Poor analogy. Although breaking into a vault isn't impossible, it does add significant difficulty to obtaining the money, even after breaking into the bank. Indeed, breaking into the bank is the easy part compared to breaking into the vault.

In your analogy, you're adding a significant barrier (breaking into the vault) on top of a much less significant one (breaking into the building). In the case of my browser passwords, someone who's gotten physical access to my computer while I'm logged into it has already scaled a much bigger barrier than hiding the "show passwords" button presents. It's taking the money already in the vault and saying putting it in a child-proof plastic bin is making the money safer than simply keeping it in the vault. Possibly technically true, but really not worth the hassle at that point. The attacker that's in the vault is going to get the money if they want it, the plastic bin isn't actually helping...

Yes, and if you understood how public key encryption works, you'd realize its existence is not relevant to the discussion at hand. It has no useful function here. (Note: your "master password" is not a private key of this sort -- no hand entered password ever could be... unless you're Lt. Cmdr. Data.)

You mean Firefox engages in a bit of security theater that Chrome does not. As a result, people who don't know any better are mislead into believing the falsehood that "you can secure this in Firefox", whereas people in Chrome can see the truth of the matter.

That's extremely easy to correct for. It's interesting to note that the data, which does include political affiliations of the respondents, showed a decline in gun ownership among Republican households up to 2006 (although a slight decline, compared to a much larger decline among Democratic households), but the trend has reversed since 2008. I saw a lot of "get your guns now, Obama's comin' to take them away" scare-sale tactics used in 2008. Apparently, they were quite a smart marketing move that proved successful.

That accords with my personal experience. Except for the NASCAR part -- my father was a big NASCAR fan and I was into it for a while. The rest definitely fits, though. Throw strong pro-union activist into that, too. A lot of the safety improvements at my old work were a result of my dad's activism and years as union VP. Although it was my ultra-feminist mother who was the biggest gun-nut in the family. She owned more guns than the rest of us combined. xD

Expecting a cyberman invasion?

This is Japan we're talking about. A toilet requires a 38-button control panel with a liquid-crystal display. I wish I was joking...

More such victories and we are undone.

That's a bit of an obvious troll coming from someone with a seven digit UID... :p

People's interests change over time. They get bored with some things and move on. But trolls like to use the word "outgrew" to try to offend current fans, and particularly immature people view these sorts of continuous, inevitable shifts in interests over time as signs of increasing maturity on their own part, not so much to offend anyone, but as a way of making themselves feel superior. Often then aren't smart enough to realize that's what they're doing.

(Yes, in case it wasn't obvious, the irony is intentional...)

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I don't click on stories that don't interest me. That'd be an utterly stupid waste of time. Moreso to take the time to comment on them.

Welcome to /. ;)

Incredibly stupid people frequently project the over zealousness of fans onto humble authors. Because, you know, you can tell how big an ego an author has by how much his fans talk about him. If someone says you're really good at what you do, that means you've got a big head, right? Yeah, it almost hurts trying to psychoanalyze that level of stupid...

Obvious troll is obvious. Come clean, AC, you're not actually that stupid...

It doesn't help that there's over a dozen other definitions of "ton", several of which are measures of volume rather than mass.