I'm on TalkTalk and TPB still works fine without any jiggery pokery whatsoever.

Well then you've either never had a download fail or you have but didn't realise it because of the bug and later either didn't notice the incompleteness of the file or blamed it on something else.

Or perhaps the bug is more selective than I thought. That doesn't seem too likely to me though seeing as this has happened to me many many times across multiple versions of Windows and multiple Linux distros across 5-6 different computers across all versions of Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix for the entire 10 years that I've been using the browser. I doubt I'm that unlucky.

Here are the first two reports I found of this bug:

Bug #237623, reported over 8 years ago. 20 duplicate reports merged into it. Still unresolved.
Bug #536916, reported nearly 2.5 years ago. Still unconfirmed.

I'm sure there are more if you care to look, but I think that's enough.

Another day, another Firefox UI 'revamp'. And another major version number to go with it, no doubt.

Meanwhile, if a download times out Firefox still reports it as having completed successfully. This has been the case since at least Phoenix 0.4, and presumably since it's conception. Yet it remains unfixed. Apparently in 11 major versions and 9 years, not to mention countless UI revamps it seems the FF team still haven't realised that an HTTP connection can fail.

If you really believe that then why does it need a separate site? You could just post it on Slashdot with everything else.

I know WTC/9-11 is the focal point for cloying sentimentality for the US and I know New Yorkers insist that NYC is the only place on the planet of note, but seriously? This is not news for nerds. This isn't even news.

I hear an excellent captain has just become available.

I'm not an unreasonable man; you can forego the bikini if you like.

...from Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road add-on. Obviously not at all as iconic or prolific enough to be included in a poll like this but when a flying, beeping sphere is the most endearing character in a game it's probably worth noting. As a companion in the main game he's fairly average but the storyline and dialogue in the Lonesome Road add-on itself is great.

Yeah, I bet hardly anyone on /. has read 1984...

Man, you do some weird shit with Facebook...

I think if I were in the field and developed a way to cure all vision ailments I wouldn't release my data until the year 2020, just for the ironic value.

"Even though they compromise only 1% of deaths [...]"

Comprise. The word is 'comprise'.

In German that word is unnecessary; submitter is just trying lose weight, get rich, and live healthier.

But when those losses could have been prevented had the people with authority not ignored those with operational knowledge then it really is unacceptable. If someone gets struck by a micro-meteor out in space or dies because of a serious failure after weeks of operation then yeah, that kind of thing can be considered the price of pioneering; the kind of stuff you just can't practically account for. Dying in an explosion seconds after launch from a fault that was detectable and warned against prior to launch is not.