You are joking, right?

First: It's nice to foul around when you are in the 20's, so if you really want to spend your life with someone and don't want to betray that person, it's a good idea to wait some years and have fun while you can.
Second: You know, for us men, it's a bit difficult to have kids on our own. And it's also a bit difficult to get a girl pregnant, giving birth and then keeping the kid just for the fun of it. Marriage - or a life together - it's a pretty strong necessity to raise kids... not to get someone that doesn't let you die alone.

So, if you are a nice guy, when you are in your late 20's, you will finally get a girl that was banging around with a dozen of other not-so-nice guys, while you where getting 0 and waiting for some interesting-enough-girl that finally gets tired of dating assholes, wants to start a family with a guy that takes care of the kids for her, and wants some nice-guy that doesn't complain, does her every bidding and can live with having sexual relationships only one a week.

Hum. I prefer to stay a not-so-nice guy, thanks.

Well, now-a-days, extensions are a standard in every browser worth of that name. Different people have diferente needs and preferences, and that's why we want/need extensions in our daily workflow.

That being said, the fault rests on Firefox developers for not having adressed the problems that might be caused by the extensions. In fact, they didn't even adressed the extensions archaic system for years since people started complaining.

When was the last time you had to restart a mainstream browser to install/update an extension? Oh that's right, you didn't except if you use Firefox.
When was the last time your browser crashed on you because of a misbehaving extension? Who that's right, it didn't because Chrome and Safari (IE, anyone?) sandbox their individual pages, and if something crashes,then you just have to reload a page not restart the all brows...err Firefox.

I just wish that for one major iteration Mozzilla would stop adding half baked new stuff and concentrate in eliminating all the bugs, all this crazy memory and processor peaks that come from nowhere (no, it's not my system, it happens both in my iMac and my MacBook pro) and reworked the plugin system to work correctly (if Safari and Chrome can install and update plugins witouth restarting, so can you). I've been using the Firefox 4 RC since beta 4 and these nasty bugs remain there.

Really, I started with Firefox in my Windows days, because it was much lighter on the resources and less bloated than IE ... but look at what it became?

If it wasn't for the tab scrolling feature that Safari still doesn't have, I wouldn't think twice in ditching Firefox.

I think you are making a mistake here. Now-a-days the power in the book industry it's not in the hands of the publishing houses, but in the hands of the distributors: Amazon, Barns & Noble, etc. These are the predators of the business and the ones bullying publishing houses and the writers with them.

Art quality cannot be measured in sale numbers. If the business model becomes: write some mediocre crap about vampires full of clichés that every teenager will read and sell it at .99$ for profit, we would stop having writers like José Saramago, Vargas Llosa, Orwell, Huxley, Edgar Alan Poe, etc.

Well, not trying to defend the guy because I don't really know the truth (and let's remind that neither do you). The story can very well be another.

- Girl get's get's drunk and acepts to have sex with the guy.
- Girl wakes up, with hangover next day and decides that after all, she didn't really want to have sex with the guy.
- Girl goes to the police and says the guy raped her.
- Guy get's pissed off because this is unfair and posts a stupid message in FB because he basically thinks she is a bitch.

Then again ... why did this story get in to Slashdot?

Yeah, and very awakwardly, I didn't notice Palin going on trial about this. Hum, I wonder where all those equallity principles that USA constitution talks about do lie.

I see so many people, claiming the end of the platform just because "perhaps" now we can pirate games. Oh God, Sony will be loosing money (it won't actually, since the console building costs is lower than the selling costs and has been for quite a while now), the game devs will be loosing money, it's a dead end.

People, wake up. Every PC game is pirated. That didn't end up PC market, neither did it end up the development of PC games. Some people will pirate, some people will continue to buy the games. After all, if you wait a couple of months, you can buy a recent title for about €20, that's about the same you pay for 3 lunches out during work days ... just cook at home, buy the game and have no hassle, downloading it, burning it on a BR disc or installing the ISO in the PS3 and patching it and fear Sony will know it, or if you are for it, just go ahead and have the lunch out and take a bit more time and trouble to have the cracked game. Either way, there will always be some pople buying it and some people pirating it.

In the end, pehaps this will be best for all of us and the prices will come a bit down.