What insight. Which business magazine do you write for? Your knowledge on such things is "very deep" for somebody with no computing knowledge what-so-ever.

Can we get a mod up for this guy? Seriously - init scripts are a hack. They've always been a hack. Just because they're a hack you're comfortable with doesn't mean it's the "right way" to do it.

I notice you didn't mention anything about providing a link to the original story... :-)

It's like google images and google news collided and exploded all over the place!

Holy hell that NBC site is just terrible! Perhaps even worse than the beta!

Jesus Christ - has the world forgotten how to build a decent website???

Reddit's not bad. I've been going there more often than slashdot these days. Easy to follow threads (which collapse nicely), similar mod system, etc. Some subreddits are better than others so YMMV.

And now Microsoft has taken the same touch interface from their phones/tablets and shoved it into the desktop/laptop form factor...

This is my biggest concern with all of the crypto currencies.

I know inflation is seen as the tool of the devil today - but if you have a 200,000 BTC 30-year loan (for example) on a house that you're paying back over time then, as I understand it, it becomes in *harder* to pay it back (in 30 years the remaining value will be worth more than it was when you started rather than the other way around).

More than inflation "screams" fabrication with fiat currency?

What's more disturbing than "what you had yesterday is now worth less because 'economics you don't understand?'"

You're confusing inflation with deflation. The reason we would sub-divide the BTC further is due to deflation - the individual BTC would be worth too much. What happened in Zimbabwe is exactly the opposite - inflation caused the individual dollar to be worth too little.

Perhaps they could make it computationally expensive to create a new identity somehow - like when you solve bitcoins. Something short enough that a motivated user wouldn't mind waiting but which would be expensive enough to stop mass creations.

But it's a widely believed fact!

What's missing is the word "average." Local temperatures don't matter if the global average is increasing.

You don't pass a class if you get one "A" and the rest are "F's" Your *average* needs to be above a "C."

Absolutely right. And it's wrong when people do that too. Even if this was an especially warm winter it wouldn't mean AGW is real.

What makes AGW real is the global average temperature increasing over long-term trends (30 years). These short-term localized data-points are just noise.

I get pissed when I hear programmers act like raw performance is the sole measurement of the quality of a language.