kaldari - Slashdot User

Comment Yeah right! (Score 1) 254

by kaldari on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @01:42AM (#38430902) Attached to: FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism

The FBI believes in the First Amendment about as much as Wilt Chamberlain believed in safe sex.

This is the same FBI that:
* Claimed Wikipedia couldn't host a copy of the FBI seal
* Once took a dozen news websites off the internet because one of them published a photograph of an undercover police office, in Italy!
* Tried to smear Martin Luther King as a Communist because he opposed the Vietnam War
* Tried to smear Judi Bari as a terrorist because she opposed clear-cutting California's redwood forests

Give me a break!

Comment Only men are employed in airport security? (Score -1, Flamebait) 468

by kaldari on Monday June 07, 2010 @01:22AM (#32480832) Attached to: The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK

Why does the headline say "men" instead of "people"? I don't think the job is exclusive to one gender.

Comment It already exists (Score 5, Funny) 347

by kaldari on Monday April 19, 2010 @09:58AM (#31895358) Attached to: Life Recorder

A little pricey, but you can already buy such a thing: http://wearcam.org/domewear/

The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap 588

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @03:27PM from the where-we-haven't-looked-yet dept.

Coryoth writes "The widely held belief that there is disparity in the innate mathematical abilities of men and women has been steadily whittled down in recent years. The gender gap in basic mathematics skills closed some time ago, and recently the gap in high school mathematics has closed up as well, with as many girls as boys now taking high school calculus. Newsweek reports on a new study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that begins to lay to rest the remaining argument that it is at the highest levels of mathematics that the innate differences show. Certainly men dominate current academia, with 70% of mathematics Ph.D.s going to men; however that figure is down from 95% in the 1950s. Indeed, while there remain gaps in achievement between the genders, the study shows that not only are these gaps closing, but the size of the gap varies over differing cultures and correlates with the general degree of gender inequality in the culture (as defined by World Economic Forum measures). In all, this amounts to strong evidence that the differences in outcomes in mathematics between the genders is driven by sociocultural factors rather than innate differences in ability."

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