Firefox is the only full-function browser that is:

1) Native multiplatform for all the major desktop platforms (Linux, MS-Win, MacOS).

2) Fully Open Source.

3) Managed by the community.

And on top of that, it has fantastic extension/addon support, performs very well, is very standards based, is actively supported and enhanced, has great site support, and is available for mobile too. So I am shedding no tears over the loss of Opera.... and I did use it many years ago.

To me, a distant second is Chromium, but it is still Chrome... and Chrome contains God-knows-what by Google. It is also not a community project and its Linux support is second-class to the other desktop platforms.

Speaking of barf.. looks like more is needed.

>"There's no disputing that Bill Gates is blessed with a brilliant mind."

I think I shall barf now.

>""The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play," hooks to your iPhone."

Correct wording: "The first guitar that anyone that also owns an iPhone can play". All my small devices are Android and shall remain so....

>"But exam data shows the gap is created much earlier"

"is created" implies that some one or some group is guiding/causing/forcing it to be so. A better wording would be "appears" or "unfolds" or "starts" something.

Wording is important.

What does that really mean? They will PAY the customers to use electricity?? I don't understand.

I have just one tip: Install Linux. Then you don't have to worry about tips 1 through 4. (Well, I guess you could still consider 2, rsync is your friend).

>That's why it's fuzzy. It's screen scraped from a TV.

Well, certainly doesn't look like any "TV" I have been watching for the last many years!

China- the 1950's called and would like their equipment back now, if you are done with it.

>" If you want to see how your computer measures up to playing 4K content in 60 fps "

Not really. My monitor is 1080P, 2D. 4K 3D is about as incompatible as playing a tuna fish sandwich!

But thanks for the offer :)

> 'We will always be grateful for the second chance extended to us and we are doing our best to make the most of it,' says GM CEO Dan Akerson.'

If you want to make the most of it, pay us back our $10B.

> 'Today is not dramatically different from the hundreds of preceding days during which we have worked to make GM a company our country can be proud of again.'"

Again, we will be proud of you AFTER you pay us back our $10B.

>"Iran would not be coming to the negotiating table without the US oil boom."

This is a perfect example of how oil has created such a horrible political mess over the years. It has been very dangerous for us to be so dependent on the middle east.

While I am glad our increased independence is forcing Iran and such to the table, I really wish it were because we accomplished that independence through renewable energy sources. Still, I guess we should take what we can get for now.

" People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. "

-Ben Franklin

OMG, she is much braver than I am. I would be totally grossed out and freaking out. Humans host a huge amount of bacteria, mites, virii, etc.... but there is something especially gross about visible parasites that just make my stomach turn.

This was a tangent link and I really feel sorry for people who have to live through such encounters, especially a multiple infestation:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893913001695

"
        Be widespread: vulnerability manifests itself across a wide range of products, or impacts a large number of end users.
        Be vendor agnostic: vulnerability is present in implementations from multiple vendors or a vendor with dominant market share.
        Be severe: vulnerability has extreme negative consequences for the general public.
        Be novel: vulnerability is new or unusual in an interesting way.
"

So MS is tired of seeing just the TONS of bugs and major issues with their products and wants to bribe the community to please try and show that a least of few of those same bugs affect other, non-MS platforms? Yeesh.

Let me be one of many to say it is just disgusting.

Please let software patents die. DIE DIE DIE.