Can I set my own key? Set and maintain my own hash? No?

Not interested.

We want true, user-controlled security, not vendor provided.

We've learned our lessons already. The trust is gone.

(posting from my uber-low ID)

They were probably doing it anyway, and now want everyone to opt-in, so they can cover their arses before they got caught for tracking everyone without their consent.

Women make up a tiny proportion of developers, but we still see passion plays like this in forums where developers dwell on a daily basis. So, who precisely is harassing who here?

I was not trying to kill him, I was simply sending him a large amount of high speed data.

People HATE windows 8 because they are trying to force a touch interface on it, most people do not buy touch montiors so it is less than intuitive.. now they want to make it even more touch oriented? unless they are going to send me FREE 27" and 40" 4K touchscreen monitors it's not going to be worth a damn.

STOP TRYING TO UNIFY THE PC AND TABLET/PHONE WORLDS! I am so sick of companies trying to do this, it's a failure an utter failure.

This reminds me of a story I read a few years ago about a landmine clearing robot that was designed to have its legs blown off and still travel through the minefield.

If you don't trust Cisco you better get off the internet. Seriously, if you're worried about this, a binary blob running in your web browser is the least of your problems. There's a very good chance that the network hardware at your ISP is Cisco. If it's not, it will likely be Juniper.

so mozilla gave up, to make the web a better place?

Fixed.

video tag. for the IE8 users, give them alt text.

If the open source world releases something (unencumbered with the GPL - i.e., BSD licensed) with encoding and decoding tools that actually works as well or better than the closed alternative, in a timely manner then I'm sure people will use it.

It will never happen. Get used to it. There is far, far less complex stuff in the free desktop that has been broken for the past 20 years and still not fixed.

If you think CIsco need to backdoor your browser to own all your shit, you are tragically naive.

Why the fuck would they bother, when they can just do that to all of the backbone routers you use?

Who says aliens use base 10 math? Base 8 or Base 12 would make a lot of sense, and then their round numbers would be something totally different.

Whatever you say, debt slave.

Yes. Lets ask children if they want to be treated like adults, and trust them to act like adults if they answer in the affirmative.

Or, maybe that's a cop out, and we should start acting like men.