Trip Airlines says in a Tuesday statement the pilot ejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman. The jet continued on to the state of Goias after a one-hour delay.

Trip says it won’t tolerate disparaging remarks made about any of the 1,400 women working for the airline.

We were talking about guilt. She feels incredibly guilty for my childhood, as does my father, in his way (what he says is that he feels bad for what I made them do).

I told her that guilt is supposed to be a transient emotion; we are meant, in my experience, to suffer guilt for an action, consider the action, learn from our mistakes and amend our behavior.

She looked at me sadly and said no. Guilt, she said, is a punishment from god that we cannot escape and must only live with. I wanted to scream when she said it; the guilt she lives with is crippling, awful.

Some of us want to be able to release high-definition video (possibly even 3D) without evil copy protection schemes. I've been avoiding Blu-Ray as a consumer since it came out, mostly because Richard Stallman said it has an evil and oppressive DRM scheme. After my first serious investigation, I can confirm his opinion, and frankly, it's a pretty bleak situation. What can we do about it? Here's five ideas for how we might release high definition video.

The Harry Potter e-books are DRM-free. ”Obviously there were fears piracy would increase as a result of being DRM-free, and that sales of the e-books would cannibalize sales of the physical titles,” Redmayne told The Bookseller, “but we were delighted to see sales of the physical books go up, and piracy come down.” He also said that “though there had been an increase in piracy immediately after launch, the community had rejected these illegal versions because of how the e-books were brought to market.”

However you look at it, TPP seems to be in serious trouble. Coupled with the withdrawal of SOPA, and the possible rejection of ACTA, this represents a string of setbacks for copyright and patent maximalism that a year ago would have seemed impossible.

Of even more concern, however , is the sudden questioning by the Chileans of the value of the deal as presently being constituted. Chile had been considered a slam dunk supporter. So its raising of questions is a red flag danger signal. Beyond that it seems that the Malaysians are also questioning whether any benefits they may be getting are worth the trouble of further liberalization of their domestic economy. And just to put the icing on the cake, it is becoming ever clearer that the Vietnamese, whose economy resembles that of China with large segments controlled by state owned companies, are going to have great difficulty in actually meeting the high standards being proposed.

Now the market is full of razors with 3 or even 4 blades, mounted on cartridges so large they can barely shave in the tight space between the nose and upper lip. Ah, but aren’t 4 blades four times better than 1 blade?

If you think so, then you’ve drunk the Kool-Aid. In fact, the redundant blades lead to in-grown hairs, since the first blade lifts the hair up for the second blade to cut it, such that the tip of the hair retreats back beneath the skin surface. As it grows, it turns back into the skin, leading to in-grown hairs.

Just let me thumbs up something, without forcing me to “upgrade” to G+, you dickheads.

The worst part of this? For a producer like me, I’m going to lose a crapton of potential upvotes for Tabletop, because the core of my audience is tech-savvy and may not want to “upgrade” to yet another fucking social network they don’t want or need.

Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free.

“Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.”

We found that your app provides access to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

Specifically, your app enables to user to create accounts with Dropbox and Google.'

The sole organisation to publicly reveal any information about the talks has been iiNet. Recently, the ISP’s regulatory chief Steve Dalby posted comments on Delimiter stating that there was a “massive” gap in the talks between what the ISP and content industries wanted. “Most, if not all of the discussions over the years have been conducted between the rights holders and the ISPs,” he said. “These have been fruitless. The rights holders want all the benefits of remedial action, but want the ISPs to foot the bill. ISPs don’t want to pay to protect the rights of third parties. The gap between the parties is considerable and unlikely to close.”

Does this mean that we must therefore bow to elephants, that we must validate someone's opinion even when they live in a fantasy? No, of course not. The point is only that it mightn't be enough to appeal to rationality - even if you happen to be right or have the facts on your side.

The trouble began when civil servant Alexander Aan posted a message on the Facebook page of Atheist Minang, a group of Indonesians with godless beliefs. It read: “God doesn’t exist.”

The post so enraged residents in Aan’s hometown of Pulau Punjung in West Sumatra province that an angry mob of dozens stormed his office and beat up the 30-year-old.

To add insult to injury, police then arrested him and now want to press blasphemy charges that could see him locked up for five years.

The EU Court of justice has just ruled in SAS v. WPL, that you can't copyright a computer language or computer functionality.

How refreshing. That's how it's supposed to be in the US, too, although Oracle is trying to spread copyright further than it has traditionally gone, to cover the structure, sequence and organization of APIs.

A church billboard proclaiming that "Jesus Heals Cancer" has breached New Zealand advertising standards by suggesting the church can offer something other churches cannot, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

Very often recently I find myself explaining why Postgres is so great. In an effort to save myself a bit of time in repeating this, I though it best to consolidate why Postgres is so great and dispel some of the historical arguments against it.

Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend.

Not a single Arab country ranks in the top 100 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, putting the region as a whole solidly at the planet's rock bottom. Poor or rich, we all hate our women.

A girl is ready to marry at 10 or 12 years of age according to Islam, London-based Al Hayat reported Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh as saying, adding that Islamic law is not repressive to women.

"Those who call for raising the age of marriage to 25 are absolutely mistaken,"Al Sheikh said in a lecture at the faculty of Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.

He added: "Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12. Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age."

While the sect bars other Muslims from its mosques, it sees itself as more liberal, treating men and women equally in matters of education and marriage.

The community's insistence on "Khatna" (the excision of the clitoris) also sets it apart from others on the subcontinent.

"If other Muslims are not doing it then why are we following it?" Bano says.

We now know a little more about the Netscape patents that Microsoft bought from AOL. It’s believed that the patents that Microsoft either bought outright or acquired a license for over a billion bucks include essential Web technologies.

So, should we be worried that Microsoft now owns the intellectual property rights to so many Web fundamental patents?

TapLogger works by using a device's motion sensors to record subtle real-time changes of orientation as a user enters numbers to release a phone's screenlock, dial a phone number, or provide a social security number during a call to a health-insurance service center. By logging the precise changes along three dimensions—azimuth, pitch, and roll—the trojan makes educated guesses about the touchscreen regions that were tapped to generate the orientation changes. TapLogger then maps those regions to the user interface of the screenlock or dial pad of a specific Android phone.

Ms Sandler is a lawyer, a programmer and a passionate advocate of open source software. That ideological bent meant she was keen to find out about the computer code running on any device that might be inserted in her body.

Unfortunately, she told the BBC, the implant's maker would not reveal its software. Its reassurances about the code's integrity did not help.

"Knowing what I know about software I'm sure it'll have bugs," she said.

A group of LibreOffice developers have added experimental collaborative editing capabilities to the open source office suite. The feature allows multiple users to work on the same document simultaneously over the Internet. The collaborative editing functionality was implemented by grafting Telepathy to LibreOffice.

There are three obvious classes of randomness: things about the particular machine we’re on, things about the particular boot of the machine we’re on, and things which will vary every time we ask.

The new subsidiary is another evolutionary step in Microsoft's open source pragmatism. Since, as Paoli is careful to say, this move changes nothing about existing engagements by Microsoft projects, why is the company doing it? I see little evidence that the hostility to open source has softened at the executive level, though Ballmer no longer derides open source openly. But on the ground, the market is forcing Microsoft's hand.

Sharing information in phatic posts is normal and expected – it’s just the translation of life in atom-space into life in bit-space. What’s new is the super-public, the exposure of life to scrutiny by triangulation and data-mining. So far, no privacy legislation takes it into proper account. Companies, however are now actively mining the super-public.

It’s not because I don’t like you, it’s not because I want to steal your ideas, it’s not because what you’re up to isn’t important.

It’s because the ideas you are likely to share with me over coffee or in a phone conversation are otherwise plentiful, worthless in isolation, and, to some degree, completely unoriginal and already known to the world.

Decent explanations of why they have done this are a bit thin on the ground despite widespread coverage of the news itself, which their PR firm must have been pushing heavily.

Given the Microsoft employee tapped to run this new subsidiary - Jean Paoli - is careful to say this move changes nothing about existing engagements by Microsoft projects, why are they doing it? Here are some possible reasons - all of them educated speculation for now

Microsoft has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., to advance the company’s investment in openness – including interoperability, open standards and open source.

My existing Interoperability Strategy team will form the nucleus of this new subsidiary, and I will serve as President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

According to an opinion poll commissioned by the Catholic Church itself, hardly anyone remembers that the Pope's 2011 visit to Britain actually happened. And 91% said it made no difference to their moral outlook at all. Strangely, the Church doesn’t seem anxious to draw attention to the results of this poll, which was carried out by Opinion Research Business among 2,049 adults.

"But perhaps most upsetting is the fact that this man gained the trust of high-ranking church authorities and then betrayed that trust by secretly defiling innocent popes."

"These appalling acts caused tremendous psychological trauma for his victims, and we are currently reexamining our internal policies to safeguard the current and future papacy," Sodano continued. "Even one pope molested is one too many."

Remember, no matter what the self-help books say, the research suggests that willpower isn’t a skill. If it was, there would be some consistency from one task to the next. Instead, every time you exert control over the giant system that is you, that control gets weaker.

What I would really like to know is how much of BV’s effort actually goes into lobbying and into advancing the welfare of cyclists i.e. activities that can’t be funded from other sources, or essential activities that can’t done by anyone else. I wonder if such a large organisation is necessary to deliver these core functions. And I also wonder how much senior management and board attention is distracted by the many essentially commercial activities that BV now engages in.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, actions that sparked sectarian violence.

Apple, well, they didn’t really have a defense. They just kept repeating things like “It’s Apple’s policy to do this”, and “It’s Apple’s position that we do that”. The Apple guys seemed genuinely surprised that I knew as much as I did about computer hardware. I’m not trying to insult iPeople, at least not in this article, but during both mediation and the trial, I realized that Apple has a strong expectation that their users not be tech-savvy and, as such, Apple seems used to infantilizing and bamboozling their customers with silly and nonsensical explanations of highly technical matters.

It is the first atheist event I have ever attended so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Some stereotypes portray atheists as all white bearded old men, and although there were a few there, I was glad to see that there were many, many young people present as well, which I think bodes well for the future.

GNU Make Unleashed brings together four years of the Ask Mr Make column from CM Crossroads and additional unpublished GNU Make tips. Covering everything from basic GNU Make operation to the advanced topics that real Makefile maintainers face on a daily basis, GNU Make Unleashed is the ideal companion for the Free Software Foundation's GNU Make Manual.

The Setup: What do people use to get stuff done?

Benjamin Mako Hill
Social scientist, free software hacker (MIT)

I’m a New York-based photographer, and I’m going to be traveling through the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom putting together a book of photographic portraits of atheists. From the college professor, to the farmer in Kansas, I want to document my fellow atheists and ask them what brings meaning and joy to their lives. The goal of the book is to visually capture the diversity of non-believers and the ways they maintain a better life, not in spite of their atheism, but because of it.

The database is an important math engine. Use it as one. Consequently simplicity and elegance in a stored procedure is often the ability to express the most complicated operations in the fewest database queries possible.

Some unknown entity is watching you, tracking your every move, and you're somehow good with this?

Dude, it's great food. you've gotta try it.

One of the really nice things about using a SQL DBMS is that you can easily query the database as though you were the application. So, if you are debugging the application, you can quickly see what’s going wrong by seeing what the application sees right before the bug is hit. But you quickly lose that ability when you muddy the waters with thousands of lines of code between the application error and the database.

"Yak shaving." Our very own Carlin Vieri invented the term, and yet
it has not caught on within the lab. This is a shame, because it
describes all too well what I find myself doing all too often.

If Oracle wins the case, software developers everywhere -- especially open source developers -- will suffer, not just Google. Here's the background you need to understand the implications.

Girls Around Me isn’t an app you should use to pick up girls, or guys for that matter. This is an app you should download to teach the people you care about that privacy issues are real, that social networks like Facebook and Foursquare expose you and the ones you love, and that if you do not know exactly how much you are sharing, you are as easily preyed upon as if you were naked. I can think of no better way to get a person to realize that they should understand their Facebook privacy settings then pulling out this app.

The problem is the deployment by profit-oriented corporations of behavioural psychology techniques to induce people to over-share information which can then be aggregated and disclosed to third parties for targeted marketing purposes.

Virtually every feature in PHP is broken somehow. The language, the framework, the ecosystem, are all just bad. And I can’t even point out any single damning thing, because the damage is so systemic. Every time I try to compile a list of PHP gripes, I get stuck in this depth-first search discovering more and more appalling trivia. (Hence, fractal.)

The draft terms of reference state that the ALRC review should take into account: The objective of copyright law to promote the production of original copyright materials; the need for copyright law to provide an appropriate balance between the rights of creators and the rights, interests and expectations of users and the public so as to foster creativity and innovation and promote cultural development; and the importance of the digital economy and the opportunities for innovation leading to national economic and cultural development created by the emergence of new digital technologies, while also keeping in mind Australia’s international obligations, including any existing or proposed international obligations.

To protect the patent, CSIRO has been suing companies which have been using the technology without a licence.

The Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, announced that CSIRO will receive more than $220m after settling the latest round of litigation against AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA.

The results from Queensland Police’s wardriving efforts are yet to be seen but in the meantime, it would be wise to make sure your Wi-Fi is being used by you, and no-one else.

Queensland Police are launching a new project aimed at encouraging the public to protect their identity and personal information online.

The State Crime Operations Command’s Fraud and Corporate Crime Group have announced the rollout of the ‘War Driving Project’, which will focus on prompting the community to check their wireless internet connection and ensure it’s secure.

PostGIS 2.0.0 is complete and available for download.

The development process for 2.0 has been very long, but has resulted in a release with a number of exciting new features.

Sqitch is a VCS-aware SQL change management application.

This week, I started work on it. My first task is to outline a draft for the interface. Sqitch will be a command-line tool, primarily. The remainder of this post contains the documentation for the draft interface.

Summary: Please do not use the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left quotation mark together with the ASCII apostrophe (0x27) as the corresponding right quotation mark (as in `quote'). Your text will otherwise appear rather strange with most modern fonts (e.g., on Windows and Mac systems). Only old X Window System fonts and some old video terminals show ASCII 0x60/0x27 as left and right quotation marks, while most modern systems follow the ISO and Unicode standards instead. If you can use only ASCII’s typewriter characters, then use the apostrophe character (0x27) as both the left and right quotation mark (as in 'quote'). If you can use Unicode characters, nice directional quotation marks are available in the form of characters U+2018, U+2019, U+201C, and U+201D (as in ‘quote’ or “quote”).

Mr Bell made a trailer from the raw footage, which his agent posted on the Vimeo website. Ms Steele, through her American lawyers, sent letters to Mr Bell and his agent claiming that she owned the copyright in the footage and demanding that the trailer be removed from the Internet. She also caused the Vimeo website to remove the trailer.

Apparently, before he died, Charles gathered a bunch of his children, and told them that he was leaving each of them $500,000 (and enough to cover the taxes on the money) if they signed agreements stating that was all they would get, and that they would not seek to get anything else from his estate. However, recently a bunch of the children have begun the process of terminating the copyright assignments over Charles' songs, and the Foundation is arguing this is a breach of that agreement.

“The draft terms of reference reflect the fact that technology is constantly evolving and testing the boundaries of copyright law,” Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said in a statement.

“In our fast changing, technologically driven world, it important to ensure our copyright laws are keeping pace with change and able to respond to future challenges.”

The review aims to ensure the Copyright Act remains relevant in the 21st century.

Consumers are sometimes accused of a "sense of entitlement" by peevish developers and industry-serving "journalists". ( So don't hold your breath waiting to read a feature on this subject on any of the popular iOS gaming websites.) But the sense of entitlement that radiates from Sra. Hidalgo's letter fairly took our breath away. It admits that the "bad mistake" of making the game free for an extended period was Bravo's rather than anyone else's, but that it's innocent users – who quite understandably accepted an attractive free offer – who are to be punished, and paying customers who are going to be caught in the crossfire.

One of the striking features of the ACTA debate is the deafening silence from those who are in favor of it. Maybe that's down to the SOPA effect: companies and organizations are frightened of being associated with such an unpopular idea. Of course, it could just be that even its most fervent supporters can't really come up with any plausible justifications for it. That's certainly the impression you get reading a rare attempt to raise the ACTA flag from the Institute for Policy Innovation, entitled "Acting Out on ACTA."

The idea, and the term, come out of 1970s and 1980s debates over whether companies could get around pesky privacy protections by shipping their magnetic tape reels to a country with laxer privacy laws. What started off as a pejorative term flipped to a positive in the eyes of the cypherpunks. They saw governmental restrictions on the free flow of information—privacy, copyright, sedition, drug-making instructions, or whatever—as grave threats to personal freedom. Cypherpunks hoped a borderless Internet, together with strong cryptography and a friendly data haven or two for their servers, would destroy the government's ability to snoop on and censor online speech. It would all lead to a new age of genuine liberty.

So what are the lessons in all this? For starters, we should stop trying to shoehorn the 21st-century problem of illegal downloading into a moral and legal regime that was developed with a pre- or mid-20th-century economy in mind. Second, we should recognize that the criminal law is least effective — and least legitimate — when it is at odds with widely held moral intuitions.

A spokeswoman for the Boston Police Department told CNET this afternoon that the city has taken steps to ensure arrests-for-recording don't happen again. That includes "conducting training sessions for all department officers regarding the state wiretap statute," including updating the curriculum at the police academy, and publishing multiple training bulletins for officers, Elaine Driscoll said.

Even though Boston has learned an expensive lesson in constitutional law, other police departments have not: As cameras have become embedded in more consumer electronic devices, more Americans are finding themselves in legal jeopardy for digital snapshotting that's likely protected by the First Amendment.

Garlach44 is one of the first Italian companies to provide and distribute Notebook, Desktop and Server with no proprietary Operating Systems

The world is in the midst of a global extinction crisis primarily driven by illegal hunting for highly valuable animal body parts. Having largely emptied its own jungles of furry, scaly, and feathery creatures, Asia’s thirst for exotic blood, bile, and bones has turned to the African continent. The Far East’s middle class is becoming more affluent; it is no coincidence that poaching on the African continent has spiked in recent years, as more and more people are able to afford luxury goods like ivory or exotic pets.

People who create web forms, databases, or ontologies are often unaware how different people’s names can be in other countries. They build their forms or databases in a way that assumes too much on the part of foreign users. This article will first introduce you to some of the different styles used for personal names, and then some of the possible implications for handling those on the Web.

I have never seen a computer system which handles names properly and doubt one exists, anywhere.

So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names.

This is a parody of economic order, in which the general public bears all the risks and the financial sector takes all the rewards – an extraordinarily pure form of what used to be called ‘socialism for the rich’. But ‘socialism for the rich’ was supposed to be a joke. The truth is that it is now genuinely the way the global economy is working.

the free software definition reads like a revolutionary manifesto, partly because it is. The people behind it often eschew the pragmatism of the term "open source" and focus on liberty alone. It's worth looking behind their philosophy, though. I paraphrase the free software definition as guaranteeing the liberty to use, study, modify, and distribute software without interference. Those four liberties create value for business

When it comes to healthcare, trying to make an informed choice can be enough to make you queasy.

To help you out, we at Healthinformation.com.au offer free access to the best evidence-based medicine information we can find. This is your chance to make the most of available resources, and feel good about the path you take towards better health.

Quotes by women, some famous and some not well known. These quotations have been chosen to represent women's varied ideas, motivations and contributions to history.

After the success of the SOPA and PIPA protests, policymakers in DC asked us what we would do to make the internet better. The bills on this site begin to answer that question. They make up a plan – a blueprint, if you will – that would strengthen and improve the way that the internet and law relate to one another.

From the satisfying click of its keys to its no-nonsense layout and solid steel underpinnings, IBM's 24-year-old Model M is the standard by which all other keyboards must be judged.

XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin), massive speed increases via features like Dirty-region rendering and the new JPEG decoder, a simpler, better library, movie set scraping, additional protocol handling, better networking support, better handling of unencrypted BluRay content and structures, adjustable display refresh rate in OSX (to match the already available feature in Windows and Linux), AirPlay support, an upgraded weather service with geoip lookup, and much, much more.

Like ODF, PDF is a standard. Sending a PDF makes the maximum number of people able to read your work, so it’s worth the small extra effort to create it. Developing an instinct to always send PDFs ensures maximum readability, and it’s safe to assume PDFs will continue to be readable for the indefinitely long future. Using online storage instead of attaching the file can be good, but plenty of mobile and out-of-office people will be inconvenienced or excluded by that, so I’ve found people reluctant to rely on it at the moment.

Django has a lot of facilities for handling transactions, and it’s not at all clear how to use them. In an attempt to cut through the confusion, here’s a recipe for handling transactions sensibly in Django applications on PostgreSQL.

Python Koans is an interactive tutorial for learning Python by making tests pass.
As well as being a great way to learn some Python, it is also a good way to get a taste of Test Driven Development.

So why would you teach methods that don’t appear to work, methods that have been demonstrated not to work or methods that have no basis in reality, as part of the training of the next generation of doctors?

Investigators say Spurlock stomped on her son’s chest first. When that didn't get rid of the "demons," she cut his throat with a large kitchen knife, according to police.