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Blocked in my 'hosts' file. See: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...

Thanks for making my computer unresponsive for minutes. Great job in web design.

You have a point, but it depends on how strict they are with identity checks (which also goes for the 4chan prank idea above).

Considering the first graphical web browser was written for the Next Operating system

So fucking what?

I'm going to assume that your stupid little rant is to make you feel better about hating Windows (wow! aren't you a rebel!) and less about anything to do with software development... of which you obviously know nothing.

Wrong assumptions + reading comprehension FAIL. Work on your personal issues and better luck next time.

we will have to wait until the next Republican President before we can bring Math and Science back to the middle east.

And out of the US!

You've been away for a while, haven't you.

If you really buy that principle and want to enforce it religiously, then please never use a web browser again (even Lynx!), not to mention any other complex program that isn't formed from a bunch of small "do one thing well!" utilities that are executed in a pipeline.

If web browsers and other modern programs do not follow the "many small tools doing 1 thing well" model, that's only due to programmer mediocrity and market pressure.

It would be a much better world if I could just replace the JavaScript-interpreting component as soon as a vulnerability is discovered and get on with my work. But NO, I also have to put up with whatever new dumb-ass UI happens to be bundled with the latest security update. And maybe wait for an extension (MORE code on top of a FAT PIG of a browser) to bring back the old interface!

Only idiots grown up on Windows can like such a fucked up way of doing things instead of the old, granular, elegant many-small-tools model.

Moral of the story: only buy legless hard drives.

getting out [of chroot] basically consists of making a symlink and doing cd.

OK, but - unless I'm missing something - you can't do that while chrooted. A browser running chrooted can't execute code that will make links to "out of chroot".

Run your browser in a VM, preferably using a different OS to the host. No access to the host filesystem, isolated from the real machine.

Simply chroot the browser, no?

IME, Gmail is rejecting a lot of legitimate mail nowadays.

Their filters used to be good, but they completely fucked it up lately.

I once submitted a man page patch for bootparam(7). It described a boot parameter to the Linux kernel.

I never received a reply and it was never incorporated in the man page. That waste of time was the end of my "career" in documentation. Last I checked, that parameter was still undocumented.

I'm aghast at the state ofdocumentation for Open Source projects

You must have missed OpenBSD, then.
I know, I know: It's an exception. I just wanted to mention the best documented Free Software I've ever seen.

given what we know of the NSA it's likely they have compromised TOR.

Well... Citation needed.

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