To be honest, I think capacitive touch is what made tablets and smartphones take off. Nothing else had a bigger impact for me. I did use a PDA with a stylus for a couple years in college. It was just a toy. Just not good enough to be taken seriously.

You mean like dressing too sexily? You're a sick individual and you need mental help.

I don't know... Being complicit in the face of something like this and doing nothing about it - especially the teacher, should be considered accessory to assault. Maybe not legally, but logically.

In their opinion, it wasn't destruction of evidence - since it wasn't valid evidence (fruit of the poisoned tree). But they aren't judges, and they really can't make that call. Too bad the judges made the wrong call too - a recording at a public school is public, not private.

Motive to be corrupt, sure. But wiretapping laws aren't really antiquated, just shouldn't be applicable. The recording took place in a public school where there is no expectation of privacy. Even in a private run-in with police, they are public servants and working in their official capacity, and almost everything they do ends up in the public record. A recording of police at work should be no different.

That's exactly my point. Deciding to retaliate violently is your own choice and you can't blame the victim of that round of violence either. It doesn't matter if they "deserved it."

zero tolerance is just a way to keep the victims silent, thereby improving the statistics reported on the things that happen to them.

And what's the teacher going to do if the administration leaves them powerless to do anything meaningful in the situation?

Doesn't really matter - it was a public conversation and should not be subject to that anyway.

And it would have been worth taking that punishment if they weren't the only one getting punished.

That's not the point. You can't blame anyone else for your own actions. If you follow that kind of logic nothing will ever be your own fault. Which really makes you as bad as those you're seeking revenge against.

No. Personal responsibility exists. Even in kids. They choose to do what they do. And while they may be scarred for life in some way, they're not dead. So it's certainly not justified.

While personal preference lets you do what you want, I'm fine with having that control with Javascript. The browser balances out the bad with user control. For pop-up dialogs, there is the checkbox to stop more. For right-click - well - there's always the inspector.

Dialog boxes that are too long need to be modal only to the tab and size limited, with scrolling enabled for long content.

Is this an appeal to the mods? Because you're certainly not winning favor yet. Perhaps you're just mad that you didn't think to link to that great comic?

How about knowing the history of the flagship product? Seeing the success or failure of ideas over time? And all of that in the domain of actually being involved with the company/product most of that time? You have to know business AND you have to know products.

You really need to make some separation here, at least in the Firefox case. On the one hand, you have a donation made years ago toward a specific legal cause. There are a lot of ideological reasons behind that, and not all of them involve marginalizing the individual (e.g. You can be against making it marriage, but be *for* increasing the rights of civil unions). On the other, you're saying he is against the people themselves. I'd argue that's a wider valley than you think it is.