Most of the people in India agree with him, including women. That is the main problem with Indian society in relation to rape. It's not just "policemen, politicians and lawyers" but average people as well. Views like "women are responsible for what (rape) happens to them if they dress in a certain way and go out in the evening alone" are commonplace.
Those opposed are mainly educated people in the cities, and even among them, there's no real consensus. Remember, this is a huge country with a large portion of rural dwellers, caste system that persists in spite of being banned by government and very conservative views on many issues.
It's also a country where most people will rather buy a slightly more expensive phone than replace their outhouse with a running water toilet.

Streisand effect is working in his favour on this one, even though his intentions are obviously impossible to achieve, simply because it shows his constituents that he shares their world view.

After all, traditional marriages are arranged by the parents, per dowry arrangements and negotiations. Parents of the bribe, I mean bride, must pay life's savings to marry off daughters. You must avoid getting stuck with feeding her and her illegitimate children for your entire life. If you can manage to marry her off, then even if her husband dies first, the custom dictates that she must throw herself on her dead husband's burning corpse as part of the ritual funeral ceremony, If he can't feed you you're better off burned alive then left over to the throngs of dudes. Many female babies seem to suffer greater mortality for some reason that defies standard statistical deviation....

Because they also had two "distinctly different user interfaces in windows 8". The rest as they say is history.

The problem is dissonance with interfaces. Neither microsoft nor third party application makers are ready for step you're suggesting that needs to be taken (completely separate interface for each input method). That would increase workload on application makers who would need to make specifically different interface optimizations and microsoft has shown in windows 8 that their approach is hybridization aiming for lowest common denominator.

Their angle is that they went with too high of a common denominator and went for something that worked with touch but not with mouse/keyboard and now they're going even lower. Which would certainly make 10 an objectively *better* OS for mouse/keyboard combination.

What it would not make it is a *good* one. Because they are still going for lowest common denominator, which is very clearly visible in everything they do down to the latest announcement of "xbox for PC" (yes, yet another games for windows live for n+1st time where n is a large number). Better than trainwreck that was 8, yes. Better than the real competition, which is 7, no.

Which is why they halted non-pro/ultimate editions of 7 again. They know that if they were offering 7 and 10, hybrid lowest common denominator OS would have all the chance of a snowball in hell of surviving the competition with a proper desktop OS which doesn't have to make touch-related concessions on its UI elements. That is the same move they did when 8 tanked hard in effort to boost its success. This resulted in little increase of 8's sales and a massive nosedive of entire PC market. Which started recovering when 7 became widely available after MS reversed the decision under massive pressure from OEMs.

Which is why it's very telling that they making the same move now, as well as yet another "GFWL" move. Smell of desperation is strong once again.

Except that then you need to have two clearly distinct interfaces. I.e. windows 7 interface for mouse and keyboard and windows 8 interface for touch, which would switch when you connect different devices. Which would be confusing, but way better than current jury-rigged taped together version of "touch plus sorta kinda mouse and keyboard" that you have on 8.

Considering that 10 has been nothing but a slightly less touch friendly 8's interface so far, I'm not seeing this going much better. The main drive behind 10 being better was on PR side (windows for ALL devices, i.e. lowest common denominator for everyone in reality), and that may work - as it has before. You put out a bad product, hammer in that "no guys really, it's good" for a couple of years, polish off the worst corners on the turd and people start believing you. It's still going to be a turd, but people will swallow it anyway.

The internet is certainly better off without the 50% which is complete bullshit.

50%? You're way under-estimating, especially if you go on a straight SNR ratio. One stupid auto-playing video that should have been a brief essay (happens on Yahoo all the time) is enough to make a page almost 100% pure bullshit.

Learned to really concentrate while serving on a submarine in the USN - to the "music" of fans and humming power supplies... so, for heavy brainwork at the computer all I need is the noise of the computer. Music just pulls me out of what I'm doing.

Oddly enough, the opposite is true when I'm working out in my woodshop, there I like to have music.

I've been clicking around to find a sample, and, maybe it's just me, but I didn't find any.

It's just you, and whoever modded you up - the second link in TFA takes your right to a sample.

(Don't bother though, it's lame.)

Are you talking about France? Or Russia? Or where then?

You sure as heck aren't talking about the US. The military (read Naval) reactor program parted ways with the civilian world decades ago - they're simply too dissimilar. Nor can civilian reactors effectively make plutonium, nor were they needed to. And the for companies involved in military reactors, government contracting is only one small corner of their business. Etc... etc...

Well, whatever. She has as good a chance at banning jargon as she does banning creole. It's human nature for distinct groups to communicate in distinct ways. As a man who has run afoul of jargon (I really embarrassed myself with "side effects" at some point) I didn't get bent out of shape about it. I learned and moved on. If you want to empower women, teach them how not to lose confidence when they look stupid. If looking stupid discourages you, software is no place to be. Anybody who has been programming for a while should have quite a few stories about how some bug made them feel stupid. Indeed, "all bugs are shallow" is a cliche, and yet they continue to bug us.

What do you mean by tech fetichism? Tech places a huge priority on energy efficiency. Computing is going increasingly mobile, lighting is shifting to LED... all of which is high tech by the way. Do you think old incandescents are better?

And defeated by something as trivial as snow.
Where a human driver will estimate where the road is, and blaze a new trail.

" I'd certainly rather return to Dominican Republic, then go to Canadian prison (in winter!). "

Then you don't know very much about the DR. Once you leave the hotel compound, it's quite violent and corrupt.

Is this a joke? Current Iraq, sans IS territory is basically a de facto vassal state of Iran. It's very difficult to imagine a change where Iraq would be any more pro-Iranian than it is today in such a short period of time. Vice news had a really good video on their reporter who went embedded with Iraqi Shiite militias. Unlike government which has to at least maintain plausible deniability, militiamen themselves are fairly open about who their support and materiel comes from and who they see as their own.

While it's true that current Middle East situation is not "as bad as it could get", that's only because "as bad as it could get" is a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran or one sided nuclear strikes into Iran by Israel. And the current situation is not that far away from it now that Iran became a true regional hegemon after Iraq became it's vassal state and feels quite empowered by it. If anything, IS actually serves as a dam containing Iran's influence's westward expansion in the region.