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Comment liability (Score 1) 161

I worry about liability. While the GPL and other licenses can disclaim liability all they like, a litigious user could still file a lawsuit, forcing the developer to spend money defending themselves. I have a Firefox extension that I've avoided releasing for exactly that reason.

Comment Re:voting again (Score 1) 307

I won't vote for any party that promotes anti-business agenda in any way ever.

I read that a large number of businesses were upset by the Conservatives' removal of the long-form census. Businesses used the results for things like determining new store locations. Does that rule out the CPC?

Comment Re:Plugin Support (Score 1) 236

Nope. It was just on a whim because it was something I needed that moment. I brought it up in the IRC channel, the suggested solutions were well beyond the mental effort I'd earmarked for the task, and I moved on to other things. You're right though, I should file a bug.

Comment Re:Plugin Support (Score 1) 236

I tried making a simple addon with JetPack (a keyboard shortcut to go back to the most recent tab), and it turns out there's no way to set a keyboard shortcut with it. I'd wager that most addons use keyboard shortcuts, so that's a pretty major feature to be missing. The JetPack API seems to be in that state - it was developed because it's a good idea (and it is!), but nobody at Moz actually uses it, so it's missing basic features needed by real-world addons.

Comment Re:encryption (Score 1) 365

Oh, good news, I was wrong!

Apple has finally updated its FileVault feature to offer high-performance, full-disk encryption for local and external drives. Current versions of OS X allow users to encrypt only their home directory, a shortcoming that allows snoops easy access to many sensitive files that by default are stored elsewhere. Under Lion, FileVault also has the ability to instantaneously wipe data from their Macs, although we're not sure this improvement will extend to flash-based solid state drives.

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