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Thanks again, and keep up the good work! ;-)

Thanks again, and keep up the good work! ;-)

I recommend tagging this "copyvio"

Me: "More evil than Satan himself"

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Good thing there's no Chair Over IP

-- n

I think you missed an overall point that the original commenter had in mentioning one particular shortcoming of interest to him. Firefox development is haphazard. There is insufficient overall guidance of the process. Because there is insufficient guidance, Firefox development sometimes resembles playing.

For example, see this Slashdot comment: Mozilla Foundation Top 20 Excuses for Not Fixing Firefox Bugs. In my attempts to report bugs in Firefox, Firefox developers have used every one of those excuses, some of them many times. If you look within Slashdot stories about Firefox, you will find many comments about Firefox developers abusing those who report bugs.

In comments like those posted here, people often talk about some shortcoming in Firefox that occurs to them at the time they are writing the comment, and fail to make the overall point, that there are a lot of issues receiving little or no attention, not just the one they mention.

The head of the Mozilla Foundation is Winifred Mitchell Baker, a woman who is very uncomfortable socially, like many people with technical knowledge. However, she has NO technical knowledge. She is a perfect example of the fact that someone with no technical knowledge cannot guide a technical company.

In the beginning, Winifred got the job because no one thought there was money in free software, and the effort to improve the Mozilla browser was very small. But then Google started paying for Google Search to be to the right of the address bar in Firefox. Now Mozilla Foundation makes millions of dollars, and Winifred can afford to hire people to do public relations to cover her incompetence.

The linked information about Mozilla Foundation income is from someone on the board of directors of the Mozilla Corporation, who says in the linked blog that the nickname of the Mozilla Foundation is MoFo. It appears that the lack of social ability is more widespread than just affecting the president. Or maybe he is socially aware, and the association is intentional.

Firefox is the most unstable program in common use . What people call the memory hogging bug is actually also a CPU hogging bug, and it is still present in Firefox version 2.0.0.3, even though the bug was reported more than 4 years ago.

If you open a lot of windows and tabs in Firefox on a laptop, and put the laptop in and out of standby, you will eventually notice that the laptop fan is running all the time, even when there is no activity. That's the CPU bug, and it can potentially shorten the life of your laptop.

I could write more, but I have to unload all my Firefox windows and tabs before I am finished working with them, because now that I opened more windows and tabs to do research to find links for this comment, Firefox is using as much about 40% of my CPU as reported by Windows Task Manager, and I don't like the way it slows my computer. (This is not a dramatization, it is an actual fact; I just started my laptop from standby to begin working this morning at about 7 AM Brazil time, where I happen to be at the moment.)

I am also putting this comment on my web site, so that I can make corrections if I find that there is some error.

Virtual coin.

Virtual game.

QQ coin.

It's perfect for those chinese gold farmers.

"BC glasses"

bullets are so 20th century...

think about the future -> ray guns, we need to control or even ban them too ;D

Does anyone realise that mimsy is a quaint British slang term for, erm, a lady's front bottom?

Phone for support, act dumb. Drive that 75% up to 95%. If the cost of providing support exceeds revenue, maybe DRM will be dropped.

Enterprise versions with those sorts of licenses are not OSS licenses, so the original author is correct and egork is a prat (that revolting confluence of arrogance and incompetence).

Drinking the Kool-aid refers to a cult whose leader had them drink the poisoned kool-aid and they died. Drinking the Kool-aid means that you believe in the leader on faith, originally from the phrase "don't drink the kool-aid" from the Jonestown masacre.

Sugar-water is Apple specific. When Jobs lured John Sculley from Pepsi, Jobs asked Sculley, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"

Hence the Sugar Water and "Change the World" quotes are Apple quotes, and have nothing to do with the Kool-aid quote you are referring to.

...so Bush was right when he referred to "the internets"?

See?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ste ak+and+Blowjob+Day

You are a genious! But why editable? Why can't porn.google.com just turn all search results into porn?

Infact, wikiporn could make finding esoteric porn much easier.

See also: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wik iporn

Be carefool, in Australian schoolboy slang 'spoofing' means something else. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spo of

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea. However, you'd be hard pressed to find any major software company that would willingly put such a label on their products. People definitely need guidance to stay focused on the important things, but it seems that the only play in most large American corporations' playbooks is the Kansas City Shuffle.

Thank God for Google and Urban Dictionary, or I'd have been scarred for life wondering what a goatse is. (Yes, some of us are too sheltered.)

"Star Upping" is almost as bad. :-)

Coming up with a domain name that can be read as "Star Tupping"

Tales from the pen of the latest boyband member, maybe?

Something designed to make your network secure turning out to be a security risk...

Ironic? Surely you mean alanic?

Possibilities include:

Inner House League

International Humanitarian Law

or a combination of the two:
International Hockey League

In other news, Apple have responded with bummer of code.

Actually, the real measurements are fuckton and metric fucktons. See: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=met ric+fuckton

-matthew

I've suffered through blogs and vlogs and podcasts and bennifers and brangelinas...

My goodness, you're right.

Is there *nothing* that Google can't find an answer for?

Err, I think you're a bit mistaken.

0-day wasn't about the site releasing the warez. It was about the apps. When the warez version was available on the day the application was released, it was considered '0-day.'

Not that I'm into the scene or anything [anymore].

algorythm: the funky beat to which Al Gore dances

Their is no way that there will be zero US troops in Iraq in 2008 or in 2018.

The United States Feral Government is likely to go bankrupt between now and 2018. While there might still be troops in Iraq after teh empire collapses, they'd be the ones who were 'left behind'.

Such is the hazard of having the country that graciously took over consumer manufacturing (china) in charge of financing your imperial war machine. (The movement of American manufacturing to China was necessary to keep price inflation down. 'We the People' would've been real pissed years ago if Georgie's war had immediately sent the economy into a tailspin...) Oh well, cest la vie.

* This thread is useless without pics! *

We want our nerd porn!

I'd be willing to bet that the cost to produce AACS was pretty high in the grand scheme of things. AACS was created by a consortium consisting of IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Disney, and Warner Brothers. Granted that huge corporations like those can afford to throw tons of money and resources at a project like AACS, but the bottom line is that it probably cost a pretty penny. Consider the person-hours involved in just high level meetings among all those companies to hash out the AACS specification. If you get one person from each of those 8 companies to spend one full week of work (assuming 8 hour days) just on hammering out the specification then you're talking about 320 person-hours. Assuming those people have average annual salaries of $80,000 (SWAG) and work 40 hour weeks then that's over $1500 a week for their salaries, or $38/hour. 320 person-hours at $38/hour equates to $12,160.

Now obviously I'm pulling all these numbers out of you-know-where, but the point is that these companies invested a lot of manpower and a lot of time to create AACS. It may not seem like a lot to their respective bottom lines, but it does add up to a lot of salaries paid specifically on AACS, and most likely a lot of investment in hardware for development, testing, etc. It certianly wouldn't have been an insignificant ammount if you could do a full audit of all their books. I'd say (another SWAG) that the total cost of developing and implementing AACS would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 when you include hardware & software design/development as well as the salaries, etc. of the people involved.

A good dump first thing in the morning gets me going...

the **AA are still gormless twits, this is like shutting down the nfl by getting rid of individual players... the frameworks by which these sites run exist on a plane they do not nor could they ever understand with their antiquated ideas of "how things are". Their reality is gone and good riddance. The truth is, had they labels jumped in and started the selling their shit on-line immediately, they would have had loyal customers, but now they have made adversaries of the very people they need to stay alive.

Please, someone bitch-slap them off the planet, they really annoy me... perhaps to the same planet the buggy-whip makers are on...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay

The definition (3) under the first few.

Ummm...no, but funny. To clear it this up for the /. ers, OPP = Other Peoples Property.

You could look it up. - Casey Stengel.

Then again, that was the clean version.

bitty rant?

FWIW, M. LostRace, there's quite a bit of grey in this world...

For example, do you do business with any of these companies?

http://www.testclear.com/dtcompanies/companyresult s4.cfm

I'm guessing that you do (as do most of us). I suggest boycott and stopping immediatly if you want to stay on your high horse (lest you compromize your own values by providing profit to companies who do test).

Note that this list has "google" as a urine tester, so you might want to start using yahoo search and avoid logging into youtube (so much for do no evil). Most banks are also listed, so you might just have to stuff your money under your matress. Not to mention avoiding starbucks, coca-cola, pepsi products and canceling your AAA membership and stop shopping at costco, target and walmart, throw away your dell and hp computers, etc, etc...

Can't do that and live your life (or feed your family), well, I guess we're all owned by the man with your definition and might as well pack it in anyhow. ;^)

Perhaps we the weak are willing to give up some privacy for convenience, which might mean (paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson) we don't deserve and privacy nor convenience and will lose both. However, everyone has their own threshold as to the battles they wage and the ones that they avoid to fight another day.

However, even Thomas Jefferson had slaves while he promoted an end to slavery he spent pretty much his entire life in debt (many historians think the two were related as he basically couldn't afford to release his slaves). So in many respects Mr. Jefferson lived his life in the practical even though he tried to promote the ideal within the limitations of his own life. Sometimes if we must compromise our privacy to live a more practical convenient life, it isn't totally horrible is it?

Maybe with your priorities and circumstance you can draw the line at employment, but still allow yourself to do business what you regard as companies, but I'm guessing not everyone has your priorities or circumstance, so "get-over-yourself" ;^)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=get +over+yourself

I'm not a physicist, and barely remember the difference between protons and neutrons. Really. Probably it's the way they choose the names, having nothing to do with the physical properties of the elements, and not even sounding cool. I mean, Uranium, Plutonium, Titanium have cool names. Krypton -- cool name. "Carbon" is at least descriptive, deriving from the Latin for burning. I've always thought "Gold", "Iron", and "Lead" were onomatopoeic. And everyone knows that "Sodium" is Greek for "soda pop". Good names, all, and they don't sound phake and made up.

But "Hassium"? "Bohrium"? Not cool, not descriptive. These are vanity names, like getting your name in a phony star registry, or some weak license plate, except it goes in the encyclopedia. Yes, I know there's this tradition for naming the radioactive ones after people, but that kind of thing ought to be left to the entomologists, hadn't it? I mean, what if there's a disaster, and Jonesium kills a bunch of people and gives the rest weird cancers? How will ol' Doc Jones feel about his legacy then, hmm? Better to be devoured by wasp larvae. So clearly, we need better, less risky names for these elements.

Let's see, an element that sticks around for 30 seconds and then goes away. I believe I can come up with a few right here, even without some fancy-shmancy degree:

• Postite
• BlogTrollium
• Wevedoneitohnowehaventium (or Heybosslookatuhnevermindium)
• Anaviagrium
• Blinddatium

Did anyone else find it ironic that the lawyer representing MGM is named Nathan Jayhole? (okay - it's Nathan J. Hole - but you get the point...).

I have to wonder if he did a Michael J. Fox middle-initial change thinking he'd be safe...

I hope by "ween" you meant definitions 4 or 6, and not 5.

I was kidding a bit about "castigation". My cyberskin knows too well how Slashdot "castigation" goes. Usually more like the gibbering of the infinite monkey at its keyboard.

I hope by "ween" you meant definitions 4 or 6, and not 5.

I was kidding a bit about "castigation". My cyberskin knows too well how Slashdot "castigation" goes. Usually more like the gibbering of the infinite monkey at its keyboard.

I had my doubts about that being a word, but it is in the http://urbandictionary.com/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sti ck+a+fork+in+it

-Don

A really fast 40G drive would be great to use as the filesystem root, plus swap space; your porn and other documents could all be kept on another (large, slow) drive. I've thought a lot about doing something like this right now using SCSI disks.

(3) Used to describe material which is deserving of (or will be subjected to) the degree of intense speculation and overeager viewing normally reserved for high quality pornography.

> So please, call U2 a band and Bono a musician.

Now I know you're a troll

• A no-win situation caused by a set of rules that can only be won by changing the rules, in effect, cheating.

I hear that Dr. James Anderson doesn't like to lose...

"nonce for years one way and no one else has doesn't mean it is so for everyone"

What , you think I just talk to myself? Why not visit britain and ask someone on the street or read this you thick prick:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=non ce

I thought it was "elephant in the room"? Googlefight!. We're talking orders of magnitude here... Please tell me that lame TV commercial that botched the idiom isn't starting a trend? I think 800 lb gorilla should remain as the Urban Dictionary's "an overbearing entity in a specific industry or sphere of activity" and not expand to the more abstract, from Wikipedia, "an obvious truth that is being ignored"

It's a parody of the phrase "honk for Jesus", a shorter form of "honk if you love Jesus"; a famous car bumper sticker. A bong is a device used to smoke herbs and a bong hit is what I miss the most about my youth.

So we have a student making a banner that says "Bong hits for Jesus". Most Christians would be against smoking weed, the suggestion that they should self identify as a group by getting stoned is therefore ironic. The banner is a humourous and ironic exaggeration of the "honk for Jesus" meme, a work of satire.

Basically then, his statement means that freedom in the US has been cirumvented by a bunch of humourless, intolerant morons who would apparently prefer to live in Iran or the PRC.

Hope that helps.

True. Although do bear in mind this is California, home of the movie industry. I'd be interested in seeing if they were quite as successful in getting a similar bill nuked in, say, Massachussets.

Speaking of California and the movie industry, does anyone know if we're hearing anything from any of these actors/actresses who speak out so often about social injustice? What's the Governator's opinion on this? I haven't seen anything. I wonder if maybe it's too close to their own pocketbook (maybe it's true about the love of money...) or maybe it's just peer pressure from within their social circles?