I've found a way to keep the damn kids off my lawn!

The FBI, among other three letter agencies, has been known to operate end points in the TOR network. TOR is a useful, but not entirely sufficient way to stay anonymous on the internet. If that's your goal, you have to use TOR, a good VPN, and a dedicated operating system such as TAILS. And you have to properly configure each of these at all times. Anonymity on the internet is hard, and requires careful stagecraft. And even if you do everything perfectly every time, it still might not be good enough.

Mozilla has been committed to social issues since before there was a Firefox. What do you think the whole "Take back the web" thing was about? They are trying to keep the web free, as in freedom, for everyone. If that's not a social issue, nothing is.

Long, long ago, you could buy keyboard overlays for programs like Wordstar that had all the keyboard shortcuts labeled. I remember that because I'm old. *sigh* Good times, they were not.

I'd be more worried about the Big Bad ISP cutting off access for torrenting bootleg anime.

The astronaut training program is based at JSC and the nearby Ellington Air Force Base. Therefore, astronauts have to live nearby. The location of Mission Control doesn't really affect that.

First, this is nothing like driving without a seat belt. If I yank a thumb drive from my computer without "safely" ejecting it, I am not going to suffer any personal injury. The worst that could happen is I maybe have to reformat the drive. Big deal.

I think the Milestone 18 version of the Mozilla browser was the first one that was stable enough for every day use. I've been using Mozilla/Firefox ever since. That would have been back in 2001 or so. Before that, I used Netscape. I've been a Microsoft hater since the first browser wars when MS tried to corner the entire web with IE 6. (Funny how quaint that idea sounds now.)

I wouldn't be so sure; people have been sounding the death knell for public broadcasting for decades now, yet it doesn't die.

Meh, just don't take away my RSS feeds! I listen to several NPR shows that way.

In many ways, things are even more accessible now. I know that idea goes against the zeitgeist, but hear me out. I purchased my domain name from gandi.net for a reasonable sum (in the tens of dollars), and I run my personal site from my home cable connection (Comcast). I do this by using afraid.org for dynamic DNS (free) so that I don't have to pay for a business class connection with a static IP. That's fine, because I'm running a personal site, not a business. Furthermore, all of the software I use is free and open source. I don't pay for any of it. The hardware I run it on is cheap and easily available. My server is an old desktop running a LAMP stack. Yeah, it's not enterprise quality by a long shot, but you know what? I have a real -- however minuscule -- presence on the internet for not a lot of scratch.

I imagine Sergei Brin gets paid to go to trade shows.

Our family regularly exceeds our monthly cap, and Comcast has yet to charge us for the overages. So we have that going for us, which is nice, but Comcast is still an ugly boil on Satan's teat. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Marius Ursache will still be working on this long after he's dead.

No kidding. Besides, how often do you get to use "It's its" in a sentence?