Often I am very proud of my male techie compatriots, today is not that day. You sound like petty thoughtless children, arguing as if this were a debate over the rules in some D&D game, rather than an attempted rape, that through pure luck and forthrightness the woman was able to escape. I'm not entirely sure why your first thought is to disbelieve and come up with reasons why it might not be true, regardless of the fact that her claim is more likely to cause her harm than good and her entire motivation is to make sure nobody else suffers the same fate. In fact I'd go as far as to say you'd be pretty foolish if you think she's likely to come out of this smelling like roses and go on to have an even more successful career because of it, you'll also be struggling to explain to me how a woman can manage to punch herself in the face and steal her own possessions. For the purposes of balance I went over to his blog to see what he had to say for himself, what did I find? No explanation of the events of the evening, which he described would be 'adding to the drama', but he did take the time to question her sanity, call her a liar, and suggest she has a mental disorder, rather than mentioning that he went to her room, he merely describes her as someone he just happened to be at the same conference as. On reading her recollection of the events of the evening they seem sensible straight forward and level headed, his blog post seems ranty, unhinged and smarmy. But to be honest I'm not sure why slashdot's first response is to take his word over hers especially when he has yet to actually give his word, you might want to seriously question why this is, you might discover something about yourself that you need to address. Sometimes people we thought we knew, turn out to be bad people, yes it's difficult, yes it's unnerving, but perhaps you should man up and face it, because when revelations of other incidents surface and they have already started to, you're going to feel pretty shitty that you were arguing pathetic pseudo legal points about how we can never know who did what to whom.

Yes I'd love to hear his side of the story, thing is he doesn't provide one, he simply calls her a lying crazy person, hardly an explanation of what happened from his perspective.

Far be it from me to expect you to have read the article, but she did go to the police, they weren't interested, her next resort was the conference organisers they decided because security footage showed her letting him into her room that meant nothing could have happened, So after this she resorts to her blog, They both have injuries from the struggle, he stole her possessions, lied about it and then they were subsequently found in his room, all of which you'd know if you'd I don't know read about it, but you instant leap to disbelieve her is admirable, it will serve you well in the future, good luck with that.

Oh yeah he gave her a warning first, that's great logic except for the fact that she did stop when he told her to, and then he had her arrested anyway.

I'm not saying that I like all my information shared, but if they know my favourite pizza the worst case scenario is they send me one, I will wipe away the tears as I eat it.

And you don't think the minute it started BP didn't arrange to have all this equipment to clean it up deployed, you know they did because if they hadn't it would be all over the news, instead the news focused on the fact that they hadn't plugged the leak, nobody was saying and they aren't cleaning it up.

I have done work with Allmaritim and trialed and tested their NOFI Oil Spill equipment equipment in New Zealand and this technology is neither new nor invented by Kevin Costner. It is very sophisticated equipment and has been around for a long time. Are we supposed to think that nobody has been working on oil spill tech until Kevin came on the scene and said "hey we should do something about this" we also do work with Slickbar another spill tech company http://www.allmaritim.com/ http://www.slickbar.com/ if you go to their websites you'll find their kit is being used in the gulf, the company Kevin has something to do with, make centrifuges, you've got to collect the oily water first before you can separate it. You take Kevin Costner out of the story and the story is about some kind of cool oil separating centrifuges, not Kevin rushing in to save us from the oil which, we had in the meantime, been twiddling our thumbs and staring at.

Who knew that many people could fit at McMurdo station.

What, are you some kind of play on words pundit?

My tablet PC cost $7000 But then you can run it over with a humvee, I'm guessing you can't even drop your $500 tablet pc. My Tablet would kick your tablet's ass.

You're absolutely right they don't have to pay $20 to make this technology safer, I think you'll fine a 2c rubber band around the passport will achieve the same thing.

I'm gad to see that Garry Winston at NURV has finally launched Synapse!

I have been using chrome for about 3 months now and I have to say I like it, the tab layout at the top is very conservative with your screen real estate and very intuitive. Why the home button is disabled by default I have no idea but once you turn that on, it works well, I love how it remembers the last 9 or so pages you have visited as thumbnails on the start page and how you can arrange folders full of bookmarks across the top. and they don't hog the screen when you move away to other pages. It really hated facebook before version 2 but I just checked version 2 and it has no issues so far, so I'm going to stick with Chrome. Firefox could take a leaf out of chromes book with the tab layout, it won't even let me hide all the menus bars that I want to. I know some people like to waste a whole inch of the top of their screen as they browse the web, but I think it's just crazy, especially if you have a widescreen which has a less than full height screen to begin with. I wish there was a shell replacement for explorer that looked like chrome so I could sort out my windows desktop the same way.

Hey, you think you have it bad with your lawnmower, what about all the people in New Zealand who have to pay road tax on the diesel for their motor boats which, correct me if I'm wrong, don't work on roads, only water. When we asked the govt. if they would refund us the tax money they gave us a funny look.