Danger Stevens - Slashdot User

Comment Re:ask a lawyer (Score 2, Insightful) 778

by Danger Stevens on Monday November 12, 2007 @01:06PM (#21324925) Attached to: Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment?

Then maybe people should just stop assuming and write in a gender-neutral way.
Maybe people should just realize that "he" is the gender-neutral pronoun in English! All you dipshits butchering the language in the name of "political-correctness" can kiss my ass!

"They" is the modern gender-neutral 3rd person singular pronoun in American English. You're thinking of the 'Universal He' which is a poetic device of referring to mankind as 'He'.

To be gender neutral you can't just assume they're male. And any woman who is willing to endure the sexism and bullish male majority online deserves plenty of respect.

[Credentials: B.A. in Linguistics]

New Data Transmission Speed Record 262

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday March 26, 2006 @02:32AM from the sixty-dvd-minus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmag is reporting that a team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. From the article: "By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower."

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