What would you say about my case? I open tabs when there's some news item or search result I want to know more about. I close them when I have reviewed the thing, even if it's just to decide I am no longer interested. For example, I've opened six tabs from the /. front page today. I'll read the ones that are of the highest interest immediately (there were three this time) and leave the others for possible consumption in the future, if I have time, at which point they'll either be closed or left open as a bookmark of interesting information (if there's some follow-up I think I might do). The tab for this article, for example, will remain open for a day or so as a reminder to check for any replies. I don't have a problem going back to open tabs, but there is more information in the world than time so I accept that I may never get back to some of them.

I certainly exhibit some signs of ADHD, but I don't think my approach to tab management is one of them. I don't think thousands of open tabs is necessarily an indicator.

That said, thanks for bringing it up as a possibility.

Disorganized?! Quite the reverse. Linear tab lists are how I organize things. One window per desktop, each window a different type of browsing (e.g. news/research/productivity) and then open tabs in each window. Disorganized would be somehow trying to track all of those URLs some *other* way. What, do you have thousands of bookmarks? How would you manage to relate them back to the type of task they're related to, and the time they were bookmarked?

Untrue. I run Firefox with a dozen windows each of which has hundreds of tabs. All it takes is enough RAM, but I make sure I have plenty. If RAM pressure is a problem for you then look up the BarTab extension (it's defunct, but I believe there are some active forks). Firefox absolutely can do this.

Now Chrome, that's where you'll have trouble. IT was really not designed for a large number of open tabs. Its minimum tab width is ~48px and once you have enough of those to fill the horizontal bar new tabs open on the right *hidden*. Unlikely Firefox there is no window into a current set. The only way to interact with them extra tabs is via the "Search tabs" menu, which is highly inconvenient. Chrome's UI assumes no more than about 75 tabs open at a time.

It's not laziness. I typically run at least low hundreds of tabs open, frequently up into the low thousands. I know I've cleared 5,000 before, but I'm not in the business of tracking too closely--I'm just not interested in how many there are.

Bookmarks are not the same thing as open tabs; a site can vanish but still be available in browser cache/memory. A bookmark may help you find a page you were on earlier, but it's hard to know *why* you bookmarked it, to organize them linearly, and to distinguish between an ephemeral interest and a permanent reference. Really, bookmarks are a vestigial feature of the pre-Google web. Do you remember when we all had "home page"s that given over to collections of links to commonly-used sites? That, too, has gone. In my case these have been replaced by tabs.

It's all part of an efficient workflow. I see people do something like: Google search, click a result, read some of it, click back, click the next result. This pattern is inefficient and drives me nuts; when I do a search I scan through the results and open anything that seems helpful new tabs--I may even refine my search a few times and open some tabs for each variation--, then I C-tab and begin to review. I can go from zero to 20 tabs in moments without even noticing it, then I read through them and close tabs that are irrelevant. When I get to the end of the subject I am researching I'll close most or all; I may leave open a tab with an answer or something I need to refer back to as I go back to what I was doing. With news it's the same: I open in a new tab each story that I want to read more about. I may not read them all the same day, but I leave the tabs open as a linear queue of interest and get to them eventually. It often happens that the queue grows faster than it shrinks, and that's fine. I come back through later and close out unread tabs that no longer seem interesting.

I can't imagine *not* doing this. It's not lack of window management; I currently have 11 browser windows open and they *each* have dozens or hundreds or thousands of tabs. It's *not* laziness. This is simply a way to organize information that maps well to the way my brain works.

The day that Firefox removed tab groups was a sad day indeed. There have been few tab management features which actually improved my ability to organize, but that was one of therm.

You are entirely correct. However, the public perception is that places like twitter ought to offer some protections they do not offer.

There is a simple, obvious, and clear solution to this conundrum: nationalize twitter.

The outcome of such an action will be unpleasant in many ways, but I think it will bring in to focus the problems that already exist but that we can't properly debate.

You don't need home-developed, you just need locally-controlled. For that Jabber is all fine. As much as I think XMPP has problems as a protocol, it solves all of the issues you might have from a defense point of view.

You're implying that you can't get the equivalent of BSD zones on Linux and run containers inside them. You can, it's just a lot of bother.

This. It's pretty much my take, too. Imagine: playonlinux style "what works" compatible configs *maybe even tested by the original developers* and targeting the relative stable steam runtime environment? It's a no-brainer.

Honestly, I'm waiting for some ambitious desktop environment guy to start shipping a DE package via steam. No reason why you couldn't (or shouldn't). Steam has delivered a stable *end user* environment in a way no single distro or vendor has managed before on Linux. We can all take advantage.

Also worked in the industry, yes, it's badddd. Way bad. Their plastic is arguably good compared to the shit I keep snapping om german cars...

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

I'm replying strictly because you have none, and I usually lurk. This one is too interesting to let go.

I am highly intelligent, and went to public school (I likely could have used a private school or otherwise if it was anywhere near my parents means). Yes, shenanigans go on there. You don't have to be a part of it though - it really usually is a small group of those out to just break the rules. It's not that crazy, I often befriended such types to keep from getting bulllied (verbally was the worst part, I'm quite capable of the physical but it should really not come to that). It's not the outlaw country you're portraying, though I can see how you would get that from a private school POV.

It's funny to watch private school types melt when presented with real life problems or someone thinking irrationally.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

I've been an auto tech for six years and have had this happen exactly on a couple occasions - "It must be in here, the car turns on." Saved me looking all over the shop, but didn't keep me from having to pull the center console to get it out of the emergency brake.

No, Couldn't tell you exactly how they triangulate it, but the cars with fobs are fairly intelligent about whether or not the key is actually IN the car vs. just outside the car.