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"it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and unchanging and incapable. It’s patriarchy that says men have animalistic instincts and just can’t stop themselves from …

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/ Lighten up, I didn't mean it, I didn't intend to upset you, so it must be ok!

I don't have the reference to hand, but it's worth noting that when women use only 20% of conversation time, they are perceived by a group to be dominating the discussion. The same…

Whilst on a small scale they are very random, there are some good studies (sadly I don't have the references with me) that show that over large areas, they actually become quite pr…

The management-heavy buying process still applies, however - as support and service contracts become extremely important for large organisations, and are essential to their operati…

It's great to see that I'm not the only one who likes to use this approach! :) That is probably the best example of this tactic I've seen, very well written. [Also, I couldn't let …

A bit of engineer's rough estimating: System was built in 2003 - 8 years ago. Assume moore's law of doubles every 2 years - expectation of 16x more powerful Actual increase in perf…

Whilst your average person at home may not be able to fork out $1.4M, this is in the afordable range of many medium to large businesses, and opens up access to private compute clus…

This is a personal favourite of mine, and actually one of the key moments in me and my girlfriend hooking up, strangely enough

I am of the opinion that businesses are defined by how they handle the exit of customers more than by how they handle take-on of customers. A customer being difficult to manage or …

What I find interesting is the ultimate heratage of MineCraft: If I recall correctly, Wurm Online directly owes it's existance to RuneScape, a Fantasy MMO with skills instead of cl…

1 to 3 of your above list are about determining and uderstanding, not influencing. Sure, ultimately this would be about influencing, but you can't really do that without the former…

Changing your name is not an option for many people: 1) In many parts of the world, this is a complex process in and of itself. Often you need to petition a court, and to place not…

Likewise. I typically keep open a large number of tabs, opening a pile of links at once and then going through them during the working day. At any one time, I tend to have a hundre…

On 3, Bruce Schneier has the following advice, which seems a little more sensible than wiping your devices in all cases: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/laptop_securi…

Somewhere buried at home I have an old Cobol programming book, talking about how, as a programmer, typing was beneith you. Instead you were instructed to write neatly on cards and …

The problem with this is that it reflects the issues with our society more than people's genders. Having a reasonable education and writing about STEM* tends to make anyone male, a…

There are more names than you realise that give away little about gender, or are used by people across the gender spectrum. For example, Alex, Sam, Rowan, Raven, and Kim. And as fo…

To be fair, it actually is hard to parse - I'm re-reading it, and trying to work out how to word it better, but the fact that I'm actually using a freeform gender, and the academic…

The range of answers you get when you give a free text entry field is wonderful, and proves why this is the best route. On matters like forced revealing of gender, my gender is rag…

Sorry, I should have been more specific on this point - I was on my original draft, and I forgot to put it back in. If you read through lulzsec's twitter, they entered a petty disp…

after much deliberation, the typo has been corrected :P Clearly my regular keyboard is showing solidarity with the issues I have been having with swype on my phone today :P

19 years old & English - this was kind of obvious, really. In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to know about 2600 and hold…

None of them. The only suggestion listed that you seemed vested in was away notes, so do that one if any. None of the others really cover the main problem you're aiming to fix, and…

Unfortunately for LulzSec, they lost any respect I could have had for them when they went after 2600 (As far as I can gather, someone they were [potentially rightfully] in a disput…