Yes it is. You ARE able to play single player offline...

I leave Firefox open for literally months at a time, with anywhere between 400-OUT_OF_MEMORY tabs open.

Money.

False. Some bugs affect only some operating systems and archetectures. Additionally, chrome has added security in the form of a sandbox. A sec

>If you do not believe CIA propaganda without question, then you are seriously fucked in the head.

You see, in the realm of real-life inter-person communication, trailing off signals a certain set of things. The recipient then scans through this set, and compares it to the possible set of additional meaning that could be attached to the words preceding. In this case, the poster is 'cutting-out' as they would be in response to the communication recipient making some sort of micro-gesture upon realization of the incongruity of the sent communication, in order to allow them to be sure that it was, in fact, a joke/sarcastic/irony.

The OSS 'philosophy' is a diluted, ad-hoc, pragmatic version of the philosophy of Freedom-respecting software. It is inherently weak and has and will be diluted for marketing purposes, and to placate 'sufficient portions' of the philosophically divided, weak OSS 'community'. OSS is devoid of an idealist core, its 'idealism' is a (often unfounded) claim of pragmatic superiority. It will be diluted until the newspeak makes NDA-source == OSS.

Have you met the majority for CS grads in North America recently? They are primarily stoned gamers who's parents friends convinced them to become programmers, despite their complete lack of fitness for that career path. Thanks to the decrease in difficulty in required CS courses at most universities in order to increase graduation rates, the statistical competence of grads has jumped off a cliff in the past few years.

I didn't realize so many people physically removed boxed copies of software... Surely they could just download a copy?

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Telling the truth is not libel. Giving the vendor advanced notice about announcing a vulnerability is not blackmail or extortion (in fact, its a public service). Furthermore, libel is not a criminal matter. Please reply with rationality, and not kneejerk-fear in the future.

Calm down, old man. You'll have a heart attack.

Tell the vendor that if the bug is not fixed within 2 months, you will notify any customers of theirs that you are aware of about the issue (and ask them to forward accordingly) such that they can protect themselves from the coming storm, and shortly after announce the vuln. publicly, with a Proof of Concept exploit. Even if you are unwilling to follow through with your threat (read: a pussy), the threat may well be quite effective.

To take your lead on interjection: while you were entirely correct, and your 'opponent' entirely wrong and your interjection appropriate, from a third-party perspective you did come across as a bit 'dickish'.

Most likely this was quite counter-productive with respect to making your opponent see his wrongness. Your arguments-- while based in logic-- seemed to have a violent, almost zealous component. This is bound to lead to knee-jerk reactions from those who are sensitive to perceived emotional attack.

>Why invent the wheel?

I believe the idiom you are looking for is "Why reinvent the wheel."

Off the top of my head I can think of a great number of reasons to invent the wheel.