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  1. Extension Blocking on Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    So is Firefox going to block these extensions for being unsafe, or are they only blocking the Flash plugin? Is it more to protect us, or more to attack Flash?

  2. Re:Expected on MS Finds Security Flaw In Google Chrome Frame · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should do as Firefox did, and find some way to block Google Chrome Frame until an update is available.

  3. Re:Hmm.. on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    I would personally like them to explain how they put together (all apps run through a web browser model) and (removing all unnecessary elements to focus on speed).

  4. Re:.NET Anyone? on Firefox 3.6 Locks Out Rogue Add-ons · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, the missing uninstall button is a Firefox problem. How could they let you install software and list it as is installed software, but provide no method to uninstall?

  5. Re:Who would've though? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    After looking at both of those options, I really think they should go with the "Bing Is Not Google".

  6. Re:Use Tax on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    I think most honest and/or ethical people will feel like chumps at some point.

  7. Re:Distributed Post! on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    Your possession of the letter t in your torrent is all the proof we need that you are distributing my copyrighted name. I demand that you pay me $7,000 USD for every letter in amberblackcat or face litigation.

  8. Re:Lots of speculation. on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 1

    Imagine how much it would suck to be a life form on Earth a few billion years from now, and learn that your planet is in danger of being consumed by a black hole because some ancient creatures thought it would be a cool experiment to leave it there...

  9. Re:I wonder on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 0

    How many of these vulnerabilities were due to Firefox itself, and how many due to plugins?

    If Firefox allows the plugins, what does it matter?

  10. Re:paper in your wallet on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    What's stopping them from trying every password on the paper?

  11. Re:Fixing all the WRONG problems on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    I don't know if that idea made money, but I think it may have accomplished other goals. It reduced our dependency on foreign oil because the cars that use a lot of it were replaced by cars that use less. It also temporarily created jobs to process all of that information. And the savings in gas costs from more fuel efficient vehicles might actually make up for the $4500 over time. Of course, since we have to buy gas no matter what it costs, I wouldn't be surprised if they just raised the cost of the gas to make up for the money we'd save by buying less of it.

  12. Re:Cart and Horse on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    If group A develops advanced machinery, weaponry, infrastructure, a system of writing, etc., and group B does not develop anything, does that make group A smarter?

    I'd argue that it does not, because that only works if you define "smart" as "the ability to develop advanced machinery, weaponry, infrastructure, a system of writing, etc.", and say that everything the Group B were doing does not qualify. Imagine group B developed space travel, cures for cancer and aging, and electronic communication but all we had was your question.

    If you are implying the Africans are Group B and also implying the Africans accomplished nothing without being blessed by Europeans, there really isn't much reason to reply to you because you've been living in a Eurocentric bubble that nothing will break.

    Also, if your analogy is to apply to what my post was responding to, it is a bad analogy because it assumes the Africans had no infrastructure, system of writing, weaponry, or advanced machinery. If you want to go on about the weaponry and machinery, I need you to cite examples of what you consider to be advanced weaponry and machinery of that time period.

  13. Re:Cart and Horse on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    I think most rich people are born rich, having money passed on to them. Aside from rich people having more educational resources and opportunities, I don't really think intelligence and money are related.

  14. Re:Cart and Horse on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    Why did they never build empires or develop technology (on the same scale as civilizations like the Romans, Arabs, or Chinese)? Why didn't they [re-]discover the New World and go enslave the Europeans, instead of the other way around?

    Because not all cultures make war and taking over other cultures their top priority. If my friends and I beat up the top 10 female students in the country, does winning the fight mean we're a smarter group than them? Or does it mean we know more about winning a fight than they do?

  15. Re:But why? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe normal people don't want to take their computer apart to install software.

  16. Re:Development process is flawed on Intel Pulls SSD Firmware Day After Release · · Score: 1

    I bet if AMD made a good SSD drive, Intel would make a great one a little while after that.

  17. Re:DVD vs. BluRay on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 1

    It's more like, I have a car that works, so there is no way I will pay to get a new car that takes 30 seconds to start, only goes where they tell me I can go, and keeps showing me advertisements for new cars where the speedometer should be.

  18. Re:How long? on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 1

    If it's a big enough deal, what's stopping you from actually submitting an obituary to the local newspaper and pointing Facebook to that?

  19. Re:High profile target and popular CMS' on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you trying to say it might be possible that closed source might be safer than open source in some situation?

  20. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    But for that matter, haven't it been established for long already that Win7 is basically Vista with the quirks removed and improved features.

    In your sentence, I think you should try replacing "Win7" with whatever operating system you like, and replace "Vista" with that operating system's predecessor. Then, if you can, please explain what's different other than the operating system name.

  21. Re:Great! on Universal Phone Charger Approved By UN Body · · Score: 1

    It gets worse. My brother's HTC Touch was doing GPS and, apparently, it was drawing more power than powered USB 2.0 could provide. All I know for sure is the phone and its battery actually died while the phone was plugged in.

  22. Re:I have a better idea on The Sad State of the Mobile Web · · Score: 1

    I tried that and never managed to get the site to load. It seems strange that sites like MySpace and Facebook have managed to make mobile versions that work fine on mobile devices, while sites like Digg and Slashdot that are supposed to cater to people, who think they are technologically elite, have not managed to do this.

  23. Re:I have a better idea on The Sad State of the Mobile Web · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know, as I've never had unlimited Internet on a phone, but I think a lot of the problems come from Slashdot's javascript. Firefox has warnings of the scripts taking a long time to go, and if you tell Firefox to wait for it, it seems to lock up the browser until the script loads. Maybe the DSi just doesn't handle non-loading webpage elements so well.

  24. Re:Kill them! on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 1

    Stereo Bluetooth costs less...

  25. Re:what's the DRM story? on Google Takes On Amazon With Own E-Book Store · · Score: 1

    My guess is you pay your fee and when you login on Google's site, you get webpages that show the pages of the books. And that's going to work until they figure out how easy it is to share your login ID and password with your buddy.