There are two sides of that... If you let politicians throw mud the way it's done in the US, you get a political system where all the politicians contemplate how to make each other look bad. Take a look at US politics, it's not like anything gets done...

Crazy baseless accusations and non-scandals/mud should be forgotten...


Note, I certainly see the right to be forgotten as an let's call it interesting experiment... We'll see how it plays out...
Either way, please don't claim that all EU politicians are conspiring to control the internet so their sex scandals can be deleted from public record. That's crazy talk...

Yes, let's use windows on the server, ha ha :)

Please don't categories ISIL along with Russia and China. Neither Russia or China is interested in a conflict with the US, but both of them do have some resources. ISIL is pretty much the opposite...

It's easy to forget just how much waste there is the private sector too.
Mostly because when a private company waste money, the general public doesn't care all that much...

But look at the crazy start-up investments made in Silicon Valley (VC for an app like YO).
I could go on, but I'm sure we all have stories about waste in the private sector.

Sure, but this is about ensuring that there is competition in the field, having multiple player, instead of a single algorithm sitting on the whole market is a good mitigation of the technical issue you describe.

True... I suspect the only reason a governor like Chris Christie is even being talked about with respect to 2016 is because he is in the media.
Granted I don't follow American politics closely, but it seems to me he is only in the media because he is borderline crazy...

It might be funny... It's certainly not justice.

I don't get why you elect judges and prosecutors mixing politics into the justice system. It makes the whole thing so adversarial.
When it should be about truth and not convictions...

So comparing this to AWS glacier, at 0.01 USD/GB, that is 480 USD for 48 TB...
Probably still an advantage to tapes... but how close it?

Maybe/probably, to be honest I suspect prioritizing projects at Mozilla isn't trivial.
I mean when your goal is to improve the open web, how do you measure impact of your projects?

Number of users, etc. is certainly a metric... But so are specs implemented by multiple vendors.

I don't speak on behalf of Mozilla; let's be very clear about that.

Anyways, if you wanted to do a startup, or a small and focused group, you can certainly find more lucrative opportunities (also open source), than writing a web-browser. Granted I don't touch much gecko code, but it's my clear impression from co-workers (and the few patches I've done) that moving it forward is not easy.

By the way, a lot of things still is happening in Firefox. Try out the latest nightly, it comes with process isolation (e10n); it still extremely buggy, but it's nice to see it happening.

Hmm... I don't think that's enough... The problem here is in large the adversarial nature of your justice system.
With cops being allowed to lie during interrogation, the state offering plea bargains if you confess, etc...

Cases like this were someone after hours of interrogations breaks and "admits"
'You’re telling me you have a video, so I guess it happened but I have no memory of it.'

The only reason that guy isn't rotting in prison, is because he could afford 200k in legal expenses.
Lesson being, don't talk to the police in America. Doing so is a liability most people can't afford.