It's not Linux's fault that the developers of Final Cut Pro and Lightroom specifically chose *not* to support Linux. It is also not Linux's fault that both Apple and Adobe guard and keep their programs' source code secret, so it is impossible for anyone else to compile it for anything other than the operating systems that these two companies choose to compile these programs for themselves.

One, you could argue that it is "ridiculously easy" for security programs to check anti-virus software, period, but people still get screwed--whether it's because they have not kept up to date on something, haven't kept their antivirus subscription going, or their program just didn't catch it.

Two, you really think the NSA gives a flying fuck if something is "illegal"? Really? Literally all of the information we have so far on them thanks to Edward Snowden only proves that they don't give a rat's ass about what is "legal" or not, and the agency is run by a scumbag who will lie under oath to Congress and the entire population of United States of America and try to cover it up. Their "top-secret" information blatantly says that they break any law they have to (or want to) if it will suit them--and anything that seems questionable, they will try to twist their interpretation around so it fits you so they can "claim" that they're somehow following the law.

Fuck them.

While I do agree with you, an interesting negative to that would be:

If everyone runs their own Tor exit node, including unknowingly every dumb Windows and Mac user out there, then malware writers (the NSA?) would have a field day writing bad stuff that attacks and takes advantage of a very large number of exit nodes. So which is better: fewer exit nodes but a few known bad ones as it is now, or shitloads of exit nodes where the vast majority cannot be trusted? All it would take is one major outbreak to basically destroy Tor's purpose...

I wouldn't have stopped using Winamp back in 2006 if it supported Linux. In fact, I'd probably still be using it now, but because I was forced to search for an alternative I've settled mostly on Audacious. I still think Winamp is one of the best players though. I'm not quite as crazy about Foobar2000, but it least it runs better in Wine.

It's as simple as that, and I am an American myself. I sure as hell wasn't one of the masses crying for "protection" and for the government to infiltrate every aspect of every citizen's lives back when 9/11 happened. My exact thoughts at the time were something along the lines of, "shit happens. People will get over it." Only, apparently I was wrong about people "getting over" it; if they really did, we wouldn't have the dragnet of mass surveillance placed upon us by the federal government as we do now and find ourselves forced to figure out how to reclaim our 4th-Amendment rights (and others).

All 9/11 did was make the whole horde of pussies come out in droves and produce legislation to help drive the government into the ground and weaken its people. The worthless yellow journalism that is the mainstream news sure as hell didn't help much. If that is what the terrorists wanted (to erode the U.S. into a rogue, fascist government with powerless citizens), the Americans didn't put up much of a fight, because that is exactly what they got and with no trouble at all.

The way I see it, the real "terrorists" are my own government. Its citizens need to grow a pair and quit going apeshit over "terrorist attacks" and stand up for their rights and freedoms. It's ironic the way people sharply and strongly react to even just the word "terrorists"; why no talk of all the *wars* going on? Why does no one give a fuck about those, some of which the U.S. is directly a part of? How did people get such a strong hatred of terrorists that kill, and not their own government that does the same fucking thing *on their own behalf*? Looks like another win by the mainstream news corporations, which no doubt have their own political agendas.

I have to admit, I laughed while reading the above post. Then I thought about it. What if they did? Order a shitload of Windows 8.1 donation copies at Microsoft's expense and then burn them all. And no, I don't mean in an optical disc drive. It would be amusing, at least, and it would attack Microsoft in a way. Obviously Microsoft is doing this at a loss, with the intention of increasing Windows 8 sales, but if a good portion are wasted...

Then based on that claim, I can install and run AdBlock Plus, NoScript, DoNotTrackMe, etc. in my web browser to display the sites that I request the way I would prefer to view them and the advertisers can just shut the fuck up. But no, they seem to think that it's "wrong" to render HTML as you see fit and to block their garbage. Shit, this article alone is yet another confirmation that the assholes don't want us to block their cookies (ie. tracking method). Fuck them, I'll block it as I damn well please--I want nothing to do with their shit.

That's a very good method if you have very few sites to log into that you want to remember your authentication. The problem is, I have way too many sites to waste time whitelisting a bunch, and then realizing that I forgot one. So I just disable all third-party cookies and leave it alone. After all--I don't really mind the sites I'm actually visiting storing cookies for the most part. It's the people I never intended to communicate with that can fuck off. I use Adblock Plus, NoScript, DoNotTrackMe and a few other extensions to complete the effect.

But when you add a saving today, a saving tomorrow and a saving the next day, you do in fact get "savings" in daylight time. Or at least, that's what they want you to believe--I think they need to ditch the garbage completely. It causes more harm than good and is not worth fixing. We need reliable time, and you can't have that when you're forced to waste time fucking with your damn clocks every year. Just fucking give us standard time year round already, enough of this DST bullshit.

If 'trolling' these days is speaking your own 100% honest opinion, then yes, I guess I must be trolling. I wasn't aware that you are a troll for having an opinion, though. Learn something new every day.

No shit, I'm pretty sure my first couple sentences made it obvious that I was never a fan of the program, its price, etc. I'll take almost *anything* over that overpriced crap.

Sorry, I did not get that impression, and I felt it was a massive rip-off at twice the price of a fucking Windows licence. Does that make me even more of a troll? Seriously though... operating system, $300... bitmap editor... $650?!

I find it odd how you keep talking as if you're a know-it-all professional and that your opinion is *the* definitive answer, and yet mine is trash. I have to ask you at this point the same question you started off asking me: are you a troll? Your use of "zealots" only makes it seem even more likely... and your entire second paragraph seems to have "troll" stamped all over it.

Yeah... 2.x IMO was the last truly great release, and after that it went downhill. For 3.x I was forced to start bookmarks, because of that god damn [anything-but] "awesome" bar, and I refused to use it until 3.6 (which added a few notable features that made it worth it). The problem is, 2.x is now obviously horrible out of date, lacks things like out-of-process plugins, leaks like a sieve, and is just unstable. Backport the rendering engine, security fixes, memory leak plugs, and maybe some of the better (key word there: don't want to end up with yet another shitty Chrome knockoff!) ideas and I'd switch in no time.

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Unfortunately, there is a delay between official release and openSUSE repository binary package, but it's relatively short. I think the "chore" part of it that he's referring to is that there's no longer any real reward: Firefox has become old and boring, and new updates (if anything) cause more trouble than anything in terms of fucking stupid design and GUI decisions, as well as extension hell (although the extension problem has been solved for while now it seems). Not to mention, Mozilla's huge bullet-point lists of "features" in every new artificially-inflated version number is full of garbage that no one needs (and in some cases, even wants).

Getting creaky, "just" a few years back? It got old over a decade ago for me. And sorry, but demanding $650 for a fucking bitmap editor is just robbery. Which is why I never bothered to buy it, and years ago bought Paint Shop Pro (back when it was still by Jasc), and have long since switched to Paint.net and finally (after switching from Windows to Linux in 2006) the GIMP. I never did get the point behind Photoshop anyway... it's beyond slow, bloated and just a nightmare to find anything that you need. Its menu system is a trainwreck.

My guess is that Edward trusted the company. And you know what? Its owner didn't let him (or any of his other privacy-concerned customers) down. And at least in this case, that's what really matters; instead of giving in, the owner shut the service down and destroyed all the hardware (or at least disks). Sure, theoretically maybe the site's security itself wasn't exactly the greatest but Levinson didn't let Snowden down.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the extreme likelihood of error, lies, whatever, which may then be used against the person who sent the message to bail the driver out of the deep shit that *they* are likely deserve. The whole point of a cell phone is that you can take them wherever you go--even to the shitter--and no one is going to broadcast to everyone they know where they are going to be all day, 24/7. I'm pretty sure a truck driver is one of the only classes of people whose likely current actions (either driving or sleeping) can easily be guessed by the people they know. Everyone else? Not so simple.

Simple solution? Don't fuck with your phone while driving.