As somebody who has driven on many occasions in Agincourt, Ontario, and escaped with my life, I have to say I'm torn.
I can't make up my mind which would be more terrifying: with driver, or without driver (software designed where pedestrians are regarded as targets of opportunity).
Pale Moon has lots of options, and remains largely compatible with a wide range of Firefox add-ons. You mention accessibility options (with good cause), but that's a special case rather than a wide-ranging failure. I suspect it has to do with the limited capacity of their small design team.
I don't want to come across as some kind of fan boy, but I've found it works well for my needs, and it has now become my main browser (though not my only one).
I actually have reviewed it. I left Firefox with a heavy heart, but for good reason. What attracted me in the first place was that you could pick and choose what features you wanted, and "under the hood" configuration options were virtually unlimited. This is exactly what's being compromised as the design team has tried to make it more and more like Chrome. Yes there are differences...but the direction they're moving in is obvious.
My buddy just installed Pale Moon (think old school Firefox) on a rooted Galaxy S6 Edge, and he freakin' loves it. So I have to suspect the issue here isn't with users...at least as far as the browser part of the situation is concerned.
I think I'm just going to put this down as another example of the idiots running the show refusing to admit they made a huge mistake by trying to turn Firefox into a half-assed version of Chrome.
Firefox is now circling the drain. I'm glad I moved on when I did, rather than hoping in vain that heads would roll before the browser was totally ruined. I'll be truly sorry to see it go.
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive
If you've ever driven in New Delhi, or even any major city with a significant East Asian population, you're keenly aware that the real issue isn't when they drive, but whether any sane government would allow them to drive.
"That means that the appropriate question should be directed to makers of electric cars: What are you doing to make selling electric cars as profitable and painless for your dealers as selling gasoline or diesel vehicles?"
Nope.
The appropriate question to be directed at makers of electric cars is, "Why do you need dealers?"
I could mention that dealerships are the Number 1 reason why a large segment of auto-owning population puts buying a car on about the same level as leaving your kids with a suspected child molester. However, just about anybody who has ever done business with a car dealership already knows this.
You nailed it, my friend! When you tie this level of invasiveness with Free World governments that have enshrined in law their "right" to go to Microsoft, Google, Facebook and such, and just take whatever data they want (then forbid the company from advising anybody that they've turned over literally everything), it's a good reason to just go somewhere else for an OS.
I've been around since Win3.1. Win10 will never go on any computer I own.
It's not that I lead any kind of an interesting life, but I place a high value on my privacy, and have little trust in powerful organizations that are so intent on turning me into a marketable commodity with only the rights and freedoms which suit them at the moment.
You should check out Pale Moon. It's basically Firefox before it all went to shytte, and they seem intent on maintaining the kind of browser that made Firefox a success in the first place.
That's certainly what caught my attention. And it could go a long way toward making these things workable.
Let's face it, there's going to be huge push-back from people who don't want to get stuck behind a vehicle that drives under the speed limit most of the time, and there's bound to be wankers who try to get a pay-off by throwing themselves at the car or cutting in front of it in their scrap-worthy beater.
They've done an excellent job on other occasions when they published names. Case in point, outing the KKK. Another group tried to claim credit and defuse their work with false accusations, but it got shot down pretty fast.
Were you just too lazy to find out a little about the situation before you shot off your mouth, or do you just like to throw around the term "vigilante"?
Why is this here? How many Slashdot visitors are so computer-challenged that they haven't found out about this already, and gone to a website where they can find out a lot more about it than what they'll get here?
For the love of god, this points readers at CNN!!! It might as well send us to Pravda or Faux Noise (oops...that was supposed to be Fox News)
Please, no more of this space-filling, time-wasting, off-topic crap.
So when Firefox releases yet another version, and the buttons and tabs and other stuff you "never configure" have been moved around and start acting differently, yet again, you're OK with that?
Or is that when you might actually want to configure your browser and put all the stuff back the way you like it? Because this is exactly what you have to do if you "hardly ever configure something in [your] browser so it looks different".
That is exactly what they're going to break...your ability to keep the browser looking and acting the way you're used to.
I'm afraid your suggestion is probably wrong. If Slashdotters were involved, the drone would have been carrying at least a dozen Hyper X Predator flash drives crammed to the limit with fake nudie pix of Felicia O'Day and Natalie Portman.
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As somebody who has driven on many occasions in Agincourt, Ontario, and escaped with my life, I have to say I'm torn.
I can't make up my mind which would be more terrifying: with driver, or without driver (software designed where pedestrians are regarded as targets of opportunity).
Isn't that the case with anything?
Pale Moon has lots of options, and remains largely compatible with a wide range of Firefox add-ons. You mention accessibility options (with good cause), but that's a special case rather than a wide-ranging failure. I suspect it has to do with the limited capacity of their small design team.
I don't want to come across as some kind of fan boy, but I've found it works well for my needs, and it has now become my main browser (though not my only one).
I actually have reviewed it. I left Firefox with a heavy heart, but for good reason. What attracted me in the first place was that you could pick and choose what features you wanted, and "under the hood" configuration options were virtually unlimited. This is exactly what's being compromised as the design team has tried to make it more and more like Chrome. Yes there are differences...but the direction they're moving in is obvious.
You might want to try rooting an Android phone, then installing Pale Moon on it as your browser.
My buddy just installed Pale Moon (think old school Firefox) on a rooted Galaxy S6 Edge, and he freakin' loves it. So I have to suspect the issue here isn't with users...at least as far as the browser part of the situation is concerned.
I think I'm just going to put this down as another example of the idiots running the show refusing to admit they made a huge mistake by trying to turn Firefox into a half-assed version of Chrome.
Firefox is now circling the drain. I'm glad I moved on when I did, rather than hoping in vain that heads would roll before the browser was totally ruined. I'll be truly sorry to see it go.
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive
If you've ever driven in New Delhi, or even any major city with a significant East Asian population, you're keenly aware that the real issue isn't when they drive, but whether any sane government would allow them to drive.
"That means that the appropriate question should be directed to makers of electric cars: What are you doing to make selling electric cars as profitable and painless for your dealers as selling gasoline or diesel vehicles?"
Nope.
The appropriate question to be directed at makers of electric cars is, "Why do you need dealers?"
I could mention that dealerships are the Number 1 reason why a large segment of auto-owning population puts buying a car on about the same level as leaving your kids with a suspected child molester. However, just about anybody who has ever done business with a car dealership already knows this.
You nailed it, my friend! When you tie this level of invasiveness with Free World governments that have enshrined in law their "right" to go to Microsoft, Google, Facebook and such, and just take whatever data they want (then forbid the company from advising anybody that they've turned over literally everything), it's a good reason to just go somewhere else for an OS.
I've been around since Win3.1. Win10 will never go on any computer I own.
It's not that I lead any kind of an interesting life, but I place a high value on my privacy, and have little trust in powerful organizations that are so intent on turning me into a marketable commodity with only the rights and freedoms which suit them at the moment.
I haven't used this, so please exercise due skepticism, but I've heard this is excellent for solving the problem you describe:
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c...
"Wang! Pay attention!"
What unmitigated bullshit!
Here...written in terms so simple even you should be able to grasp. Read and learn:
http://blogs.discovermagazine....
Thanks for that. I was going to say basically the same thing, but not nearly so well.
Cheers!
You should check out Pale Moon. It's basically Firefox before it all went to shytte, and they seem intent on maintaining the kind of browser that made Firefox a success in the first place.
Arris Cable Modems Have 'Backdoors In Backdoors,' Researcher Claims
This is exactly like saying Donald Trump has an asshole.
That's certainly what caught my attention. And it could go a long way toward making these things workable.
Let's face it, there's going to be huge push-back from people who don't want to get stuck behind a vehicle that drives under the speed limit most of the time, and there's bound to be wankers who try to get a pay-off by throwing themselves at the car or cutting in front of it in their scrap-worthy beater.
They've done an excellent job on other occasions when they published names. Case in point, outing the KKK. Another group tried to claim credit and defuse their work with false accusations, but it got shot down pretty fast.
Were you just too lazy to find out a little about the situation before you shot off your mouth, or do you just like to throw around the term "vigilante"?
There are tons of news sites covering this, and doing it a hell of a lot better than providing links to a worthless propaganda factory like CNN.
Why is this here? How many Slashdot visitors are so computer-challenged that they haven't found out about this already, and gone to a website where they can find out a lot more about it than what they'll get here?
For the love of god, this points readers at CNN!!! It might as well send us to Pravda or Faux Noise (oops...that was supposed to be Fox News)
Please, no more of this space-filling, time-wasting, off-topic crap.
Thank you for that, from the bottom of my heart!
That is a plain, flat-out lie, and you know it.
Cheney and the rest of that odious crowd made it Job 1 to convince Americans there was a connection.
They succeeded.
So when Firefox releases yet another version, and the buttons and tabs and other stuff you "never configure" have been moved around and start acting differently, yet again, you're OK with that?
Or is that when you might actually want to configure your browser and put all the stuff back the way you like it ? Because this is exactly what you have to do if you "hardly ever configure something in [your] browser so it looks different".
That is exactly what they're going to break...your ability to keep the browser looking and acting the way you're used to.
I always find it amusing when Americans like you don't even know your own recent history. Read and learn, you smug, cretinous dumbass:
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/0...
I'm afraid your suggestion is probably wrong. If Slashdotters were involved, the drone would have been carrying at least a dozen Hyper X Predator flash drives crammed to the limit with fake nudie pix of Felicia O'Day and Natalie Portman.
Only $99? If anybody expects me to use Windows 10 on a computer, they'll have to pay me a lot more than that.
...they'll have to pay me a hell of a lot more than $99. ;-)