If a woman is asking for a raise, or is negotiating salary in an interview, if she is shown the company pay categories in a chart that is different from men, that's systematic. If say a man in a similar title and region is shown the salary chart that shows his pay can be in the $45k-$55k range, but the woman is shown a different chart showing $40k-$50k, that would be totally systematic, illegal, and morally wrong.

However if each employee is pushed back with "this is as far as we're willing to go", and the company waits and sees who will bluff leaving, that's not systematic.

Instead of forcing companies to override normal business behavior for women even when they're businesses and general capitalism dictates that they only maximize their profits, the root cause of this issue must be tackled. You can't seriously force businesses to tell women (or visible minorities, or the disabled) "oh you just want $45k, I think we'll just give you $55k because one man with the same title has $55k". In reality the business would rather split the title (Jr, Sr) or make it look like the woman has a slightly different job responsibility.

The real underlying issue is the confidence that the woman can find another job should this one go away. And that she will survive easily if she loses this job. This further depends on if she has a large mortgage or is a single mother of kids or has other dependancies. Perhaps her social circle is important too. Just as women are encouraged by peers to "leave him" when she's having relationship issues, men are encouraged to leave the job when they're unhappy. This really isn't businesses' fault and cannot be fixed by patching the symptoms by forcing more money through businesses which are designed to only maximize profit.

In fact, it should be offensive to suggest that a particular disenfranchised group needs government mandated policies to be equal to the modal group, in productivity OR benefit. This would technically imply that group is inferior.

I agree. I came here to comment on 'why is this strange' but looks like many slashdotters (at least ones with physics backgrounds) feel similarly.

It seems ridiculous when you take a cpu rma to Intel for an rca on some OS crash, but their response is that the cpu is fine, it was a cosmic particle. But it's true, and statistically this can happen to any bit in any register. Especially with the lithography processes producing ever smaller gates with few atoms manning the gate/bit.

She was part of the best leadership VMWare ever had. There's a crowd of developers who want to follow her. It's sad that she had to leave GCP this way, but I agree with the ethics of it. She will do well wherever she will go.

There are antivirus packages with expensive subscription agreements installed in thousands of Linux VMs precisely because of: CYA

I cannot imagine the need for an antivirus on Linux. Either the code breaks into supervisor mode or it does not. Adding more and more hooks into it can only possibly increase your surface area. And antivirus companies aren't exactly the most trustworthy of vendors (their motivation is for you to get infected... a little bit).

I hate fear-based architectures.

"People reverse engineered it completely"

I'm not sure they even had to; I remember my C64 came with very detailed circuit diagrams of the whole motherboard and something like a developers guide. They were way over my head but it didn't look like one had to reverse engineer much.

What is a self-taught sysadmin anyway? As opposed to what, a diploma in sysadmining?

I'm probably your age too, got my start from cdrom.com Linux images in 1997. I've tested more than actually developed OSS code. I think I'm one of the guys who pushed 'RTFM n00b' to n00bs. You should understand the reasoning.

The OSS community is about ego. Ego can and does drive excellent code ( because my d1ck is bigger than yours/my code is better than yours). People do measure each other on technical skills more than anything else, and compete on it. A rude genius has a lot of respect, yet a willing and keen n00b is mistreated because his questions are 'below' the time effort of the skilled guys.

Note that I did not say this is how it should be, or that people should have free license to be rude in any setting. That's why colleges, universities and meetups exist; to ease the entry.

My point here is that the OSS community is what it is. The same rudeness that pushes you and other guys away is what drives excellence(not universally), and this setup only exists where nobody is getting paid.

The at91sam9260 is available in TQFP, albeit more like $9 in quantity

There are other QFP/TQFP packages from cypress and (I think) TI that are hand-solderable.

Using flash and DRAM compatible with these chips you can have a sufficiently usable board with nothing BGA on it.

Just look at the Olimex older designs for these chips. And the documentation and reference Linux implementation are nicer than Allwinner.

The only newsworthy item here is the $1 part, but I thought the Rock-something MIPS chip with stacked ram is similar. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Like Children of Dune?

I always like it when the good guys morph into bad guys and vice versa.

I'd imagine there's a requirement of at least several billion years for evolution to go through the basic forms of life, and maintain competition on cooled-down planet(s), long enough to produce 'intelligent life'. You can probably remove the first 2 odd billion years. Earth, along with probably most planets out there was going through geological and atmospheric turmoil.

And assuming that space travel is limited to below the speed of light, it would take significant time to travel to another planet with intelligent life unless you're lucky and there's one nearby. I would offer that we're far more likely to receive alien visits in the next 1 billion years than the last 4 billion years

It's actually a good question. Bittorrent and guns are both tools that are enablers for crime. Banning the tool instead of the crime affects legitimate use of the tool by law-abiding citizens.

Here's the difference:

The law is supposed to allow as much freedom as is possible, up to a certain extent. It then puts up a wall even for legitimate uses once the chance of damage has gone high enough. You can legalize hand grenades for recreational use too, or how about selling plutonium for educational purposes. Plutonium doesn't kill people, people kill people. But at that point the chance of damage is so high, basically screw it all and ban it, even for legitimate uses.

This balance was moved with flights where sharp objects and liquids are banned.

On the flip side, a baseball bat can kill a person, and so can riding a bicycle without a helmet. But at this stage, damage potential is relatively small and personal freedoms are important. Instead of trying to put in a sliding scale for everything (bats of certain sizes, faster bicycles, similar to liquid amounts for flights), it's just better to leave personal freedoms be, because a cyclist falling or an angry person with a bat cannot kill dozens of people.

This is why knives are legal to own, hand grenades are not, and guns of different sizes/capacities is where that threshold lies. With this argument, I believe assault/automatic rifles, high capacity magazines have been proven to cause excessive damage compared to the rights and personal freedoms of wanting such firearms. This is in contrast to say bolt action hunting rifles with 5 rounds. And certainly illegally downloading movies and music which you most likely would not be paying for anyway (and impact the financial earnings of artists by a small amount), is far far away from this threshold.

I used to know my way around some ftp servers. I knew (and still know) the exact path and filenames to linux kernels and slackware floppies. I could type wget and get exactly what I wanted before any search engines.

Now I google up files and get a hundred sites; all suspicious and the files download as .exe files.

ftp.cdrom.com was one ftp server that should not have been killed.

copy con <file>
using debug.exe to write primitive apps
writing TSR apps
tasm
masm
Turboc++

"worked just like a small fridge or freezer"
"without using any CPU fans or liquid cooling and similar."

You're simply moving the liquid cooling slightly further away. Liquid cooling IS involved if you have a fridge involved or "similar".

I'd be the last person to defend Trump, but I have to add my voice.

As a Canadian, I had my social media accounts checked only once. It was brutal, 4 TSA guys asked me to login into both of my email accounts and facebook to go over months of texts and emails. Many questions were asked and many personal pictures were viewed. They had snarky comments to add but they did not find anything illegal. They did fixate on why my sister in law visited her family in Pakistan many years ago and if she saw terrorists, saw guns, saw bombs there etc etc. Things that make you go WTF.

This went on for more than 2 hours while I paid for the long distance data plan. I have not before or since been checked this way, but I've been super careful of adding bearded friends on facebook or any jokes I share. Anything I write might be held against me years later as I go to my vacation passing through the USA.

This was during the Obama administration.

It's free like Free Software but not Open-source Software.