This is not the same thing at all... The passwords made by the Google password generator are meant to be truly random, so no access to one website is related to another. On the other hand, all the password this application makes are generated from the exact same password plus domain name (which is obviously known), so if someone knows you use this service and guesses your master password, he has access to all the sites you go to. It is somewhat more secure than using the same password everywhere as long as the attacker doesn't know you use this service, so it can be useful against random brute force attacks on a website you use.

This doesn't look like a bad idea... But the thing is, Google wants to get rid of on-the-fly verification of revocation certificates, and you suggest on-the-fly reception of short lived certificates, so it might run into similar issues as the current system. Remember, a revocation list is permanent, so you can just download the latest updates to it, which should not be too bandwidth intensive if you do it every time you start your browser. A list of active certificates could not be kept, and would have to be downloaded anew every time (or rather received on the fly, because it would probably be way too big).

Atlas Shrugged is a book written by Ayn Rand. The main plot idea is that human civilization is destroyed because the small working elite which humanity depends on to feed decides to go in hiding an let all the lazy people (basically everyone else than maybe a thousand people or so, all of them Americans) die. Go read the wikipedia articles on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged for more details.

They call it a KDE ripoff because it does look a look like KDE, because they borrowed a lot from them in terms of artwork. To be honest, looking at the screenshots, I know I could be fooled into thinking these are KDE screenshots. The only difference is in the lower left part of the taskbar, as far as I can see.

Wow, looking at the screenshots from that browser, it seems the developers of that browser think that "normal people" like to have some of their valuable screen estate wasted with Facebook buttons and small pictures of their friends... No thank you, I'd rather keep that crap in its own tab. Bring you lame astroturfing elsewhere.

You can't shoot a company in the head... They'll just hire the mob or raise a private army, or put a bomb under your car. The idea that you could defend your family against a corporation seems to me ludicrous.

You should go read the Wikipedia article about the Chinese milk scandal. Sure, at least some of the companies involved went bankrupt and two persons were executed, but I can't imagine a parent whose kid may suffer lifelong health problems and/or a reduced life expectancy pointing this as some sort of proof that regulations are cumbersome and unnecessary.

I don't know much about processing fees, but I do know that netflix said recently that it costs them a penny to stream a gigabyte of data. I doubt they get such a nice deal on bandwidth, but even if they pay ten times as much, I think those bundles are far more profitable to them than to the developers per hour of work invested, especially with the default money split which is suggested on purchase.

Yes, the author of noscript made a mistake once, for which he profusely apologized, and worked long and hard to fix. You can read his apology, it's in the first paragraph of the link you provided. If you choose to deprive yourself of noscript because of that, you're missing on some extremely useful functionality for a bad reason. Everybody makes mistakes, and the world is much poorer if they are never given a chance to redeem themselves.

Yeah, that's obviously the future of mobile computing. We're all going to trash our laptops and run ssh on our ipads.

In this particular case, "right wing" simply means "someone that displays a strong dislike of the government".

No. But I think you go a long way to speak about your favorite topic. So far, in fact, that your post doesn't have much to do with the original subject at hand, which is why I agree with the moderation your post was given. The breadth of topics which have a political aspect so large that you could make the same argument about nearly any post you make. But cheer up! Your post is now at 1, so somebody thought you were on topic (or just happened to be favorable to your views).

For the record, I think when the discussion is about programming, you sometimes write interesting things, and I have laughed at some of your jokes. I'll even go as far as to say that I don't think you deserve a negative karma. But the consistent beating of the same old horse nearly every single time I read your comments gets tiresome, and your karma may be a sign that I'm not the only person who thinks the same.