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Comment Re:And what's the deal with names anyway? (Score 1) 460

by balouderbaer (#41310543) Attached to: Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd?
No need to get angry. The point is that the YY/MM scheme is sufficient to distinguish versions even if you do not understand the date represented in it. Intuitively users will understand that 11.04 is different from and came before 11.10, no matter what the numbers actually mean. For everyone who wants more information the next step is using google where they instantly find the link I posted. I do not see what kind of potential user faces problems from this system.

Comment Re:And what's the deal with names anyway? (Score 1) 460

by balouderbaer (#41306343) Attached to: Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd?

That will roll around in some half a dozen years, but Ubuntu also has YY.MM version numbers, so you know immediately that version 08.04 is over four years old.

Why would I know that? Do you mean they also mandate that their major releases match the last two digits of the year they came out? Good to know. Certainly not obvious.

You would know that if you cared enough to look it up. It is of course much more comfortable to assume that the numbering is arbitrary and stupid. Feel free to explain any numbering/naming convention that is easier to understand than YY.MM and is at the same time so intuitive that no one could ever ask "Why would I know that?"

Comment Re:Still Wrong (Score 2) 926

Getting the implementation just right can be tricky, but this(along with appeals to the authority of the invisible friends of the powers that be) has been a fundamental part of human civilization for pretty much all of human history...

The problem being that if your implementation is a little off you will probably not get a second chance.

Comment Re:$2 Million is Hardly "Thriving" (Score 1) 498

$2 million doesn't even register.

It's basically a "Yeah, see if you can stop us", kinda deal. The fact that they're able to flip their middle finger to any and all drug prohibition laws and sit there and rake in a non-trivial amount of money in the process... that strikes me as a major shift in how prohibition laws will need to be enforced (or if they'll even try to) in the future.

The weak point being that the process is based on anonymity. Therefore, buyers need to have blind trust in sellers. This enables the DEA to set up fake sales and bust the buyers. After they do this for a while, word gets out and buyers start losing trust in the process, therefore killing it. Am I missing something?

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