So... how can I invoke this deliberately? I would *love* to swap my laptop's line-in/out in software, because one port's never been used and the other is damaged beyond repair.

I understand the frustration, but that site *wants* to be populated entirely by the kind of morons that fall for blatant SEO spam. Smart people wouldn't make them money via pay-per-impression ad sandbagging, after all.

Good luck to them in doing that while they're still giving their high-profile work ridiculous neckbeard titles like "GNU Media Goblin", "GNU SIP Witch", "GNU Tools Cauldron" (the GNU prefix is required; one or more of their devotees will show up and throw a shit fit over it in public if you omit it).

It's like the FSF want to embarass the FOSS world into avoiding them and the ideals they're preaching; they're like a church offering libre enlightenment but the only entrance is through a municipal sewage tunnel with no catwalks.

They've done a lot of good in the short time they've been around. I know I've learned a few things from reading that site I never would've cared about otherwise.

Sad to see that it came to this, but going up against a regime of terror like the US government would be out of Groklaw's league. At least we already have the EFF on that.

I'm growing concerned about the future of the open internet, but as long as we're all still here: it's been an honour to share this weird corner of it with Groklaw (and the rest of you oddballs) for the past decade.

You certainly aren't that person, Armchair Manager.

Great. Now make your solution continue to work 20 years from now when the Windows XP activation service ceases to exist, which is what TFA is actually about.

It's ironic that out of all the software you mention in that post, Firefox is the only one that *won't* respect your GTK theme.

Qt, a completely different UI toolkit, will play nice. Chrome, a browser ostensibly all about tying you into Google's web services and reinventing the UI wheel, obeys the GTK theme settings and even integrates with the Gnome/KDE password manager. Firefox? "We've got animated PNGs!"

If only ELILO was anywhere near as reliable... :(

These kinds of claims make it all the more pathetic that the only users to ever have difficulty connecting to my wifi network had an iPod Touch and OS X 10.[4567]. In the end I had to disable WPA2 to allow the Macbook to connect - Windows XP caused no such grief.

I propose that they should be killed. As in literally. Drag Chris Dodd out onto the street and put a bullet through his thick, cocaine-lined skull as their corporate headquarters goes down in flames with everyone inside.

They won't stop until everything we (the entire world) say or do is illegal, so we might as well jump the queue. And besides, murder carries a lighter jail sentence than copying audio files in America. This is the better way out.

It's an ostrich problem.

It's nice that a handful of ISPs like Comcast have a clue (they even "get" open source), but 99% of others are too stupid to understand IPv4 is a sinking ship. Mine still does installations using bottom-dollar trash where the firmware's crippled by design -- it'll be in a landfill before it ever supports IPv6. They just wasted a fortune shipping those boxes out a year ago to every single one of their existing users.

I wonder if Firefox will live beyond 9.0. Neither Netscape nor AOL did.

They can't be any more idiotic than the unremovable sourceforge.net ad currently hogging screen space on Slashdot's front page and trying to push Windows software at me. (And yes, I have the "Ads Disabled" box checked)

Yeah, so far Valve's credit card database has been stolen, but EA customers are the ones getting money stolen from their bank accounts.

An ARM platform fast enough to run Windows Mobile!