That argument is propaganda. BitcoinXT is not an alt coin.
I'm not running BitcoinXT, and not supporting it, but the people who asserted that it is an alt coin are intellectually dishonest and you should consider their ulterior motives for making such an emotional response (censorship, intellectualy dishonest statements, DDoS attacks, etc) to a math problem.

Anyone curious should read the dispassionate and logical argument for BitcoinXT on the BitcoinXT website. Then look at the negative responses everywhere else. It should be very clear that the anti-XT people reacted with emotion rather than a logical and intelligent response. Theymos, for example, being a prime offender.

I am of the opinion that BitcoinXT increases the maximum block size too rapidly to be practical which is why I'm not behind it, but I don't agree with the majority of the opposition's response.

User #22 here!

Yeah, but it isn't as sensational when you think reasonably about this. Firing them and warning them that they are going to be fired is stupid, which fits the narrative here.

I purchased one of those drives on the day it was available at Newegg for use in Linux, and then shortly after for a pair of them in RAID0 for a desktop (gaming) system where data integrity wasn't my main concern. In both systems I ran into firmware problems and could not natively flash them in the system that was running them. I pulled them into a bench PC I have and flashed them there and everything was fine. The issue had to do with power saving and would cause some pretty frequent hardware locking issues on both systems that was painful until I was able to resolve them. All 3 of the drives are benched now, but still work fine. I never lost any data due to the lockups - they would just hard lock the PC for a second or three and then continue working like nothing had happened.

In my experience this is typical early adopter fare.

It is obvious you don't know my mom. She would find a way to accidentally misconfigure her server to provide an open relay.

The government has an interest in taking my money and giving me nothing back. Corporations have an interest in trading their goods or services for my money. I like goods and services, so it is a lot easier to like corporations than governments.

On the other hand, I know some people who look at the landscape the other way: The government has an interest in my welfare and pays me money every year just to be a citizen. Corporations have no interest in me because they are just exploiting me in exchange for free or discounted services.

I don't think I want to live in a world where my mom has to spin up her own Linux server with Sendmail so that she can email me. This is the other side to that coin: Centralized networks have provided convenience and some bare minimum amount of security for the masses.

Completely agree with you though. We should be able to find a better balance in the middle. I gave a store clerk one of my email addresses on a personal domain a few weeks ago. She was extremely confused. It wasn't gmail, yahoo, aol, comcast, or any of the others she was used to seeing. "Is that a real email address?" *sigh*

Always? You are attempting to categorize everyone who reads history as being narrow minded. It boggles the mind that someone modded this even slightly up.

A year from now he'll write about this brand new concept called capitalism.

Terrorism gets so much attention because it SHOCKS people and it happens rarely (in this country).
People still think driving is safer than flying. "People" think emotionally before they think rationally.

When the statement is made similar to "Those who worry are usually those who have something to hide or something criminal in the works," they are speaking directly to government surveillance on a massive scale. If I'm not significantly breaking the law I'll just look like background noise. It is a valid position to take based on privacy alone. If you are specifically targeting one person, then that's a completely different argument and completely unrelated to what is happening here. You are interested in your target. You have invested of your own funds and time to spy. If your target is not a criminal, what is your return on that investment? You are likely interested in damaging your target in some way. Conversely, the government's intention is not to damage its target. It is targeting everyone because that's easier than targeting people individually where they would need separate warrants for each case.

Personally, I don't agree with it because it erodes rights, and at some point, unless history has taken a new turn that it never has before, this government will become so corrupt that it will need to be replaced or significantly modified. What the State will do with the information it has and is still collecting at that point is to defend itself in its current form by attempting to destroy its opposition or to control the citizens with tyranny. People who read history books can see this coming and are opposed to this erosion of rights. Those who live in magic pink pony land defend this erosion of rights because they somehow think that the human race has evolved beyond the point of repeating history.

Same here. I have found the same problem.

One of the biggest annoyances of Waze is that it seems to believe the majority rather than the truth. If the majority of people significantly exceed the speed limit down a narrow country road then it seems to think that I will too and sticks me there. I'd have to go double the speed limit in order for that road to be faster than the normal path. It also routinely puts me down "Local Access Only" roads as through roads. There is one turn on my route home that is "No Left Turn" but apparently some people with Waze break the law there too - I have seen many people do it - and so any map edits I have attempted for that turn have not stuck for more than a few weeks.

I can definitely see the appeal for Google though. This fits into their desire for automated self-driving cars. There are plenty of things (like the above) that need to be fixed before it will produce reliable material for that use though.

Isn't there a law about more outlandish articles getting more hits? This is pure sensational immature blather and shouldn't have been re-posted to Slashdot. The only conclusion to draw from this is that SanDisk made a product decision that didn't fit with Moore's law this one time. Wow so exciting.

In my rural community this map shows Verizon offering 10mbps down, 1.5mbps up. Verizon barely offers POTS here, and I just reconfirmed with them this morning that they do not offer any Internet to me. How much of this map is overstating connectivity? What a waste of money!

I understand if you also install WOW your protection doubles.

Is this a problem or a feature?