52-minutes is 'quick-look'?? Really?

"Here I sit, watching a freshly installed FreeBSD box run through cvsup on all ports, to be closely followed by a new kernel compilation. As the output flies by in the xterm, I find myself wondering why I don't run into more FreeBSD in the world."

There's your answer right there. Perhaps people want more from their OS than to sit watching a kernel compilation."

I think this is all a hoax. I think they really went to Mars.

What a great idea. About the only bit of personal information that most Facebook users haven't already given to Facebook is their postal address. Yet this process does just that.

Wouldn't surprise me if this "Annoy Facebook" thing was actually started by Facebook to harvest postal addresses. :-)

The Mozilla Enterprise Working Group are considering this proposal at present: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal

This would provide a 42-week 'stable' release of Firefox, with incremental backported security fixes "just like the old days".

Whether this will come to fruition or not is unclear at this stage, but at least it's being discussed.

You _can_ switch off auto-updates for Google Chrome for Business: see http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=187207 although, as they say, they don't recommend it.

I note that using Chrome for Business and allowing auto-updates means that that one can have an auto-updating browser where the end-users are not administrators. This has never been possible with Firefox. It can be done with Internet Explorer too, of course ;-)

We have neither Fall or Summer here in .uk, thank you. :-)

I am hopeful that the government is only raising this to appease those who genuinely believe it's a good idea, while planning to dismiss it later "after consideration" as being unnecessary.

Apart from the fact that it's basically technically impossible to "block Twitter/FB" (or whatever) in any meaningful way - and everyone knows it - I don't think it would have made any difference to the rioting.

After all, there have been riots and unrest for centuries. However, the post-riot organised cleanup could not easily have happened without social media. And that was a good thing. Also those caught up in areas affected by the riots were able to find out what was going on by using social media. And that's a good thing too.

Federal law prohibits websites from collecting personal information from anyone under the age of 13.

'Federal' suggests you are talking about a U.S. law. Many users of Facebook are not based in the U.S. What implications does this have here, specifically to non-U.S. users of Facebook, if any?

Article reports: "There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file delivered as an email attachment"

*BOGGLE* If that sort of functionality is even possible, then it was just an accident waiting to happen.

However when there was a mass shooting at LAX in 2002, they didn't shut down the airport.

Ah, but shooting is fine. It's much more American for a start. Americans like guns and shooting. It's carrying a bomb that makes you a terrorist, not carrying a gun.

Some extensions I installed use the status bar to display, you guessed it, their status. Could anyone inform me how the hell would that work if the bar is gone???

Don't worry. Those extensions probably won't work with Firefox 4 anyway, so this won't be a problem ;-)