On: Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords

[gibybo]

Maybe those people/countries think the same about people using the comma as a thousands separator instead of a decimal?

[CamperBob2 → gibybo]

The trouble is, the period already means something very different. This has been the case since at least the 15th century. ( http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2298362?uid=3739960... )

Overloading the dot/point symbol as a place-value separator was just insanely goofy. This isn't like the Imperial versus metric system. There are reasons to scrap the Imperial system, but there was no reason to introduce a second notational convention for decimals, especially in a way that seems engineered to mislead and confuse people.