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Comment Re:Variance is the key (Score 1) 928

Although [men and women] are on average the same, the people at the very top and the very bottom of the IQ bell curve are more likely to be men.

This is wrong. What the article intends to say is that people at the very ends of the bell curve are more likely to be men. People at the top are more likely to be women.

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Of course, there's more very stupid men, which is reflected in crime rates etc.

This is oversimplified. I wouldn't be surprised if even more intelligent men commit more crimes than average-intelligent women, since crime rates are associated with a bunch of other factors like aggression.

Comment Why bother with Windows... (Score 1) 324

Instead of installing Cygwin, my former flatmate made a bunch of .bat scripts that mimicked ls, cat, etc. to some extent. In my eyes it was a bit silly, but every time I make a switch between Linux and Windows XP, I want to hug XP's graphical interface. I hate X11's paste buffers and its incessantly overconfigurable window management systems. You can call me "raised in the 1990s", but I just find those grey menus comforting. And the damn fakers at the other side of the pond can never get the pixels right in those XP look-alike themes for Metacity. Yours faithfully

Comment Re:NNTP (Score 1) 265

Whenever I've had to set up a forum on the 'net for some specific purpose, it always crosses my mind "Why don't I just set up NNTP, and then people can either use their own readers or a custom web interface?" and I always quit the idea once I realise how terrible the available UNIX implementations of nntpd are. It's a real pity.
Censorship

Submission + - Turkey Censors YouTube

FM Reader writes: "After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order."
Movies

Submission + - Alex Guinness's Star Wars Cloak sold for &poun

dws90 writes: The cloak worn by Sir Alex Guinness when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars original trilogy has been sold at a TV and Cinema auction. The cloak sold for £54,000, which is about $103,923 according to Google calculator. According to the article, the cloak was missing for nearly 30 years, during which it was rented out to a number of other films, including the Mummy. It was found two years ago, and has been part of a film memorabilia exhibition in London since then. The cloak sold for more than any of the other movie costumes the article listed, beating out Sean Connery's dinner jacket from Thunderball and a helmet worn by Terry Jones in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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