Especially if you use Dvorak, where the Ctrl+V is dangerously close to Ctrl+W (which closes the current window / tab).

OH GOD. You have described the bane of my existence.

Well, a bane anyway. A little bane.

Don't worry, that's true of the other browsers too, the article is just dumb. (From what I can tell, it was added to Firefox in late 2006 and I had the feature provided by an extension before then.)

There really should be an easily-identifiable way in Firefox to restore a closed tab without using a keyboard

Firefox Menu -> History -> Recently Closed Tabs not "without a keyboard" enough for you? :-)

Correction: I guess 2/9ths instead of 1/4 of its life. Still, it'd have been a senior in high school. :-)

It's just the "recently closed tabs" feature that has been in Firefox since the dawn of time.

To be fair, it's not been around for quite that long. My guess/investigation was that the feature was added to Firefox 2; for a while, I used an extension that provided that functionality. Even if you count from Firefox's 1.0 release, that would be a quarter of the way through it's life (in human terms, it'd have learned that feature while in college), and FF was gaining traction among well before then.

That being said... why the heck is this a /. story?

FTP is a stupid protocol and needs to die. Please use something else (such as SFTP).

No need to wait for a TCP connection to time out. As soon as the page has finished loading, all connections are closed. HTTP is a stateless protocol; just because you have a web page open in front of you doesn't mean there's any connection to the server right now.

If you're not using cookies, you can use query strings to track state. For every link on the page, you add a query string to the URL containing a session ID number, so when the user clicks any link, the session ID is passed in the query string. But that looks ugly, so you should just use cookies.

Perl.

If you'd said that while he was still at Google, I'd have agreed...

There were communist spies in the state department. And there was almost zero intersection between the communist spies and the lives destroyed by McCarthism. So your point is...?

I'm not sure why you'd think this is the case in the UK - perhaps you've only tried driving around central London. A few factors affect the relatively low rate of road fatalities in the UK:

The first is the relative difficulty of getting a driving license. You must pass a theory test, which is multiple choice. It's not that difficult, but you can't pass it without having at least read the highway code, even if you can't remember quite all of it. Then you must pass a hazard awareness test, which shows you videos recorded from cars and checks that you are aware of things that may potentially be dangerous and so need your attention. Finally, you need to pass a practical test, which takes 30-60 minutes and involves driving on various kinds of road, where one major fault will result in failure. It's not unusual for people to require 2-3 attempts to pass, with lessons in between

Perhaps more important, however, is that safety statistics are the primary input into the road signal design system. Speed limits are set and traffic lights are installed in response to accident statistics, not (usually) to raise revenue. Police speed traps are also placed according to these rules. The USA has no equivalent system.

...and you think people don't do that? :-)

Anyway, it's not a new phenomenon in some sense. A lot of rock climbing gyms have systems called auto-belays, which are systems that let a single person just walk up to the wall, clip a carabiner from it into their harness, and climb.

And people forget to do that. They just go up to the wall, don't clip in, climb to the top of the wall, let go as if they were on autobelay, and then get to take a medevac ride.

A gym somewhat near me has posters around the gym with x-rays of someone who did that there saying "be sure that you clip in!!!"

You haven't actually read anything I've read in this entire thread, have you?

I'm not on LinkedIn, and my spam filter has now learned that everything from them is spam. Looking though my spam folder, I seem to get 2-3 invitations from people whose names I don't even recognise (and some sent to aliases, for example the FreeBSD Core Team, rather than to me personally). I can't imagine anyone getting sensible results from any exploration of the LinkedIn graph.

Is everything in your world a false dichotomy? Yes, you stop the owners from harming the slaves. You also deprive the owners of their property. We, as a society, have decided that the harm of slave owning is so great that it warrants restrictions on property rights. We unfortunately reached that conclusion more for economic than moral reasons a couple of hundred years ago but now, thankfully, the moral argument is more widely accepted.