So you have some perverse idea of what feminism is meant to be [...] (b) is your own invention in the first place.

Bullshit. I pulled the assertion straight from TFA. You can't blame me for it. Did YOU bother to read TFA?

From TFA:

"people think men and women receive the same harassment online. They do not."

"The Myth: Everyone in the games industry experiences harassment. Women are just too sensitive about it."

"If you are a woman in the industry with a critical opinion, you will get a disproportional amount of criticism, hostility, and scrutiny compared to men."

"male privilege makes them feel free to lash out."

You're insane.

I'm merely stating the logical conclusion of GP's self-justifications. What part of my statement is inaccurate? Of course demonizing anyone who disagrees with you is so much easier than honestly addressing the issues they bring up.

pick one that doesn't also apply virtually equally to women.

Women are seriously beaten and murdered at FAR LOWER rates than men. You seem to have a real problem with FACTS.

I'm supposed to walk around armed at all times (illegal here),

There's no territory in the world where it's illegal to carry a modest-size knife.

and if I don't, then it's my fault and its not really rape?

I never said anything of the sort. I simply said that you have options, and being deathly afraid of everyone is not necessary, nor is being physically small an excuse to get the world to cater to you.

The goal is clearly to produce usable power, not to need more filtering.

You don't need to do more filtering. Most devices will run BETTER on square wave output than on sine wave output.

We all know prison rapes don't count. After all, only evil people are in prison to begin with.

It's an urban legend. Studies find that prison rape is actually rare:

http://nij.gov/topics/correcti...

What I gather from this is that they managed to print the memory and the circuitry to read/write it. So, instead of requiring a mechanical transport and a magnetic head, you simply connect wires to contacts along the edge of the circuit, and use electrical signals to access the data, eliminating the need for moving components.

They had not in the prior ten years gotten stronger than the S&P 500. If ten years ago you had invested in an index fund tracking the S&P 500, your return to today would be 77% instead of the 57% you would have received by investing in MSFT. Many other companies out-performed the S&P 500 in the same ten-year period.

Not if it has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.

The same exact reasoning to justify TSA

They're incomparable. TSA is mandated by governments, you have no choice in the matter. Using a particular brand of smartphone is not. You are free to use a smartphone that doesn't use Google services and indeed are free to buy a Nexus 5 and then say "no" to the billion and one "trade data for feature?" prompts that appear when switched on the first time. No government goon is going to step in and insist that you send all your data to Google.

In fact, if you would prefer a smartphone that has a different data/features tradeoff then - conveniently! - Google provides a rather good open source operating system for free that you can use to build one. If others feel the same way you do you can even sell them without paying Google a dime.

Depends how you define "very popular" I guess. The most popular way to bypass state-level censorship in the Arab world and elsewhere is a product called HotSpot Shield. When Turkey blocked Twitter some time ago, HSS experienced 1000% growth and reached 1.1 million installs in the iOS App Store alone within only four days, with 800,000 regular users.

In contrast Tor went from 30,000 to 40,000 "direct connects" from Turkey.

HSS doesn't get much press in the geek world as it's just a plain old VPN run by a company in California that inserts ads into people's web pages to pay for the bandwidth costs. But usage wise it utterly dominates Tor.

I own two Panasonic blu-ray players and they have all been terribly slow at everything, from loading discs to using the "smart" features like Amazon and Netflix. One of the Panasonics quite regularly requires me to cut the power to it and cold start it to either watch Internet content ("NO NETWORK") or to watch a movie (hang up with a "Loading.." graphic).

The Amazon interface on them also seems stuck in the stone age -- you can browse titles or search, but the 'modern' Amazon interface found in Sonys or the iOS apps isn't there so the Watch List isn't available.

HBO discs are the worst with these units due to their bloated menu/multimedia content. I just reflexively cold start my player before trying to watch an HBO disc.

The number is utterly bogus:

http://aspiringeconomist.com/i...

And a woman's actual lifetime chance of being raped, is more like 8%:

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1...

That sounds reasonable only if you have a very small group of users, and loads of time to deal with it.

Everybody runs a fork bomb once in their life. A computer lab should be a safe place to make mistakes, not somewhere that any mistakes will make you a pariah. If you do take that unreasonable attitude, the "presidential pardons" will be coming down on a regular basis, just signed-off as a routine duty without the slightest thought, every time a department head requests it.

Must be able to handle loads with power factors from 0.7â"1, leading and lagging in an islanded mode
Must be in a rectangular metal enclosure of no more than 40 in3
Will be taking in 450 V DC power in series with a 10 resistor
Must output 240 V, 60 Hz AC single phase power
Must have a total harmonic distortion + noise on both voltage and current of 5%

It seems contradictory that they're worried about power factor, and also want to force contestants to output nice clean sine waves. Best way to get a PF of 1.0 with cheap switching power supplies, is to send them a square wave... Sucks for induction motors, but works for most everything else, including motors with brushes.

And with a simple 450VDC input you could split it over multiple circuits in series, through requiring some legwork to boost it to the exact voltage, and even it out across circuits with different load-levels, but far less than running it all through a transformer.

Such a device could be extremely efficient. I wonder what their needs are, that such a device isn't sufficient.

There's a bit of a difference in that one in every four women actually will be raped in their life, and a sizeable percent of those getting those threats already have been.

Not "raped" but "sexually assaulted". Rape laws have gone awry to the point that damn near everything is just classified as a "sex crime" now, so even a technical issue like statutory rape comes with the same stigma as being a major pedophile, and you really can't even get real statistics on the actual numbers of violent rapes.

But don't take my word for it... The same study that claims 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted, claims 1 in 7 MEN have been sexually assaulted, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12...

You do realize how commonly women are raped and abused by men

You do realize how commonly men are beaten and murdered, don't you?

they might happen to be more sensitive to the implicit or explicit threats

Oops, you're lowering the castle defenses now... Didn't you hear your sisters in arms giving you your marching orders? You're not supposed to admit that women are more sensitive to abuse... You're supposed to tow the party line, claiming that the only cause is evil men are being more verbally abusive to women.

I'm tall, 182 centimeters, and I still once had a guy literally pick me up and carry me back to his apartment when I tried to walk away from him.

Men are stronger than women, no question. Carrying a knife will even things out quite nicely, though. Clawing out eyes works pretty good, too.

In the list of people who are treated special, can we exclude female body builders and throw in any and all physically small or frail men? If physical abilities are the only determinant, we've gotta have a few categories, including the linebackers you mentioned. Female midgets must get the best treatment of all.