Corporations are defacto people, and until that changes, nothing can/will be done, period.

Tech industry I find pretty neutral
Anarchists as a group is kinda undefinable =)
Gamers are definitely as a collective narrow towards women, but to be fair, most are teenaged boys that are still drooling to grab Mary's boobs for the first time, so one can at least rationalize that stupidity.

Uh, you do realize the Chinese alphabet has somewhere around 3-4 thousand distinct glyph's right? Each of which has to be memorized in order to be interpreted. Theose are entirely non-phoenetic of course. Of which, combined, the word count is somewhere north of 50,000. Then there's their spoken tones, which in Mandarin has 4 different meanings for 'ho' depending on how you intonate it. Cantonese has 7 intonations!

So yeah, cry me a river for the big bad English.

Don't forget that pink became pink for a reason. Obviously some ladies so far back that nobody can remember decided that they liked the way it looked, and made many garments out of it. One could say that mass media has snow-balled the affect, where some bias toward different female archetypes would otherwise flurish, but *shrug*, I'm no sociologist, I just play one as an Anonymous Coward.

To further the point, Indian's and Chinese students have been learning and shoving IT and STEM down childrens throats for a while and one could argue how successful they've become (I wouldn't, they rock like its hot), there is definitely a gap between them and say Black / Hispanic students who are typically from much more impoverished areas (at least in tyhe US anyways).

Hey, we all need our foundations to learn, and I think computer use and extended, computer IT/programming should at least be taught in schools as a core course. If they can justify physical 'education' (yes of course keeping kids fit is a good thing), then they can consider computers a core as well.

Some will absolutely bomb in it and that's ok. Its oik to know what you are good aty and what you aren't without wasting 4+ yerars in post-secondary and $50k to realize you've make a horrible horrible mistake in choosing something you're interested in. Worse, imagine all of those that hated computers out of ignorance who could've been brilliant CS students/employees if only given enough motivation.

"it is trivial to create another digital coinage with a slightly different protocol that behaves exactly the same way as far as a user is concerned."

The sad thing is, this will almost single handedly end the bitcoin craze. With hundreds/thousands of competing crypto-systems of exchange who in the world is going to maintain and trust in these systems? Do you see valuation agencies looking at these things and go, uh yeah this is a good valuation? They will laugh at it and say there is no valuation to judge on it. That alone will prevent most institutional investors from even toughing them, meaning realistically, the only people touching crypto-currencies are cowboy investors or people who actually want it to make exchanges. But in a system with 100's of competing products, who wants to run their business by having hundreds or thousands of highly volatile currencies as a exchange?

No, but they don't seem to have qualms executing corrupt politicians / business people who have done great harm:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-white-collar-criminals-death-sentence-2013-7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14197485
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/business/worldbusiness/11execute.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Yes, be the point is that those that eat healthy don't need multi-vitamins, and people that do need more balanced diets aren't buying them. So they service a market that doesn't exist.

I used this one btw: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.slvn.appops

And I have verified that disabling a permission changes the behaviour of the apps (PvZ2 normally diables outside sound, but this change overrides that, so you can still listen to music while playing for example).

Congratulations on learning copy / paste. I'm glad you're spreading new and relevant dialogue to the conversation. BitCoinTroll+1

Which is exactly why BitCoin solves nothing that a national currency doesn't do for you already (besides the ability to trivially embezzle money).

Question, if BOA holds your wallet, and receives a large (lets say $1,000,000 value transfer into the account). is there any regulatory requirements to the government?

Same question but in reverse, I send 1,000,000 to an unnamed party. Same question, but now its discovered 'I' didn't send it but some fraudster posing as me.

Until the currency becomes 1000% less volatile, "we'll" never buy things with it period. You think cash is risky, imagine having '1000' bitcoin worth 100 the next. Real people need a strong foundation under their feet. Real people live pay check to pay check, may of which have practically no savings. Real people need to pay for groceries, and can't be affected by investment hedges. End of line / end of story.

1. Don't download apps that use permissions you wouldn't give them
2. If you're using Android 4.3/4.4, look for 'App Ops' (The one that requires zero permissions) from the play store. It allows you to turn specific (though not all alas) permissions off per app: Notably SMS, reading contacts, keeping the phone on, polling your location, call log/making calls/clipboard/audio focus/camera/record audio/modifying system settings...

The benefit of Android's App Ops is that it also tells you when the app last used a given permission, which really tells you when some program has been exploiting your good will... Just remember though:

Whenever you have ads in an app, always expect
INTERNET_FULL
LOCATION_COURSE
and maybe LOCATION_FINE
Pretty much all ad platform tools require them to function

You're making the assumption that the income and literacy curve is the same through the different markets. I'd imagine there are many more 'blue collar' Chinese computer users who can afford computers, but barely. Any added cost would push them too hard. India has a lot more abscess poverty with people that could never afford a computer. Also,
India's literacy rate is 68%
China's literacy rate is 95.1%
(CIA factbook)