Posts by Craigness

Re: Depends...on when people noticed the debate...

1. The journalist never wrote a review of the game;

The journalist gave positive coverage to the game on numerous occasions. That was the claim, and it is true.

3...gamergaters' vitriol was directed at ZQ and other women involved in the games industry;

Simply false. The conversation was about the ethical issues stemming from the ZQ revelations. It was re-cast as harassment by an unethical media afraid of losing its power. Talking *about* someone is not harassment.

4 I've got no idea whether ZQ and NG ever did have a relationship...

Then you don't know what you're talking about. The relationship is well documented.

Re: Don't worry, be happy.

He doesn't have to do everything people ask him to, and the brand is his own. If the MPL didn't give him control over the binaries which constitute his branded product, he would have the option, as per Q21 in the FAQ, to rewrite the MPL in order to allow him to do what he wants, and release the changed MPL with the name "MPL" and with Mozilla branding. So basically you can't win!

Is this really so bad...

"I don't want you to build my browser yourself and then distribute the resulting binaries with official branding"

"If you want to distribute a Pale Moon based browser through F-Droid, you're free to build your own binaries from source as per the concept of Open Source software, just don't build anything with official branding."

Re: SJW employee review

@hollerith our local labour party had their preferred election candidate kicked out for being male. The whole point of diversity is to have fewer white men doing things white men have traditionally done. They can't achieve that without discriminating against white men.

Re: Shock, surprise .. NOT!

Women have been encouraged by a decades long campaign to get them more interested. Now they're at 20% and retention is a problem, because when it comes down to it, they're not that interested. I don't know if you've noticed lately, but women get praise heaped upon them just for turning up, whereas men get told they're awful when women _don't_ turn up. The sexism in IT is towards men.

When teaching decides to call itself sexist and seek more men, I'll reconsider my opinion that the campaign to get more women in STEM is simply anti-male bigotry masquerading as some form of equality.

Re: Why is...

"Diversity can lead to more diverse ideas."

They're not aiming for a diversity of ideas, they want diversity in skin tone, genitalia and who people sleep with. They're fine with everyone thinking exactly the same way. If you think diversity of skin tone is irrelevant then you're diverse. And they'll sack you for it.

Re: That's why we need to split up the market into hard- and software

Why not get rid of the software market and make OEMs put their own software on? It works well for Apple. Samnix, anyone?

Re: Please correct me if I'm wrong...

Apparently it's opt-in and downloaded after the browser is installed. So you have as much right to the software as you would to any other binaries you opt to download after installing your browser.

Re: for the benefit of women

@corinne I'm just pointing out the bias in the system. Can you imagine a situation where a politician proposes something on the basis that it will be good for men?

Of course women need time off, but the point is that men only have time off because it helps women. And women have time off because it helps women. Sure, women prefer to marry a man who earns more than them, and this means they get to be the one who gives up work. So what's your point? Are you suggesting this represents men having a choice to leave work?

@Doctor Syntax "What part of the words "open" and "rare" did you not understand?"

What part of "choice" do you not understand? If only one person can have something, the person who has first choice has an actual choice. The next person in line does not really have a choice. And it is usually the man who is second in line for the "choice" to leave work.

When a man (braver than me) says to his wife "no, dear! I will not let you stay at home, I choose to do that and you will have to go to work and support me", his wife still has the choice to stay home and have him support her, because the family courts and social conventions are on her side.

Re: Statistics, etc.

"In terms of hourly pay, yes. In terms of effective income for work performed, on the other hand..."

If someone does more unpaid work because their spouse does more paid work then the comparison is meaningless. It would make more sense to take the family as an economic unit with work divided according to the skills and desires of the family members, and measure inequality by measuring how much each member spends on themselves. For example, if women earn 80% of what men earn but spend 150% of what men spend, where should government focus its policies in order to achieve equality?

Re: Statistics, etc.

Corinne,

Yes, women spend more of a family's disposable income than men do. That's why advertising is aimed at women and most of the men in adverts are idiots whereas the women are calm and in control almost every time. It's also why a shop's women's section is near the front door.

Re: fathers making more than non-fathers

2 upvotes for misandry...on fathers' day?! The reason fathers work more is that they have more people dependant on them. This is HOW they care both for their children and their wives.

Re: Statistics, etc.

If I have a larger house and garden than my co-worker, and a car instead of a bicycle, and I live a 20 minute drive from the supermarket whereas he lives a 5-minute walk away, should I be paid more? Or should the time I spend cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, washing the car and going shopping UNPAID (how unfair!) not be included in any analysis of whether our employer treats us equally?

The reason unpaid labour is included is to promote the idea that women are discriminated against. Men actually do slightly more work, but women do a greater proportion of the unpaid work, so you can discover sexism by including that. If you look at the spending gap you'll see oppression of men on a huge scale, so nobody ever looks at that. Social scientists have made it their job to find sexism only against women.

Also, note that the unpaid work gap is only present in family environments. Where people live single lives the unpaid work is equal. It is only when they get married that women meet this new wall of misogyny! So this is proof that marriage is oppressive to women. End the family! But it is in family environments where the ugly misandry of the spending gap rears its head. And we don't talk about that (probably because we live in a patriarchy and male power prevents discussion of oppression in any form that is not male, or something).

Re: Something missing

So we pay more for jobs which involve danger and discomfort. And women are not prevented from doing these jobs, nor are men prevented from entering the more stable, comfortable jobs. Yet men and women make different choices! It's like women are buying a more comfortable job whereas men just go for the money and put up with the discomfort! I'm sure the sexism in that situation is solely against women, of course. It's not that in our gynocentric society men are encouraged to forgo the comforts that women seek, in order to better provide for those women, nothing like that.

"and it downloads mysterious executable binary blobs"

It's not a mystery though. It's the Hotword search so it's pretty clear and un-mysterious what it's doing.

Compare

"Compare and contrast with the competition"

In Google's case you can develop and release extensions for free outside the Chrome Web Store but there are no automatic updates. How's that a contrast?

The exception is that Chrome on Windows will disable and then prompt you to re-enable any extensions from outside the web store each time you restart the browser. How does Safari for Windows handle it?

Re: Grace period on Google cloud storage

That's what apparently happens with paid accounts. For the free space what's meant to happen is that you can't upload any more files, but can access everything you already have. Once you delete a file, you can't re-use the space.

Re: That keyboard layout ...

Other (older?) MBA keyboards have symbols for Shift, Tab, delete etc whereas the one you linked to uses words. So whether Chromebooks use words or symbols, they are copying Apple. Similarly, Apple has at times gone with 2 keys to the left of the Z but there is 1 key on the model you linked to. And they have used 2 different orientations for the Enter key. Chromebooks are ripping off their design nomatter what they do!

On the other hand, Toshiba's touchpad has square corners at the bottom and rounded at the top, the MBA has rounded all round. The MBA has 4 keys to the left of the spacebar whereas the Chromebook has 2, Chromebook has no Caps Lock, the brightness controls are in a different place, there are no f1-f10 keys on a Chromebook, it has Backspace instead of delete... But it does have ABC- all the way to Z, which Apple has been using for decades (we can ignore that Apple uses upper-case whereas Toshiba uses lower-case). Definite copy!

Re: Even worse

That would help some of the 38% of Koreans. And Londoners, Parisians, Romans, Dubliners, Los Angelinos,......

Re: Spell it phonetically

"Why does the answer even have to relate to the question?"

My father's middle name has 200 bits of entropy, constantly changes, and is stored in my password manager.

Why would a company want customers who are likely to forget their password anyway?

Re: Anon CVs

The "problem" is not sexism (against non-males), it is that the male brain is more inclined to be interested in the sort of thing Google needs people to be interested in. By ignoring that, they are actively promoting sexism against the group most likely to want to work for them.

Publishing is 75% female. Any complaints? Teaching is 80% female. Do they need anonymous recruiting policies? Medical students are 70% female. Great News! Undergraduates are 60% female. You Go Girl! Software is 75% male. HOLD EVERYTHING AND HELP THE WOMENS!!1! Men are complaining about sexism? Shut up manbaby!

Re: Choices? Who needs choices?!

I'd like to see a Venn diagram of "people who think all 3rd party applications should be able to install drivers and rootkits, read any file and connect to the internet silently" and "people who don't trust their data in the cloud".