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Comment Re:Women don't want to do CS? (Score 1) 1563

by fakeplasticusername on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @08:42PM (#25810935) Attached to: Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?

Man you are depressing me. My wife and I just had a little girl and I've been dreaming about all the lego sets i'll be buying her in a few years... Tell me i won't have to give up on encouraging my little girl to give engineering a chance!

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 194

by fakeplasticusername on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @01:35AM (#25797957) Attached to: McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch?

Many vendors reserve the right to deny goods and services for any reason (as long as those reasons aren't racial/sex/etc prejudices that are prohibited by law) they see fit. I wouldn't want to do business with a spammer either.

I'll bet the ISP had a line in the service contract that spelled out specifically their right to terminate the contract for just that reason.

Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? 751

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @05:29PM from the they-know-anyway dept.

KlaymenDK writes "Over the last decade or so, I have strived to maintain my privacy. I have uninstalled Windows, told my friends 'sorry' when they wanted me to join Facebook, had a fight with my brother when he wanted to move the family email hosting to Gmail, and generally held back on my personal information online. But since, amongst all of my friends, I am the only one doing this, it may well be that my battle is lost already. Worse, I'm really putting myself out of the loop, and it is starting to look like self-flagellation. Indeed, it is a common occurrence that my wife or friends will strike up a conversation based on something from their Facebook 'wall' (whatever that is). Becoming ever more unconnected with my friends, live or online, is ultimately harming my social relations. I am seriously considering throwing in the towel and signing up for Gmail, Facebook, the lot. If 'they' have my soul already, I might as well reap the benefits of this newfangled, privacy-less, AJAX-2.0 world. It doesn't really matter if it was me or my friends selling me out. Or does it? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. How many Windows-eschewing users are not also eschewing the social networking services and all the other 2.0 supersites with their dubious end-user license agreements?"

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