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Comment Re:Not malicious but not honest? (Score 1) 447

To a certain extent, you're right, but open source lives and breaths on its reputation, and I'm fairly certain that the coders behind OpenSSL are employed somewhere in their capacity to actually write code. I'm not certain that they're necessarily employed to write OpenSSL code, but it wouldn't surprise me. On top of that, many employers of open source developers often offer paid support for what their employees are coding up.

And so to the extent of their reputation, and any paid support provided, they will be held to account.

Comment Re:I think this is bullshit (Score 1) 1746

Did he mention anywhere that he's apologized for what he did?

Did he mention anywhere that he's changed his position?

Did mention anywhere that he would try to make up for what he did in the past?

I'm pretty sure he didn't do any of that. Sure, he said that Mozilla would continue to be inclusive, but he said nothing about his own views.

Comment Re:Bubble sort (Score 1) 195

Yeah, but bubbles are messy, but they are fun, but it's so hard to get them in order with them floating around, and people popping them. That's the worst. Just once I have them all in order, someone goes and pops one of them. I could never figure out where to put the bubbles that have another bubble inside them.

Comment Re:Something must go (Score 4, Insightful) 180

The difference is that we don't know what these particular particles will do to our bodies yet, and this was something rather unanticipated with 3d printers. Ultimately more research needs to be done, and it may well turn out that these particles are harmless, but considering that we don't know much about their interactions with our biology, it's best to assume the worst until we know better.

With cooking, candles, etc., we've been doing it for so long that we can probably safely assume that the resulting particles aren't causing any significant harm.

Comment Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either (Score 1) 737

Feminist objection to this has nothing to do with them being sexy. It has to do with them being objectified, which means being denied agency. In other words, their primary role is there to look sexy to promote a product--of which they likely have not been trained on because they are only expected to bring in attention. They are denied their humanity beyond being sexy.

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