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For a few years I was annoyed about the uniform adoration Mr. Musk was getting on Slashdot and in other circles. Then hit-pieces like this one started appearing...

Would the insufferable conditions described in TFA have been described at all — or described using the same terms — if he were still the Progressives' darling for championing "green" causes?

Or has the tone switched, because Musk is a Trump-administration supporter (sort of) — and there is a well-organized smear and boycott campaign against him as a result?

There is a lively discussion on whether or not Musk is a "Trump enabler" — but people, who've already concluded, that he is, will stop at, literally, nothing. Even poisoning the "haters" is becoming a thing — online smears are child's play...

it really irritates me how people can have such uninformed opinions and still get modded up

OK, so I get my information from journalists, who interview the families (that are willing to talk) of people who are arrested and jailed for doing things like running web sites, or even just posting information and doing research on other web sites.

I've seen a lot of responses to my post that sound more or less like, "It's not so bad - if you're a foreigner, you'll be fine!" There should be no exception, whatsoever, to who can go look at a web site. If China truly lightened up on its routine assumptions that visiting academics were spies and up to no good they'd start getting a lot more visitors. Personally, I'd love to soak up some ancient Chinese history first hand. I've got real problems, though, endorsing (by visiting) a country that so capriciously firewalls information from its citizens. That sort of dictatorial news management can't be confused with anything other than direct oppression of freedom of speech. Of course, it would be bad enough if it were just the firewalling - but forcing cyber cafes to close, or arresting people that run information systems - it's right out of Soviet Russia, or fascist Europe 50 years ago.

2004-06-11 01:49:15 RIAA subpoenas Georgia Tech for student names

According to Georgia Tech's college paper, the Technique, nine Tech students are among the victims of the RIAA's last round of lawsuits. The RIAA has subpoenaed the Office of Information Technology (OIT) to release the identities of individuals who were using computers at specific network addresses identified as being the sources of large amounts of file sharing. Tech has indicated they intend to comply with the subpoenas. According to Randy Nordin, Tech's chief legal advisor, the RIAA has asked that he tell the students to contact their attorney to see if an out of court settlement can be reached. The deadline to comply was June 2. In the past, violation of the school's Computer and Network Usage Policy, would've resulted in disabling the student's Internet access until the student matter was sorted out with the OIT or the Dean of Student's office.

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The whole point of firebird is that different people want different things from their browsers. A web neophyte and a web developer will have different requirements. With the extension mechanism, the needs of both can be satisfied.

For example, my setup looks like this. The features shown there are a mix between built in mozilla features and extensions, several of which I've either created or tweaked.

The features they list are pretty pedestrian, but since it's pretty easy to create extensions, a lot of interesting functionality is being created. I believe that the creativity of extension makers will be a key source of innovation for web browsers and the ideas that are currently in development will be listed as key features of mozilla in the future.

Finally, I personally would keep using firebird even if IE or Opera duplicated the functionality of everything in Fb including the extensions. Why? If I want to have a new feature in Fb, I sit down and hack it out. If a feature is almost right, I dive into the source and tweak it. Mozilla interface code is really easy to hack and that is very valuable to me and something that Opera lacks.

http://nique.net/issues/fall2002/2002-09-27/15.htm l

Yes, Georgia Tech decided not to block Napster at all after they received the letter from the RIAA. An article in the Technique on the story of that, basically said that Georgia Tech was an ISP to the students, and that it would be illegal for them to block specific things on the internet due to content, but left the door open for the RIAA to target specific students.