No it's not. If a government agency had tried to force them to take it down, that would have been a case of infringement. But as a private entity, B&N can decide what to carry in their product line.

FlashBlock, too.

Sounds like you don't know how Washington works. As Steve Earle remarked on stage a few weeks ago, when you become President, it's like being Harry Potter. They tell you all sorts of secret stuff that you didn't know before and then they put all sorts of obstacles in your path just to make things interesting.

Not to mention that there are STILL workplaces where the I.T. control freaks won't permit anything except Internet Exploder on their systems. One place I worked did a periodic scour and removed things like other browsers or email clients.

On a few occasions, I have been presented with an updated version of the Add-On a few days after the new Firefox disabled it. But it is increasingly annoying to have functionality I have come to rely upon disabled. It's very difficult to work with tools that keep mutating and supporting the concept of Add-On functionality becomes pointless when everyone has to run like the Red Queen just to stay even.

I think the definition he is using it too narrow -- and quite likely egocentric. How will his prostheses assist people with Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, CADASIL, and other neurological conditions which tend to be disabling?

How can you wonder if it works? It does what it was intended to do. It transfers money to Raytheon, The Carlisle Group, etc. etc.

they may have learn MASM to avoid detection.

..it was because he's obviously a moron.

I'm in the same frame of mind. I almost always remember to silence it in public places. Besides, when it's in my pocket or anyplace but in my hand, it generally goes to the voice mail (that I didn't want) because there's no option to configure the time before it goes to voice mail and it takes me forever to get it out of the pocket it's carried in which is zipped so it won't slip out.