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Cory Doctrow has more about the horror that is UEFI a standard that Microsoft has negitoated with a bunch of hardware vendors that basically translates to If you ain't running a Microsoft Certified Operating System, you ain't running, no way, no how . A quiet announcement from the Fedora Linux community signals a titanic shift in the way that the computer market will work from now on, and a major threat to free/open operating systems. Microsoft and several PC vendors have teamed up to ensure that only operating systems bearing Microsoft's cryptographic signature will be able to boot on their hardware, meaning that unless Microsoft has blessed your favorite flavor of GNU/Linux or BSD, you won't be able to just install it on your machine, or boot to it from a USB stick or CD to try it out. There is a work-around for some systems involving a finicky and highly technical override process, but all that means is that installing proprietary software is easy an...

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To be precise, Schlong size is rarely evidence of operational efficiency Huh? What? Are we talking about pr0n here? Actually, no, we're talking about conflict resolution in a business setting, which inevitably tend to tun to rams butting heads, stags locking horns, etc. etc. Many (all?) of these invariably end up as some variation of "I am correct because "  Look at my resume. I was doing this back when you wore diapers See these gray hairs? Thats experience! The boss is my poker buddy. etc. etc. Corollary 1 The moment this argument is made, all sides lose. On the face of it, "I am correct because, well, Look how well endowed I am!" - is an argument whose essential ridiculousness is pretty immediately apparent once it is called out.  I mean, seriously, is this where we want to be? Not exactly the most effective determinant, eh? The problem, however, is that at best you can hope to try and match sizes, and at worst, well, you already a...

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Shes got an article up on Bloomberg where she basically sez. " If your workplace discriminates, its basically being 'creative' and 'promoting growth '" Check out these gems Over the years, creative rebels have often behaved poorly in their creative workplaces. Do most of us approve? Hardly. Nobody likes, say, the way the great creator of   Apple Inc. (AAPL) , Steve Jobs , treated many colleagues. Riiight.  So if Apple instituted a policy saying " Front-office jobs to be done only by the Swedish Bikini Team ", thats OK right?  They're just being "creative rebels"? Her action may reduce the very kind of access she enjoyed for those who followed her. Setting Kleiner Perkins aside, consider the rest of the sector. Human-resources specialists aren’t idiots. They see how much Pao, still merely alleging, is costing a firm such as Kleiner Perkins: time, image and distraction from its main work, finding value. Other businesses will work...

The point behind the title isn't So what? , but more of a Why do I say that? And the answer is - because thats what the data are showing. Jordan Weissmann at The Atlantic summarizes a couple of annual report s releases by the National Center for Education Statistics to come up with the following chart The key points from the above? Starting 1995, more women have graduated w/ Bachelor's degrees than men.  Or, to cast this slightly differently, this has been going on for the last 17 years (and counting) The trend lines have been dominated by women since 1975, i.e., At best , the increase in the percentage of men getting degrees is the same as for women (and its usually worse!) The bottom line here is that at some point in the future, a significant majority of the - educated - workforce will be women.  I suspect this may finally take care of the gender pay gap (23%!).

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