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If what you're saying is true, then your handful of extensions are conflicting with each other. disable one of the handful, and see if the crashes disappear. if not, disable another one.

currently using a netbook with an Atom N570. I appreciate under-powered computing. Firefox runs fine here with 5 extensions (two of which are for web development). 17 tabs are using 214.52 MB of memory. haven't had a crash or hang in a long time.

> Except for the Windows API, including all of its bugs and oddities.

Back in the day, us of the emulation community would refer to such things as "wrappers" (see, glide[1]). WINE definitely qualifies as a wrapper, as it merely translates one API to another. Darling seems to fit this same definition. Both are handling big API's, but that doesn't make it emulation when you reimplement them.

Wikipedia's definition mentions hardware specifically as a requirement of Emulation [2]. In fact, they go even further to say that any software that duplicates the hardware of another machine should be considered a simulator [3]. This means that WINE and Darling are now twice removed from the Emulation family.

[1] http://www.glideunderground.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator#Emulation_versus_simu...

Here's one: http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/graduates/gradstudents/fa272@cam....

(From the Bio) Frank Albo is a PhD student under the supervision of David Watkin and James Stevens Curl. His doctoral research focuses on the influence of Freemasonry in the Nineteenth Century British Gothic Revival. His publications explore Masonic interactions and networks in British and French architecture and garden design, including recent work on the architect Charles Robert Cockerell for Le Monde Maçonnique à l'époque des Lumières (2012). He is presently a Wingate and Canada Council Award scholar at Peterhouse.

Ask him about bilderberg sometime, if you have an hour and a half to listen.

Considering extensions are the #2 reason (behind Flash) that Firefox crashes/beachballs, perhaps one would be wise to audit the (presumably) tons of extensions they have installed locally, to see if they conflict with other extensions?

Why hasn't anyone made the case that "Hacker Tools" are simply arms, covered under the 2nd Amendment?

So Ubuntu/Arch/Fedora are safe, because of their respective package management GUI's?

I'll take a liberal, CATO-Institute-on-2nd-amendment stance on the concept of what is considered "Well-Regulated" in the eyes of the Law [1].

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html

Retroshare is currently the best example of Zawinski's Law[1] one could ask for; We needed a p2p/f2f daemon we could run voip/chat/messaging/file sharing on top of. Instead, we're given this bloated hunk of 1998's software design policies that tries to do everything for us, but do all of it poorly.

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

Currently running Freenet/Tor/I2P on a VM (KVM) with 1.5GB RAM allocated it. according to htop, java (Freenet and I2P) is using 985MB. Tor is using approximately 40MB.

The day someone takes up a rewrite of Freenet in C/C++ is the day I send money to the project.

People tell me I'm crazy when I say this, but I contend that the primary purpose of government is to pretend to fail.

I wish someone would be able to prove me wrong, but recent events keep the thought strong in my mind.

I upvoted you, but understand that people are thinking with their gut (Stephen Colbert "Truthiness"-style) on this issue. We as a community seem to be embracing "no surveillance ever" over "spy on our enemies". I'm not sure I can disagree with it, but it's definitely not for the most noble/informed reasons.

Those of us that actually have Tourette's syndrome really get pissed when people confuse it with Coprolalia [1]. Seeing as we're having a nice "lets-all-be-PC" hug-fest in this thread, perhaps we can stop being insensitive to people in this case as well?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia

> But if you're for calling a spade a spade, let's call a spade a spade.

it's bad enough with the sexist comments in here, perhaps we could avoid the racist ones as well?

See what I did there? how is that different from what Sarah Sharp did?

You should probably show your contributions to LKML or the commits you've made to the kernel source at this point. Or, you know, something that shows you have an investment/reason to be speaking up in this fight. otherwise, you're one of the "cowardly clowns just eating popcorn" that you're making a point to shame.

> I don't want to have to run a PC as router in my otherwise neat and tidy home.

Oh, you mean like one of these things? http://itzr.en.alibaba.com/product/520930686-50069247/Firewa...

yeah, I bet it's really rough to find space in your house for that. it's a shame, too; I got a quote for $45 each in lots of 20 on that unit. I can easily sell them for triple that price, with pfsense installed, and a cheap plastic housing.

> I trust you audited your compiler, assembler (et al) as well then? The C library? All device drivers? Your BIOS? Firmware on everything from your mouse and keyboard to that USB stick you just used?

yes. you can very much trust that. I appreciate that you've never decided to do an audit of GCC's, glibc's, or your kernel's source, but understand that others have. I am one of them.

As for any binary blobs/firmware I can't peek into, that's why I have software [1] running on the gateway to see if anything phones home. So far, nothing has. If it's not communicating with anyone, I can be reasonably sure it isn't compromising my security.

Also, your reply was almost entirely an argument from incredulity [2], a logical fallacy.

[1] http://www.opennms.org/ and a strict whitelist. Yes. I've audited the gateway as well.

[2] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Well, in the meritocracy that is LKML, she has a leg to stand on. I'll make sure to send her a "thank-you" for USB 3.0 support. Thanks for answering my question, btw. :)

So, can anyone tell me what Sarah Sharp has contributed to the kernel?

When people ask me why I switched to Gentoo, I'm going to borrow liberally from this post as justification. I know the code my system was built on now. It's trivial to do an audit of that code, as well. I didn't have that security with RHEL/Fedora or Ubuntu/Debian

If you didn't build your OS, you'd better trust the person/people that did.

> I'd rather have OpenWRT than Ubuntu.

That pretty much guarantees you've never looked into pfSense [1]

[1] http://pfsense.com

While blowing my cover a little, here's an anecdote about LUKSfs-encrypted drives:

I was arrested sometime in early 2011 (let out after 7 hours without charges, which was a fun story in itself). In my pocket, they found two USB sticks. one was a Linux Mint LiveUSB. The other USB stick was encrypted via LUKS. The police could have booted of the LiveUSB, and then inserted the second USB to decrypt it. if they had decided to force me to divulge my password, they would have found all sorts of incriminating things to keep me for longer.

However, this did not happen; when inserted in the police's Windows PC's, they merely popped up a "This drive is not formatted. would you like to format it now?" message. Naturally, they clicked "no" and gave me back the stick. I owe a part of my freedom to Microsoft's and my local Police's devotion to the Windows OS.

TL;DR - LUKS not working in Windows OS is a feature, not a bug.

hidden services also exist to hide the location/identity of the client. hence, the user is guaranteed anonymity/privacy in his searches.

> A unified bar in FF

you need Foobar [1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foobar/

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1], to which your home country is likely a signatory.

[1] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/043/88/I...

First of all, those guys are terrorists. That's extraordinarily rude to lump me in with them.

Second, Your comment is an ad-hominem [1], unless you can provide evidence that I believe what they believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I'd love to in private. saying things in public seems to bring out the ad-hominem brigade. I would suggest Brian Blum's "Contracts: Examples and Explanations" [1] as a good first step, and start applying the knowledge therein to your local acts/statutes regarding law enforcement. Further, I would advise looking up the rules of conduct for your local BAR, so you understand the motives behind "Don't Talk to Cops".

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Contracts-Examples-Explanations-Series...

> True, but how long can Nintendo stay afloat with only the strength of the Mario franchise to lean upon.

Perhaps we can ask Disney the same question about Mickey Mouse.

I have debian bo on vinyl.

> So does Playdead So does Turn 10 Studios So does BioWare So does Bethesda So does Dice So does Team Meat

Nintendo has made more great games in the last 10 years than all the above companies combined have made in their lifetimes. It's pretty disingenuous to dismiss them so lackadaisically.

[citation needed]

just read the post. didn't see one instance of "home console". I even control-f'd it. However, you specifically mentioned the 3DS in it, which means that you were considering the 3DS to be a console, at that time.

Doesn't this fit the definition of moving the goalposts? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts