It's called reverse discrimination, and it's wrong.

Doing so in education teaches by action (and thus re-affirms) that somehow women can't compete. And yet, the majority of people graduating degree programs are women.

You can't reduce gender bias by introducing even more gender bias. And since we're talking about education, what better place to practice / teach non-bias?

Well, since you FINALLY asked how you are absurd:

Going through every post I make in every thread, posting multiple responses (up to 100 posts a day) attacking me based on my gender (including in a thread about sexual harassment) - I think that most people would qualify your behaviour as both foolish and unreasonable.

Getting all bent out of shape when someone exposes your bullying tactics and then tells other people how to do the same to you - both your original bullying and your response when you get it thrown right back at you are foolish, unreasonable, and just plain childish.

Saying I'm stalking you when it's obvious you're the one doing the stalking - foolish, unreasonable, and more than a bit delusional. Oh, and your paranoia is showing.

Thinking that attacking me because I'm transsexual is going to get you anywhere on a tech site, when tech attracts a higher-than-average number of people in the LGBT community, as well as sympathizers, is foolish. Continuing it day after day when it doesn't work is not just unreasonable, it's stupid and/or insane.

Clinging to arguments for your HOSTS file that are completely orthogonal to today's reality, and that obviously the vast majority don't care about and don't need because they have found better ways to solve their own problems, is foolish on it's face and unreasonable to those looking on, who use their computers just fine without your "solution."

Going on about how "taking estrogen is rotting your brain", that "you're crazy to have cut your balls off" (btw - I'm not a surgeon, and I don't pretend to be one on the innnertubes), when I'm following expert medical advice that has a proven track record of success, well, that's both foolish and ridiculous.

The problem isn't your hosts file - it's your behaviour, which certainly is absurd, and probably disturbed as well.

That leads to another question - why? What is it about me in particular that sets you off worse than anyone else? Is it me, or do you have a problem with women in general (I seem to recall some attacks you made on other women who have challenged you that would indicate that this may be the case)? Do you think that men are superior to women, and that anyone who willingly "trades in" to become a woman is stupid because you have a low opinion of women?

And that, of course, brings us back on-topic - the "science has a sexual assault problem. You don't seem to be capable of the introspection necessary to realize how absurd your behaviour is. How many other women have you felt it's your right to attack, and still continue years later, about their sex, gender, or sexual identity, just because you disagreed with their opinion on a technical issue of absolutely no import to anyone but you?

"Send in the drones!" Why not fight drones with drones? Cheaper than a stupid "drone shield" that sends you a text, probably without enough time to do anything.

Throw in a few old-tech barrage balloons (even weather balloons will do) trailing netting (even helicopters will avoid that), some really high-powered water and potato cannons, and the odd trebuchet filled with flaming dung or politicians (same diff), and "The Making of Star Wars Episode VII" becomes more than just filler.

You seem to forget that I once worked for the Russians. They taught me a few things, I taught them a few things, fun times.

It's entirely possible to create malware that doesn't use DNS, and it doesn't matter how many entries you put in your hosts file, you're screwed. We investigated this because we had to be ready if someone tried to do this to us, because they could have poisoned a LOT of computers that way. And, of course, because it's always handy to have something special in your bag of tricks :-)

Like I said, it's absurd not to take advantage of the capabilities of modern hardware. Because if you don't some $BAD_PERSON out there will be quite happy to steal all those cpu cycles you "saved."

Your "15 questions" are straw men that take away from the point that you're obsolete, and so is your hosts file "solution", which is why you have a long reputation of being the "hosts file troll".

Come on, Android can change the layout of widgets, as well as the logic behind them, on everything from phones to HD TVs.

Just grab the "settings" app and see the difference in layout between a phone and a tablet. On the phone, selecting an item brings up an overlay screen of options for that selection. On a tablet, the selection list is displayed on the left, the options on the right.

You can make arbitrarily complex layouts to accommodate different needs on different displays. Same as Windows.

It was, but Sun fragmented Java ME (Micro Edition) so they could get millions in licensing fees from all the different variants of the runtime engine since they were pretty closely tied to each phone's hardware for performance reasons.

It's not like today, when we have quad core phones with oodles of ram for under $200, and tablets breaking the $100 barrier, and we can afford to run a generic runtime.

My left eye was always more nearsighted than my right, so that's where the tear occurred. So while everything is severely distorted due to macular pucker, and I have a blind spot in the center, I am not going to complain. It's been 6 months and I don't see any real change in transparency, so maybe I'll get lucky for a change - though I doubt it. The surgeon did say it's 100% within 2 years.

The eyes had "a few more loops" - more blood vessels growing - at my last exam in May, but not enough to laser them again. Hopefully December will be more of the same.

Not even reading glasses? I'm impressed!

You're such a fool, apk. Stuck in the mid-90s technologically, the '70s socially ... transsexual women have the same status in law as genetic women. And in society? We're where gays and lesbians were a generation ago - uber-cool to have at least one as a friend. Jealous much?

All I told people to do is what you've been doing to others for years. You can dish it out (sort of), but you can't take it, because you're a hypocrite, like most narcissists.

As for the "sockpuppet account" charge, you know it's bogus. When I was outed on slashdot in '06, I took a second account that was more gender-appropriate. And no, you didn't "chase me away" in 2012 - my retinas deteriorated to the point where I couldn't use a computer (or read, or sometimes even see). Contrary to expectations, and thanks to a lot of hard work by several teams of specialists, I can see well enough to use a computer, read, do day-to-day tasks (just don't ask me to drive a car, tell the difference between colours, ask me if a picture is straight, or similar stuff). If I still had the old passwords, I would have gone back to using my old accounts.

But keep on going through every post I make, and using proxies to post 100 times a day about how I'm such a weird freak. All you're doing is reinforcing your reputation as a social maladroit and a hater of people like me who put the "T" in LGBT.