When it comes to freedom, I see free speech as more of a minimum than a maximum.

capable of running whatever code I instruct it to? Waah, I want big government/big business to protect me!

Seriously though, this isn't news. Extensions are intended to be general purpose, and in order to be powerful enough to do what you want, some risks are taken. I suppose you could take a partial sandboxing approach such as BitFrost or that taken in Android to warn users of what permissions are being requested (and mitigate the effect of expoits), but there's a tradeoff between functionality and safety.

Well if your generated graphics are vector based, then the resolution you rasterize to could have some effect on quality, but only if your screen is >= that resolution after all or it'll just be downscaled.

Perhaps it's a fixpoint. IE, the md5sum of the logo image, including the md5sum...though the ability to compute that would be very interesting to know that they know how to do.

Most of my GIMP hate is because I'm an Ion user and it shits windows all over my workspace. I also find it to be a difficult app to /use/ (contrast with difficult to learn, which, as you note with Blender, is kind of unavoidable with a powerful tool).

GIMP is a great backend. if I want to script images, and imagemagick can't do it, the GIMP can. But it needs a UI by someone who isn't swilling the GNOME flavor-aide and thus cares about building simple, portable applications with clear, consistent UIs.

The things I have trouble doing in GIMP are generally simple things like moving a block, drawing a line, etc...so I switched to Kolourpaint (think ms paint for kde with a few more features and less crashing). When I need to do serious image work, I dust off photoshop.

I'm a huge FOSS fanboy but I'd rather gouge my eyes out than use the GIMP for even the simplest of tasks.

Don't forget growing up to be responsible cogs in the machine.

I want to use it instead of my x61's display.

Interesting; I didn't see that because of noscript and adblock.

Cue lack of net neutrality and this becomes a nasty can of censorship worms.

Likewise. And if I see flash it's a damn good indication I just don't care what's on the site.

because it's easier to criticize the efforts of others than improve the world.

When I think the default settings are manipulative instead of just incompetent or a bad fit for me? Yes, I do think that's a good reason to distrust a product and the company that makes it.

Friend of mine has the most annoying product ever. Whenever it updates itself, it plays a recording of a voice saying "virus database updated". So we'll just be sitting there and hear that. Since a well-functioning anti-virus just does its thing without bugging the user for the most part, the ones that are for profit have to make themselves loudly obvious and play up the threat level (not to imply there isn't one of course).

I'm not convinced anti-viruses are any better than snake oil, really. Some like Norton are basically viri themselves, slowing your system to a crawl, and all they can do is look for fingerprints of known viri. Sure they can occasionally be bandaids on a sucking chest wound, but the main key to windows security is to not expect it, stay updated, avoid IE, and not run random programs strangers email you. Sure there might be a 0 day in your browser or mail client that causes something like a picture to execute code, but those aren't the main uses.

*gets off rantbox*

Well I don't claim he'd be violating the US contract if he were a citizen, I simply avoid arguing the issue because he is not. OP's comment would be a more valid argument if he were a US citizen. I believe in a well-run democracy the government tries to keep some secrets and the press tries to expose the embaressing ones and everything is in equilibrium.