As well as his day job in which he achieved so much, Ross was also a skilled musician with research interests in early traditional music and did a huge amount to uncover material and connect it to the people who knew what to do with it. A sad loss.

Wind a massive export? Why isn't /. profitable, then?

Fuck me, I'd forgotten how fucking awful comments on this site are.

Oh well. It's been nice, Slashdot. But I think we're done.

Well that's nice, but good luck when it comes to you convincing me to hire you.

> Maybe coding is just something that attracts more men than women.

Or maybe coding is something that when women try to get involved they discover they are unwelcome. There's the one guy who's just a dick to women. There's one who hasn't washed since 2004. There's one who has to one-up everything she says. There's several who have to hit on her because she's the only woman they get to talk to.

>>> if men could get off (legally, cleanly and guilt free) whenever the had the urge

You should try this thing called masturbation. Might make you less inclined to spout total bullshit.

I think you mean a wascally wabbit.

I half agree with you. My opinion is that intelligence is in general not a useful evolutionary attribute and the fact we have it is simply dumb luck. In evolutionary terms, we're not much of a success; by mass, algae and amoebas are way ahead. We're more populous than monkeys, but then so are mice.

What part of "in part" did you struggle with? No, competition can't make real costs go away, but it can force providers to be more efficient.

Do you put this much effort into informing people about the specifics of real rape cases, which are vastly more common than false allegations?

Ah, you mean like Slashdot has always done?

Also, yes, I know it's only 13 seconds since I hit reply. When you're as awesome as me, you don't *need* more time.

No. You don't get to just make changes like that in that envirnoment. It's probably more likely to do with the fact the crusty old COBOL is running on several layers of emulation (really) because the hardware is generations old, and someone somewhere slipped a unicode character into the message stream, or something equally daft.

Just post in the damn thread already. How do people not know this?

What do you mean "lately"? It's always been shit. It's always been going downhill. The rot set in the day they introduced moderation. Or Katz. Or when it stopped being chips & dips.

Unemotional & rational, hah. Never seen such a bunch of overprivileged whiners with zero sense of proportion as this place.

Actually, historically default is quite common and not particularly harmful in the long term. Yes, over the near term it causes horrendous disruption but I have to say if I were Greece, having achieved a primary surplus I would be thinking very carefully about the medium to long term benefits of defaulting.