I saw an article years ago that expanded the acronym to "Mostly Bloody Awful."

He's a CEO. The Kool Aid he's drinking is the one that makes him hallucinate, "oboyoboyoboy, I'll be able to fire a bunch of worthless $100k+/yr software devs and take home a HEWWWWWWWWGE bonus!"

This is not new. I remember trying to find information about converting from a WPF Visual to a Windows metafile. So of course when I searched on "WPF metafile" Google assumed they knew better than I did and searched on "WMF metafile", then... grudgingly... admitted that maybe I might have meant what I'd actually typed, and if you click here we'll actually search on it... That was more than 10 years ago.

I work on validated pharmacovigilance software. (Basically, that means the software used by drug companies for tracking references to their drugs in academic and scientific literature.)

Because of the regulations surrounding drug manufacturing, our customers generally have locked-down computers. On Windows boxes, that means that Edge is the only browser we can count on actually being available to individual users, so supporting it is a no-brainer. As it happens, we also support Chrome officially now, and I'd imagine we've got some internal users using Firefox as well.

(Beats supporting Internet Explorer exclusively, and Chrome only unofficially, as we did until about three versions ago.)

The author's assertion that you must use Command Prompt is incorrect, though. An admin PowerShell 7 prompt did the job just fine.

I should know, because at one point or another, I did it. Mind you, it's entirely possible I did it by putting in an autodelete rule, as another poster said he'd done.

8) Never, ever incorporate popular extensions into the core product for efficiency. Blocking ads and better security should be the end users task to learn about, decide, and implement. If you *must* implement something like the "do not track" button, be sure to be extremely careful not to piss off advertizers: implement it by default "off", so that users can choose.

One word: Pocket. It might have been popular, but its addition to the core browser was not well received here...

Good thing you don't want to switch back to Eudora - last time I checked, it was basically a customized Thunderbird.

...because, of course, Thunderbird == Unix/Linux. That having been said, it would be nice to see Thunderbird handed off to someone willing to handle bugs that have been around for almost SEVEN YEARS. (See also, Deleting the last read message opens the previous message.)

As for Michigan, it might as well as be non-existent. Rural and suburban areas are always poorly serviced.

In my experience with Michigan's public transportation systems, even urban areas are poorly serviced. I used to work in downtown Detroit--I saw more buses operated by Transit Windsor than by the City of Detroit. And don't get me started on the AATA (sorry, "TheRide")...

...for a reason. And that reason is, I don't care about /. polls.

At least if you're going to do this, add polls to the exclusions list.

I'm afraid I can't answer this, since I'm not part of the design team. I will ask them to share their thoughts on design choices, but I can't promise anything.

You are here. They are not (which is a major part of the problem, IMO). Be convincing, please.

LET US KNOW WHY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Not quite.

Try this, instead:

LET US KNOW WHY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU START DOING IT!

And please, post any responses IN BAND. That is, on the front page. NOT on the Slashdot beta blog. For the type of communication you need to have with Slashdot users if you want the beta to be a success, that communication needs to be in a place where it's right in front of us, rather than being hidden behind a link.

Alas, yes, and that's been the case for 20+ years. ISTR getting contacts from military recruiters back in the early '90s when I'd never expressed any kind of interest in the US military.