Let me put it this way - how much worse could your boss/team lead/manager screw things up if they thought they could code?

You're right, better leave them doing the same job with a convoluted Excel spreadsheet.

I suspect the actual DNS being hunted for are the cheats' "DRM" servers that ensure you paid the guy who made the cheat money.

So, this raises the question: is there a meta-cheat that cracks the DRM?

I don't see why any of this wouldn't be possible with text logs. Yes, you can write GUIs that parse text log files. Yes, you can write an utility that does all the grepping and sorting for you. Yes, you can filter out logs from the previous boot. I don't think the performance loss would be noticeable.

So your arguments in favor of binary log files seem quite moot.

So, just curious to know. The previous sync version had client-side encryption, i.e., Mozilla did not know what data you upload on their servers. In order to do authentication with a Mozilla account, I presume this has to be changed and now the Mozilla people have full access to an unencrypted version of your bookmarks/passwords etc.

Is this correct? That seems a worrisome change.

U.S. keyboard, of course, sucks for writing in German.

Suggestion: I have successfully switched to the US-international-altgr layout, which is essentially an US layout with lots of extra chords for typing international characters. With that I can comfortably program and type in English, German and Italian without horrible efforts, both on Windows and Linux.

GrüÃYe! (no, it's not me hitting the wrong keys, it's the slashdot Unicode support).

Figure out how you can recover your password for every service and system you use, at the time when you first set up the account

Full disk encryption says hi.