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Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade
Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object.'"
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I find it humorous that the initial AC blasted you for a quote in your sig. And even at that, the ramblings are without enough coherent content to make anything from it.
I got a better solution, get a wife that loves porn just as much as you do..
I never honestly understood why you need to hide stuff from your partner. A clear sign something is very wrong in my opinion.
And if you're hiding your porn stuff from your kids......
Then A: They already know where to get it. They don't need your tiny 250gig of movies.
Or B: What the hell are they doing on your computer on your account anyway?
Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.
I'm against universal health care, as it is being proposed now.
As a person with a disability and on again, off again health health issues, I know exactly what my insurance covers. It is why I read the benefits package when I get it to determine what the package offers.
Before I was employed, I had public health care, both through Welfare and Social Security. While everything was "covered" technically, I had a hard time finding doctors that accepted the Medicaid coverage and that I didn't have to wait 3 months to get in to.
I think a better solution would be to open the private insurance companies to individual or public group memberships. Until recently, it was all but impossible to get insurance on your own. Washington state (where I live) has a low income insurance program that gets you insured by a regular insurance company. However, it is income restricted. If you a buiness owner, a consultant or work in a job that does not offer insurance and you make more than the llowed amount, you are SOL.
It has gotten a bit better with individual options being offered with the insurance company at a somewhat reasonable rate.
If the government insists on throwing money at this, perhaps a subsidy to get people insured through the established insurance companies.
Just my $0.02.
What don't you understand about the word want.
umm.. isn't that the whole point of being insured in the first place - everybody pays an "equal" amount of money, most people will be happy if they don't need it.. but for the off chance that you need it, there is enough money available to be paid out.
if only those who *need* it would pay into an insurance.. there is no need for an insurance anyway .. so why the hell are you insured, since you are one of the lucky guys, who will never need it.
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Precisely. There are about 30 million U.S. citizens without private insurance, but most of them either don't want it (me and other young adults), or are already covered by Medicare or SCHIP (elderly and children) and therefore government insured.
That leaves just 8 million who have "fallen through the cracks" who want insurance but are not covered by either private or government plans. It's a minor problem (3%) and therefore only needs a minor solution (extend Medicare), while leaving the other 97% of citizens alone to continue doing what they've always done.
We don't need a wholesale takeover by a government monopoly. That's overkill.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I *am* a good person.
Which is why it bothers me that my government assumes I'm not, and then bosses me around like a surrogate parent ("You WILL buy health insurance, You WILL serve in the national corps for two years, You WILL donate money to charity/welfare. Or else spend time in jail, you man! (or woman)") This is neither liberty not freedom.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall