A security patch isn't as simple as deciding "Oh, we don't want to have that vulnerability any more" and commenting out a setting. If it was that easy, there wouldn't be very many vulnerabilities at all.

On the one hand, any time you find a new vulnerability (or a new class of vulnerabilities), you have to audit all the nooks and crannies of the code base in order to identify either the problem itself, or the problem areas that are affected.

On the other hand, any time you change a line of code, you have to recompile. That means, to release the patch, you'll have to recompile for *every target OS*, and you'll have to *test* on every one of those OSes.

Surely when considering both of those complicating factors, you can see what Mozilla's motivations might be for retiring old support branches with a relatively limited user base?

What if the plans called for baby seals? Huh? What then, Monsieur Smartypants? :)

Given that many companies will discard attachments (if not emails altogether) sent from AOL email addresses, I think it could be quite difficult to apply for an IT job that way. :)

I accept the terms of your challenge.

... on leashes.

Now, I'm a Canadian, and one thing I've always been fuzzy on is exactly how the CD-R fee benefits "The Artist". My understanding, based on hearsay and no research, is that the fee is pocketed by the corporations and never trickles down to the artist.

However, I do know that the federal and provincial governments do provide funding for "The Arts"; presumably some of that must go to this mythical "The Artist", right? I wonder if any of the CD-R fee goes to fund those grants. And I wonder how many "The Artists" apply for and get those grants?

In statistics, a "population" doesn't necessarily mean "the population of a country".

It could just as easily mean the "population" of the classroom.

Actually, having played it, I found that it wasn't monotonous "at first" - there were enough missions and such that I was able to have a lot of fun right off the bat with it.

It got monotonous, for me, when instead of working up the alliances and resources to conduct missions in 0-Sec, I chose to go into the mining profession hardcore. I had thought that with my dual-monitor setup, I would be able to program on one monitor and play the game on the other monitor - and that would have worked fine, if my computer could have handled it. It couldn't. Eventually, after a while of this, I ended up getting a 360 Elite for my birthday (this was about two years ago) - I hooked that up to my second monitor, instead, and I cancelled EVE in favour of Halo 3, which I still play at least 3 times a week online with friends.

However, as concerns EVE, I have no doubt that if you are willing to venture into 0-Sec space, where you *could* lose everything on a moment's notice, the game can be VERY exciting.

"So the point is that the contamination has increased."

*STILL* Lindsay Lohan. Never underestimate her.

It's news because it horribly breaks iTunes, and (last I heard) causes re-installation to fail.

Of course, that's only if you believe iTunes isn't horribly broken to start with ;-)

... I've skimmed this thread, and all I have to say on the topic is "you people are fucking morons".

That's all I have to say about that.

So I take it he didn't try "==="?

Turns out it was *after* my time; I was using Opera under BeOS at the time, I think.

Heh. Your first paragraph makes you sound exactly like me ... (Except I'm on one of those new dual-head Mac Minis now). My Banshee was fun, though.

Uh. Do you even know what vapourware *is*?