I moderated http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168695&cid=14063447 as "funny" because email service is actually rather unreliable in the first place. Anyone who understands how it functions would know that it should not be relied on as a sole means of communiction for anything truly important.

Reading that comment made me laugh, because I could read irony into it. Whether or not the irony was intended by the poster, I can't say.

As someone who has been surfing the WWW since the days when IE and Mozilla were one product called NCSA Mosaic, I've never really felt the need for tabbed browsing. Being a long-time user of the X-Windows interface, it has always seemed natural to me that each document should get it's own window. As a result, I've never seen the need for all the added visual clutter involved in tabbed browsing and so, I've not ever really used it.

With the recent announcements of vulnerabilities that seem to require the use of tabbed browsing, I have yet one more reason for my didain.

That said, I'm not trying to tell anyone else how or how not to surf the WWW. If you like tabbed browsing, then continue to surf that way. Myself, I prefer to deal directly with the information that concerns me and to not have all the visual clutter of extra widgets. If I need to visit more than one site at a time, I'll just open another browser window. As I have at this moment 3 windows open & 2 of them pointing at /.

Please, feel free to post your comments below. If you love tabbed browsing, then by all means expound upon its virtues, etc.

All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep
voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil. If you don't like the way
things are, how do you change it by voting for more of the same?

Those two sentences from U.S. presidential candidate Michael
Badnarik convinced me that to vote for him in this November's
U.S. general election would not be a wasted vote. For quite a while
since he was announced as the Libertarian Party's nominee for
president, I had been waivering on casting my vote for him or for
Senator Kerry. The reason that I waivered was that I do not want to
see President Bush get re-elected, and while I'm not too fond of Kerry
either, I had thought that casting my vote for the "lesser of two
evils" was better than throwing it away on a third-party candidate
with no real chance of winning. However, Michael Badnarik's words
above convinced me that voting my conscience is indeed the right thing
to do.