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Comment This past weekend, Walkman and 13 Y/O (Score 3, Insightful) 166

Over the weekend I had a birthday gathering for my child. One of the overnight camping guests was a 13 y/o boy. He brought his Walkman and huge collection of vintage tapes that were really my style of music. He gets his tapes from garage sales.

Although he also brought other electronic devices, he gave me hope for the next generation that they can still use other things as we did.

Comment Thank you, I'm now a Hubble customer! (Score 1) 325

As others have pointed out, this is a non story. I do wonder if the source of story is from somebody that has an interest in a different lens company.

I need different powers of contacts depending on what I'm doing that day. If I'm on a computer all day, there is a pair for that. If I'm going stargazing, there is a pair for that. If I'm walking in the woods hunting for shrooms, yup, another pair. Night? Completely different script too.

I have only found 1 optometrist that understood my need for dialing in lenses given the application. The problem was that their computer system wouldn't allow the different contact prescriptions. Sure, she gave me a paper copy, but I had to keep the paper copy, because their system wouldn't allow for the multiple 'scripts.

This company offers a service to me. Please let me decide what specifications I need for my eyes.

Comment Re:Another worthless SJW non-study. (Score 3, Insightful) 296

And the study notes that the success rate varies between states.

Here's the problem: the study, as far as I can tell, at no point actually gives the success rate, in any way. It only talks about the percentage of funded companies with women on the executive team. That's all. It then pretends that that percentage is some kind of proxy for a success rate, but it isn't. It could, in fact, be that all companies with women on the executive team that apply for funding get it (which would imply that VCs actually have a strong bias towards women-run companies), and there just aren't a lot of such companies. It could also be that very few such companies receive funding (which would imply the exact opposite, that VCs have strong anti-women biases). In other words: the study tells us exactly nothing about VC bias for or against women. And the study does make this claim: it says women are "shut out" of VC funding, but it in no way shows that.

Is there an available data-set of companies that attempted to gain funding and didn't, let alone their gender breakdown? I tried to start a company briefly and received no funding. It's not a formalized process, there wasn't a department of startups we had to get a license from. The only way you'd know it ever happened is if you talked to one of the four or five people involved in our pitch.

No, there probably isn't such a data set. You know how to fix that? You go out and you make the data set. That's what science is all about. It's not easy, but few things worth doing are.

Comment Requires W10 or El Capitan (Score 4, Informative) 55

I taught a Minecraft class last year at our school last year for 3rd-8th grade kids. They tolerated Minecraft EDU, but would rather just play on servers or in LAN world as a regular Minecraft Client.

They won't be having the class this year as the Education Edition requires them to upgrade their lab to Windows 10. They aren't going to do that and want linux in the classroom. Now that Education Edition requires W10 for both client/server, I no longer have any interest in the 'value add' of the EDU product.

I can almost appreciate the need for a W10 server, but requiring all clients to be on W10? No thanks.

Censorship

Reporters Without Borders Unblocks Access To Censored Websites 37

Mark Wilson writes Online censorship is rife. In many countries, notably China, citizens are prevented from accessing certain websites at the behest of their government. To help provide access to information and unbiased news, freedom of information organization Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors to nine censored websites so they can be accessed from 11 countries that blocked them. As part of Operation Collateral Freedom, Reporters Without Borders is mirroring the likes of The Tibet Post International which is blocked in China, and Gooya News which is blocked in Iran. Mirrored sites are hosted on Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers which are unlikely to be blocked by a censoring country.

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