Replying to myself, I don't have a Facebook account, but I am still on LiveJournal. Not sure what that makes me, I suspect it's too sad to be pretentious.

I though only hipsters had Facebook accounts these days, the kids are all on Instagram.

From the article, he's being charged with 31 counts - is conspiracy, identity theft and extortion etc... 1/31st as bad as murder?

I've been using a Logitech 5 button gaming mouse (I think it's the G3) for a number of year snow, I've forgotten how long. My husband has been through several in the same time, but mine just keeps on keeping on. I have to clean it fairly regularly because cat hair sticks to the glide pads on the base, but other than that it's like it's brand new.

Caveat - I understand that the plural of anecdote is not data.

When I was in high school in the mid 80s I had male teachers actively discouraging me from pursuing STEM courses and even questioning why I was still in school when I should be learning to cook and clean. I was the top English student in the year, and 2 top student overall (physics, chemistry, pure and applied maths, english).

I got into IT because my friends at university who were doing science and engineering degrees wouldn't let me do my essays writing by hand, and forced me to type them on a computer in the lab at uni.

Someone beat you to it already.

Most places that are likely to refuse service will be the type of place where you order, eat and then pay - it would be the restaurant owner who would end up out of pocket if an order was placed and the guy was thrown out before he could eat it.

Provided they're small turtles, it would probably only tickle.

Sorry, I ran out of fingers for my poor fragile female brain to count on.

Waiting until college to make them feel welcome is too late - you need to get to them in elementary school or earlier. Look at boys toys vs girls toys to see how we program children from an early age as to gender appropriate pursuits.

There was a great image doing the rounds of twitter the other day of a boy getting a megablocks set that can be built in an infinite number of configurations, programed by computer and a robot, etc... and a girl being given a doll which can... but used as a doll, you can pretend it's a baby but that's about it.

So strangely enough male children stream into STEM and girls go into teaching, nursing and other care based occupations. And guess which of these classes of careers pays better?

I'm a bit of a mutant, I used to steal my cousins mechano as a kid, I'm the one that ended up in IT.

In addition to the ability to 'easily' change the charges schedule, these complicated systems allow far more details usage tracking for capacity planning and forecasting. Unlike paper tickets, they can track time of travel and point to point destinations to see which services are being over or under utilised and where additional services may be required.

Melbourne is much bigger than Chicago - wait, it's not.... hrm.... there must be some reason Myki was more expensive.

I agree that $1.3 is a lot for a couple of pictures, but I suspect it is supposed to be punitive to tell AP that they can't take someone else's work without permission and try to sell it as their own.

As to your second point, money seems to be the only language AP understands - they were the ones who originally sought to profit from the photos.