Pale Moon

Take a look at Pale Moon browser. It's built with FireFox source, but with a rational user interface layout.

I'm reluctant to try the FireFox OS for one main reason --- FireFox developers have demonstrated a bad habit of arbitrarily changing important parts of the software they publish (e.g. the FireFox 29 user interface fiasco, making the UI much less customizable, in spite of the developers asserting that it is more customizable).

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The last thing I would want would be a dependence upon an operating system from those change-happy short-sighted developers.

Is Microsoft Paying Few Companies to Move Parked Domains to Windows, Thereby Gaming Netcraft Numbers?

Didn't Microsoft pay someone (godaddy?) to get a very significant number of parked domains moved to Microsoft's web server software in the past year or so?

And those headlines were about vaporware? Decades go by and Microsoft never changes, ~~trying to compare Microsoft vaporware against the shipping products of competitors.....~~

The feature phone's biggest feature for me is the battery life. I charge my phone once every couple of weeks, if that much.
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The smartphone's biggest detriment to me is all the data that resides on it, and how much the apps track your every move.

Regardless of how you use an operating system, if the OS foundation is not secure, then anything you put on top of it cannot be secure.

At least OpenBSD provides the secure foundation upon which you can build what you'd like. The security of what you build on top of OpenBSD is your responsibility.

The Freedom of the Press is not an absolute right. If it were absolute, then a reporter could break into my house anytime he wanted in order to get a news story.

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Only when this case makes it to the Supreme Court will we know whether drone usage in these types of cases are legal. Until then, there will be lots of discussion.

UI designers are constantly trying to stay relevant. That is why they are continually changing the UI. They say the new version is better. They *always* say the new version is better. But a UI designer does not understand the very real difference between "different" and "better". To a UI designer, "different" is better, by definition. That is why they are always changing UIs, usually for the worse.

Which in Texas means very little.

Historic E.U. Net Neutrality Win Shows Maturing Digital Rights Advocacy

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Operations people work in a timeframe of minutes to days

Developers work in a timeframe of weeks to months

Researchers work in a timeframe of years to decades

When you take a developer, who thinks in terms of months, and task that person to think in terms of minutes and hours, you are wasting a resource.

When you make someone respond to an overly wide range of timeframe-based events, the short term events always crowd out the longer term events.

Have you ever noticed that companies locate their research divisions away from the day-to-day operations divisions? It is to keep the timeframes separate.

If I want a reliable connection in my house, I hard-wire. It is the only way I can control the physical layer of the network. Once I go wireless, I cede control of the physical layer to forces unknown.

... I am not surprised that Comcast has won its second Poo award from The Consumerist.