I _READ_ the memo, and nowhere did it claim to explain why more women are not engineers. It did suggest that a number of possible reasons, including inherent gender differences, had not been ruled out by any scholarly study. Not quite the same thing.

If I wanted to smuggle 16GB of data into the UK the easiest way I could imagine would be to copy it on to my phone and fly it there on the a plane.

Is it an instant messaging problem or a contact management problem?

Bullshit there. Megaupload removed every link to infringing material where notice was given that it was infringing copyright in accordance with the DMCA. They were in fact very careful to comply with the DMCA. What they didn't do was remove links to the same material that weren't in the notice.

Megaupload hashed every file and if more than one person uploaded the same file, they only stored it once and linked both accounts to the same file. So their approach makes sense - if Peter and Paul both upload the same file and Peter is violating copyright it doesn't mean Paul is also (he may even be the creator.)

In real life of course there are often many violators posting the same file, and Megaupload were well aware that piracy was a huge driver of their success. Nevertheless, your statement is factually incorrect.

I've always suspected that line was bullsh*t. Moving parts on the phone may have just cost more in fixes under warranty.

My favourite used to be, "Eight Mb And Constantly Swapping." Now guess how old that joke is...

Today it's a warning.

Comodo have facebook pages, twitter, accounts, contact forms on their website and email addresses. Go and tell them what you think of this.

All the people who lost correlation vs. causation arguments voted ad hominem atack

It is opinion.

I do not claim it is wrong.

I am not denigrating the author.

It is, however, just an opinion published on someone's blog. Hence the disclaimer (if you read all the way to the bottom.)

Slashdot is supposed to publish news for nerds, and this is not that.

I just find myself wondering what a philosopher looks like when he's in three separate parts..

Has anyone ever told these people that someone somewhere up the line has to pay for them to f*** about? I'd like to build you a house. I don't know yet how big it's going to be, because I haven't designed it yet. I don't know how long it's going to take to build it. I want you to pay me an indeterminate sum of money for it... And I want you to pay for it before you get it. In fact I want you to start paying me now, and keep paying every month until it's done. I'll tell you when it's done. Who wants to buy my house?

Really a poll without Trump? I bet Donald Trump would pay well for that...

You're going to get a fairly poisson-shaped distribution of heavy to light people forward to back, left to right, etc. With the number of flights we have in the world today, there are going to be times when the weight distribution in a plane is accidentally very unbalanced. The airlines need to be able to weigh individual people if they want to be deterministic about that.

The most expensive part of a car is the driver.
As soon as self-driving cars become practical, taxis will become cheaper than owning your own car.
If you think Uber is shaking up the industry now, it's nothing on what's coming when taxi companies don't need taxi drivers.