Run your browser in a VM, preferably using a different OS to the host. No access to the host filesystem, isolated from the real machine.

Simply chroot the browser, no?

IME, Gmail is rejecting a lot of legitimate mail nowadays.

Their filters used to be good, but they completely fucked it up lately.

I once submitted a man page patch for bootparam(7). It described a boot parameter to the Linux kernel.

I never received a reply and it was never incorporated in the man page. That waste of time was the end of my "career" in documentation. Last I checked, that parameter was still undocumented.

I'm aghast at the state ofdocumentation for Open Source projects

You must have missed OpenBSD, then.
I know, I know: It's an exception. I just wanted to mention the best documented Free Software I've ever seen.

given what we know of the NSA it's likely they have compromised TOR.

Well... Citation needed.

We're Google: Give us every detail of your life for a song.

Article should be called 'Exploiting wildcards on GNU'.

All of the examples in the original document work because GNU software can intersperse options and filenames freely. None of those exploits would work in BSD userland, for example.

our concept of information theory is a function of the universe it was developed in.

I don't think it needs to look similar to the universe's inner mechanisms just because of that.

...has the "simulated universe" hypotesis just got a slight boost from this finding?

No. The scientific name is "mantis religiosa", which tells you why praying is right.

It took a study to figure that out?

It took a study to find proof.

Only an idiot doesn't realize that, by claiming that the text is a metaphor, one can arbitrarily twist its meaning until it vaguely seems to make sense.

The bible does not disagree with reality.

Yes, it does. Only an idiot wouldn't realize that.

Maybe you should GOTO the event.

But then he can't RETURN...

And of course it's just a coincidence that Google's "incompetence" turned out to be profitable for them.