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It's only correct for modern automatic transmissions. Plus sometimes start/stop. Probably not for old "3 gear with torque converter" or similiar.

This applies to my computer as well. I use it to drive on the information superhighway.

Lack of touchscreen was a + point when deciding to buy my current car. IMO, if the touchscreen serves as more than one button/action while driving, it's a broken design. Even the B…

This is why you don't buy DRM and root your devices.

Perhaps browsers should have p { max-width: 72ex; } by default. And a user setting for this, just like default font size.

Disband all corporations > 1000 people.

How much power does that use? I run linux a firewall/router on an older laptop + usb ethernet(2) and it's about 20w. I'd prefer < 10. Perhaps I need to try Raspberry Pi next.

Is it because of an in-house software maintenance problem, or mostly due to being tied to 3rd party software and would have to buy new licenses / migrate?

I've used at times it to crash the program (core dump), producing a cleaner stack than abort().

Killing XUL has the potential of killing Firefox. I bet the last good XUL version will be forked.

My eyes filter all that out already.

There's nothing structured about core dumps. Better to do nothing so the developer can see a clean core dump.

+1 I really don't understand the fights about GNOME3 and Unity UI. They both suck for me. KDE is okay-ish, but needs a lot of polish compared to Gnome 2.

This reminds me of the good old days when you could actually set your own fonts and colors in a browser and disable javascript. The inventors of CSS have failed greatly.

We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)

I don't think this type of DRM (you get what you pay for, it's an appliance) can be fully compared to DRM in a computer which is designed to limit the use of a computer.

The problem is not encryption, S/MIME works well enough for that. The problem is you don't have public keys for people you send to. And there's not a reason for many to get the key…

Not when you have companies forcing online registration, expiring software, cloud services/storage, DRM, ...

That's why web is/was better for many things, especially when you could increate fonts only (unfortunately, many sites have bad css that breaks this).

Looks like squares to me.

It's achievable with a diesel and not too-heavy foot easily (possibly with some extra NOx ;-)

FF will be forked if that happens (also for classic theme restore, and others).

noscript better keep working. Also view-source.

ulimit may help. Perhaps it could (maybe already is) be added to Chrome per-tab process. Not sure of Windows equivalent, Microsoft has deprecated Windows System Resource Manager, n…

Rust is safe(r) and could be integrate/replace with C incrementally.