If you'd actually read the linked mailing list post (or even just read the quotes of it in the summary) you'd see that none of the abusive comments are aimed at people, they're aimed at the code. He calls the code a bunch of mean, nasty, insulting things, but he doesn't say anything about the people who worked or released that code. I think the distinction is important here. It's not abuse if there's nobody to be abused.
Secondarily: if you read the rest of the thread, he goes on to work with everyone very productively on tracking down the exact nature of the underlying bugs, posts deep analyses of the code generation differences, proposes a patch for his own kernel to work around this GCC bug, and goes and files the upstream Bugzilla report with the GCC team himself. On the whole I'd say this is pretty responsible and cooperative behavior.
What are you doing bringing objective facts into a Slashdot debate, I mean SWJdot?
Are we talking about the bitcoin that was used on Silk Road?
I expect exchange rates to move in my favor, but that's just a side benefit. The real advantage of abandoning the Dollar for Bitcoin is that my liquidity and savings are no longer tied up in murder-based blood money.
Bitcoin is a human rights movement.
I'll take my chances with the US dollar thanks. I trust it FAR more than I do bitcoin.
Excellent news.
Seriously, I love hearing that. Not everybody deserves to be a Bitcoin early adopter.
Did you know human livers are a single broken gene away from maufacturing vitamin C from glucose, just like almost every other mammal?
The liver perform every step in the process except the final one, because of a single transacription error that was introduced into the germline back in ancient times
It would be cool to see what happens when they fix that.
And what's up with this "In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less" part?
I had to do some mental math to convert those equilvent comparisons 20% got less than 7 hours in 1942, and today 40% get less than 6.
Why would they make me do mental math when they know I probably didn't get enough sleep last night?
Could Google be any more transparent as a willing and eager participant of the surveillance state?
It'd be nice if they'd at least pretend to hide what they are doing, so as to not so blatently insult our intelligence.
It reminds me of an acquaintance who claimed to have worked at a red light camera company, where he bragged about at random times, the traffic signal light could flash red just for 50-100 ms, snap a picture, then change back to green. That way, they could keep the flow of red light camera tickets going but without being caught on driver dash cams with extremely short (or no) yellow lights.
Probably the best way tourists can fight back is to blacklist towns doing those shenanigans, but with larger cities like NYC, that can't really be done.
The best way to fight back is to blacklist everybody who has ever been employed by a red light camera company.
Use LinkedIn to track them down, create a public website where you name and shame them.
If you can find out where they live, confront them at their houses in front of their families and neighbors.
Until there's a social cost which makes acting like an amoral mercenary unprofitable, the number of amoral mercenaries will continue to increase.
Unfortunately very little of our "justice" system is geared towards real accountability and equality.
The court system is theater designed to give the peasants the illusion of justice.
It's sole purpose is to increase margins for the ruling class - people who believe they are free require the rulers to expend fewer resources to keep them compliant and productive.
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.