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I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic.

"the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991."
That looks like an increase in female representation to me.

"In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. "
Another increase!

"By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent."
Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do.

And the cincher:
"Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. "
"At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago."
I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.

I refuse to be marginalized as an unsuccessful woman by some fucking CS *professor* who can't even do arithmetic. "the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female...The year was 1991." That looks like an increase in female representation to me. "In 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. " Another increase! "By 2004-5, the number had declined to only 22 percent." Call me a cynic, but getting out of the major in the early 2000s was a pretty cagey thing to do. And the cincher: "Twenty-five years ago, more young women in colleges and universities were drawn to computer science than today. From 1971 to 1983, incoming freshman women who declared an intention to major in computer science jumped eightfold, to 4 percent from about 0.5 percent. " "At least we know one thing: it's possible to have about the same number of men and women in computer science classes. That just about describes classrooms of 25 years ago." I'm just a stupid girl who knows jack about programming, so he must be right that 4% is close to half.

IANAL, but the guy who stole the data could be facing a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations alone if he released the prescription information attached to the patients' names and SSNs. This information is protected by the U.S. federal government, and rightly so, imo. Of course, it looks like Express Scripts would only be on the hook for up to $25,000 for disclosing the information, if an investigation determines that they weren't protecting it adequately. A far shot shy of a million. Meh. This is just a lot of words to say that I'll keep my privacy where I can, thank you very much, and I'm glad some of it is still protected at the federal level.