Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 814
Geekoids law:
The odds someone is wrong on
Geekoids law:
The odds someone is wrong on
Yes, that's a great argument. Magical thinking people held them in special regard. Ancient people did a lot of stupid shit.
Native American Culture is dead. has been dead for 60 years. This trying to hang onto what are ancestors did while using rifles, driving cars, and running casinos is a laughable abuse of ones own culture. All cultures die eventually, the question is do you want you kids and their kids to continue to live in squalor, or move on?
Frankly, a lot of people I talk to seem more interested n their option of culture surviving then their own children's welfare.
The are a lot of information systems that need to know the actual gender. Birth records, scientific research, census.
I suspect it's not your answer that's too simple, but you.
gender dysphoria doesn't mean you want to be a different gender. This is a common myth. People who are uncomfortable with the gender get told they should be a different gender, but they never get any actual treatment. The reasons for the feeling can be quit varied.
" self-analysis "
that doesn't work. Too many biases, no way to clinacally look at the data,.
"having existed since my earliest memories as a toddler"
no you haven't. You have tricked yourself into having those memories, just like everyone else who thinks they have memories of being a toddler.
All you have don't is created a very elaborate confirmation bias.
Which isn't to say you are wrong, but you are probably wrong. I know far too many transgender people who return to being unsatisfied 5 years latter. The real issue never addressed. It's sad to see sexual orientation being the first thing people jump to, it wrecks their lives and they don't really get help.
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" There is more than just Male and Female."
No, no there is not. You can talk about the spectrum, but that is different.
": When designing systems do not consider gender to be a fixed field for a person."
and if my system is to count the number of male and female to run projections of societal dynamics? How about determining gender specific medical needs? I could go on and on.
" BTW Slashdot will not allow for changing user names, i would like to keep my 5 digit it, but move away from my old masculine sounding username."
ah, another spoiled person claiming a made up minority status so you can changer what ever you want and have no consequences.
If you really had commitment a 5 digit id on a website where the ID has no meaning wouldn't matter to you. You just feel the need to be special.
Protip: You are not special, no one give a shit about you that doesn't actually know you.
You may identify with a different gender, but that doesn't change you gender and more then Identifying with a black person makes you black.
This is sloppy 70s pop psychiatry run amok.
To be clear: I don't care if you identify with another gender, I don't car if you want to dress, talk, and hang out with a different gender. DO so, have fun. I would be right their trying to stop anyone who would prevent you from doing those things.
Regardless of chemicals you take, or surgeries you under go; your gender does not change.
That doesn't excuse Windows 98SE and all succeeding versions of Windows up until Vista in 2009 having autorun turned on, or existing at all.
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I was saddened and embarrassed by my mis-type, but upon reading your post, I'm gonna stand by it.
Yes, it would be depressing indeed. But not unexpected.
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It lights up. It can be turned on and off and dimmed remotely That's where we were with X10 in the 1980s. It doesn't relay data around for other WiFi devices.
It has over-the-air firmware updates. Your smartphone doesn't really talk to the lamps. It talks to their "cloud server", to which the lamps phone home. What could possibly go wrong?
He doesn't have any.
I'll agree with him that *nix isn't immune, but most *nix malware has to do with Layer 8 vulnerabilities than anything else.
And there isn't any anti-malware for stupid except education.
That said, I can attest to the fact that Bagle runs just fine in Wine and is well behaved. But stuff like that is really rare.
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>The real problem came with Windows XP. By this time, recordable CDs (and, later, DVDs) were commonplace
No, CD-Rs were commonplace by the time Windows 98 came out. I think there were more burned copies of Windows 98 than there were official pressed ones at that time. The first "under $1000" CD-R drive was in 1995, and 3 years to "affordability by ordinary people" in electronics had become the norm even then.
Autorun from 1998 onward revived the spread of malware by removable media. Nobody was doing bootsector viruses on floppies anymore in 1998 because the number of people booting their machines with an OS floppy was minuscule. Autorun malware took the place of bootsector malware. It was so commonplace that it was recommended by everyone who knew anything about preventing the propagation of malware by pirated software that autorun be turned off.
In 1998.
Speaking of convenience, if a software install CDROM (you know, an official one) had an autorun.inf that didn't check to see if the software was already installed, the installer would start. If you merely wanted to pick a file off the CD, you had to cancel the install and open Explorer, rather than simply pop the disk in and browse the drive. This was even before the popularity of burned disks.
While you can say this was the publisher's fault, it illustrates the dubious value of autorun even as an installation "feature"
It took a full 10 years of autorun being a problem for it to be turned off in Vista instead of in a service pack or in 98SE and NT4. That shouldn't have happened, and autorun should now not even exist.
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Because they keep being screwed by things like this all the time and there is no rioting band of geeks with pitchforks and shovels and rakes (and implements of destruction
>autorun.inf
The most dangerous thing to ever come out of a computer company. That this feature made it past review demonstrates the utter disregard for the most basic security at all, especially since boot sector worms had been around for years in DOS and Win3.1 before Win95 ever graced us with its presence. Since Windows 95, it's been trivial to write auto executing code because Microsoft deliberately yanks down the pants and underwear of the end user and says "Go to it!"
The fact that autorun still exists in modern versions of Windows is even more telling. "Backwards compatability" is more important than keeping users safe. Yes, I know that it's turned off by default since Vista, but the option to turn it on should never be there in the first place. Autorun in The Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Twenty-Thousand-And-Thirteen is beyond the pale.
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> There are variations between the length of the elements, the space between the elements, the space between letters and words.
This does not make it analog.
If it did, then we would say that stuff piped down an RS232 cable is analog, but it isn't.
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> but I'm pretty sure they're analog machines
Nope. It's digital. Two states, dot and dash. You could do a 1 for 1 binary encode.
As a matter of fact, the analog telephone system was a hack of a digital system.
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Well, there's Nekomimi - cat ears controlled by brain waves. They recognize "relaxed", "alert", and "startled".
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard
