I live in the Netherlands and use a provider which was recently forced to block Pirate Bay too.
Now Firefox takes atleast 2 seconds longer to start up due to Tor. :(

This whole P3P thing just sounds like the evil bit all over again.
How exactly is P3P supposed to protect users' privacy?

I hate Splash screens too, but they do have a purpose.

If you accept the reality that harddisks, memory and CPU don't run at infinite speed, you have to accept the reality that large programs take some time to start.
While it's loading, a splash screen provides visual feedback that the program IS actually loading. If you've ever accidentally opened a program a number of times because you thought it wasn't starting, you understand why this type of feedback is useful.

The real issue is whether a splash screen is the right way to do it. Modern OS'es have notification mechanisms which could be extended to show a minimal progress indicator, why not replace splash screens with such an OS-provided notification system?

Hi,

I just want to let you know that you'll probably get modded -1 flamebait, troll or off-topic for these types of posts.
That has nothing to do with your annoying posts or the fact that they are completely offtopic.
It's because most of us are actually puppet accounts by this guy you're bitching about and negative moderations only proof you are right.
You're not paranoid, we (by which I mean all the puppet accounts, which are really just one person) ARE out to get you.

Thank you for your time.

...and that's assuming people will use english words, which is probably try only for native English speakers without a second language. A dictionary would roughly double in size (yet another bit of entropy) for each additional potential language.

Hm, I wonder what those interests were. ;)

To be fair, a heavy ray-tracing load for many hours on end is hardly appropriate for consumer grade CPU's.

If SOCA, Serious Organised Crime Agency dealing with serious organized crime is fighting copyright infringement, then what is the agency called that deals with such things as mobsters, thieves, assassinations and illegal prostitution gangs? Those organized crimes aren't serious enough for SOCA? They sure are causing a lot more harm to the tax-payers.

It may be a bit of an overreaction if two or three accounts got compromised, but...

Why would they? You just said your domain had compromised accounts. Your domain has been used to send spam.
Why would they guarentee spam send through compromised accounts on your domain does not get marked as spam?

Yes.
Spammers still use it.