Rape is a horrible crime. In some ways worse than murder, as the victim must live with the consequences.

And many rapes do happen on college campuses. However, more rapes occur in prison, inflicted on men than occur on any college* campus or nearby environs. And more rapes occur in marriages, in families and between non-college acquaintances than on or associated with college campuses.

So why the focus on campus rape**?

And the whole “colleges are rape nests” propaganda is also really stupid. It has nothing to do with reality. Rape exists everywhere and singling out colleges is ridiculous.

Because upper-middle-class people attend in high numbers. If upper-middle class people went to prison in high numbers, that’s where our focus on rape would be.

All rape is equally evil. It doesn’t matter if it happens in prison, in a family home or on a college campus.

I do think that Clarissa is generally pointing the correct way in that the right wing will now focus on college rape statistics to attempt to further dismantle higher education. That won’t help women, nor help stop rape, but it will further erode the American educational system.

*If you include prison, depending on how you interpret the statistics, more men are raped every year than women — but no one does because, like, ugh, right?

**I’m not saying it’s wrong to discuss college rape, but that is becoming the only focus and it should not be. All rapes are equally evil. Yep, even prison rape.

There are many covers of this song, but this is probably the best one I’ve ever heard, live or studio. Emma Louise particularly kills it.

The new Google Maps is truly a heaping pile of steaming festering crap.

So many smart people producing something so fundamentally stupid. Dumb people would’ve produced something better and less complex.

I rarely fall for these sorts of optical illusions because I’ve spent years taking and editing photographs (some of those as a full-time job).

Didn’t look white and gold or blue and black to me.

Immediately looked brownish gold and blue, and two seconds in Photoshop sampling the colors confirmed this.

Hard to believe that anyone can see it as anything else, but those sorts of color-based optical illusions I’m now almost completely immune to. (Others I fall for just as much as anyone else.)

(Also note: There is no “real color” that the dress is as far as the camera is concerned. It can only be known objectively the reported color values on the screen, which are influenced by camera white balance, light levels, contrast ratio, compression, filters, sensor quality and optimizations and a host of other factors.)

Fahrenheit is better than Celsius.

So most of the relevant temperature variation — the vast differences throughout all of spring, summer, and fall—are restricted to only 23 integers. (I could use decimals, if I wanted to sound like a robot.)

Indeed, on human scales it’s a lot better. The same problem with the metric system. It’s designed to work well mathematically, not humanistically.

And to those who say it’s just because I’m not used to it, not so: I was in the Army for five years where that’s all that is used.

If you want to make a space probe, sure go metric and Celsius and what have you. Want to give me a meaningful temperature or distance, use Fahrenheit and feet.

Google going fully censoriously evil. Well, more evil.

Many X-rated Blogger accounts might cease to exist in the near future, as Google will no longer allow anyone to post sexually explicit or nude videos and images starting on March 23rd, 2015. It doesn’t end there, though: Mountain View also wants old account owners to delete any content that violates that rule, or else it will forcibly make those blogs private (all posts will only be visible to owners) after the aforementioned date.

On balance, I like the Wild West internet better, though many — most — voices are now calling for its dismantling, not knowing what harm they do. The internet has always been doomed to become cable TV, but that eventuality still makes me sad.

An ex-girlfriend of mine said to me, “You just do what you want, no matter what anyone says or does. And it pisses me off that you get away with it!”

She didn’t mean it as a compliment but I took it as one. Part of it is just being male. We can get away with more. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is. But another part is that you can get away with much more with Columbo-like bumbling and a smile than any other method in the universe.

Most people watched Columbo for entertainment. I watched it as an instruction manual.

Served me well my whole life. Part of it is my natural personality — I tend to ask dumb questions and be terrible, far more terrible than anyone else the first time I try something — so it’s easy to amplify that.

And oh yeah, just one more thing….

Due to systemd and Lennart Poettering’s/Red Hat’s current near-complete control of the Linux ecosystem, we should probably change the name of “Linux” to “Lennarx.”

The ever-prescient New York Times on laptops, 1985.

I.B.M. never legitimized the market with its much rumored ”Clamshell,” probably because the company realized that laptops are a small niche market, not a mass market.

A lot of new ideas look very, very bad initially. That’s what makes it so hard to tell the two apart. In fact, often great new ideas look worse than old but very bad time-tested ones.

No real point. Just interesting.

The fat acceptance movement — while it had noble goals at first — has now become a ridiculous, anti-scientific parody of itself, not much different than the anti-vaxxers.

According to the mainstream of that movement, caloric intake has nothing at all to do with weight and fat is all some “genetic virus thyroid” problem not just plain old gluttonous overeating.

So every time I see a link to an article about Marilyn Monroe being in actuality very petite (as she was), I link to it.

As a direct example of her size, the white dress she wore in The Seven Year Itch was recently auctioned off and was put on a mannequin that was a size 2, but they were still unable to zip up the dress as the mannequin was too big.

So further to the fact that Rubens’ models were anomalous in Western art, Marilyn Monroe was tiny.

Self-justification for poor self-control and lack of ability to even deal with basic facts of the universe doesn’t make me have sympathy for a movement, and the FA movement has gone completely off the rails to the extent that it was ever on them to begin with.

But the FA coalition is very American (there’s almost no such groupings outside North America) — it’s “let’s accept the misery we’re in and proclaim it as right and good” rather than “let’s make ourselves and society better.”

At the time of the Adria Richards affair, I had sympathy for her. I thought she was in the right, though I observed that if talking about anything sexual at all in front of women — in the workplace or anywhere else — is verboten, then that actually harms women (as humans are and always will be sexual creatures, unavoidably so).

It turns out that she had made sexual jokes on her own Twitter feed, and is a pretty large hypocrite in other respects. Thus I’m not surprised she got canned from her own company (good employees tend not to get fired at the very first sign of trouble, especially in tech workplaces).

I don’t know a single person in the IT world — male or female — who has not made a dongle joke at some point in their IT career.

When two scumbags collide, everyone loses.

I’ve never been a watcher of awards shows, but for the Oscars this year I don’t think I’ve ever been less interested in the Best Picture nominees. Similar for most other categories.

Even at the best of times mainly I like to look at the pretty and absurd dresses from awards shows. But for the Oscars, I usually at least care about some of the movies.

Too many old white guys deciding what’s “good,” not enough actual good.

SSL-intercepting code found in many more places.

According to Ars, “More than a dozen software applications other than Superfish use Komodia code. Besides Trojan.Nurjax, the programs named included:

• CartCrunch Israel LTD
• WiredTools LTD
• Say Media Group LTD
• Over the Rainbow Tech
• System Alerts
• ArcadeGiant
• Objectify Media Inc
• Catalytix Web Services
• OptimizerMonitor”

If you think this sort of thing is not a threat to you, well, you’re simply wrong and the perfect candidate for the apps economy.

This is a very simple Mac application I made called SleepyDisplay.

Click here to download it.

I made it because there is nothing that does exactly this. On the iMac, there is no easy one-click way to turn off the display but still have the computer running — and not have it locked (as the Retina iMac at least doesn’t have an eject button, and I don’t use the Mac keyboard).

So this application does that. I have only tested it on Yosemite and only on my setups — a Retina 5K iMac and late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro — so it might not work on your machine.

I do not offer any tech support and if you destroy your machine in the process of using this, it’s on you.

But for me it does exactly what I want it to.

Or as a Gnome or systemd developer would say, “Screw you if this is not the exact application for all your turning off your monitor needs. And if you don’t need it, you are mentally deficient obvs.”

BTW, the Superfish debacle by Lenovo is not just some “innocent” corporate mistake. Nope, it’s a result of corporate/state espionage attempts.

The company’s founder is a former Israeli security agent, and the company has big government contracts with both American and Israel military. It’s also likely on a lot more than just Lenovo machines – Lenovo just did them a favor.

Thought there might be a little more to that story since it was such a powerfully malicious program.

And yep, there is.