Choosing not to include some feature in your product is exercising your freedom

Likewise, Choosing TO include some feature in your product is exercising your freedom. What's the issue?

Yes, Firefox is bundling in code to handle DRM, but you are never forced to use it. Firefox itself is not becoming DRM'd, in reality it's not entirely different to including proprietary CODEC support - you're free to use it if you want and free to ignore it if you don't want to use it. Ultimately, giving users a choice is the most freedom.

How else are people supposed to learn? Stepping through code line-by-line is an excellent way to learn what your code is actually doing. Everyone has to start somewhere. If someone has decades of experience and still works like this, then I have to ask why they're in that position? Who put them there? Why haven't they had performance reviews that highlight this weakness?

It seems that far too many rockstar developers can't fathom that not everyone knows absolutely every facet of development.

I do wonder what the future has in store for the humble CPU. With a huge market shift towards tablets and phones in the consumer area, where power savings are more important than raw oomph, as well as a similar shift in a good portion of the server market, are we starting to reach an era of CPU's being "good enough" for most people and performance to begin stagnating?

Hopefully some good competition between AMD and Intel will keep things fresh and fast.

I'm not making any assumptions, but you seem determined to make blanket statements.

For someone banging on about security, this statement is laughable:

A plugin would add no vulnerabilities.

Flash is a plugin.

So what you're saying is, Flash is a stupid idea because people have to install it, but a browser addon is a better idea because people have to install it.

As ridiculous as the meme is, I feel Dogecoin has done more for cryprocurrency acceptance and awareness in the last 5 months than Bitcoin has done in the last 5 years.

As I said, give me an alternative that is supported.

By all means, give me a better way to enable websockets on the majority of browsers out there. Flash is horrible, but most people have it installed and enabled. The same can't be said for much anything else.

Too bad you didn't read the summary properly: The flash object sits on the website, not the browser. The browser just runs it.
For this to work on a wide scale, you can't make everyone install a browser addon. That's just stupid and as bad as flash is, proprietary addons are worse.

Why would you exterminate browsers? Do you really want/need an app for everything?

Context is so very important.

All you have to do is follow the CCTV footage at the time of the call until you get a shot of their face, or an idea of where they commuted from.

Pay phones are often in public areas, which often have CCTV. While it's not quite a direct trace to the home phone, it's almost certainly enough to find out who did it. All you have to do is follow the CCTV footage at the time of the call until you get a shot of their face, or an idea of where they commuted from. You'll also get a description of their build, ethnicity, etc. and then there's likely eye-witnesses for the areas you can't see.

Surely a much better/modern approach is to use some VOIP provider over a VPN. The call quality might not be brilliant but it doesn't have to be. Or perhaps steal someone's wi-fi. There's lots of ways.

Yes, because everywhere that has a power socket also has an RJ-45 connector.

And no, homeplugs are not a reliable solution.

I haven't encountered a grey screen issue, is there a specific occurrence for that? Skipping generally works fine for me, sometimes it does that thing where it seems to miss a keyframe and it looks a bit funky for a few seconds but aside from that, it works fairly well.