Gee elucido; after seeing you post how bitcoins will increase 10x by 2014 in three posts now I can see that you selflessly want us all to partake in this great opportunity. I think I'll go and get some now!

Hard-hitting analysis there.. Any cryptographers want to walk us through the technical issues raised here, maybe allay our fears?

I take it you're as leveraged as you can get to take advantage of such amazing returns?

If they hadn't locked it out everyone would be complaining "Why is it taking so long to patch *it's being exploited in the wild*!"

There is just no good way to deliver news of a security hole.

"you people"? The thing is you can't respond to people like the GP and say "well.. not really. come on, here's an anecdote about our CIO planning ahead."

Maybe P8 can maintain the integration between the P1-7 providers, P9 can handle all the different contracts, and P10 can figure out why it takes so long to load data through 5 layers of providers?

The IRS stole from you? You should take them to court.

• The company I work for with ~2000 employees paid $80,000 AUD for our Christmas party at a convention center.
• We spent $xx,000 on a marketing firm to develop a screensaver which promoted our corporate values, but which flickered in a way that gave some people headaches, and had to be taken down.
• Our department went Go-karting twice last year, and I was given 5 days of training for something I haven't used before or since.
• Two years ago someone in our department was paid by another department ~$40,000 in billable hours to write some software which for whatever reason wasn't suitable.
• There are spikes in the number of broken company iPhone 4s after iPhone 5s come out.
• We spend tens of thousands on color ink because engineers don't like electronically marking up documents.
• My sister works for a charity which spent $30,000 for a web-dev company to build a template-based website (which the web-dev company owns).

Large businesses waste money, you're in no position to say it had no value, and the amount of money is trivial. If you consider this excessive don't get mad when you run into a front-line IRS worker who hates their job and behaves as such.

In computer science at uni we learned Oracle for database stuff, C for network programming, UNIX system calls for OS design, OpenGL for computer graphics, Java for basic programming, Linux was our OS and Eclipse was our IDE.

In my first job out of uni all of those were exchanged for the Windows equivalents; it really doesn't matter what platform you learn on.

I know right, they started teaching history in high school, now everyone considers themselves a historian and the hard working historians are out of work!

We need the next generation to be as dumb as possible, so we can be employed for as long as possible.

Loosely translated: The people in the code.org film already knew each other from other places before they made the film! And they have similar ideals and goals! And therefore they were probably involved in 9/11!!

Maybe start a petition?

If it's not the GnuSense Linux fork GnuTense it's worth actively working against, because anyone we can persuade to stop working on other distros will start working on GnuTense!

Some routers are worth $20k, but obviously a school will never need one of these.. The question is why they were sold to schools; was it fraud by Cisco? was it a badly designed procurement process? was it corruption?

And then US businesses are at a disadvantage to EU businesses which only sell their products in the US.