Quote: "So it means if you buy the card you won't know if it'll work or not :S a scary thought"
It's a very rare problem... I only know of two other cases of it happening, and only one of those is confirmed to not be user error.
Quote: "We don't have many girls around here!"
It's understandable. As non-feminist as it may sound, women are intellectually handicapped. The handicap is entirely cultural though. Namely, most women are so preoccupied with their appearance that there's very little room in their heads for anything else. So the intellectual women tend to be very plain and sometimes even dishevled.
Frankly, it annoys me that so many give in to the vapid nonsense of "looking pretty".
That being said, I don't even know how to wear makeup properly, and I haven't worn a skirt since I was 4. And I tend to smell of various chemicals, welding and/or soldering flux, motor oil, various plastics, saw dust, etc... Suffice to say I'm lucky to be married. I met my husband at DefCon '98. He's more of a software hacker, I do hardware and reality hacking...
Nothing I say is intended to be rude. My autism means that I do not know what is rude and what isn't rude. I apologize if I seem rude. It is not my intention.
