If I am reading that right: "The vulnerability was patched by Mozilla in later versions of Firefox, but some people may still be using the older versions of the TOR Browser Bundle." People who don't patch can really blame themselves.

the question is, can visual studio be fixed? metro is such a horrible interface and yet now applications are following suit by uglifying. It really gets bad when it affects your work flow: - bad icons, making stuff hard to find and use - pending checkins with absolutely attrocious "wizardizing" getting in the way Are Microsoft Programs going the QuickTime route. Nice (which is debatable) looking but unusable?

F@ck Monsanto. I hope they all die in a fire.

Well I had 8 and 20, you used the 8 Mhz when arkanoid got too jerky.

>> "allow anyone to access all of the information that the system contains about any student" simple, make a test account and break into that, it's your own data then.

My Cubase VST32 works quite well with my new Quad Core 3.2 Ghz and 4 Gig of Ram, thanks very much. Can't complain about performance or noise at 2 ms latency, either. I wouldn't mind running XP for another 10 years, if only there was an SP4... What else am I running that crunches performance - SQL Server (2 instances), Windowblinds, ZoneAlarm and a 1680 pixel desktop with full effects enabled. These would probably weigh in at about 1% of my CPUs if I switched them off. And I have no problem using my DAW online, as it is also my work machine. Have not had to reinstall windows in 6 years since a lightning killed my previous rig. The only thing that is coming and going are new MOBOs, CPUs, Graphics Cards and the occasional bigger hard drives. And I wouldn't like to swap my nice retail XP Pro with any drm enabled Windows7 - I wouldn't even know which version to get.

Any monkey can do a google search now. The fact is, Microsoft didn't start this whole nonsense.

You wouldn't have the internet if the software patent idea was around when Tim Berners-Lee decided to put WWW protocols into the public domain. Fact is: innovation and commercial law are on two opposite ends of the rope.

I wonder whether they patented the mouse driver concept they stole from Xerox?

Because of patent trolls (Wikipedia it). Patents are used time and time again in order to make money out of other people's work (a lot of patents are bought from bankrupt companies) with no intention of developing or using the algorithms in them. The only people benefiting from patents are lawyers. Also patents force companies to build up "patent thickets" again hindering progress and making innovation more difficult. Most Software Companies only buy patents because their afraid that some lawyer makes their work impossible through patent extortion. There is also a tendency of patent lawyers to try and "copyright" algorithms that they haven't invented themselves by starting from a special case and then extending all uses of the pattern. As a non-programmer its hard to understand the ludicrousness of this notion. Maybe if I had enough money I could patent arrays or linked lists? How about somebody else patenting collections? A third guy patenting classes? To be honest if I programmed something with lots of man months and then a patent lawyer would try to get money from me because of patent infringements I would tell them to f right off... and go public domain.

Our government (Ireland) spends millions on lawyers, and there is no means testing - its like a medieval guild. Definition of recession: there is not less money, its just that somebody else has it :) My guess its governments and lawyers siphoning it off everybody else.