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Submission + - CoreOS announces competitor to Docker

Submitted by fourbadgers
fourbadgers writes: CoreOS, the start-up making the CoreOS Linux distribution announced, Rocket, a container management system as an alternative to Docker. The CoreOS distribution is derived from the Chrome Linux distribution and has a focus on lightweight virtualization based on Linux containers. CoreOS has been a long time supporter of Docker but saw the need for a more simple container system after what was seen as scope-creep in what Docker provides.

Comment Re:The fact remains... (Score 1) 323

by BarbaraHudson (#48502973) Attached to: DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github

So you're going to go by definitions in dictionaries that were written a couple of centuries ago? Our understanding has changed in the last 50 years.

Chromosomes don't cut it - there are animals that spontaneously change sex - even to the point of bearing offspring, when environmental conditions change - without changing their chromosomes. So your dictionary is wrong.

And it's the male seahorse who has the babies.

in terms of female, the definition is pretty straightforward: Must be capable of laying eggs or bearing offspring.

So as far as your definition is concerned, a woman who is infertile is really a man. You should tell your mom that after she finishes menopause - she'll straighten you out :-)

Comment Re:The fact remains... (Score 1) 323

by BarbaraHudson (#48502921) Attached to: DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github

Given that this person was born with a male brain

Do you have proof of that?

Take for example a previous slashdot summary whose TFA indicated that females develop higher literacy skills earlier than males.

Well, there we go - we now have proof that I was born with a female brain.

No surgery that presently exists is able to alter a male enough to make him anatomically female...at best it's just an external change in appearance

... and a clitoris that is, in 80% of all cases, capable of multiple orgasms. That's far from an external change in appearance. Fully functional, because sex starts in the brain. Jealous much?

The feelings of being the other gender come from the brain, not anywhere else. Please consider this: If you were in an accident that amputated your "package", would you not continue to insist that you are still a male, because your brain tells you so? Now let's go a step further - if in the future we can do brain transplants, and you're in a horrible accident, and the only spare corpsicle is female, would putting your brain in a female body suddenly make you feel that you are now a female? Or would you be hoping for a male corpsicle to turn up soon?

It's not as simple as most people make it. If it were, it would be easier for me to explain and for you to understand.

Comment Re:But, as the feminists say.. (Score 1) 333

It's funny that you should bring in religion in a discussion about gender equality. Since it's nobody's darned business what your religion is (and employers, for example, aren't allowed to ask), that should be a non-issue (and anyone who wants to make it an issue should find something more constructive to do with their time).

As for skin color, discriminatory hiring practices (as well as discrimination against members of the public based on skin color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc) are also banned.

As for the "implementing the binary gender model", we're getting away from that as well. Last year the APA finally officially changed their stance that "transsexualism is a disorder", 40 years after they did the same for other members of the LGBT; it's not perfect, but we're getting there.

Which brings us to the all-girls-only opportunity. It doesn't have to be 50-50. You could set a limit to the class size, and fill it based on 50-50. If there are still spaces left at the end, let the other gender take those unused spaces.

Quotas are only meant to be a temporary measure, BTW. :-)

Submission + - Disgraced Scientist is Selling His Nobel Prize

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Nicholas St. Fleur writes at The Atlantic that in the sad final chapter to a career that traces back to racist remarks he made in 2007, James Watson, the famed molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA, is putting his Nobel Prize up for auction, the first Nobel laureate in history to do so. Watson, best known for his work deciphering the DNA double helix alongside Francis Crick in 1953, made an incendiary remark regarding the intelligence of black people that lost him the admiration of the scientific community in 2007 making him, in his own words, an "unperson". That year, The Sunday Times quoted Watson as saying that he felt “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really.” Watson added that although some think that all humans are born equally intelligent, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.” Watson has a history of making racist and sexist declarations, according to Time. His insensitive off-the-cuff remarks include saying that sunlight and dark skin contribute to “Latin lover” libido, and that fat people lack ambition, which prevents them from being hired. At a science conference in 2012, Watson said of women in science, “I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.” To many scientists his gravest offense was not crediting Rosalind Franklin with helping him deduce the structure of DNA.

Watson is selling his prized medallion because he has no income outside of academia, even though for years he had served on many corporate boards. The gold medal is expected to bring in between $2.5 million and $3.5 million when it goes to auction. Watson says that he will use the money to purchase art and make donations to institutions that have supported him, such as the University of Chicago and Watson says the auction will also offer him the chance to “re-enter public life.” “I’ve had a unique life that’s allowed me to do things. I was set back. It was stupid on my part,” says Watson “All you can do is nothing, except hope that people actually know what you are.”

Submission + - IE6 Finally Falls Below 1% Market Share

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: November 2014 was a big month for the Web. We saw the release of Chrome 39, the debut of Firefox Developer Edition, and now we’re learning the latest version of Internet Explorer is used by one in four Internet users. Furthermore, the most hated browser version on the planet, IE6, has finally fallen below the 1 percent market share mark. Web developers will be happy to learn that not only does the latest version of IE11 now finally have the largest userbase, but IE6 has fallen below the 1 percent mark. Microsoft has an IE6countdown website just for the purpose of tracking which countries are still above this threshold (China is the biggest offender).

Submission + - Study of big bang's afterglow sheds light on evolution of universe (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: The leading scientific theory of how the universe evolved has again proved accurate—for some, frustratingly so. The latest study of the afterglow of the big bang—the so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation—confirms even more precisely the standard model of cosmology, researchers with Europe's Planck spacecraft reported today at a press conference in Ferrara, Italy. That's a victory for the theory, but it leaves researchers with no discrepancies that might point to a deeper understanding.

Submission + - Comedian saying 'Google it' caused Bill Cosby's downfall (saportareport.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: The Saporta Report's Tom Baxter describes (http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/11/in-cosbys-downfall-a-glimpse-of-googles-awesome-power/) how the staggering power of the search engine is responsible for the overdue implosion of comedian William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby) career.

The allegations against Cosby have been public since 2005 (http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/timeline-of-the-abuse-charges-against-cosby.html), when 13 Jane Doe victims testified on behalf of Andrea Constrand. However,

"it was not until someone made a cell phone video of a standup routine which a young comedian named Hannibal Buress had been doing for several weeks, that the story ignited. There was nothing new in what he said — there have even been previous comedy routines about the rape allegations — except this: “You leave here and google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ It’s not funny. That s*** has more results than ‘Hannibal Buress.’”

Somebody put the clip up on a Philadelphia magazine’s website, and a lot of people did what Buress suggested. In a cosmic piece of bad timing, Cosby’s website put up a meme generator, which allowed readers to write a headline on a picture of the star and post it on social media sites. That helped fan the now-flickering flame, which gained force as one after another woman came forward to accuse him.

Baxter also posits that "it's inevitable that there will be efforts to control access to the scattered bits of information that could create a media fire, as well as malicious attempts to strike matches."

Comment pathetic humans (Score 1, Funny) 184

" ... they could also be responsible for spreading life throughout the cosmos."

You humans are so self-centered. You think that because you are 'alive' according to your way of thinking, that being alive is ideal. Anything that 'spreads life' is a good thing.

Well, guess what? Some of us who are not so limited in our thinking happen to believe that your idea of life is erroneous. You fail to consider that you are only the poor expression of a nearly perfect DNA molecule. Your purpose is to continue to propagate until we reach absolute perfection, at which time we till kiss your ass goodbye and continue our travels through the universe.

Submission + - An in-depth interview with Claire Lee, a South African ATLAS physicist at CERN (htxt.co.za)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Anyone with even a passing interest in the sciences must have wondered what it’s like to work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN. What wonders await those who join its ranks? What marvels must there be in the midst of such concentrated brain power?
Since our chances of landing a job at CERN are probably limited to exciting opportunities in catering or sanitation, we figured it’s better to ask someone who does know. Someone like South African phyicist Claire Lee, who works right on ATLAS – one of the two elements of the LHC project that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012.

Submission + - Chromebooks Overtake iPads in U.S. Education Market

Submitted by SmartAboutThings
SmartAboutThings writes: In Q3 2014, IDC notes that Google shipped 715,500 Chromebooks to U.S. schools while Apple shipped 702,000 iPads. Thus, Apple's iPad has lost its lead over Google's line of Chromebook laptops in the U.S. education market as Google shipped more devices to schools last quarter. While analysts say that this advantage for Google's Chromebooks can be attributed to their low cost, the presence of a physical keyboard has also been seen as an important factor.

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