The legal system sits firmly a decade behind technology.

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Maybe the discussion needs to be whether or not technology advancement needs to be slowed down in order for civilasation to keep up with the changes......

When I buy a printed book, I own the book. I can read the book whenever and where ever I want.

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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.

I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?

If she works as a dev at Intel and is subject to such abusive language because of the work she does at Intel, then Intel could have a harassment lawsuit in their future.

Microsoft's Board of Directors need to fix the root cause of Microsoft's problems.

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Unless and until Mr. Ballmer is shown the door, he will just continue re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and Microsoft will continue its slow voyage to the bottom...

In one company where I worked, I was able to have the end users funnel all their bug reports through the company's internal education department. If the "bug" were actually a prevalent user error, the education department would note that and modify their internal courses to instruct the users on proper usage. If the"bug" were actually a programming problem, the bug reports we got from the education department were very helpful to resolving the problem.

FINRA tries to pass itself off as an independent regulator of the financial industry.

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Just take a look at the firms that make up FINRA and you will see what a farce it is to use FINRA and financial industry regulation in the same sentence.

I've restarted Firefox with the "Restart with Add-ons Disabled" option. And I still see the paralysis.

I cannot disagree.

You've noticed that also.

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Though I would call it more of a paralysis than a halt. Firefox goes completely unresponsive. Unnerving at best. And hardly what I would expect of a top-rated "performance-crown-winning" browser.

... Firefox by a relatively small margin. Indeed, in some areas, Firefox is slow, other areas, such as Javascript, Firefox is, at best, middling.

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At this point, if you are deciding upon which browser to use, perhaps the browser with the marginally highest performance benchmark numbers may not be the browser for you. Here is a difference that matters more to me: when I change the http proxy settings in Firefox, only Firefox is affected. However, when i change the http proxy settings in Chrome, the proxy settings for Windows are changed, meaning that other applications are affected. For this reason I use Firefox instead of Chrome, even though Firefox is a lot slower on a web page I frequent a lot.

When you make something idiot-proof, only idiots will want to use it.

Given Firefox's history of breaking plug-ins, why would you expect NoScript to continue to work?

If apps start requiring Directx 11.n and, as a result, I cannot run those apps on Windows 7; then that will be one more reason why Windows is no longer a solution for me.

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First Microsoft releases an awful version of Windows (8.0), then Microsoft backtracks (temporarily?) and restores some useful functionality that was removed (emphasis on some).

The question remains, how long before Microsoft has another dose of stupid, and re-removes the Start button and boot to desktop. Strategically, it is what they want to do, so you know they will keep trying to do it.

Ummm... no.

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An Altair 8080 is a different computer entirely.

Why did you waste her time with an interview if the cards were already on the table?

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From what you describe, I suspect if she did get the job, it would have been a hostile work environment for her, with too many busybodies poking around into her private life.