, sorry. We have to share this environment.

The quote doesn't seem to support your statement. What about it makes you think they put diversity and safety from microaggressions above the product?

Perhaps it would help to clarify that by "safe spaces" they mean places where there is no open harassment and abuse. Like what has happened to many female developers on social media in the last year or two, for example. I don't think many people would argue that there should be law-free zones where that kind of thing is allowed.

FTFY. Seriously, can't we even talk about this without being accused of bizarre stuff we didn't say or advocate? You seem to have assumed an awful lot just from the name of the organization.

It's actually somewhat tricky to participate in some open source projects and remain anonymous. I use various pseudonyms on different sites, but recently someone realized who I was just from one. Turns out I did an only somewhat related interview with my real name years ago, and they track that through my personal web site and put it all together. No malicious, I just didn't try to mask my real identify hard enough.

Personally I don't think I should have to protect my real identity just to participate in various open source projects without fear of being treated differently due my gender or whatever. I've had racist discrimination and even abuse before due to my real name. I shouldn't have to hide, it should be a choice.

As well as being more than 3x as expensive, it's not called "Giga Mansion Smart Type". Japanese products have the best names.

I couldn't see a cap mentioned anywhere. Most Japanese ISPs don't bother with caps. NTT tried one about a decade ago when it was 100/100Mb service, IIRC 300GB/day. Didn't go over well, soon abandoned.

I think it's an interesting and relevant (for many geeks) topic, it's just the way the headline is worded that I take issue with.

Depends, these days a lot of C# programmers use multi-threading by default and in fact many popular C# frameworks require it. For example, in WPF you pretty much have to use separate processes for everything, and many WPF components will generate new threads for your callbacks to execute in etc.

It's been made a lot easier and simpler. It is homework level stuff, a basic requirement of keeping apps responsive with modern UI frameworks and software development patterns.

On the other hand he might just have been fork()ing like crazy, which would indeed be pretty scary. Task.TaskFactory, BackgroundWorker and lambda expressions, not so much.

I think you will find that its primary purpose is to display full screen ads screaming "LOW BATTERY!!! CLICK HERE TO BUY MEGA-ULTRA-BATTERY OVER 9000mAh TOP QUALITY IPHONE LAPTOP ANDROID WINDOWS 10 GENUINE" with the volume at 109%.

It will just be used as way of fighting the on-going cyber cold war without taking military action. Corporate soldiers will do the actual fighting under the fig leaf of "defence", after some government agent launches a fake and ineffective attack on them.