2.25 million people a week are injured from car accidents?

Politics.

Women can vote too. Apparently they're voting for men. Or maybe not as many women are willing to put in the time and effort to be high-ranking politicians. Either way I don't see any "power imbalance". Women have equal opportunity.

The only ones of which I am aware are Maternity leave (more common that Paternity leave) and alimony.

Yeah quite. Rather unfair to men, isn't it? Especially alimony, which as I understand it in the US is basically a free monthly payment to a woman when she decides she wants to end the marriage.

For example, I acknowledge there is a power imbalance between women and men, favouring men.

That smells like a crock of shit to me. Please list examples in Western societies today where there is a power imbalance between the genders. Including ones where women are given preferential treatment.

I was gonna say, this was being done by hackers decades ago. :-)

You still need the extra electronics for LEDs run off DC. They require a regulator circuit (basically a small switch mode power supply). You can't just put in a series resistor with a high powered LED otherwise it would be no more efficient than an incandescent bulb.

'Uterus' sounds too scientific and medical, I guess :) I'm pretty sure most of the population has no clue what it is if you ask them.

Amazing progress, but it would be nice if the attitude within the medical scientific community to for example intersex-born individuals wasn't still stuck somewhere in the 19th century. Progress is relative.

How many people here actually know what intersex is? I didn't know it existed (among humans at least) or what it was called until I was 21 and I was born intersex (hermaphrodite).

Don't get me wrong, it's great that these women born without certain reproductive organs are getting them transplanted, but on the other side doctors are also chopping up the genitals of intersex infants and manipulating intersex adults like yours truly into 'normalization' surgeries.

Heck, after consulting dozens of 'experts' in about a dozen countries I honestly couldn't tell you which reproductive and related organs I do or don't have exactly. I also meet so many others who had to discover as a teenager or adult that their parents and medical file have withheld details about surgery being performed on them as an infant.

So yes, happy news for some, but just a bitter feeling for many others who had the misfortune of not being born a 'normal' male or female even one missing some bits...

Excuse the brief rant :)

The x86 decoder is as large as an entire ARM execution core, and what's more it makes the pipeline and branch prediction a lot more complex with the variable length instructions so necessitates yet more complexity. From an asm point of view (and probably the compiler writer's point of view), a modern RISC processor is simpler to write software for than CISC, things like having all the ALU instructions taking 3 operands, having 32 registers that are truly general purpose (x86 still has some instructions that only work with certain registers) etc. RISC is a bit of a misnomer too. There are CISC chips with fewer instructions than some RISC chips, in reality RISC should be called load and store since that's the main differentiator: ALU instructions on RISC only work on registers and immediate values (which makes the chip a lot simpler to implement), whereas CISC chips often have all sorts of addressing modes for ALU instructions.

Where did you get the 24,000 figure from??

You consider this article positive? Troll logic astounds me!

Slashdot is the Fox News of the open source world. If you aren't blaming Microsoft for everything from Ebola to your dog's farts, you're a paid shill.

Britain has a lot of little Hitlers who resent rules, but nonetheless love trying to help enforce petty rules. They usually are employed somewhere as a "jobsworth" (google the term) but when they are off the clock they enjoy continuing to be a jobsworth-type of person.

Actually, I should've said a net increase of 250,000 population through immigration per year. It's actually more like 500,000 immigrants per year.

To put that in perspective, the USA currently seems to get about 1 million immigrants per year. The land mass of England is 130,395 km2. The land mass of the USA is 9,629,091 km2. ~500,000 coming into England every year is like ~37 million immigrants entering the USA every year.

far right rhetoric, nationalism anti-immigrant and anti-EU whargarbl that UKIP is putting out

I'm sorry, but Utter Crap.

The reason many people are voting for UKIP is because they're the only party willing to properly address the issues of the EU and border control. Right now the UK has 250,000 immigrants a year, almost all of which go into England. England is the 2nd most densely populated region of Europe, behind the Netherlands. This is an *insane* level of immigration that is completely unsustainable. To raise this point is not far right or racist or any other such nonsense that has been flung at UKIP.

I was raised in MPH. I find it trivially easy to go to a km/h country. Just make sure the needle on the speedometer doesn't go much over the number posted on signs and you're OK. It's just not rocket science.

The UK still uses a white sign with a diagonal black bar across it (means "national speed limit applies"), so the UK is in the boat NZ was in in 1972.