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Thank you for this. I've been pressing skip on the small vertical pipes as a chimney to me is a made of brick. Curse being born in Britain!

Google's CAPTCHA is a cancer of the internet. We're all training their AI without any renumeration. I genuinely hope that some government figures out how to sue them. I've sat down for minutes, repeating CAPTCHAs over and over again, just to log in to an account or download something.

It's just a spinning ball for me.

I went to Blind Mystics and the website doesn't work.

The creating of an account is really quite convoluted.

There needs to be a way to create sub accounts.

Finding content seems to be broken. Typing a search only seems to search for usernames.

Needs a one-click reblog.

Why is this on HN?

Samsung is a huge multi-billion (maybe even trillion) dollar company of which Electronics is only one division and you think it should be broken up because a (non-flagship) Samsung Gear Live watch wouldn't pair with (non-flagship) Samsung Galaxy Tab that was so forgettable, you couldn't remember the name of it at the start of your blog post? You do realise that's incredibly ridiculous right?

What makes this so bad for consumers is that if you search for an app via Google, you can't even open links directly.

It's a good question. Would be nice if the page could've details what makes the criteria for being featured.

Tox doesn't even have an official release. It's still in alpha stage development.

I have struggled to (on my travels) find an Apple charger that features the micro USB adapter. This has often lead to a dead battery.

I guess they decided against doing a deal to license Tesla tech then: http://insideevs.com/behind-scenes-teslas-secret-meeting-bmw...

Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but since you mention NoScript and are familiar with that, this (HTTPSB) and ABP, can I ask. Is HTTPSB more of a NoScript alternative or an ABP alternative?

The question has been a simple one: Continued dependence upon Flash versus DRM support in HTML. The answer is simple, transition the world to a post-Flash video.

The problem, at least where Mozilla stands, is how do you go about that/which partner should they choose for their Content Decryption Module? Sadly they opted to throw their weight behind Adobe's closed-source proprietary solution which doesn't empower their uses or the open web in the slightest.

They had it on a subdomain for ages. Glad it's finally the main site. It's actually beautiful. Now if only they'd redesign the Oyster bit too.

In terms of category, there needs to be a "None of the above"/"general non-celebrity"

A lot changes in a month in terms of software development. Try it again and let us know if it still sucks by your standards.

Hopeful yes, but no one expects a drive failure before even half of the warranty has expired surely?

It's from Lacie, so no thank you. I bought a Lacie drive and proceeded to copy all my stuff onto it. Before I could get comfortable with it (so within the first six months of purchase) and before I backed up my stuff, the drive failed. I contacted Lacie about it and they proceeded to try and sell me a service whereby they'd recover my data for €300. That would've brought my total spend on the drive up to around £400. I begged and pleaded with them, pointed out how unsavoury such a business practice was and all to no avail. The drive has just been sitting down since with the data unrecovered. Personal memories, music, films and professional data too. I've tried to recover the data but that didn't work and I honestly feel ripped off. As a result, I've vowed to never do business with Lacie again and to warn everyone of how unscrupulous they are. Beware of Lacie and their subsidiaries.

But how much were these services really offering? It is one thing to attempt to charge for a superior service, but for the most basic of services? That's a whole different story.

IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. But that's an aside.

Very negative leaning.

Essentially anything that mentions fragmentation is about spreading FUD. Let's not forget that you can limit your app/mag/etc to any devices you want. It's disappointing as the TNW are fairly reputable.

This is actually pathetic reading.

> “You make a beautiful magazine for the iPad, and then you dumb it down for Android’."

and then you read

> "we pick movies from the iTunes store"

So essentially, it was about being lazy in the first place and opting for a close ecosystem.

TBF to Mozilla, have you tried to submit a patch to Google? I mean look at the furore that's begun over Google's recent decision to remove the ability of apps to toggle Aeroplane Mode. It blind-sighted developers and Google haven't made a single comment in the bug to justify their decision. At time goes on, there are less and less freedoms available to Android users/developers. I personally don't think Firefox OS has a chance to be a successful alternative. But their presence may encourage Google to be more open in their decision making process.

I've written some fantastic reviews. Why am I being punished by an unproven notion? This doesn't help anyone. It's merely a terrible marketing ploy to further push G+.

I have one because a lot of tech people are on there and it's easy to get news I don't wanna subscribe to. But given that Google won't allow me to use my actual internet identity of ten years, I've merely got the account set up as a first name and an indistinguishable initial. Google have done a fantastic job in alienating me as a user. What's hilarious is that the name I want to use and wouldn't mind associating with my G+ reviews is the same name that I use on my email account. Google apparently doesn't care though, so no reviews from me either.

I used to write reviews all the time. Mostly to help developers and help other Android users who have the same device as me. As a result of this move, I no longer write reviews in the Play Store. Great work Google, you helped everyone other than those that matter!

"You don't have Javascript enabled" so let's show you just how badly we can make rendered HTML look. Great work there Quartz!

As for the article, it's an article about racing, not sure why they mentioned football or the metric system at all, but to mention it in the context they have, they should've called it by it's proper name "Football" and then perhaps added "Soccer" in brackets.

Who does? Tell me of the millions and millions of users out there waiting in anticipation of Firefox OS? Firefox decide to kill off around half of their Nightly (read most diehard users) and expect to carry that good faith over to what? Firefox OS? Are you going to convince the 30 million people that bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 that all of a sudden, the brand they bought into isn't actually important and that they should jump on the Firefox OS train? It's unrealistic.

I think when you make such a damning post as this, you're required to make sure all opinions are current and factual. I mostly talk about what seems to be a clearly outdated opinion of Firefox for Android (Mobile) which is widely regarded as one of the best mobile browsing experiences around. Though each to their own.

The Firefox versioning change was naive. It was rushed and a lot of work that should've taken place prior to the change was done afterwards and it remains to be seen just whether or not they'll ever truly pick up all the pieces from that. The negative word of mouth about extensions breaking is out there.

There is no excuse for the demise of Thunderbird. It remains to be a short sighted decision. But in that regard, Mozilla never really had the same ambitions as Opera. Mozilla should've been approaching the likes of HTC and Samsung and offering to provide the browser and mail experience rather than Google.

As for Firefox OS/B2G, I'd say it's highly probable that it'll fall by the wayside. Despite the resources thrown behind it. It's just not going to be a viable competitor. When you think about the sheer amount of money and effort thrown behind the likes of Android, iOS and Windows Phone, what exactly are Mozilla hoping for? It's only served to slow down development of features and other products that could serve the greater Mozilla community.