What, paying you isn't enough? What makes you more deserving of appreciation than any other profession?
Because they know how to bitch better than any other profession? Farmer breaks his back picking rock and bailing hay all day in the sun. Farmer finishes in the red due to market swings. Farmer dies penniless all so we can enjoy a carton of eggs at 47 cents and a gallon of milk at $3.50. But Jesus Christ, the poor sys admins in their air conditioned server rooms that bring us... that bring us... super expensive services? Yeah, we gotta have a day for those guys.
You mean services like Internet Service Providers (the system admins that run the systems that connect your computer to the ineterweb), Web Hosting (the system admins that run the websites like, for example, this one), etc.; that allow you to bitch? I applaud System Admin Appreciation Day and look forward to the first and subsequent annual Anonymous Coward Troll Hatred Days.
There are a lot of losers replying in this thread about how the "disease" makes it difficult to talk to women or engage in social situations. They're giving a disease status to their socially ineptitude. In other words, there's no magic syndrome causing them to be losers; they're losers and justifying it by saying they have a syndrome.
There are a lot of Anonymous Coward losers replying in this thread about how the disease is fake and an excuse; they're losers and justifying it by writing caustic and inflammatory statements saying it is not a real condition. Curiously I wonder how many on each side, the trolling side and the defending side, are Aspies themselves... as it is quite clear to me that just as many of these trolls have the same social ineptitude as the people they are trolling.
Sounds religious which may mean 80% of the United States of America
There, fixed that for you. Life is difficult and unfair, but I guess when you're in the minority it exacerbates things and turns you into a smug cynical bastard.
That only works when the laws of the two countries are sufficiently similar. What if he had done something that was illegal in the USA, but was legal in UK? And what about the sentences? It's possible, even likely, that breaking into a computer system has very different punishments in UK and USA, so according to which one should he be sentenced?
If hacking your supposed Allies military systems is legal, or even ethical, please don't be surprised at the commencement of local bombing raids by the hands of your "Allies."
What he did was the moral equivalent of walking through an unlocked, unguarded door and having a look round. For this he's facing 60 years in jail. This is not justice.
I'd say he's lucky. If I caught a person doing that I'd just shoot them; then call the authorities and say I shot an intruder.
I feel really bad for the first country we go to war with for launching cyber-attacks at the US.
Maybe people will finally realise Aspergers isn't a real condition and an excuse for the the socially inept to not make the effort.
Some psychological, personality, and/or developmental disorders aren't fictitious. Maybe people will finally realize that and stop being facetious know-it-all assholes. Then again, maybe people like ringbarer are obvious trolls and my social ineptness and my lack of effort is the excuse for this misunderstanding.
That's a great line from the lyrics of a Clutch song, and it's forced me to ask the question: "What would life be like today, if the moment we invented radio/television we started receiving 60yo broadcast transmissions from another planet?"
You keep stating that Microsoft is a monopoly over and over so frequently I believe it's a repetition tactic. You know, you repeat something often enough and it becomes the truth for you. The last serious commercial competitor to Microsoft Windows for the desktop PC that I remember before Apple switched to the same x86 platform capable of running Windows, was IBM with OS/2. I believe the free capitalist market spoke when Windows outsold OS/2 enough that IBM pulled it from their product line.
So, one more time (for repetition's sake!), repeating that Microsoft is a monopoly does not make it so. I believe my ability to run Mac OS/X or any linux or freebsd adds weight to my side of that argument.
What you and I are willing to support is not the point nor the issue, it is what Microsoft has to do, obsolete it, pull support, in order to force people to upgrade and update their software so they can profit.
So a company based in a capitalist market is no longer supposed to profit? Well that sucks, I wish someone had told the rest of the world. It seems you missed my point about obsolescence... It's not what anyone or any company has to do, it's just a natural side effect of the progression of technology and biology. While I'm sure that Windows 95/98 ran QuickBooks just fine for your small business; you must realize that as new useful technologies emerge (like the ARPANET going public) they may compromise the integrity of the old features. Thus, rendering the old, obsolete.
The rest of your comment sounds more like a Communist Hippy "free-zealot" rant against capitalism and choice. You see, I use computers and software as specialized tools. I believe that capitalism is the best economic system for giving me the choice of which tools to use and from who I may buy them. You may have no use for any of Microsoft's products, but that certainly doesn't mean you should ignore the majority's needs. If it isn't clear to you by now, the free market has determined that Microsoft's products do what the vast majority of people need them to. Being that we're in a free market, if this wasn't true, their leading competitors would quickly devour Microsoft's share of the market.
Your illiteracy does not make the things you cannot read false. Good luck out there.
In the spirit of fun, I refute your claim of my illiteracy, and once again call attention to your lack of capability in backing up your original claim. For the record, you claimed to be able to express "FUCK YOU" in a polite manner.
Also for the record, I think using explicit language and vulgarity is in effect the opposite of using polite language. Therefore I suggest that saying "FUCK YOU" politely, is a logical fallacy, or at the very least an oxymoron.
If Windows 7 catches on, it won't be long before you run across software that refuses to run on XP.
Which is necessary to Microsoft's survival, being their own biggest competitor and all.
It could be necessary for progress in general. Although, maybe I'm mistaken and you'd prefer to retro fit your gasoline engine powered vehicle with a pair of oxen? I'm just sayin, at some point the past "version" becomes so obsolete you may no longer wish to support it. It may also be that the costs of maintaining support for said obsolescence is simply higher than abandoning it.
I knew you'd miss the lesson. I even said as much in giving it. At least you have excuses for some of your failings. Those will get you far in life.
I knew you'd fail in providing evidence to support your claim. I even offered you the opportunity to provide it. At least you maintain your smarmy attitude in your failings, I'm sure that's some sort of consolation to being unable to do what you claim.
Uhhhh.....maybe I'm confused here, but WTF did the ABP guy do that was in any way shady?
He designs a plugin that blocks ads. People use it and are happy. Noscript guy asks ABP guy to give his site a walk. ABP guy says that is up to the users, that he just don't go around handing out free passes, which of course is what he is SUPPOSED to do, as it would be kinda pointless to have an ad blocker that didn't work on any site that asked the creator nicely or maybe slipped him a little cash. Noscript guy gets pissy and then writes a nasty into his program that goes behind the users back and rewrites the whitelist in ABP to give HIS site a free pass. When users find out they rightly call him a douche and let the hatred fly, which gets the Noscript guy to back off.
I'm sorry, but I don't exactly see where there is anything shady by the ABP guy. All the Noscript guy would have had to do is have a little banner and button and said "I'm kinda broke, so if you like Noscript would you please click this button so my ads won't be blocked by ABP and I can keep working on Noscript? Thanks." and most would have clicked it and that would be the end of that. But by acting like a douche I'm sure quite a few did just as I did and used "About:config" to make sure his site never darkens my internets again. Sadly I can't just toss his warez in the trash, because Mozilla and Google are in a "my JavaScript epeen is bigger than yours" mode and nobody has whitelisting in their browsers for JavaScript.
Mark my words, 5 years from now we WILL look upon JavaScript like we do ActiveX today. We will either come up with a new web scripting language built from the ground up to be secure, or JavaScript will be ripped apart and rebuilt for security. All the crap like sandboxing now is just putting bandaids on bullet wounds because JavaScript simply isn't designed with security in mind. And with the "JavaScript malware o' the day" you would be nuts to have default allow for it or Flash. So the guy can be as big a douche as he wants, like it or not we need Noscript.
I don't need the commentary or the summary in your words as I followed the issue until it was, you know, resolved.
I find that typically if 1-5 are up to par I almost never have to deal with 6. Also, I have subscribed to Sprint (and Qwest back they were leasing from Sprint). I would place Sprint at #2 in the Minneapolis, MN area for at least 1-3 in the above. I experience the worst quality calls, and high call-drop rates with 100% of my iPhone using friends, but I don't have enough data to determine if that's because the iPhone is a junk phone or on a junk network, or a bit of both.
Uhhhhhh....dude? You're kinda confused there pal. The thing that got everybody's panties in a wad was NOT the Noscript guy whitelisting his own stuff, like you said that is to be expected.
Nope, what got everybody all kinds of pissed was that he was running a backdoor script that added a whitelist WITHOUT CONSENT to your Adblock Plus, which is most definitely NOT his software which means he didn't have the right to do that, plus pulling shit without the consent of the browser user is pretty douche-like behavior too. He asked the ABP guy for a free pass for his site, the ABP guy said he doesn't hand out free passes, so he did it by pulling some underhanded shit.
Sadly the guy can act like the biggest douche on the whole internets, because frankly we just ain't got nothing that is a drop in replacement for Noscript. You would think with all the "JavaScript malware o' the day" that browser would take a default deny approach and allow whitelisting, or at least give us the option buried in the guts somewhere, but right now Google and Mozilla are in a "my JavaScript is faster than yours" dick waving competition and can't be bothered. So like it or not, it is either use Noscript, let everything run, or turn everything off and break the Internets. I'll choose Noscript, even if the guy is kinda a dick.
I've never claimed that what the NoScript and AdBlock Plus guys did was anything less than shady and unscrupulous. I'm simply stating: "People have changed, people will change, and when it is for good reason, all humans benefit."
That monopolies stifle progress? Monopoly and Efficiency [wikipedia.org], from wikipedia. "It is often argued that monopolies tend to become less efficient and innovative over time, becoming "complacent giants", because they do not have to be efficient or innovative to compete in the marketplace."
Yes. Apparently it is often argued.
I know what monopoly means. MS is a de facto monopoly. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], "In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos , alone or single + polein , to sell) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it."
Ok, here you validate your claim of knowing the definition of monopoly by simply stating that Microsoft is a de facto monopoly (with some attempt to further that position with a quote from Wikipedia). I don't agree with your reasoning. Also, if I am the sole inventor, manufacturer, patent holder, trademark holder, copyright holder, etc.; it seems you are arguing that I should not have the right to determine the MSRP nor which retailers I may supply to. I clearly disagree with that supposition. I offer you, as evidence that Microsoft is not a Desktop OS monopoly: Apple Mac OS X, and the numerous distributions of Linux and Unix which are all perfectly capable of running as a Desktop OS.
Since BeOS has no significance to my argument I don't feel the need to remark on it.
Your first link says that RIM will have a Mac version of their BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, and that it can sync with iTunes. IMHO I don't think this really counts as making iTunes from scratch, since the article didn't say RIM now has their own music store/application that syncs with BlackBerries. The second link "confirms" the September release date of the Mac native application.
Arj, please enlighten us as to the most polite way to say "FUCK YOU." Until then, FUCK YOU.
There are many ways, but someone incapable of correctly repeating even three letters properly (my name is not Arj, nor could any person with better than a first-grade education believe it to be based on my screen name ari_j) is most likely uninterested in being polite, mostly for lack of any idea what the term might mean.
Of course, your repeated inability to read and comprehend even the most basic points of this discussion should have been sufficient notification to me that your response would be childish, for values of 'child' approaching Baby K with an anger management problem.
I hope that you've gained from the above lesson in politely being told to go fuck yourself, you retarded infant.
What I've gained is that a simple spelling mistake due to lame font and underlined handle caused you to go off the deep end and display your true nature. You didn't enlighten us on the most polite way to say fuck you. Kudos. Oh, and FUCK YOU.
It's not a "problem" that can be "worked on". It's the character of the author. As any decent psychologist will tell you that character is inborn and cannot be changed or "worked on".
The character of the author of NoScript is that of the authors of
1) adware (redirecting to his ad-laden website with each meaningless update and preventing you from blocking these ads)
2) spyware/malware (changing configuration without the user's consent).
trifish: I'm getting quick on the Citation Neededs. I know from firsthand experience that people can and do change. So please, please rattle off some quotations or links providing evidence to support your theory that people can't change their "character."
The MAZZTer: I would just like to inform you that there are are entries in the about:config menu that allow you to turn off the first run "pop-op." I'm not sure that your "NoScript whitelisting NoScript" is a legit complaint, as you are capable of removing that, and I see nothing unethical about a software provider whitelisting their own site in their own software.
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What, paying you isn't enough? What makes you more deserving of appreciation than any other profession?
Because they know how to bitch better than any other profession? Farmer breaks his back picking rock and bailing hay all day in the sun. Farmer finishes in the red due to market swings. Farmer dies penniless all so we can enjoy a carton of eggs at 47 cents and a gallon of milk at $3.50. But Jesus Christ, the poor sys admins in their air conditioned server rooms that bring us ... that bring us ... super expensive services? Yeah, we gotta have a day for those guys.
You mean services like Internet Service Providers (the system admins that run the systems that connect your computer to the ineterweb), Web Hosting (the system admins that run the websites like, for example, this one ), etc.; that allow you to bitch? I applaud System Admin Appreciation Day and look forward to the first and subsequent annual Anonymous Coward Troll Hatred Days.
What, paying you isn't enough? What makes you more deserving of appreciation than any other profession?
Oh I dunno, maintaining the tools you use to, you know, do work? Also, salaried or hourly pay is compensation, not appreciation.
There are a lot of losers replying in this thread about how the "disease" makes it difficult to talk to women or engage in social situations. They're giving a disease status to their socially ineptitude. In other words, there's no magic syndrome causing them to be losers; they're losers and justifying it by saying they have a syndrome.
There are a lot of Anonymous Coward losers replying in this thread about how the disease is fake and an excuse; they're losers and justifying it by writing caustic and inflammatory statements saying it is not a real condition. Curiously I wonder how many on each side, the trolling side and the defending side, are Aspies themselves... as it is quite clear to me that just as many of these trolls have the same social ineptitude as the people they are trolling.
Sounds religious which may mean 80% of the United States of America
There, fixed that for you. Life is difficult and unfair, but I guess when you're in the minority it exacerbates things and turns you into a smug cynical bastard.
That only works when the laws of the two countries are sufficiently similar. What if he had done something that was illegal in the USA, but was legal in UK? And what about the sentences? It's possible, even likely, that breaking into a computer system has very different punishments in UK and USA, so according to which one should he be sentenced?
If hacking your supposed Allies military systems is legal, or even ethical, please don't be surprised at the commencement of local bombing raids by the hands of your "Allies."
What he did was the moral equivalent of walking through an unlocked, unguarded door and having a look round. For this he's facing 60 years in jail. This is not justice.
I'd say he's lucky. If I caught a person doing that I'd just shoot them; then call the authorities and say I shot an intruder.
I feel really bad for the first country we go to war with for launching cyber-attacks at the US.
Maybe people will finally realise Aspergers isn't a real condition and an excuse for the the socially inept to not make the effort.
Some psychological, personality, and/or developmental disorders aren't fictitious. Maybe people will finally realize that and stop being facetious know-it-all assholes. Then again, maybe people like ringbarer are obvious trolls and my social ineptness and my lack of effort is the excuse for this misunderstanding.
That's a great line from the lyrics of a Clutch song, and it's forced me to ask the question: "What would life be like today, if the moment we invented radio/television we started receiving 60yo broadcast transmissions from another planet?"
You keep stating that Microsoft is a monopoly over and over so frequently I believe it's a repetition tactic. You know, you repeat something often enough and it becomes the truth for you. The last serious commercial competitor to Microsoft Windows for the desktop PC that I remember before Apple switched to the same x86 platform capable of running Windows, was IBM with OS/2. I believe the free capitalist market spoke when Windows outsold OS/2 enough that IBM pulled it from their product line.
So, one more time (for repetition's sake!), repeating that Microsoft is a monopoly does not make it so. I believe my ability to run Mac OS/X or any linux or freebsd adds weight to my side of that argument.
What you and I are willing to support is not the point nor the issue, it is what Microsoft has to do, obsolete it, pull support, in order to force people to upgrade and update their software so they can profit.
So a company based in a capitalist market is no longer supposed to profit? Well that sucks, I wish someone had told the rest of the world. It seems you missed my point about obsolescence... It's not what anyone or any company has to do, it's just a natural side effect of the progression of technology and biology. While I'm sure that Windows 95/98 ran QuickBooks just fine for your small business; you must realize that as new useful technologies emerge (like the ARPANET going public) they may compromise the integrity of the old features. Thus, rendering the old, obsolete.
The rest of your comment sounds more like a Communist Hippy "free-zealot" rant against capitalism and choice. You see, I use computers and software as specialized tools. I believe that capitalism is the best economic system for giving me the choice of which tools to use and from who I may buy them. You may have no use for any of Microsoft's products, but that certainly doesn't mean you should ignore the majority's needs. If it isn't clear to you by now, the free market has determined that Microsoft's products do what the vast majority of people need them to. Being that we're in a free market, if this wasn't true, their leading competitors would quickly devour Microsoft's share of the market.
Your illiteracy does not make the things you cannot read false. Good luck out there.
In the spirit of fun, I refute your claim of my illiteracy, and once again call attention to your lack of capability in backing up your original claim. For the record, you claimed to be able to express "FUCK YOU" in a polite manner.
Also for the record, I think using explicit language and vulgarity is in effect the opposite of using polite language. Therefore I suggest that saying "FUCK YOU" politely, is a logical fallacy, or at the very least an oxymoron.
Isn't "Slackware" a slang, meaning "My time is worth no more than US$ 0.01/hour, which is why I can waste it so" ?
Slackware is great if you want to know HOW Linux works. Otherwise, it is just a waste of time.
(For reference: I don't use either Ubuntu or Slackware)
Slack is what we in the Church of the SubGenius are trying to accumulate in life.
-1 Troll seriously? No members of the Church with mod points to balance out the universe?
Which is necessary to Microsoft's survival, being their own biggest competitor and all.
It could be necessary for progress in general. Although, maybe I'm mistaken and you'd prefer to retro fit your gasoline engine powered vehicle with a pair of oxen? I'm just sayin, at some point the past "version" becomes so obsolete you may no longer wish to support it. It may also be that the costs of maintaining support for said obsolescence is simply higher than abandoning it.
Ubuntu is Afrikaans for "I'm too stupid to run Slackware."
I knew you'd miss the lesson. I even said as much in giving it. At least you have excuses for some of your failings. Those will get you far in life.
I knew you'd fail in providing evidence to support your claim. I even offered you the opportunity to provide it. At least you maintain your smarmy attitude in your failings, I'm sure that's some sort of consolation to being unable to do what you claim.
Uhhhh.....maybe I'm confused here, but WTF did the ABP guy do that was in any way shady?
He designs a plugin that blocks ads. People use it and are happy. Noscript guy asks ABP guy to give his site a walk. ABP guy says that is up to the users, that he just don't go around handing out free passes, which of course is what he is SUPPOSED to do, as it would be kinda pointless to have an ad blocker that didn't work on any site that asked the creator nicely or maybe slipped him a little cash. Noscript guy gets pissy and then writes a nasty into his program that goes behind the users back and rewrites the whitelist in ABP to give HIS site a free pass. When users find out they rightly call him a douche and let the hatred fly, which gets the Noscript guy to back off.
I'm sorry, but I don't exactly see where there is anything shady by the ABP guy. All the Noscript guy would have had to do is have a little banner and button and said "I'm kinda broke, so if you like Noscript would you please click this button so my ads won't be blocked by ABP and I can keep working on Noscript? Thanks." and most would have clicked it and that would be the end of that. But by acting like a douche I'm sure quite a few did just as I did and used "About:config" to make sure his site never darkens my internets again. Sadly I can't just toss his warez in the trash, because Mozilla and Google are in a "my JavaScript epeen is bigger than yours" mode and nobody has whitelisting in their browsers for JavaScript.
Mark my words, 5 years from now we WILL look upon JavaScript like we do ActiveX today. We will either come up with a new web scripting language built from the ground up to be secure, or JavaScript will be ripped apart and rebuilt for security. All the crap like sandboxing now is just putting bandaids on bullet wounds because JavaScript simply isn't designed with security in mind. And with the "JavaScript malware o' the day" you would be nuts to have default allow for it or Flash. So the guy can be as big a douche as he wants, like it or not we need Noscript.
I don't need the commentary or the summary in your words as I followed the issue until it was, you know, resolved.
Seconded. I should qualify that with some measurements that I used to determine it to be "best."
1) Call clearity.
2) Low call drop, drop-out rates.
3) Phone selection.
4) Coverage area.
5) Price.
6) Customer Service.
I find that typically if 1-5 are up to par I almost never have to deal with 6. Also, I have subscribed to Sprint (and Qwest back they were leasing from Sprint). I would place Sprint at #2 in the Minneapolis, MN area for at least 1-3 in the above. I experience the worst quality calls, and high call-drop rates with 100% of my iPhone using friends, but I don't have enough data to determine if that's because the iPhone is a junk phone or on a junk network, or a bit of both.
Uhhhhhh....dude? You're kinda confused there pal. The thing that got everybody's panties in a wad was NOT the Noscript guy whitelisting his own stuff, like you said that is to be expected.
Nope, what got everybody all kinds of pissed was that he was running a backdoor script that added a whitelist WITHOUT CONSENT to your Adblock Plus, which is most definitely NOT his software which means he didn't have the right to do that, plus pulling shit without the consent of the browser user is pretty douche-like behavior too. He asked the ABP guy for a free pass for his site, the ABP guy said he doesn't hand out free passes, so he did it by pulling some underhanded shit.
Sadly the guy can act like the biggest douche on the whole internets, because frankly we just ain't got nothing that is a drop in replacement for Noscript. You would think with all the "JavaScript malware o' the day" that browser would take a default deny approach and allow whitelisting, or at least give us the option buried in the guts somewhere, but right now Google and Mozilla are in a "my JavaScript is faster than yours" dick waving competition and can't be bothered. So like it or not, it is either use Noscript, let everything run, or turn everything off and break the Internets. I'll choose Noscript, even if the guy is kinda a dick.
I've never claimed that what the NoScript and AdBlock Plus guys did was anything less than shady and unscrupulous. I'm simply stating: "People have changed, people will change, and when it is for good reason, all humans benefit."
Citation needed.
That monopolies stifle progress? Monopoly and Efficiency [wikipedia.org], from wikipedia. "It is often argued that monopolies tend to become less efficient and innovative over time, becoming "complacent giants", because they do not have to be efficient or innovative to compete in the marketplace."
Yes. Apparently it is often argued.
I know what monopoly means. MS is a de facto monopoly. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], "In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos , alone or single + polein , to sell) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it."
Ok, here you validate your claim of knowing the definition of monopoly by simply stating that Microsoft is a de facto monopoly (with some attempt to further that position with a quote from Wikipedia). I don't agree with your reasoning. Also, if I am the sole inventor, manufacturer, patent holder, trademark holder, copyright holder, etc.; it seems you are arguing that I should not have the right to determine the MSRP nor which retailers I may supply to. I clearly disagree with that supposition. I offer you, as evidence that Microsoft is not a Desktop OS monopoly: Apple Mac OS X, and the numerous distributions of Linux and Unix which are all perfectly capable of running as a Desktop OS.
Since BeOS has no significance to my argument I don't feel the need to remark on it.
Don't have much info, just saw this post on engadget. There's also this one.
Your first link says that RIM will have a Mac version of their BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, and that it can sync with iTunes. IMHO I don't think this really counts as making iTunes from scratch, since the article didn't say RIM now has their own music store/application that syncs with BlackBerries. The second link "confirms" the September release date of the Mac native application.
Arj, please enlighten us as to the most polite way to say "FUCK YOU." Until then, FUCK YOU.
There are many ways, but someone incapable of correctly repeating even three letters properly (my name is not Arj, nor could any person with better than a first-grade education believe it to be based on my screen name ari_j) is most likely uninterested in being polite, mostly for lack of any idea what the term might mean. Of course, your repeated inability to read and comprehend even the most basic points of this discussion should have been sufficient notification to me that your response would be childish, for values of 'child' approaching Baby K with an anger management problem. I hope that you've gained from the above lesson in politely being told to go fuck yourself, you retarded infant.
What I've gained is that a simple spelling mistake due to lame font and underlined handle caused you to go off the deep end and display your true nature. You didn't enlighten us on the most polite way to say fuck you. Kudos. Oh, and FUCK YOU.
Akira?! I for one look forward to our blue-skinned gut-bar-arm having pyscho-kinetic energy wielding japanese manga overlords!
as this problem was worked on some months ago.
It's not a "problem" that can be "worked on". It's the character of the author. As any decent psychologist will tell you that character is inborn and cannot be changed or "worked on".
The character of the author of NoScript is that of the authors of
1) adware (redirecting to his ad-laden website with each meaningless update and preventing you from blocking these ads)
2) spyware/malware (changing configuration without the user's consent).
trifish: I'm getting quick on the Citation Neededs. I know from firsthand experience that people can and do change. So please, please rattle off some quotations or links providing evidence to support your theory that people can't change their "character."
The MAZZTer: I would just like to inform you that there are are entries in the about:config menu that allow you to turn off the first run "pop-op." I'm not sure that your "NoScript whitelisting NoScript" is a legit complaint, as you are capable of removing that, and I see nothing unethical about a software provider whitelisting their own site in their own software.
I bet it's more shocking to find out that "fighting words" aren't protected speech.
Queue the insulted nerd litigation parade in 3..2..