Comment Oh Slashdot .. (Score 1) 784
you shall now be referred to as
ambiguous Reuters report referencing a statement from the NBC Today pseudo-news talk show, that has very little now to do with tech? where are your standards now?
you shall now be referred to as
ambiguous Reuters report referencing a statement from the NBC Today pseudo-news talk show, that has very little now to do with tech? where are your standards now?
That would be the Bitcoin Co Ltd exchange (https://bitcoin.co.th/)
This appears to be ramping up - last month bitspend had it's accounts frozen from Chase citing potential money laundering, and new allegations of ponzi schemes are making all the federal regulators nervous - as they should be
Didn't they already do this??
I stopped reading this thread when I saw "blaw
yeah
(somewhat paraphrased conversation between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein relayed by Humphrey Carpenter that I like)
CS Lewis: "Myths are lies and therefore worthless, even though breathed through silver."
JRR Tolkein: "They are not lies. Far from being lies they were the best way — sometimes the only way — of conveying truths that would otherwise remain inexpressible. We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily toward the true harbor, whereas materialistic "progress" leads only to the abyss and the power of evil."
anyhow - read Joseph Pearce's article on the conversation and back story
too lazy to login
actually thinking about this more
the overall point being that every belief system has some degree of "evidence" and there's always some amount of faith involved in accepting said "evidence" and there's still a lot that we don't know.
no
Of course
It has to do with honesty and the perception that the person you're talking to has your best interest at heart. People are generally pretty good at smelling a rat, and if your engineer is in the same boat as your customer - then there's a trust that's there that's generally pretty easy to work with. The problem breaks down if the engineer or sales person doesn't have a broader view of the coming problems, or architecture changes that might be necessary as this typically comes from pure experience.
Working for a large consulting arm of a large (now mostly defunct) technical company
dude
http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
of course you could also just cross-mount NFS, or setup a central networked fileserver
I played a bit with zfs-fuse too for doing this sort of thing (along with native zfs on opensolaris), but with a stall in cross platform development here i ended up upgrading my pools and obsoleting the fuse versions
The real thing missing that Solaris engineers took pretty seriously at a time (IMHO) is kernel panics and kernel debugging. Shapiro and Cantrill's work on mdb (and later DTrace) was huge at helping developers prove or identify key behavioural (and philosophical) aspects of the kernel and develop fixes pretty quickly. It also helped to identify key parts of the kernel that could be stripped out to prevent the amount of bloat that's quickly creeping into linux
just a thought
I see Cantrill just updated this page yesterday
I don't even know why Sun paid a billion for it in the first place.
easy
With your bare hands?!?