Teachers are afraid of the fact that information is now cheap. Youtube and Wikipedia offer far more value than a school full of average teachers. The only wars in the history of this world have been wars for information, if you think of everything as a form of information. The difference here is that the commodity itself is finally available without considerable loss of blood or investment of resource, and the purveyors of the commodity have traditionally been traditional teachers.

Use SeaMonkey! I've made the switch recently, after being a die-hard Firefox user since the beginning. I couldn't be happier. The interface is old-school, and it functions well enough for the simple work for which I use a browser. Just try the darned thing - you'll be very happy you did. If you're the kind of person (like me) that was seething with every release of new "features" in Firefox (awesomebar, et al.), give SeaMonkey a try.

It makes me very sad to say it, but I've moved on from Firefox, (and I don't like to touch Chrome or IE), but then again - the world seems to have moved-on from the ideal of clean code and efficient applications, as much as it has moved on from that old idea of language evolving logically from etymologically sound roots.

There's no stopping the tide, but there are indeed viable options. I highly recommend reading Paul Venezia's post about quarantining services to specific browsers. It's not hard to do. Use Chrome for watching crud on Youtube or using any Google services, (and nothing else!), and block it on your usual browser with NoScript, etc. Use a different one for Facebook (if you use that gawdawful service), and block the scripts on your usual browser. It's a simple solution, but it probably helps mitigate tracking a tiny bit.

Can anyone provide any good reasons to not use SeaMonkey?

"News for nerds, stuff that matters..."

As a person who has played LOTRO since beta, and has lead a large kinship the whole time, I have witnessed all of the best people leave, now including myself. The departures have been 100% due to the changes that came with the move to free-to-play. It's actually quite relieving, because I never had an intention to lead a large MMO guild, but the game was so good, was so convincing and immersive, that it didn't feel like I was playing an MMO, rather, it felt like I was engaging Tolkien's world. It definitely doesn't feel like that anymore!

Aye, for when you're done reading the column on how Global Warming killed the Mayans, e.c.

The fbo synopsis states,
"This is a synopsis of proposed contract action FA4452-12-R-0013... The Government plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a minimum of 63 and a maximum of 18,000, iPad 2, Brand Name or Equal devices. This equipment will be utilized as Electronic Flight Bags (EFB) for flightcrew members and trainers..." at the fbo.gov solicitation page, for what it's worth.

Googlecide = "Killing Googles"?

Hear, Hear! Unfortunately, when I hear myself saying that, it means the end result will be the opposite.

I'm willing to bet that I'm cringing more than you, but they will indeed be called "MakerSpaces", unless a more irritating term can be concocted.

I use a pencil, you insensitive clod!

This is actually one of the few times that response isn't hyperbolic. The pen is like a keyboard without a delete key; I prefer clean, correct code, whether the context is machine-readable or human-readable code.

The Ask Slashdot article about living without internet access at home sounds more relevant to me suddenly.

Who knows, but someone should tell him about Slashdot, the cool new techie Web-site.

Weird - I would never have suspected something like this would be going on.

If I understand correctly, this project would use Nereus-V instead of BOINC. The former transmits data through a Web browser, where the latter does so using the BOINC client. I can't say more because I don't really see how those are much different at the end of the day, but with Nereus, you connect to projects over HTTP, which they argue is easier for users than launching a pre-configured native client.

I too, give them more credit. This was a probably very effective campaign designed to fine-tune the advertising mechanism just a bit more, which, despite the inconvenience, serves ultimately to increase revenue. It's one thing to watch a video, but to put everything else aside to preserve it when the notice that it will disappear appears, sends a mighty strong ''Like'' signal.

Form Factor: Most "normal, non-thinking" people probably think they're already getting Blue-Ray tech simply because it looks the same.