This wouldn't be an issue if they could only serve image or text only ads. Possible image based exploits can easily be prevented by re-saving the uploaded image so that the image only contains valid content.

But no, ad farms want to provide functionality to reach maximum annoyance for the users. You can blame Java all you want, but it's not the source of this problem.

If creationist were open for debate, then they wouldn't be creationist and believe what was written by somebody hundreds of years ago without accepting any revisions.

Just for once, read the f'ing manual.

People stop by and cyber-bully me at my standing treadmill desk.

If people walk by, physically, in real world, his desk... they send him not so nice instant messages? Can't they cyber-bully him from behind their own standing treadmill desk? You know, outside of his FOV.

Yes, and this case is a clear example of it. That's why IAC fired her over this incident.

Justine Sacco was a PR executive at IAC. IAC being the owner of sites like Ask.com, About, Vimeo, OkCupid, match.com, etc.

A PR exec should know that you should not say these things on a global soapbox like twitter.

Can't say I'm surprised by this.

If GitHub is not a place of political activism, then explain all the Ruby projects hosted on GitHub.

Except maybe for Links/Lynx, what browser uses that little amount of memory. Firefox has been doing quite well in the more recent versions, it uses less memory than MSIE and Chrome. (No idea about the others).
Most sites are simply becoming annoying resource hogs with memory leaking javascript all over the place. Gmail has gone to almost unusable on my netbook within 2 years. Even Eclipse performs better than Gmail.

Not really. You're forgetting the additional support and customization costs which are not covered by the standard contract. And the yearly upgrade/renewal costs.

Why does the NSA want to know my secrets if they are not going to use it?

sf.net was the only project host which still offered release downloads. Not every project can afford a deviated download solutions for all their releases.
Now that sf.net has been compromised, what alternative are there?

It's quite ridiculous considering that the sf.net download mirrors are sponsored.

I, for one, welcome our Jellyfish overlords.

So wtf does MS do for the 5%?

Step 3: Show a throbber when a page is loading. IE doesn't give any indication that it is doing something.