FeministHacker
(The source, http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/on-claiming-to..., isn't entirely relevent, although it's conculsion is)
Lighten up, I didn't mean it, I didn't intend to upset you, so it must be ok!
The same thing is in effect here, basically. A bot with a very limited purpose is being seen as causing significantly greater disruption.
[Also, I couldn't let this comment thread go without this nick getting an outing ;)]
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 performance - 22x in 1/4th the size
Given that it's then a quarter of the size of system X, that's an amazing increase in peak performance.
There's only one problem - that speed increase appears to owe a lot to the use of GPGPU. As I understand it, whilst research into GPGPU for HPC* is a hot area at the moment, the scale of the actual benefits it offers is still a matter of debate (especially when considering costs and power consumption).
The highest cost for supercomputers isn't the raw hardware - it's the power consumption. This also includes the cooling needs of a large cluster. Over the lifespan of a cluster, these will add up to a significant multiple of their base cost.
* of course, this may not be the ideal way to provide access to these services
These sorts of customers are not, however, automatically "stupid customers". They are "difficult" or "non-profitable". In my experience, a user simply being "stupid" doesn't in itself mean that you shouldn't work with them - in fact, often with a little bit of work, they might even become a reasonable repeat customer.
Like a lot of people who have had customer facing roles, I have enjoyed reading notalwaysright (and the older http://customerssuck.livejournal.com/). But I have found over time the postings to have become more deliberate funny-making or actually problematic from an equality point of view.
If I recall correctly, Wurm Online directly owes it's existance to RuneScape, a Fantasy MMO with skills instead of classes, and a strong crafting system. RuneScape started originally as a project to recreate Utima Online in java.Ultima Online has a crafting system, player housing, skills instead of classes, and is the second-oldest MMO, and the first that most people would recognise as such.
Ultima Online is closer to a MUSH or MOO, unlike most modern MMORPGS. On the whole they follow a similar style of game as designed in DikuMUD, one of the most popular MUD engines.
As far as I am aware, there are few major competitors to Ulima Online and RuneScape. The DikuMUD model of classes and limited interaction with the world is far similar to develop and market (see World of Warcraft et al). Yet MineCraft's appeal clearly shows there is a huge demand for something else.
Even if changing name was an option, there are many means to link an old name to a new one. Many organisations keep both on file, even when they shouldn't. And combining public records with statistics can show that someone still is the same person.
Although to be fair, firefox isn't too happy with that workflow, either - but I blame that partially on flash and javascript.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/laptop_securit...
* Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
And as for photos, it's harder to tell than you think from a static photo, as a lot of gender presentation comes from body language. Speaking of which, photos only give you gender presentation - which can be quite different to someone's self-dentified gender.
I'll have another stab later if I have time - My gender is currently busy.
On matters like forced revealing of gender, my gender is rage.
I'm in the process of trying to convince an genderfork academic I'm friends with to actually put a 20 marks question on an exam "what is your gender?".
If you read through lulzsec's twitter, they entered a petty dispute with someone who hung out on a channel on the 2600 irc server. So they DDoSed 2600 as a whole and began to issue posturing tweets towards 2600.
In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to know about 2600 and hold it in some regard, unlike those younger than 25. Hence, it was pretty clear that lulzsec was comprised of under 25 year olds.
They also engaged in some very unlulz-y personal wars with a few people, and didn't quite seem to know limits - very much a young person trying to prove themselves too hard sort of thing.
Similarly, they hacked a number of British sites, and something about their use of langauge sounded to me, as an former forum moderator, to be rather British. 2600 is also less well known over here.
None of the others really cover the main problem you're aiming to fix, and you don't sound like you are excited about the task they exist to help with.
You don't have to be personally invested in a problem to build a winnning application solving it. But you need to have became excited by the possibily that you could solve it - that suddenly, you will be making someone's life better. Withouth this, you'll just repeat the existing mistakes with what's on the market.
(As far as I can gather, someone they were [potentially rightfully] in a dispute with used the 2600 irc servers. Go figure...)
But it's also "ironic racism". Whilst this is problematic from a minority rights campaigner point of view, when in a group of friends who understand that it's "ironic racism" it serves to bind the group and to stand up against racism, in it's own ironic little way.
TL;DR: Just because you laughed doesn't make you a bad person :P
I'm a [person] who wants to create thoughtful moments for my [Significant Other].
Not hard to add, and there are lots of good reasons to include non-gendered options.
I am privileged in some ways, and not in others. Generally privileges are treated as being different and hard to compare, because "oppression olympics" (arguing some are more harmful than others) never actually helps the discussion, and generally leads to people forgetting to check their privileges - who am I to speak for the experiences of other minorities?
The fact that you act amused at "not-abused" as a privilege is part of the whole problem, especially when you consider how this intersects with with privilege (or lack thereof) issues.
The concept of intersections between privileges (or the lack thereof) is important - that some combinations of the effects of a privileged society are worse than others.
The issue is not the raw numbers, but the pychological problem - that people like you are not in power, or not as equally holding power. That you are not of the type of people who have power.
And yes, there are other privileges, like White privilege, middle/upper-class privilege, straight privilege, cis privilege, not-abused privilege, and so on. These intersect to cause more issues again.