If you have the talent, you should write a filter to generate an inverse waveform that subtracts the allegedly infringing music but leaves everything else intact. :)

I've purchased two Dell laptops, and both of them have had issues.

However, they have both been relatively low-end models, and the issues have been minor. I suspect they take a lot of shortcuts to get the price down, so I'm not really outraged about it ... the lesson is just not to buy cheap crap :)

My tower at work is a Dell Optiplex running Vista - *VISTA* - and it hasn't had any issues at all.

-1, Moronic
-1, Missing the point
-1, Fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism

"Your own means" is theft from the credit card company, not theft from Apple. It will only lead to your own balls getting kicked. (Again, if you count getting conned into buying a first-gen iPhone 4 as getting kicked in the balls; which, unfortunately, is increasingly looking like the correct interpretation of it.)

Uh, isn't this credit card fraud?

I suppose, if you had to pick *any* industry or group of companies larger than Apple to piss off, that would be a good one. However, I don't think it will end well for you if you give it a try.

But it could make a great 80s synth pop song.

~/ Rapid ambulation / is sweeping through the nation /~

I do agree that many of the function names are, quite frankly, *wacky* ... but the online manual more than makes up for it. I just toss it in my firefox search bar, and I can generally find any function definition (and, in some cases, arcane function names) nearly as fast as I can type it.

I've found it very difficult to find similarly useful resources in other languages (javascript in particular, if you can count it as a language ;-)).

I'm not sure exactly what about it makes it so easy to use for regular reference - but I do know that it is about a billion times better than most docbook-generated documentation I've ever seen. Usually docbook/javadoc makes me want to stab my eyes out with a rusty grapefruit spoon.

More importantly, why are people overusing the word "cajoled"/"cajoling" lately?

I'm going to hop into my jalopy and head down to the pharmacy's soda shoppe so I can complain to the jerk.

That story is why I always beta-test my robotic weapons platforms with NERF and paintball weaponry first, before moving up to the beryllium-core laser rocket bullets.

Uhm, I think there may be a step or two about the approval process that you don't understand.

If you send email to somebody, wouldn't that somebody be the second party?

or *IS* he?

Perhaps he was referring to Ye Olde-Tyme Abomination, the dreaded Java Applet Navigation Menu? :)

But "drop" is an SQL command, thus, it makes the headline punny.

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? :)