Firefox should stand for an open web. there are browsers like chrome, to support drm. The people firefox might lose, are not the people, who use firefox because they want an open web. Having the maximum of users isn't a neccessary goal for an opensource project, but only for a for-profit company. Firefox is no such company. Lets say google stops sponsoring firefox. Will it die? Of course not, it will continue to be improved by volunteers, maybe even with a better morale than now, not only regarding DRM.

everyone needs a little slack off during work to boost the productivty while working. assigning all the hard tasks to one person won't work out.
But telling everyone to cut an hour per day off and work the rest with max. power, won't work either. You need to be there to make sure you will pick up work again, when you feel like it. Its much more likely if you're browsing the internet than when you went home and come back at the next day.

its opensource, and i guess the tools are okay. You will need to update it for newer package versions.

why shouldn't the computer have a decay? You can have read/write errors, you can compute a lossy encoding if you want to ... and i would just implement the brain so lowlevel, that the neurons are modeled. And how the decay in the signals between neurons works can be observed, and will be better observed in future.

> otherwise, retrieving memories repeatedly would cause them to gradually decay

So, i guess this was never observed on real humans?

http://rocklinux.net/

grub 1 was great, you could install it with a few basic commands from the grubshell (which was in the terminal just like during the boot). grub2 needs config generation and actual use of grub-install.
(But it works okay, too)

oh, conf.d is a openrc thing? I always loved that part about gentoo.

the systemd init may be brilliant, if it would be isolated. But its mixed up with udev, syslog and even gnome to some extent. This cannot be an good idea, because stuff like init needs to KISS.

http://wizardofbits.tumblr.com...

stuff like journalctl is just PITA, but there will be convenient wrappers. The best solution at the moment: install rsyslog and it will log stuff from the systemd journal to normal logfiles.

nope. I use passphrases almost everywhere, there are only a few sites which are refusing it. (sadly including my bank, which demands a 5 char password)

The main reason for password insecurity is brute force, not stolen devices.

looks quite okay, doesn't it? Is it in any real world password set? Is it in a wordlist? How many password crackers provide brute-force preset options, which will find this one in a short time? I guess you would have be quite secure, if you actually used it.
Now you can argue, slashdotters will tune their bruteforce tools to include a lot of consecutive letters with only little random parts before/after maybe in the middle, but if you have to many exception rules, you will miss passwords which can be brute forced easier.
The best system is an easy one with many chars, which is your personal one. Nobody will try to optimize his cracker for hundereds of possible personal systems, but try to get the password123 ones. Okay, maybe except you're snowden, then they will use a team of 20 psychologists to analyse what your password setting pattern might be.

my bank limits the password to 5 alphanum chars

yeah, because you totally want to use the local dialect, as soon as you are there.