Get rid of the unconscious steering away...

Note to you - you're not a mind reader.

You mean like wearing the wrong shirt or telling the wrong joke?

You can recover from a SWATing in a few weeks, months if it hit you particularly hard.

Tell that to the baby who essentially ate a flash grenade.

"Corrective"... A fool's dream. One flash-bang in a baby's crib or worse and this kid would have initiated a killing or severe maiming. Well beyond "brat".

If there's one thing that Slashdotters hate, it's GUI changes.

Everyone except those being paid to make GUI changes hate having them forced upon them. If it works, it works. If you have a new idea, allow the user to adopt it *or not*.

Incompetent though the UX people at Mozilla may be, there is no evidence of malice here.

Continue to follow incompetence long enough and it becomes maliciousness.

Yep. I quit updating FF quite a while ago. Didn't want them sneaking in stuff any more.

Three to four days, like always. I send stuff all the time.

But it's worth repeating in this context. Thankfully, it wasn't me.

When I worked at a KC bank, we had a Wire Transfer team manager who loved golf. He was supposed to come in Saturday and test a firmware/OS upgrade, then restore. Nice, sunny day Saturday, so he decided golfing would be better.

Came in Sunday. Installed firmware/OS upgrade. Tested fine. Forgot to reinstall previous firmware and powered up old OS.
Incompatible. Froze the machine solid. He panicked and tried for maybe four hours to fix things himself. No go. Finally called Cupertino for help 4+ PM.

The techs had to be found, gathered and flown out from CA to disassemble said machine and reassemble. No wires until 1 or 2 PM Monday. Much money loss for all customers.

To answer the obvious question, no - beyond my understanding, he wasn't fired or even demoted.

Don't do it in the first place. Not like it's hard to avoid.

"Give a woman a child" - You're an asshole. A rational man doesn't give his wife a child, they share one. My daughter was the best thing that ever happened to me and I don't regret any 'inconvenience'. I pity any partner you end up with because you obviously only see them as that wallet you referred to.

(or at a more advanced level, are programming a computer to learn how to learn things)

That is pure hope as well as circular. I don't think he's dismissing the concept so much as dismissing the current field operatives as being anywhere near as far along as they promote themselves to be. He's doing it with a heavy dollop of derision, but I'm seeing that from the opposite side as well. .