Am I the only person noticing how the crash / incident amounts for fly-by-wire aircraft seems to be gradually increasing over such a short timespan?

Opera here I come. Here's a grand 'up yours' to Mozilla. Is this some kind of human condition where once you've gained the trust of a large group of people, you are innately driven to shit all over it?

Exactly. Although, this is a battle as old as time, and I hate to be this brass about it, but for lack of knowledge people suffer, knowledge is power indeed, and those who don't have it, or don't care for it, will be subject to those who do...

.. ...so I have mixed feelings about the people who don't care or don't want to be bothered to learn more; a mixture of "well, you get what you deserve" and "it's just hard for some people to truly grasp this due to laziness"

I don’t equate it to stupidity. It’s not that people don’t understand the implications of this. It’s made fairly clear.. “every site you visit will be known to us”. It comes down to having different priorities.

I have to respectfully disagree with you on this. The problem is that people don't understand the implications of this, due to lack of knowledge of information technology and informatics, and how things which seem useless and meaningless to them, can be amalgamated to produce a very accurate psychological profile of themselves.

In my opinion, the problem is people just don't care and they are too lazy too care until they get burned.

Most individuals fail to grasp the implications all together; making the statement "every site you visit will be known to us" in no way implies "we analyze this data over a massive amount of time to create a very accurate demographic and psychological profile on many aspects of your personality"...that kind of realization takes time, critical thinking and effort...something the average person using a computer...from what I've observed...appears to detest doing.

What if I'm a satanist who just likes to use Jewish and Christian wrapping paper for kicks?

I'm going to do something, that truly expresses my disdain for this nonsense: I'm not using youtube.com for anything again. Ever.

I can't wait for G.W. Bush's death.

...but the truth is, Ribbon is much better interface

This is simply your opinion, not the truth / fact. Please don't speak for all 'users', especially here on Slashdot.

Ribbonization is the stupidest concept I've ever experienced in a UI and it's not because it's different than what I'm use to, it takes longer for me to do the same things I use to do before...without offering any additional functionality. This is how I determine when a change in a UI is worthless.

I did the exact same thing the author did in the article: installed windows 7 and turned off all the bullshit effects and menus, right back to the classic theme.

I understand that, at the same time...UMG can only abuse the DMCA as much as YouTube allows them to...in the sense of simply not complying with it as it had no merit whatsoever to begin with...so I'm still somewhat back to my original point. It's hard for me to see how this is about the 'law' and not youtube just being a bunch of MPIAA RIAA cocksuckers.

You tube is a private company. So what if they remove content because they're spineless pricks? No one is 'entitled' to having their video retained on youtube.com, they can remove a video for any reason they want, and they don't have to explain it to you if they don't feel like it...not from a legal perspective. Why does everyone seem to forget this when things like this arise?

My point is, this is being touted as some fantastic new pioneering discovery...when, at this point in neurological research...this aspect simply is not.

This is old news and has been known by Neuroscience for a long time now...neurons move closer to other neurons based on how often certain movements and memories / thoughts are used so of course the makeup of your brain is going to be dependent on what you know and do on a consistent basis. There is nothing new about this discovery.

...for legal ruling in the midst of ignorant and intellectual squalor on the matter, on behalf of the moronic judge at hand.

Dear god somebody kill off or at least properly educate these senile corpses before they ruin things more than they already are with all this blatant stupid.

I completely understand you're point and appreciate you identifying the filament of my original joke...but I simply don't feel this kind of money, on this kind of training is a priority right now given what's currently going on.

...it's good to see our government spending money on games.