I edited articles until the 'personalities' discovered them. I also removed from vandalism from a page once and was *accused* of posting that particular vandalism. I'm done there.

Commendable troll. Condescending and pedantic, and convincing enough that most people are taking it at face value. I salute you!

...until morale improves.

Can't be bothered?

Have you *used* anti-virus software lately? It takes over your computer and bogs everything down by scanning at irritating times, like every file access.

I don't use anti-virus software, except for the occasional one-off malware scan. I don't get viruses because I don't do stupid shit.

* I don't trust free downloads unless they're open source, or a google on "$SOFTWARE spyware" comes up clean.
* I don't browse porn (or anything else) on internet explorer.
* I don't browse porn with adblock turned off.
* I don't download stupid free desktop frills, like smileys and crap.
* I don't open obvious spam, even if it appears to be from my friends.
* When a webpage informs me that it has SCANNED MY COMPUTER and VIRUS DETECTED, I remember that I did not, in fact, install a virus scanner, and that the message is fake, and I do not have to install their special software to fix it. Instead, I close the web page.
* When doing p2p file-sharing, I use clients that are well known and spyware free.
* I don't put audio CDs into my machine when I'm running Windows, because they might install rootkits.
* I always click the "advanced" button when I install software, because that's where they hide the fact that they're installing a bunch of extra shit I don't want.
* Under no circumstances do I *ever* install Norton, which in my experience is far worse for performance than any virus.

This explains the corpse in the back of that lecture hall in the math building.

That's funny. That said, I feel the need to geek out a bit and point out that the phrasing there ("the average human"), suggests you're looking at the median as opposed to the mean, in which case it's not true at all. The median number of testicles is zero and the median number of (female) breasts is two. It would be more correct to say that the average number of breasts and testicles per person are each about one.

So at the office where I work, we used to have these meetings with my whole department (mostly a bunch of programmers and such). I noticed that pretty much everyone in the meeting except me had a mac laptop (I have a dell running Fedora). Anyway, one day I grabbed a sticky note and drew an apple logo on it with a marker, and underneath it wrote "Think different.", then put the sticky note over the Dell logo on my laptop. Anyway, about half way through the meeting, someone finally noticed, and asked me why I had the apple logo stickied to my laptop, and I replied:

"Because I wanted to think different, like everyone else."

5) Fake search traffic by loading sites with referrer spam.

I'm serious. Do a google search for "Bing referrer spam" and see how many results you come up with. My semi-popular website was getting Bing hits for really generic terms like "art" and "audio". The number of these fake hits eclipsed the number of legitimate Bing searches, by a factor of at least a hundred to one. Every single one of these hits came from a Microsoft IP address, and even more maddeningly, every single one of them sent a browser ID string of IE6, thus inflating my IE6 numbers (I've since stopped officially supporting IE6 on my site, although it's possible that it still works. I just don't care enough to check, as *real* IE6 usage is less than 2%).

tl;dr: in one fell swoop, Microsoft is spamming websites and making it look like both Bing and IE6 are being used far more than they actually are. Any numbers about Bing usage are suspect.

Evidence containers full of corn. :p

Unfortunately, this treaty isn't a left/right thing (ACTA originated under the Bush administration, and the Obama administration is carrying on with it). Almost universally, the public hates it and the government loves it (save for a few principled politicians on both sides).

I'm unabashedly liberal, and I believe that there are places where the government can do a lot of good. This is definitely not one of those times. Rather than pointing fingers at other voters, what we need to do as the American public is band together and fight this thing.

My statement doesn't prove his point at all. I was stating that there are plenty of demanding fields where women do just fine, which don't have the ridiculous gender gap that the FOSS community does. While I would agree with you that whiny people tend not to get very far, I would disagree with the assertion that this is a predominantly female trait. Things wouldn't magically improve if women in FOSS "just stopped whining," because that's not the problem. The *problem* is that they don't receive the same treatment.

Furthermore, if you treat women the same as you treat men, then you're not part of the problem; in this case, I would suggest that you become part of the solution by standing up to this sort of crap when you see it, rather than denying that it happens.

Your generalization utterly fails to take into account the fact that there are plenty of whiny douchebag men out there who want nothing but recognition and approval. You also fail to take into account the fact that there are many women out there who are quite capable of standing on their own in the face of adversity. Take medicine, for example. Medical residents are probably one of the most mentally abused groups of people out there. They are frequently disapproved of (and called incompetent, among other things) by their superiors, and somehow a lot of women still make it through and become doctors. In that case, though, the abuse is doled out pretty much equally between the sexes.

I don't find the mere mention of pornography to be sexist -- however, if female developers can't work with a group without being constantly hit on, asked on dates, flirted with, or otherwise weirded out, you can't really expect them to stick around. They're liable to go somewhere where they're treated with equal respect, and I can't blame them.