Unrelated. Just what we needed, another ambiguously named language.

How is some giant government conspiracy the most plausible explanation? I bet you believe that commercial jetliners spray mind control chemicals when they take off as... fuck it, I'm off to go buy more shares in a tin foil manufacturer.

Actually, it's useful for pretty much everyone. For a start, you can do videoconferencing without Java or ActiveX - a serious win for business. You can do videocalling without a dedicated app - Skype can be a pure browser application, serious win for anyone who's ever had to launch Skype. Where you get the idea that just because it doesn't support scanners that it's only useful for adult chat sites is a mystery.

Pass. New versions of Firefox are awful.

They did. Browser War I anyway. Unfortunately Netscape rose under new leaders and started Browser War II, but was eventually defeated by the entry of Chrome onto the stage.

If they just sent you code with no license whatsoever, what they actually gave you is All Rights Reserved, and you may not use it at all. Period. There is no concept of "gift" in copyright.

No, it's nothing like saying that. It's like saying an Escort and a Falcon are roughly the same thing because they both have Ford motors. KHTML, Blink and WebKit are forks of the same source (KHTML) and implement virtually identical feature sets. If you want to avoid using a Chrome-like browser, your options are Gecko or Trident based browsers. If you want to avoid using Gecko as well, you just stonewalled yourself into using Trident, and we all know what browser primarily implements that.

There is no "Chromium Engine". It's WebKit/Blink.

If they're gonna go this way, there needs to be a way to have unpublished (i.e. private) extensions on the Chrome store which are not subject to content policies.

UEFI and SecureBoot are not the same thing. SecureBoot is just one of many UEFI features. UEFI is a far superior replacement for BIOS.

How does QTWeb which uses WebKit help you avoid using WebKit?

There's really three rendering engines now: Trident, WebKit/Blink/KHTML, and Gecko. Pick one and select a browser based on it.

It's entirely possible that Skype money is of value to people in Brazil who quite likely use Skype a lot. In 2005, for example, Brazil was actually the country with the greatest number of Skype users. If that's still the case, then it's probably quite a good bribe to them.

Not ASCAP,SoundExchange. SoundExchange collect royalties even on non-member music, and hold onto the money until the non-member becomes a member. And if they never become a member, SoundExchange can "expire" the royalty and spend the money however it wants.

Slashdot mods all have 8 character passwords

Seriously, drop the entitlement complex. It is not your computer and they are entitled to configure and manage it however they like.

If you tried that stunt where I work, we'd have you fired for connecting unmanaged, unsupported hardware to our network.

That's a ridiculously poor model.