Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, but socially dead.

They send you an email with a link to take you right to the captcha page, you don't even have to remember or set reminders on your calendar app.

I seem to remember it's like $15 a YEAR with the discount they offer on those email renewals notices. If you can't be bothered to visit a site for less than three minutes once a month, you should just pay the fee.

Companies are made up of many, many people and some of them may have disagreeing opinions. And people are not the company.

OKCupid is only providing support for the idea an employer has a right to control their workers personal lives when they're off the clock, and being wage or salary has nothing to do with it, as folks here like to drag into the situation. Even if I'm a salaried worker I'm not "at work" 24/7. I have specific hours I'm doing my job, and hours I'm not. We are human beings and have our own opinions on issues, sometimes unpopular opinions. If you don't like the ideas of a single person you have an issue with the human, not the company. There's no reason to take any action against Mozilla just because you don't like their new CEO. Now, if his personal beliefs begin to shape corporate policy or find their way into product design, then you have an issue with Mozilla the company.

I'd suggest that people that technically inept probably don't need 24/7 around-the-world access to those files on their own internet connected storage system. Four terabytes? What would be making up all these gigs that they need to be able to get this easily all the time. Whatever files they need access to that way they could probably fit on a thumb drive -- they wouldn't even have to worry about an Internet provider working properly then. And even if this is a cloud-access-is-a-must issue, Dropbox or a dozen other service providers could fill in just as well with something run in a professional hosting environment.

The kind of people you're talking about leave their broadband modems on the floor under desks for months with static electricity and dust. They mount equipment in cabinets with no ventilation (and no access at all when something stops working sometimes), and bypass the Windows scandisk when it triggers itself (because it takes so long~). Do these sound like folks who should be hosting their own servers?

I feel if you want to host your own node on the Net, you learn how. And if you don't want to learn how, you let someone else host it. A half-assed "I bought this but can't even tell what plugs go where unless I call support" solution isn't doing you any favors.

You check a PC's IP address to figure out the IP numbering scheme in use. Most consumer routers have no issue with a single device setting it's own IP address on the network -- provided it's not trying to use one already handed out by the DHCP server. I have to talk people through setting up port forwarding for cellular microcells quite often. I generally have them use the LAN IP .200 or above in the port forward setting to put it far beyond what will realistically get used by the router handing out addresses. Then their wireless carrier has to talk them through setting up a static LAN address on the microcell with the IP, SN, and DG I've provided to the customer.

Joe Sixpack just did port forwarding.
And he could have probably done it himself if he'd just RTFM.

Judging by the frequency of articles on Slashdot about the turnkey "internet of things" getting hacked, it doesn't look like they're taking security seriously, either.

Cut out the middleman and no downtime from corporate ineptitude.

Is there an actual story here, or it just about two different groups of open-source developers having a difference of opinion on whether display servers are important or not? The summary doesn't suggest this disagreement is having any real ramifications on Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Even if this is illegal on paper, I don't expect to see anyone who works at Microsoft be arrested for this if they go to the EU.
There are laws, and then there are laws that actually get enforced on individual people who work for big businesses. This is one of those laws that gets resolved with a fine against the corporation, not by tossing people in jail.

What happened to that new, easier method of Firefox Sync device pairing that was supposed to come out in Firefox 27?

The big issue with the current method is to add a new Firefox instance to the group, it pretty much requires you to have access to both your new device and an existing device simultaneously. Unless you save the authentication key file it's impossible to sync different Firefox installs on a dual/multi-boot computer or recover your saved passwords and bookmarks if a device is non-usable from damage or outright lost/stolen.

When a company would rather work with Nazis than the NSA.

Not sure about "usually".. There are some change, but overall I'd say there's a long way to go.

I wasn't talking about YIFY's encodes specifically. Although anyone who thinks 900 MB for a 720p feature length movie is good is smoking something, even without 5-channel audio.

I'm even seeing two-CD encodes still (movie broken into two 700MB AVI files) with recent films. Ignoring that folks are more likely to be playing right from the PC hard drive or a flash stick, are people still seriously debating the cost difference between a DVD-R and a blank CD?

We're talking about a pirating scene that still thinks Xvid/AVI is a great format to use. I bet they play them on their Pentium 4s running Windows XP, too.

Why are you servicing Windows 8 computers when you clearly know nothing about them?

The whole point of this app is that it's location-based - it connects you to people in the immediate vicinity.

Maybe I'm becoming an old fuddy-duddy, but I'm having trouble seeing what use this app is over a regular IM or texting session, unless you're toothing (which wasn't even a real thing).

People don't want to talk to random strangers nowadays, they want to talk to their friends, regardless of how far away they are. That makes the question of who's around you kinda inconsequential. I thought it had already been well-established people didn't want random folks to be able to message them. That's why every proprietary IM network makes people ask for authorization to add someone to their buddy lists now (I remember when AIM still didn't) and have controls to only allow messages from people on their buddy lists.

Just like the original sarcastic replier, I have to wonder why this bullied person doesn't just stop using the app and chat with their friends on some other platform they are all likely already a part of.

Yes, the WSJ is helping big business by pointing out to their customers the major carriers are raising rates on them. That makes perfect sense. -_____-