I love Firefox and use it every day, but I'm getting a little tired and confused with some of the features they keep putting into the core. I've always thought one of the great things about Firefox is the extensions; and while other browsers offer similar 'add-on' concepts, Firefox just seems to do it better. Why aren't they concentrating on just making a seriously good browser engine and then leaving the extra stuff to the extension developers. Or, if it's something important, get with the extension developers and help them out, offer a 'Firefox suggested extension package' that downloads and enables extensions by default. That way, all the 'normal' users get the cool goodies, and the rest of us can turn them off or uninstall them all together if it's not something we need.

For instance, the new development centric stuff they have in FF13 is nice. But it doesn't hold a candle to the development tools that have been in IE9 and Chrome for some time. I use Firebug for all my web debugging needs in FF and it works wonderfully. Get with those guys and improve their already awesome extension. Don't try to re-invent every cool extension and add it to the core. Not everyone needs it, not everyone wants it. Just build the fastest, most standards compliant browser out there that offers an amazing extension engine and you'll have a winning browser.

I really don't understand the point in this either. If there was something they wanted to bring to the public's attention, then I would have expected them to put in the work of hacking said e-mail accounts and getting the information everyone supposedly needs to know.

As it is, they grabbed “a list of roughly 90,000 military e-mails and password hashes[...]”. Which tells me some script kiddy got himself a shadow file and put it on the internet.

FTA: "Anonymous believes that their efforts are simply a form of civil disobedience, calling their tactics “peaceful protest.""
I'm also not sure how they can continue to call this "peaceful protest" (assuming Anonymous actually said that and the author isn't just pulling that from an earlier statement). I can see the DDOS attacks construed as peaceful protest. I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can see the through process. Let's be clear though, they are no longer performing a peaceful protest. They are infiltrated a secured system and stealing confidential data, which is a crime.

Anonymous just seems to be a group of people with no particular focus or agenda that I can see, other than rebelling against everything and in turn giving every other hacker a bad name.

While I'd rather have a 'real' RSS feed, both Facebook and Twitter allow you to subscribe to someone's 'wall' via an RSS feed. And I don't think you even need an account for either to work -- as long as the user/business have their privacy settings set appropriately. Of course, there isn't a button for it, you have to use your browser's 'Subscribe to this page' (in FF anyway).

It's hard to read the posted comments, but the stories themselves are pretty easy to read if you just grab the RSS feed. A lot of websites -- or at least news websites -- provide RSS feeds which can be used as a 'lite' version of the site quite easily.

I could be interpreting this wrong, but they do seem to be saying a particle would need to be intelligent in order to have 'free will'. To say free will is a thing that can change it's behavior (state) with out being influenced by the past necessitates this.

If I observe a particle and it is positive, it could very well be that it was influenced by MY decision to obverse said particle. Therefor it is positive BECAUSE I decided to look at it; or put another way, it changed its state because something happened in the past (me looking at it).

So for a particle to have 'free will', it must be hanging out and then say to itself, "Well, it seems like a good time to put a positive spin on things" without looking at any outside influences.

Now the universe as a whole having 'free will' makes more sense to me, because then you have something acting on said particles (or humans?) to cause things to happen.