Are you talking to me or someone else? Because I'm not part of any political party and likely never will be, because none of them represent the totality of my interests. If you are talking to me: Fuck you.

What are you suggesting we do, have a nice sit-down with them over tea and crumpets and talk about their feelings that are making them act out? We're not talking about teenagers committing petty vanadalism and graffitti, we're talking about assholes that are running around the Middle East cutting off people's heads, slaughtering entire populations, enslaving women and turning them into sex slaves, and taking the children they capture and brainwashing them into being suicide bombers! How can there BE any other response to this other than 'Kill every last one of the bastards'? What the actual FUCK is your solution!? Are you one of them or something? Are you part of the 'islamic state' press corps or something? Do you not understand? These assholes would gladly and gleefully kill YOU, your FAMILY, and EVERYONE YOU KNOW, just to make a POINT! They make Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran, and any other group of assholes currently out there in the world look like fucking pansies in comparison.

This story, and your comment, made me think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

These so-called 'islamic state' assholes? They need to die. Every last one of them. No negotiations, no trials, no 'explanations' -- just fucking KILL THEM ALL, male, female, I don't fucking care, just KILL THEM. Children below a certain age can be de-programmed and put with families that will care for them and raise them to be rational, responsible, sane human beings -- but every last adult that is involved with this uber-asshole 'organization'? They need to be killed.

This isn't even about religion. It's about a power-vacuum that was created in the Middle East, which allowed these assholes to swoop in with their ultra-extremist bullshit and start setting up shop. These assholes are like a socio-economic version of the Black Plague, and like any other epidemic, it needs to be erradicated, completely.

Of course I can't ignore the fact that there will always be violent assholes in the world that will use religion of any kind as an excuse to be violent assholes on a large scale, and as unpopular an opinion as it apparently is in the world, I just wish that humans in general would fucking grow out of this apparently genetic need for a god or gods of any kind. All it seems to do is open the door for more atrocities, more ignorance (much of it willful ignorance), more backsliding, and in general more bullshit. I make jokes sometimes about how 'XYZ is the reason that alien civilizations won't contact us openly', but I'm only half kidding oftimes when I say it -- as is the case with this subject: If there are in fact starfaring alien civilizations out there that have been observing us, they must look at this sort of bullshit (and the Inquisition, and the Salem witch trials, and who knows how many other atrocities that have been committed over the centuries) and feel nothing but disgust and maybe pity for our poor race, that we're so afflicted by such a major flaw in our cognitive process.

Not posted as Anonymous Coward, because I'm not one. Come and get me, assholes. We, the sane, rational people of the world, we reject you and your fucking ultra-extremist bullshit. You claim to be doing the work of Allah? I CALL BULLSHIT ON THAT; you're just a bunch of power-hungry FRAUDS who enjoy killing people, and we will see you all DEAD for your crimes against humanity. It's time for this shit to stop.

I know it must happen to you at least a few times every week, but: The next time someone beats you to a pulp in real life, you piece of shit? You'll have to wonder if it's me.

Sleep well, asshole -- if you can. Guys like you? Your days are numbered, both on the Internet, and in real life. Enjoy living in fear.

Listen, jerk: This is a matter of choice. We won't just blithely give away our abilty to CHOOSE what we want to do or how we want to live, not for something as stupid as 'safety', not for money not for ANYthing.

Maybe YOU endanger the public when YOU drive a car, but I do not. Maybe YOU should sell your car and take the bus or a cab, but I do not have to because I do not suck at driving. Enjoy being subject to the whims of others -- including whatever software engineer fucked up writing that one line of code that sends you to a firey death when your controll-less autonomous car runs full speed into a concrete abutment. Really, you 'autonomous car' assholes can go fuck yourselves.

Where do you live so I can beat your fucking face in for saying that to me, you little bitch? Fuck off and die, slag. People like you don't DESERVE to be in control of ANYTHING, especially not when, where, and how you get around, you should be on a LEASH and TOLD what to do, you're obviously not responsible enough to be allowed to run around loose.

I drive a small pickup with a 5-speed stick, and I know for a fact that the only control that doesn't have a direct mechanical linkage is the throttle, and I can live with that. I know I can always bring the vehicle to a complete stop whenever and wherever I choose and no automated system can override me, everything still functions even if the engine quit running.

I will NEVER, EVER get in an automobile that I cannot have immediate and complete MANUAL control over. Ever. I will also NEVER give up riding a motorcycle, and you CANNOT 'automate' that. Fuck you, Musk. Driving may be a privelege and not a right, but it IS a manifestation of personal freedom and I'll be damned if that is taken away from me. Others agree.

DISCLAIMER: I don't give a flying fuck if you agree with me or not, I don't give a flying fuck about your insults, and you're not changing my mind, EVER, either, so just don't bother commenting on the above at all, deal with it.

But, they're not the ones driving this process, precisely because they don't know the difference, and don't really care. Also I don't necessarily believe that, because if it was true then why would there even be Chrome or Firefox or Opera or any other 3rd-party browser in the first place?

Pretty much, yeah.
I don't see why they even need to bother with any sort of extensive internet browser. Why not just provide a minimal browser, just enough to get you to where you can download Firefox, or Chrome, or whatever other browser you want? Or maybe just partner with one of them instead? It would cost them less money in the long run due to reduced development costs, and most people will get what they want anyway, just quicker.

For what it's worth, a the Major Microprocessor Manufacturer I work for just announced yesterday that we'd all be having Chrome push-installed on us and that IE would be retired. What does that tell you, that they're not willing to wait for Microsoft's next offering?

Anyone remember AOL? If you have senior-citizen parents you very well might know what AOL is, because if they have it they probably still think the Internet is just AOL. That's what Failbook is heading towards according to this story.

Of course I'm also hoping Failbook becomes as irrelevant as AOL, sooner rather than later..

Not until you take off your rose-colored glasses and look at the real world for a change!

We should be so lucky as to live in a world where something like the YLIP really existed, even with all the conflict and problems in The Diamond Age.. but we don't live in that world. We live in a world where it would just blather on about nonsense, meanwhile everything the little girls say will be analyzed by market researchers for better ways to profit from them, and likely have Barbie say things to indoctrinate little girls into being 'better consumers' (read as: PESTER MOM AND DAD TO BUY YOU MORE STUFF) and for all we know brainwash them into being who-knows-what. Then there's the possibility of someone hacking into them and making Barbie say obscene things or things intended to mislead little girls into doing something horribly, horribly wrong, or who knows what. The hell with shit like this, make it go away. It's not the technology that's bad, it's the fact that you can't trust corporations or anyone else with it these days. In fact let's get rid of Barbie entirely, it's a shitty concept that's at the root of all sort of malodorous crap concerning little girls and their development anyway.

Just put a piece of electrical tape over the goddamned thing if and when you have to rent a car from them and forget about it.