News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by neals on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:02AM (#6500837)
While your mom is not using this wallet, you cannot complain about sexism in this title.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by DanBC on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:06AM (#6500866)
The stupid choice of strapline means this product will always have this kind of comment whenever it's discussed. Rightly so, IMO. It's the 21st century and someone would have to be a fucking idiot to not realise that this strapline is going to cause comment.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by nitrogen on Saturday October 05, 2013 @07:23PM (#6502456)
Are you also offended by the saying, "Not your father's NASA?"
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by DanBC on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:51AM (#6507266)
I was wrong to be offended. It was a knee-jerk reaction.

The phrase is a common American form of wording. "Not your mother's romance"; "Not your father's oldsmobile"; and so on.

So in this example my mother does have a bitcoin wallet but this new wallet is a bobby-dazzler.

I need to pause before posting.

Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by mkr-hn on Saturday October 05, 2013 @02:36PM (#6501539)
People eventually have to communicate, and someone is going to take offense no matter what. I think it's reasonable to expect people to start somewhere away from the worst possible interpretation.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by conformal on Saturday October 05, 2013 @04:40PM (#6501989)
i think it's a pretty good line - got all of you talking, didn't it? =)
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by maxerickson on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:13AM (#6500890)
No, the intended meaning is clearly not the pedantic one you are claiming should be used.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by betterunix on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:06PM (#6501257)
The intended meaning is that your parents are less technically capable than you are; which parent is specifically chosen is simply not relevant. Would you have preferred, "Not your Dad's bitcoin wallet?" This is not sexist, it is ageist.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by Karunamon on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:51PM (#6501409)
Oh for fuck's sake. Do we really, absolutely need to drag political correctness into every god damned issue?
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by rmrfrmrf on Sunday October 06, 2013 @03:20AM (#6503428)
The best way to get people to stop talking about political correctness is to be politically correct. Pragmatically speaking, it makes sense to make a good effort to not offend people in your writing, since it detracts from the core message.
Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by Karunamon on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:04AM (#6508267)
At some point there exists a line where you stop caring if people on the other side of it are offended, because they are nothing but a loud, vocal minority looking for a reason to complain.

I think that making an "ism" out of this headline applies. I don't know about you, but I'm not about to make language grey and boring just because certain people choose to take offense at anything and everything.

Yes, I'm well aware this is hyperbole. Deal.

Re:Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon by anologwintermut on Sunday October 06, 2013 @01:45AM (#6503279)
It's not ageist. It merely implies technology get's better with time. I can say "Not my dad's computer" and the implication isn't that my dad sucked at computers, its that computers sucked when my dad first got one.