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Comment Re:I like this game (Score 1) 127

No an opt-out setting, but remember when "New Tab" could be configured to open any page you want? I have a local home / start page that has some useful links and forms (various search engines, etc.) It will appear when Firefox starts and used to appear any time I opened a new tab. But now you only have two options when opening a new tab: Firefox's landing page or a blank page. They removed the ability to open any other page due to "security". So now it's "new tab" and then press the home icon to get my page to load. Functional, but annoying.

From what I understand, and I may be wrong, they removed the feature because some web sites were automatically changing your "new tab" page setting to their own, or something like that. To which I respond: Why TF do you even give them that permission? That setting (all browser settings) should be locked down and only be permitted to be changed by the user, not some random web site.

Comment Re:Ahh... youth (Score 1) 100

You're welcome. Yes, the media liked to overhype things like they always do, but many of us spent time in the mid '90s inspecting code and making changes where necessary to make sure it was a non-event. It was never going to be a case of planes falling from the sky and the world reverting to the stone age (sorry, Family Guy), but rather annoying things like not being able to run billing cycles or calculate interest correctly.

People have already been working to resolve issues so that the Y2038 problem is a non-event, too.

Comment Re:A Sudden 12 Inch Increase In Sea Level? (Score -1, Troll) 84

It's their out. Plausible deniability. "Up to" 12 inches includes 0.1 inch. Even 0 inches. It's like those commercials that use the words "up to" and "or more" in the same sentence: "You could loose up to 20 pounds, or more!" It basically means 0 to any positive number, so they never have to actually prove anything.

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