That would take centuries.

"there is no conceivable disaster that will leave the earth less inhabitable by humans than any other body within our conceivable reach. "

Climate change.

Propaganda, indeed. Television has been doing it for many decades....

so what about Democracy?
it was the foundation of the "modern society".
Now its capitalism with is the most important thing in the world.
not people, not happiness, not doing the right thing
only money, and now everybody is wondering why there is so match criminality;
ill tell you: stealing = money and money = success how you get it is not important, everybody is stealing from everybody if they have the chance
(company's and governments F**** you any chance they have)
this is the "moral" that a "modern solidarity" has

the most famous SECRET it operations center just like the most famous SECRET base (area 51) does anyone think there is anything secret there?(i dont, maybe there WAS but then it would be moved to a secret location)

mmm, because not giving you real name or posting a comment with political statements not supporting the government can result in death or punishment and because a social network have to be trusted and with varius governments trying to impersonate the public. not doing 1 of them endangers peaple's freedom or securety

lol

It is far, far more than just a "reimplementation".

  Sorry, I don't buy for a second the idea that code innovation somehow stopped after the 80s ;-)

SB

Spot. On.

  What I find hilarious about this whole thing is this Media assumption that "Anonymous" is some sort of organized group. What, there aren't a lot of pissed off, unemployed (yet intelligent) people about who have nothing to do but play crusader in front of their computers? (I envy them to the time and resources to do so, I'm busy just working to survive).

  IMO it's the same sort of institutional paranoia that gave the human race wonderful parts of history such as the "cold war" (of which I grew up into) and still seems endemic amongst certain social climber types.

  If that offends any of the corporate fanatical types out there, I'm afraid I have no sympathy for you. Fuck Off.

SB

 

The explosion was the 70s and 80s. Today's software is really just the same 70s/80s inventions (word processors, spreadsheets, hyperlinks) going through minor changes in an attempt to convince people they MUST upgrade (and hopefully spend money).

  Really? Where would you place linux in this world of yours, then?

  (My first "non-hobby" computer was an Atari 400)

SB

  Windows Update syndrome? ;-)

And bugfixes don't require jumping from 4 to 5 to 6 to 7. All it requires is moving from 4.0 to 4.01 to 4.02 et cetera.

  Whatever. As at least one other poster said, who the hell cares what version numbers they use, as long as it works? Personally, I find it rather interesting to be living during the time when computer software is undergoing an evolutionary explosion...

  Playboy.com sucks. Now maybe it's just "get off my lawn" syndrome, but I remember when Playboy had a really good magazine...

SB

I don't want my browser going through a bunch of revisions so that I'm always fucking with my computer software/updates, instead of doing actual work (or play).

  This has to be one of the more ridiculous statements I've seen lately. You are getting a Free, easily customizable, relatively fast, stable and very secure browser, and you don't want them to do bugfixes, improvements and overall making it even better, because you dislike keeping your OS up to date?

  WTF?

SB

  Ditto here - made the switch after Thanksgiving and have had very few problems - certainly nothing I couldn't deal with with a little googling or forum digging. All my extensions (with the exception of Fox Lingo) work fine - I hacked all the rdf files months ago.

  This last release is fantastic, pages are rendered noticeably faster. I switched over my other computers (Ubuntu, Mint, Win XP and Win 7) around beta 9 and have had even fewer minor issues on them, probably because they don't have the plugin/extension load this computer (Mint) does.

  I suspect that the issues that others are reporting have more to do with plugin/extension problems.

SB

 

    Sure, but make sure to buy the extended warranty with your purchase.

SB

  What if it saves all your data to the cloud (best encryption), uninstalls your broken OS, installs a better OS, ports all your settings and themes over (as close as possible, given proprietary format angst) and then presents you with a better deal overall?

  What sort of definition would one give to that sort of virus, Vir.Benev.BashScript? ;-)

SB