Dear Firefox Devs,

Maybe you shouldn't have changed your version numbering scheme purely for marketing reasons as it seems to have bitten you in the ass.

Minor versions should be .x or .0x. When someone releases 4.01, nobody bitches that 4.00 is no longer supported... it's not too late rename Firefox 6 to Firefox 5.1 so we don't have to deal with this in 3 more months.

Cheers,
Jeremy

From TFA: "Changing to an LED ball was not only more green, the decrease in electricity costs allows the city to host the ball on top of One Times Square, where 100,000 visitors marvel at the sparkling ball all year. In tune with the changes, the 2011 ball will be lit completely off the grid by bike pedal-generated electricity contributed by those who visited the exhibit and pedaled at the station."

This is a means of detecting criminals, but is it really using DNA to do that? Seems really unlikely...

I was in Paris recently and had to register with their ISP as a free WIFI user prior to being granted access to the Internet.

They claimed it was due to a recently passed law (and provided a link to the law but I chose not to follow up as it was easier to just register and move on rather than argue with anybody during my vacation).

I had no idea who Tesla was until I read the liner notes to this 1989 masterpiece: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Radio_Controversy

You can't travel between two gates on the same planet!

Back in the early nineties when Wolfenstein 3D was all the rage, a friend came over with a German exchange student and I fired up the game to show them how cool it was. The German kid freaked out. I assumed at the time it was because it was all about killing Germans... but maybe it was simply due to the existence of swastikas...

Good point, but I think most people on Slashdot think we SHOULD be the majority...

DVRs have a much larger impact than VCRs on the (archaic) ratings system (regardless of your parents viewing habits).

There is a huge difference between people occasionally recording stuff on a VCR when they'll be out to people regularly recording everything they are going to watch and watching it whenever they get around to it.

There's a big difference between the DVR and VCR. Most people used VCRs to rent movies and occasionally record a show they were going to miss.
DVRs are used by a significant amount of people to regularly watch television when it is convenient.

Half the world works for Google now?

And another number for to weight in your list:

Chances your internal IT guys know more about securing your data than Google engineers: 5%

Yes, my number was pulled out of my ass too.

I don't understand what this have to do with World of Warcraft?

While I agree with nearly everything you said about the problems of the App Store, I do want to point out that there is a "Customers also bought" feature in the iTunes App Store already (at least when accessed via the desktop iTunes application)