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To: Dr. Sivana

Yea, not likely.

When I went to engineering school, none of the girls (what few we had in engineering in our 7:1 male:female ratio) looked like that. NONE of them. In retrospect, I feel lucky to have attended when the ratio was that good. Two years after I graduated, it was back up to 10:1.

If a girl showed up online or in person who looked like that and told me she was out of MIT in three and a comp sci or EE whiz... I’d say “Yeeeaaaaa riiiiiight. And I’m selling Avon. Can I recommend an eyeliner to you?”

I’ve been at IETF meetings with girls who look that good who were managers in major customer accounts (ie, they were not engineerings or CS people), and the effect on most guys is hilarious. They just vapor-lock. They don’t start babbling and giving away information. They just freeze, like deer in the headlights of a Peterbilt.

When said females would walk down the hallway where geeks and propeller heads were furiously conversing and debating technical points, it was like something out of a movie set. The attractive female would start down a hallway, and conversation would stop about 10 feet ahead of her. Guys would look sideways as she’d approach, then their heads would swivel like a tracking radar dish as she passed.... and then all males involved would look at each other and furiously whisper “Who was *that*?!”

We true card-carrying nerds are a pretty sad lot, really. The so-called “security experts” they’re saying gave away the store... I wanna meet these clowns and see just what type of “experts” they are.


40 posted on 07/24/2010 5:46:31 PM PDT by NVDave
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43 posted on 07/24/2010 6:05:24 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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