Net Neutrality calls Ajit Pai "a mistake". I'm with Mr. Neutrality on this one!
uncertainty is the enemy of growth
Unchecked growth is a cancer - it needs a few more enemies. Besides, uncertainty favours innovation.
Pai’s general philosophy is that the commission shouldn’t involve itself with basically anything unless there’s a huge market failure
Umm... shouldn't you be trying to prevent "a huge market failure" Mr. Pai, rather than getting involved after the fact? Also, if you ask your constituents, (you know, the people whose interests you're supposed to protect - not to be confused with the corporations from whom you're currying favour), I'm pretty sure they'll tell you that the market is already in a huge state of failure.
Ajit Pai - just another self-serving disaster on the American political scene.
Apple has the iPhone report the same information for their traffic that Google does.
AFAICT my Android phone doesn't report this kind of information, because I have both WiFi and cell data turned off unless I'm using them. Also, I have location disabled - provided that it's really disabled, and not just in stealth mode. I'm in the fortunate position of not needing to be constantly connected, and I have a standalone GPS for the times when I need directions. I think a LOT more people could easily treat their phones the same way, but don't because they're lazy and/or oblivious.
Yes, I can still be tracked by cell tower triangulation, but I don't think that info gets sent back to Google. And even if the data is saved until I have a connection, by that time the data is usually stale by at least a few hours, and more often by a few days. Beyond that, I have at least some hope that my firewall blocks it.
I'd like a duress pin instead. It lets the phone function totally as normal, except it fires an email with my location, and an email that I'm being forced to unlock my phone to my lawyer or (for my work phone) my corporate legal dept.
That's a great idea - until they start operating Stingray equipment at all borders so they can control your phone's data traffic and prevent any such 'security breaches'.
Our sales reps take factory wiped burner phones and laptops with them when they go on trips to the USA...
How long will it be before 'clean' devices like that will be sufficient cause for being denied entry? For the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" crowd running things now, anything suggesting that you value your own privacy enough to take precautions, makes you at least an object of suspicion, and possibly even a criminal or a terrorist.
Wouldn't it be better to start holding our governments accountable to us, the people who elected the leaders of said governments, and the people who ultimately pay all their salaries? Yeah, I know, corporations own the governments, you can't fight city hall, etc. But really, fuck this nonsense of either taking inconvenient, expensive, extraordinary, and unreliable countermeasures to protect ourselves from our own elected and paid for governments, or taking it up the a** from same! It's time to start organizing and fighting for change, the way civil rights activists did decades ago. Our civil rights are being violated, and it's time to politely but firmly say "No!" to sitting at the back of our own goddamned bus!
In the past schools' main purpose was to teach children how to be cheap industry workers. This feels like the past may be coming back.
What you say is correct, except that 'the past' isn't coming back, because it never left. Also, the real purpose of public education goes far beyond creating a cheap workforce. And lest you think that latter page is the fantasy of conspiracy theory nutters, read Gatto's 'Underground History of American Education', then check the references he sites. American public schools were designed, and are being maintained and modified on an ongoing basis, specifically to stunt the intellectual and emotional growth of citizens who might otherwise a) be a source of unbridled innovation that puts the long term plans of the corporatocracy at risk, and b) start to question their own relative servitude and powerlessness. Again, the historical record on this is clear and unambiguous.
The next time you talk or think about 'sheeple', ask yourself why so many people are like that; then ask yourself in how many ways you yourself may have been stunted by a school system which was designed by smart, determined people specifically for that purpose. At that point you might want to have a closer look at the earlier educational systems upon which our modern one was modelled.
I think there's probably quite a decent niche market for this product. Some people like to use a phone primarily as, you know, a phone. They'll be attracted to the extended battery life, and won't be bothered by a bit less processing power and slightly lower resolution. Some people use smartphones as fairly basic tools, not as gaming platforms / computer substitutes / fashion accessories.
is to come out with a warning label stating that “Publishing actors' ages is known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” The 'cancer card' ought to trump, (Trump?), a federal court judge's ruling.
Seriously this article makes it sound like life just after a devastating conflict is better than economic prosperity because most people are equally poor.
That's pretty fucked up, and I'm calling BS.
Even the title of TFA, (which it seems you didn't read or didn't understand), contradicts your interpretation: "The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe". Nowhere in the article does it say, or even imply AFAICT, that "life just after a devastating conflict is better than economic prosperity" - it only says that economic inequality is reduced. Therefore, you are the one making the value judgment, not the article. Nice strawman there.
On the one hand, 'Facebook' - enough said. On the other hand, competition is good, and we need more of it in the digital payments business. Besides, I'd love to see PayPal taken down a notch or fifty - maybe then they'd at least have to act as if they weren't utterly evil, in order to stay viable.
... When you can get news that you like from nearly anywhere and for free, why pay for it and why subject yourself to a New York City viewpoint from barely educated and mind warped fanatics?
"News that you like" is the operative phrase there. I'd like to think that it used to be different, bit I'm not sure it ever was. Maybe the majority always gravitated to the news they 'liked' in favour of the news that did its best to be accurate and unbiased, and maybe the generally more accurate and unbiased news of 40 years ago obscured the fact.
There's so much at stake now for governments and corporations wanting to control the narrative. 'News', (and I use the term very loosely), is often a make-or-break thing when it comes to elections, IPO's, product launches, sales numbers, law suits, new legislation, and even criminal cases, (to name a few); so simply reporting the facts and adding a bit of insightful analysis is kind of obsolete. The distinctions among news, editorials, and advertising have all but disappeared. If people already have a tendency to choose the (um...let's call it 'reportage') that they like, regardless of its accuracy or relevance, then the market is ripe for hucksters and con men of every stripe looking to sway the opinions of a constituency or a nation. It's no accident that Kellyanne Conjob coined the phrase 'alternative facts'. She was pilloried for it, and rightly so, but in one sense she was just pointing out the nature of today's reality, which is that, for a distressingly large number of people, fact is no different from opinion, and is simply a matter of preference. Our culture seems to have made 'critical faculty' a pejorative term; for the history of why that's so, read John Taylor Gatto, among others.
In an era when people can hear the 'news' that they prefer, for little or no money, does the NYT have any chance of long-term survival?
Maybe I will in the future directly go to the second and not even check the first page at all...
I turn off all of Google's misguided and inept attempts to be 'helpful', (suggestions, filtering, etc), and set the number of hits to 100 per page. I'd have it higher than that if I could. Scrolling is much easier and has better flow than paginating anyway. So my "first page" results are much more comprehensive than most people's anyway. Looking at Google results 10 hits at a time sucks ass - once you try it set to 100 per page, you'll never go back. Unless you're on a really slow connection...
Nobody cares what's on your stupid phone. Border guards are mostly worried about - wait for it - protecting the border.
Hey - if nobody cares what's on travellers' phones, why are they so hell-bent on examining the contents? As for "protecting the border", did you REALLY write that with a straight face?
I'm not saying "you should unlock your phone because only criminals have something to hide". Not at all. I'm saying it's like a proctology exam. Yeah it sucks, and in an ideal world we shouldn't have to do it.
Dude! Do you hear yourself? Tell me honestly now - if you were visiting a friend in the hospital and were forced to either have a proctology exam on the spot, or be detained for an arbitrary amount of time and thereafter face the third degree every time you tried to re-enter the hospital - wouldn't you be pissed? Comparing the two as you just did is totally ludicrous, and you should know better.
But the best thing for all involved is to just man up and get it over with, then get on with your life. Not everything is worth making a federal case about.
Really? Roll over and play dead - that's the best you've got? Sure - just suck it up, keep sucking it up, and advise others to do the same. Because that doesn't contribute AT ALL to the transition between routine violation of freedoms and rights, and full-on dictatorship. Get a clue man!
It's really sad that this happened, but really, sending something irreplaceable, (and arguably culturally important), by POST for Christ's sake, strikes me as irresponsible. I know courier companies lose stuff too, but I highly doubt that the automation equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" would be offered as an explanation. And if the package had been lost by a courier company, I suspect there would a better chance of it being found sooner or later.
Are you sure that the difference you're detecting isn't down to what they're eating? Gallena de patio commonly consumes a far more varied diet than a factory-farmed, never-sees-the-sun-but-we-can-still-call-it-cage-free bird.
How about 'chicken breeds preserved so chicken actually tastes like chicken again'? I'm an old fart, and chicken tastes vastly more bland than it did when I was a kid. And no, it's not just the 'everything was better back then' syndrome. When I was in Guyana I ate meat from fully-grown chickens that weren't all that much bigger than just the breasts of the chickens we get here, and its flavour took me back to the chicken I used to eat as a kid.
The chickens we buy in supermarkets have been bred to attain maximum weight in the minimum amount of time possible; they have also been bred to have a higher survival rate during transport, and to be more disease resistant. With these genetic alterations, they just taste bland - rather like most tomatoes today, and for much the same reasons.
then it very probably has ALREADY been hacked. The reason we haven't heard about it is a), it's been covered up or b), it hasn't been discovered yet, and the hacker is laying low in order to collect as much dirt as possible and/or do as much covert damage as possible. Trump as President is too high-profile, too controversial, too thoroughly disliked, and too valuable as a potential blackmail asset, for there NOT to have already been multiple hacking attempts by serious players with deep pockets. If he IS using anything like a stock Android phone, it's very unlikely that he hasn't already been pwned at least once.
...Most normal humans don't want to sit around and do nothing, they want to be productive and make personal goals, balance risk versus security, have control of their destiny, and be able to provide better for their families than they did for themselves. Normal humans don't want to have the same job as everyone else, don't want to live in the same kind of house, wear the same kinds of clothing, eat the same foods, etc.. etc.. etc... The whole point of every story of Utopia ever written is that Utopia CAN NOT EXIST! Individuality is part of being a human, and individual liberty is the normal state of a human.
You should check out Marshall Brain's 'Manna'. The point of its utopia is that it could be made to exist, and the people who live in it are as varied and individualistic as they care to be. I find one of the premises of his utopia a bit far-fetched and a bit creepy, but that's probably only because a), I'm old and b), I haven't lived through the huge displacement caused by ubiquitous automation and AI. He makes a compelling case for what we might be if we do inventive and sensible things in response to our own sweeping innovations. He imagines a future wherein people lead meaningful, satisfying, creative, and productive lives according to their best own lights, freed from the burden of having to work to secure food, clothing, shelter, and spurious social status.
I haven't updated firefox in a long time. Sadly, it no longer even works in my corporate environment.
You really should give Pale Moon a try - it's our last best hope for maintaining the almost-extinct Firefox ecosystem that we've come to know, love, and rely on. And because it incorporates Firefox security updates, (at least so far), it may even work in your corporate environment.
Even if you don't expect to win the war, you should still throw indiscriminate wrenches at the thousands of machines. Block, disable, blacklist, sabotage, just spew it all out, if only on principle. It's your machine, try to control what it does, where it (invisibly) goes, what it announces.
Thank you for putting words to the things I do and to the attitude that I have and can't shake, even though life would be simpler without it. I'm usually pretty articulate, but you've expressed the reasons for me doing what I do better than anything I've managed so far.
Then, yes, continue efforts at the source. But my website/software (eg app) is going to scoop up everything in reach, and trying to outlaw it will just cause cat-and-mouse workarounds, loopholes, moving goalposts. It's going to be financially advantageous no matter what. It's going to be happening, no matter what. As a powerless commoner in an oligarchy nation, my attention is best spent treating the symptoms in my own life, and whining on internet message boards to encourage stigma.
Thanks for this too - I think I'll call it 'incidental trench warfare'.
Firefox works for me just great, and on all my devices. I just dont understand the hate.
Firefox's vast array of extensions renders it highly configurable to a user's individual tastes and needs, and it is utterly unique among browsers, so the disappearance of that flexibility understandably pisses off those of us who have come to rely on it. If Slashdot got rid of mod points, karma, thresholds, and spam ratings, and no longer permitted user-submitted stories, wouldn't you be upset? If not, then why are you here at all?
In any case getting extensiond out of firefox internals is a good thing: it is a real security risk mitigated by a proper API.
And if Mozilla hadn't wasted so much time, energy, and money making frivolous UI changes that pissed off most of their user base and a good few developers as well, (not to mention sinking pointless effort into diluting their brand further with a stupid new logo for a company that's hemorrhaging market share), then perhaps they could have transitioned to a more secure platform while at the same time providing a way to translate existing extensions to the new security model.
Look at the mindless monoculture here at Slashdot.
Look at the mindless monoculture you're advocating when you say that it's OK for Firefox to become a late-to-the-party Chrome clone. Slashdot ain't the problem here pal - you are. And if what you see here bothers you so much, go somewhere else. Please. You obviously don't 'get' Slashdot in the same way that you don't 'get' Firefox - so do us all a favour and slag off over to Reddit.
if I'd gotten here soon enough I would have modded you up as insightful rather than funny. McDonald's shakes are gross - I don't understand how they sell any. Maybe the only people who buy them are those that have never had a real milkshake.
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Net Neutrality calls Ajit Pai "a mistake". I'm with Mr. Neutrality on this one!
uncertainty is the enemy of growth
Unchecked growth is a cancer - it needs a few more enemies. Besides, uncertainty favours innovation.
Pai’s general philosophy is that the commission shouldn’t involve itself with basically anything unless there’s a huge market failure
Umm... shouldn't you be trying to prevent "a huge market failure" Mr. Pai, rather than getting involved after the fact? Also, if you ask your constituents, (you know, the people whose interests you're supposed to protect - not to be confused with the corporations from whom you're currying favour), I'm pretty sure they'll tell you that the market is already in a huge state of failure.
Ajit Pai - just another self-serving disaster on the American political scene.
Disabled by default, then enabled by default, then mandatory, then not able to be worked around. Give it time.
Windows dies when that happens.
You probably would have said the same thing before Windows 10 came along. You would have been wrong then, and you're probably wrong now.
Apple has the iPhone report the same information for their traffic that Google does.
AFAICT my Android phone doesn't report this kind of information, because I have both WiFi and cell data turned off unless I'm using them. Also, I have location disabled - provided that it's really disabled, and not just in stealth mode. I'm in the fortunate position of not needing to be constantly connected, and I have a standalone GPS for the times when I need directions. I think a LOT more people could easily treat their phones the same way, but don't because they're lazy and/or oblivious.
Yes, I can still be tracked by cell tower triangulation, but I don't think that info gets sent back to Google. And even if the data is saved until I have a connection, by that time the data is usually stale by at least a few hours, and more often by a few days. Beyond that, I have at least some hope that my firewall blocks it.
I'd like a duress pin instead. It lets the phone function totally as normal, except it fires an email with my location, and an email that I'm being forced to unlock my phone to my lawyer or (for my work phone) my corporate legal dept.
That's a great idea - until they start operating Stingray equipment at all borders so they can control your phone's data traffic and prevent any such 'security breaches'.
Our sales reps take factory wiped burner phones and laptops with them when they go on trips to the USA...
How long will it be before 'clean' devices like that will be sufficient cause for being denied entry? For the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" crowd running things now, anything suggesting that you value your own privacy enough to take precautions, makes you at least an object of suspicion, and possibly even a criminal or a terrorist.
Wouldn't it be better to start holding our governments accountable to us, the people who elected the leaders of said governments, and the people who ultimately pay all their salaries? Yeah, I know, corporations own the governments, you can't fight city hall, etc. But really, fuck this nonsense of either taking inconvenient, expensive, extraordinary, and unreliable countermeasures to protect ourselves from our own elected and paid for governments, or taking it up the a** from same! It's time to start organizing and fighting for change, the way civil rights activists did decades ago. Our civil rights are being violated, and it's time to politely but firmly say "No!" to sitting at the back of our own goddamned bus!
In the past schools' main purpose was to teach children how to be cheap industry workers. This feels like the past may be coming back.
What you say is correct, except that 'the past' isn't coming back, because it never left. Also, the real purpose of public education goes far beyond creating a cheap workforce. And lest you think that latter page is the fantasy of conspiracy theory nutters, read Gatto's 'Underground History of American Education', then check the references he sites. American public schools were designed, and are being maintained and modified on an ongoing basis, specifically to stunt the intellectual and emotional growth of citizens who might otherwise a) be a source of unbridled innovation that puts the long term plans of the corporatocracy at risk, and b) start to question their own relative servitude and powerlessness. Again, the historical record on this is clear and unambiguous.
The next time you talk or think about 'sheeple', ask yourself why so many people are like that; then ask yourself in how many ways you yourself may have been stunted by a school system which was designed by smart, determined people specifically for that purpose. At that point you might want to have a closer look at the earlier educational systems upon which our modern one was modelled.
I think there's probably quite a decent niche market for this product. Some people like to use a phone primarily as, you know, a phone. They'll be attracted to the extended battery life, and won't be bothered by a bit less processing power and slightly lower resolution. Some people use smartphones as fairly basic tools, not as gaming platforms / computer substitutes / fashion accessories.
Samsung Note 7 was a battery which was sold, through clever merchandising, as a phone.
Samsung Note 7 was an incendiary device which was sold, through clever merchandising, as a phone. FTFY
is to come out with a warning label stating that “Publishing actors' ages is known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” The 'cancer card' ought to trump, (Trump?), a federal court judge's ruling.
Seriously this article makes it sound like life just after a devastating conflict is better than economic prosperity because most people are equally poor.
That's pretty fucked up, and I'm calling BS.
Even the title of TFA, (which it seems you didn't read or didn't understand), contradicts your interpretation: "The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe". Nowhere in the article does it say, or even imply AFAICT, that "life just after a devastating conflict is better than economic prosperity" - it only says that economic inequality is reduced. Therefore, you are the one making the value judgment, not the article. Nice strawman there.
On the one hand, 'Facebook' - enough said. On the other hand, competition is good, and we need more of it in the digital payments business. Besides, I'd love to see PayPal taken down a notch or fifty - maybe then they'd at least have to act as if they weren't utterly evil, in order to stay viable.
... and we were forbidden to pee in the shower !
Well, that lets me out then! When I can't pee in the shower first thing in the morning, it messes up my whole day!
... When you can get news that you like from nearly anywhere and for free, why pay for it and why subject yourself to a New York City viewpoint from barely educated and mind warped fanatics?
"News that you like" is the operative phrase there. I'd like to think that it used to be different, bit I'm not sure it ever was. Maybe the majority always gravitated to the news they 'liked' in favour of the news that did its best to be accurate and unbiased, and maybe the generally more accurate and unbiased news of 40 years ago obscured the fact.
There's so much at stake now for governments and corporations wanting to control the narrative. 'News', (and I use the term very loosely), is often a make-or-break thing when it comes to elections, IPO's, product launches, sales numbers, law suits, new legislation, and even criminal cases, (to name a few); so simply reporting the facts and adding a bit of insightful analysis is kind of obsolete. The distinctions among news, editorials, and advertising have all but disappeared. If people already have a tendency to choose the (um...let's call it 'reportage') that they like, regardless of its accuracy or relevance, then the market is ripe for hucksters and con men of every stripe looking to sway the opinions of a constituency or a nation. It's no accident that Kellyanne Conjob coined the phrase 'alternative facts'. She was pilloried for it, and rightly so, but in one sense she was just pointing out the nature of today's reality, which is that, for a distressingly large number of people, fact is no different from opinion, and is simply a matter of preference. Our culture seems to have made 'critical faculty' a pejorative term; for the history of why that's so, read John Taylor Gatto, among others.
In an era when people can hear the 'news' that they prefer, for little or no money, does the NYT have any chance of long-term survival?
Maybe I will in the future directly go to the second and not even check the first page at all...
I turn off all of Google's misguided and inept attempts to be 'helpful', (suggestions, filtering, etc), and set the number of hits to 100 per page. I'd have it higher than that if I could. Scrolling is much easier and has better flow than paginating anyway. So my "first page" results are much more comprehensive than most people's anyway. Looking at Google results 10 hits at a time sucks ass - once you try it set to 100 per page, you'll never go back. Unless you're on a really slow connection...
Nobody cares what's on your stupid phone. Border guards are mostly worried about - wait for it - protecting the border.
Hey - if nobody cares what's on travellers' phones, why are they so hell-bent on examining the contents? As for "protecting the border", did you REALLY write that with a straight face?
I'm not saying "you should unlock your phone because only criminals have something to hide". Not at all. I'm saying it's like a proctology exam. Yeah it sucks, and in an ideal world we shouldn't have to do it.
Dude! Do you hear yourself? Tell me honestly now - if you were visiting a friend in the hospital and were forced to either have a proctology exam on the spot, or be detained for an arbitrary amount of time and thereafter face the third degree every time you tried to re-enter the hospital - wouldn't you be pissed? Comparing the two as you just did is totally ludicrous, and you should know better.
But the best thing for all involved is to just man up and get it over with, then get on with your life. Not everything is worth making a federal case about.
Really? Roll over and play dead - that's the best you've got? Sure - just suck it up, keep sucking it up, and advise others to do the same. Because that doesn't contribute AT ALL to the transition between routine violation of freedoms and rights, and full-on dictatorship. Get a clue man!
It's really sad that this happened, but really, sending something irreplaceable, (and arguably culturally important), by POST for Christ's sake, strikes me as irresponsible. I know courier companies lose stuff too, but I highly doubt that the automation equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" would be offered as an explanation. And if the package had been lost by a courier company, I suspect there would a better chance of it being found sooner or later.
Are you sure that the difference you're detecting isn't down to what they're eating? Gallena de patio commonly consumes a far more varied diet than a factory-farmed, never-sees-the-sun-but-we-can-still-call-it-cage-free bird.
Good point - hadn't thought of it. Thanks.
How about 'chicken breeds preserved so chicken actually tastes like chicken again'? I'm an old fart, and chicken tastes vastly more bland than it did when I was a kid. And no, it's not just the 'everything was better back then' syndrome. When I was in Guyana I ate meat from fully-grown chickens that weren't all that much bigger than just the breasts of the chickens we get here, and its flavour took me back to the chicken I used to eat as a kid.
The chickens we buy in supermarkets have been bred to attain maximum weight in the minimum amount of time possible; they have also been bred to have a higher survival rate during transport, and to be more disease resistant. With these genetic alterations, they just taste bland - rather like most tomatoes today, and for much the same reasons.
then it very probably has ALREADY been hacked. The reason we haven't heard about it is a), it's been covered up or b), it hasn't been discovered yet, and the hacker is laying low in order to collect as much dirt as possible and/or do as much covert damage as possible. Trump as President is too high-profile, too controversial, too thoroughly disliked, and too valuable as a potential blackmail asset, for there NOT to have already been multiple hacking attempts by serious players with deep pockets. If he IS using anything like a stock Android phone, it's very unlikely that he hasn't already been pwned at least once.
...Most normal humans don't want to sit around and do nothing, they want to be productive and make personal goals, balance risk versus security, have control of their destiny, and be able to provide better for their families than they did for themselves. Normal humans don't want to have the same job as everyone else, don't want to live in the same kind of house, wear the same kinds of clothing, eat the same foods, etc.. etc.. etc... The whole point of every story of Utopia ever written is that Utopia CAN NOT EXIST! Individuality is part of being a human, and individual liberty is the normal state of a human.
You should check out Marshall Brain's 'Manna'. The point of its utopia is that it could be made to exist, and the people who live in it are as varied and individualistic as they care to be. I find one of the premises of his utopia a bit far-fetched and a bit creepy, but that's probably only because a), I'm old and b), I haven't lived through the huge displacement caused by ubiquitous automation and AI. He makes a compelling case for what we might be if we do inventive and sensible things in response to our own sweeping innovations. He imagines a future wherein people lead meaningful, satisfying, creative, and productive lives according to their best own lights, freed from the burden of having to work to secure food, clothing, shelter, and spurious social status.
I haven't updated firefox in a long time. Sadly, it no longer even works in my corporate environment.
You really should give Pale Moon a try - it's our last best hope for maintaining the almost-extinct Firefox ecosystem that we've come to know, love, and rely on. And because it incorporates Firefox security updates, (at least so far), it may even work in your corporate environment.
Mod parent up!
Even if you don't expect to win the war, you should still throw indiscriminate wrenches at the thousands of machines. Block, disable, blacklist, sabotage, just spew it all out, if only on principle. It's your machine, try to control what it does, where it (invisibly) goes, what it announces.
Thank you for putting words to the things I do and to the attitude that I have and can't shake, even though life would be simpler without it. I'm usually pretty articulate, but you've expressed the reasons for me doing what I do better than anything I've managed so far.
Then, yes, continue efforts at the source. But my website/software (eg app) is going to scoop up everything in reach, and trying to outlaw it will just cause cat-and-mouse workarounds, loopholes, moving goalposts. It's going to be financially advantageous no matter what. It's going to be happening, no matter what. As a powerless commoner in an oligarchy nation, my attention is best spent treating the symptoms in my own life, and whining on internet message boards to encourage stigma.
Thanks for this too - I think I'll call it 'incidental trench warfare'.
Firefox works for me just great, and on all my devices. I just dont understand the hate.
Firefox's vast array of extensions renders it highly configurable to a user's individual tastes and needs, and it is utterly unique among browsers, so the disappearance of that flexibility understandably pisses off those of us who have come to rely on it. If Slashdot got rid of mod points, karma, thresholds, and spam ratings, and no longer permitted user-submitted stories, wouldn't you be upset? If not, then why are you here at all?
In any case getting extensiond out of firefox internals is a good thing: it is a real security risk mitigated by a proper API.
And if Mozilla hadn't wasted so much time, energy, and money making frivolous UI changes that pissed off most of their user base and a good few developers as well, (not to mention sinking pointless effort into diluting their brand further with a stupid new logo for a company that's hemorrhaging market share), then perhaps they could have transitioned to a more secure platform while at the same time providing a way to translate existing extensions to the new security model.
Look at the mindless monoculture here at Slashdot.
Look at the mindless monoculture you're advocating when you say that it's OK for Firefox to become a late-to-the-party Chrome clone. Slashdot ain't the problem here pal - you are. And if what you see here bothers you so much, go somewhere else. Please. You obviously don't 'get' Slashdot in the same way that you don't 'get' Firefox - so do us all a favour and slag off over to Reddit.
if I'd gotten here soon enough I would have modded you up as insightful rather than funny. McDonald's shakes are gross - I don't understand how they sell any. Maybe the only people who buy them are those that have never had a real milkshake.