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Comment Re:The root problem is... (Score 2) 108

I have a technical website serving a niche, with 100% content and no adverts. So far this month I have had 10 referrals from Bing, 130 from the most relevant Wikipedia page and 2200 from Google.

It's not so much the worldwide web these days as the Googleverse.

---sigh---

I see similar numbers for my website also, however, you are seeing much more bing activity than I see.

Comment The root problem is... (Score 4, Insightful) 108

... that google appears to be the main generator of traffic for some websites. The way to solve the root problem is not to change how google does or does not work, but to bring other traffic generators on board.

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A company that relies upon one customer for a great majority of its sales will always be beholden to that customer. That is why companies diversify their customer base.

Websites should diversify their traffic generators instead of just relying on good ole google to generate traffic for them.

Comment Re:What a silly question. (Score 1) 406

You need to take back the web from Firefox, because it has a toolbar button you don't like, and a third-party addon didn't work correctly?

Please reread my comment, it was not that I did not like the toolbar button. As I also mentioned in my comment, those issues were the last straw for me, i.e., the last of a series poor planning decisions that the Firefox developers have made. So I, like many other FireFox users, am going elsewhere.

Firefox risks irrelevance as mobile browsing booms --- Without an effective mobile browser strategy, in four months Mozilla will fall to No. 4 in a five-browser market

...Mozilla's case hasn't been helped by a steady drain on its desktop user share, which in April slipped to 17% of all desktop browsers, down from 20% a year earlier....

Comment Re:What a silly question. (Score 2) 406

They are losing market share and their actions will accelerate, not reverse, that trend, just as previous missteps have done.

Ah yes... previous missteps.

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The last straw, the item that chased me off FireFox was the developers' stupid decision to lock down the reload and stop buttons on the FireFox UI. Yes, I know there is a "Classic" add-on that attempts to restore the previous look and feel of the UI. But like many add-ons, the quality level of that add-on is much lower than that of FireFox. I ran into too many issues trying to get that add-on to work properly. During my attempts, various items in the UI would actually disappear, and I would have to restore the browser's profile directory and try again to configure the Classic add-on.

Yes, FireFox developers are chasing away their users.. Now I just need to figure out what to do with my "Take Back The Web" FireFox t-shirt. Ironically, it looks to be time to take back the web from FireFox.

Comment Worth repeating... (Score 4, Interesting) 116

The ultimate responsibility for the failure to detect this vulnerability prior to release lies not with any individual programmer but with the culture in which the code was produced.

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I've often said that you don't fix a software bug until you've fixed the process that allowed the bug to be created. The above quote is of a similar sentiment.

Comment Re:It's official - it passed (Score 3, Insightful) 90

Wow, what a surprise.

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This was destined to pass from the day it was first proposed. All the public commenting was merely window dressing to make it appear as if there were public involvement. The ISPs control the Internet (and apparently the FCC) in the United States, and this is their way of assuring they will continue to do so and profit handsomely in the process.

Comment Re:There's a reason books can't be updated (Score 1) 249

Though it seems that there are so many ways for a person to smuggle a MicroSD card into a secure area that an eReader is probably not a huge concern.

How much experience do you have in securing high-value military devices and how much knowledge dop you have about the reasons for securing such devices?

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None and none, you say? Gee, I would have never known that from your comment.

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