I have, Twice and it was for something stupid like an external drive, yes it counted a peripheral as part of the PC like duh. I tend to upgrade bits regularly but this sets the 'reauthorise' off.

What happens after April 8th - no more reauthorise?

I visited again and my fingerprint was unique again, but yes I do hate that websites get access to info that it is private, something I don't think Mozilla really cares about - they just make token gestures towards privacy.

I think the problem with the fingerprint is that it changes too much and so is not very useful, my guess is that advertisers do not rely on this kind of fingerprinting.

Having said that, I'd install a plugin to block the upload of the info in an instant, especially fonts.

I don't mind them having a little of my time. It's the earth and health-destroying, false dream selling greed worshiping evil bullshit that I hate.

Because you can't have advertising without tracking?

I don't mind adverts, I don't like being stalked by psychopathic corporations.

Billboards, TV, radio and newspaper ads don't track people (yet) but advertisers still use them.

I administer some applications that interface with such software and

Do these apps still work with ghostery and deleting cookies on exit? Why wait for the gov't to do something?

Doesn't stop web-bugs.

Ghostery is better, both is best, but with top-level domains allowed in no-script.

put the craptastic mini/micro/and nano usb plugs to death already.

Eh? I've been recharging one of my devices nearly everyday for 18 months with a micro-b USB plug at not once did I think that it wasn't sturdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You get what you pay for.

Now they have a "Selfie" popup encouraging me to take pictures of myself and post them... wtf?

Lol, I got that today, what better way to ID you better, perhaps it was the NSA's idea.

Ten years, perhaps they'll be able to enable name/subject 'sort' soon.

All they've done is make the UI completely unintuitive, I haven't seen any useful changes over the last ten years, just adverts and the continuous nagging and coercion to use Google-plus.

How are we royally !@#$%.... ....plants flourished and so did animals.

'We' being the majority of humans.

I just looked at the charts in the page you linked and it doesn't look like there's been any upwards trend since roughly 2000.

In fact I'd even say the trend over the last 14 years looks slightly downwards, but 10 years is most likely too small a time scale to be able to tell.

Personally I see no reason why we shouldn't rapidly work towards recycling everything and not using materials that poison us and life on this planet.

Global mean temperature (from the report)

While I'm most certainly not a climate change denier, I am an optimist and I hope the model's are wrong because otherwise we're right royally fucked.

It does look like we're about to come under the temperature rises predicted... but the recession could of been responsible for that, it looks like there is no end in sight for the burning of coal and now tar sand. Tar sands are going to be environmental destruction on a shocking scale.

Why is secretly recording phone calls worse than recording them without your consent?

When you phone your bank or just about any other corporation you get the typical "this phone call may be recorded for training etc purposes", good luck finding a bank/big industry that doesn't do that.

So corporations record everything.

But what if you are a whistle blower, what if you merely want evidence of wrong-doing. Now you can't have it, that's hardly fair is it? Or a journalist?

Make a law to prevent very personal private calls from being broadcast, fine, but don't criminalise all un-notified recordings.

And what about the police, are you going to bar them from making secret recordings, no? - that is double standards.

And if you make it illegal to record a phone conversation... Does that include someone writing down the conversation... during the conversation... or after the conversation? What someone happens to put you on speakerphone whilst someone else is shooting video... What if you were standing in front of a store video-camera and put the conversation on speakerphone - would that make the stores recording illegal!!!!!

They have gone further than just putting a keyboard on the iphone, see pic:

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/...

They've copied the shape of the keys, the horizontal bars between the keys etc.

Like this you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... :-)