I've got a better conclusion: "We're all fucked" :)

Good Post!

What about the cost of all us Slashdot readers having to read about it, post about it, argue about it? I'd say the real costs to society in up the millions in lost productivity already...

It's ironic because what you just wrote just describes your average IT nerd too...

He pays you to make him secure, yet your lack of social skills at selling the security business case caused an incident. I'd fire you too. IT people need to understand that business is more that just good ideas. Selling those ideas (whether it be the product, the HR policy, or the IT security requirements) are all skills everyone senior employee should have. If your IT manager failed to sell it then someone else deserves a chance at his job.

Have you ever stopped and wondered why? Maybe, just maybe it's you? I mean I've worked in IT a long time, I know the drill, but it's only recently I learnt how to run a business, and how to deal with company politics. In general IT people are shit at making a business case, therefore they get ignored. And this is how it should be. In short, if you can't sell an idea then don't blame the idea or the buyer.

Well clearly it does since you ack'd a response :)

Fuck him. I have no problem with drugs per say, but drug dealers are generally scum. No amount of 'war' will stop the supply, but like fly paper, it is generally a good method for removing dickheads from society.

Yes we are all slaves. All forced to work from dawn to dusk without pay, beaten and whipped for the smallest indiscretion by our draconian overlords, living a life of poverty and hunger and having our car GPS data recorded. Oh the humanity...

That, and that fact that Win8 is an unmitigated disaster. Had Win8 given us a Win7-type interface then I'm sure the slowing PC market wouldn't have slowed quite as quickly.

Whereas on the streets in the US it's considered a good 20 seconds if no-one dies in a car accident...

Is it really? I mean most of this type of stuff is invented by the little people. Edison, Bell.. even Gates and Jobs were all little people when they started out. I'd be more impressed if something like happened with government involvement

More importantly you can't do a simple, casual transaction that requires no thought. That means at least half the population will never use it, and probably 90% of the other half too. I don't want to have to think every time I spend money. I pull out a piece of paper with a 10 on it, everyone knows the score. BTC will never have that.

Well apart from water and oxygen and a few other things...

Because in Internet forum world there are only two colours...