I always assumed Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym was not for a person but for a three letter agency somewhere. Blokchain is a great idea and the implementation of it by other "coins" (e.g. Monero) interested me in the "cryptocurrency" craze. But I stay clear of Bitcoin.

And why has Orion not benefited from the same giant's shoulders?

In economy that concept is called a moat. With more regulation, they remain on top as new competitors have it harder to enter the field.

Milton Friedman: I have not met a single person, until now, that is trying to defend a government program that don't say his program troubles come from lack of funds. It is said UBI could end up must social programs and be better with less overhead. No bureaucrat implements a program that eliminated bureaucracy overhead (unless is just for the photo op) It is what communists say every time, it was not properly implemented. But for some reason if they implemented it, they what the wanted it, it would have worked (not a chance). UBI is just a statist tool to control people, to keep a bureaucrats and people voting the way they want. Minimize taxes and let people associate themselves and pay for what they think is important by themselves.

You mean not everyone is using XPrivacy already?! Ok, live and learn. Like when I actually first saw an ad in an android phone, mine never shows one.

Aren't we confusing OpenID witn MyOpenID ? It seems OpenID is live and kicking.

I still prefer kobo and wait eagerly for the next release.

You have to be kidding.

Menu bar, Firefox Menu/Options/Menu bar
Status bar, Ctrl+/

You have already been answered about protocol, and I have not seen poor performance, memory usage could be better, but it is clear you are ignorant of Firefox and blowing it out of proportion.

Aren't Oracle and Apache at odds about Harmony

After all, Oracle did all it could to kill Apache Harmony.
Why would Apache take OpenOffice like that! It may be a trap and it wouldn't be the first time.

The near-immortal psychic robot is not part of the original trilogy. Is part of the despicable books that came before to link it to the robots series. (which are less awful that the gaia bullshit that came to illustrate the future after the original trilogy)

Off course you won't be able to see the moon landing site.
Some will tell you is because of resolution.
I say it is because New Mexico is not in the moon.

You may be young and not be aware that are other things besides http.
Back in the day ftp, telnet, gopher, where common stuff, you had to specify to avoid confusion.
Right now," www" is not even necessary in most of the case.
Have you ever wondered why this site has the name it has? It is because of the slash slash and the dot (in those days there were more .edu and .org than .com assuming .com was not your first assumption)

You don't get it, it is a contest. On who can produce the best greasemonkey script to fix this horror. The winner will get an all web 2.0 no plain html, no unicode, fixed with frames for the rest of his/her life.

Wait, are you saying McDonalds is not evil?
I thought it was the sole responsible for fattening up everybody. That alone makes it more evil than Burger King and Microsoft combined.
Oh, sorry you are saying that McDonalds could or could not be evil, just not because an employee is evil.
Hold it, what if the employee robs a bank because of brain damage obtained of all the fat and the "would you like fries" he got at McDonalds?

MS will provide information only "after our investigative and remediation cycle is completed..." In other words, after the vulnerability is discovered and fixed, and the patch is ready to roll out.

Then, "disclosure will happen just prior to our security update release cycles."

So the disclosure amounts to this:

"Tomorrow's MS Windows Update contains a security patch that fixes a serious vulnerability in your system. Oh, by the way, you have a serious vulnerability in your system."