No. This is completely unacceptable. FireFox is my browser of choice, and I don't block JS, but there's no reason whatever I should have to go to a third party if I decide to.

What's next, I'll have to DL the HTML and strip the JS out of the source and run it locally?

Unless Mozilla changes these terrible plans, I'll have to use a different browser. There's no reason whatever to remove this feature.

My answer isn't no, it's HELL NO and fuck you, Mozilla. If you want me to continue using your products you'll grow a brain and think of your users, not your Google sugardaddy.

Indeed, and not just non-programmers. That's another beauty of open source; rather than having to write a custom module from scratch, find something that's almost and modify it to your needs.

Ten years ago or so when I was still programming, my boss' boss gave my boss a programming assignment. After working on it for almost a year without any success (wrong choice of language, I guess, she was more mainframe-oriented) she dumped it in my lap two days before the deadline. I hacked something together in time using mostly borrowed javascript.

I handed it to her boss, "Excellent!" he said. I humbly admitted that most of was stolen code I'd repurposed and hacked together. He grinned and pointed to a poster on his wall. "Plagiarism is when you steal a person's work. Research is when you steal a lot of people's work."

All Charlie wanted was a solution. I wound up with a promotion and a big raise.

No. WA is always Washington state, DC is the District of Columbia; Washington, DC is not in any state. WA is a postal code, like IL is Illinois and FL is Florida.

He wasn't modded down. Roman mir posts so much incoherent schitzophrenic babble that his karma is in the toilet. Look at the moderation (click on the number on a comment to see how it was modded). He's at +1 now with 100% insightful. Moderation worked.

OTOH you should be modded offtopic. Moderation failed on your comment. It wasn't informative, it was incorrect. Mods, please pay attention! If someone's sitting below 1, don't assume he'd been modded down.

Encrypt your communications

Djl;lk;mckj88 d d ddddja;pdooble!

How's that? The NSA will never know what I said there!

It may be possible to create a fabric that doesn't let thermal radiation escape, but lets the air through so convection can cool the wearer

Cooling is the removal of heat. Your air conditioner blows hotter air out its exhaust than it blows cold inside. Either you'll be seen or will get rapidly hot.

Firefighters' gear keeps the firefighters cooler than they would without it because the heat their bodies generate isn't as hot as the surrounding air. Too long in that gear and they suffer from heat exhaustion.

That's really going to go over well in August. Heat reflective clothing could be deadly.

As for your flaimbait at the end, well your and idiot

LOL! I love the irony. Also, I'd have never seen the AC's comment if you guys hadn't pointed to it.

I don't understand why they're so surprised at this. The sun's radiation and magnetic field isn't stationary, why would the position of the heliopause be? Seems to me that an abrupt transition or an evenly distributed transition would be surprising.

It's outrageous that anyone is dropping bug and security fixes for any software that's still in use. I have an old XP box on my home network that I use to digitize LPs and cassettes with. I'm desperately searching for a replacement for EAC that will work in Linux. Audacity won't quite cut it. With EAC I can record the analog, and five minutes later I have a CD.

Unless I find a good replacement I'll have to take the XP box off of the network and use sneakernet to get the music into the network.

When hardware outlasts software, the software is pretty damned shabby. My other tower is the same age and is happily running Linux, and still will be when the hardware wears out.

My car is ten years old, and if there's a safety defect the manufacturer will still fix it for free. Microsoft should keep issuing security updates until nobody is downloading them any more. EOLing a still useful OS is pretty damned sociopathic IMO.

Microsoft makes shoddy products and has terrible EOL policies. I hate Microsoft's products and policies.

And the fix is... Linux! Before you mod me funny, hear me out.

Pick a good Linux distro and install it dual-boot alongside whatever version of Windows you're running. In the installation of most distros you can add a separate partition; do so.

Alternately, you can run FDisk (which will wipe out all data) and make three partitions. Install your current version of Windows in one of them, then W8 on a second, and then install Linux on the third.

When you boot your machine you'll get a menu giving you a choice of (e.g.) Win 7, Win 8, and Linux. Use Win 7 or Linux for normal computing and Win 8 for the W8-only games.