Given the history of Godaddy, whatever they think is a good idea surely is not. They have a severe competency deficit over there.

I know, right? It's absolutely ridiculous, but that's the "innovation" that somehow makes it work.

The neat trick they use to pull this off is they're not charging -you-, a constitutionally protected person with a crime.

They're charging your property with a crime. Your property has no constitutional rights.

Article says pre-paid cards. Says nothing at all about bank accounts. Which would be a whole new level of thing.

Haven't had Firefox crash in years. Over 500 tabs open, dozens of extensions. Whatever your problem is, it's not Firefox. If you think Firefox is bloated you're not paying attention to your Chrome.

Erm.... yes!

They inject code right into the script that already has the execute bit set. It's not uncommon, I've seen it myself.

This doesn't help anything because the script they inject the code into already has the execute bit set.

It just makes it no longer appear in the repository. No one gets notified the plugin is insecure, or that it has been removed from the repository at all. It just remains in 100,000 WordPress installations, unmaintained, forever.

Apparently he can't afford to purchase decent email service. Maybe someday he'll create something important and then he can get off the crap freemail.

You want an accurate progress bar? Hire Nate Silver to design it.

No, they don't send any such thing.

Unfortunately nobody keeps Spamhaus in check, that's why they've become a degenerate network abuse source. Their DBL shows them for what they are now, something the rest of the Internet needs to shun.

Their director of security "reassured" customers Adboe's source code wasn't stolen? You want to know why Adobe's got problems that never end, that tells you everything you need to know about Adobe's attitude about security right there. The guy in charge of security doesn't even know what that word means.

"Desktop support" isn't really about desktops. DUH. It's about users, who won't be going anywhere, and will continue to need to have their hands held for even the most trivial of things.

Maybe "the cloud" will make Gartner go away. The Cloud can do anything right?