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Comment Re:sigh (Score 1, Troll) 319

I don't know about your definition of secure...

They have less DISCOVERED flaws that's true. But it doesn't mean there aren't many which can be discovered and exploited.

And quite frankly their virus-response is crappy. It took ages for them to patch something that Oracle had patched a while ago. I think that's the main issue here - they needed a fire lit underneath them, and even then they worked sluggishly.

Comment Won't work (Score 1) 230

Every single time I see one of these stupid bills the first thing that comes to mind is 'won't work.

You can set up the most intelligent, crazy whitelist type system in the world, then it'll get thwarted by someone sending an email, or someone posting something on a forum. And that's assuming that the blocking itself works (hint: it doesn't).

There are too many sites on the internet, there is too much of a wide definition of what is porn or not, and if you block agenericpornsite (blacklist), then someone will come up with anothergenericpornsite - and your filter is useless. The fact that you can get domain names pretty cheaply doesn't help either.

While we're here I'd like a system which excludes all malware please. K thnx.

Comment Re:Boo Hoo (Score 3, Insightful) 366

And the new features being added to Firefox of course are no reason to keep updating it.

Technology always moves forward. Should we pause all advancements to ensure that everything stays compatible? And why is it that this library (not sure what to call it) is the one with the problems? If firefox updates are breaking it, then something must be broken with the library itself. I use tons of different websites every day, so far I haven't seen any which have been broken by firefox (I'm using Aurora). So this seems to be a very rare occurance - I'm pretty sure where we can place the blame.

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