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In case anyone missed it, 'amirrajan is the author of the submission :)

Didn't Hasbro and Tomy create Transformers explicitly as a marketing/ sales vehicle?

I'm sure they have Referrer metrics, and could add a "from Random" flag.

The UI could even continue doing separate random programs, but allow the watcher to say "Keep Watching this", locking in their choice and making it a "discovered" show.

They could even sell a "pseudo DVR" box, with themed channels, scheduled movies, in addition to all the usual streaming features.

That attitude sure turned out well for Opera.

Those are not mutually exclusive. It's worse to be systematically hounded online and then subjected to regular bullying.

Why would you hear about it from Canadian sources, if they're getting gagged?

Surprise! All of those things can, and do, still happen. Plus, the Internet silently facilitates a lot more of that behaviour despite being in the "safety" of the home.

Citations needed.

The author mentioned http://qutebrowser.org/ in the article :-)

I suspect you're right, but it would certainly be a tectonic event, and could potentially affect Linux's competitiveness until equilibrium recovered.

And you're right about "most" being wrong. "Many" would have been a better word, particularly if talking about the most popular.

(Another non-upstream-reliant distro that I find fascinating is GoboLinux. Very against the grain/orthodoxy!)

It was never an add on. It's built into the core of the browser.

You can hide its button, but all the code is still there.

I'm told that Chrome has been faster fixing security problems for quite some time (and their sandboxing model was better by default until e10s rolled out globally), so the only valid concern is likely to be Privacy. :-(

If they roll out the "Firefox user affluence survey" and start reading all your bank account balances (or do whatever you would find objectionable) I'll make sure to remind you of this post.

When Pocket was first added, it was an independent company with no signs of any acquisition by Mozilla.

It was not added to the browser as an "add-on" but as core code. Sure, you could hide the button, but... it's still there, attack surface and all.

Plus, it's a product in a competition-rich field. Adding first class support almost certainly affected adoption for competitors like Instapaper, Pinboard, etc, who still had to play by the rules. Hardly what you'd expect from a "choice centric" company like Mozilla, and it screamed of a cash bribe.

Linux distros are a terrible example.

Not only do they all rely on Torvalds and everyone else for the kernel (heavily funded by donations, companies, etc), but most Linux distributions are just cosmetic variations of the largest upstream distros.

If Debian died tomorrow, Ubuntu is on life support.

I've noticed that my TV takes a while to change resolution+refresh rate, which typically happens in concert with switching inputs to/from my Chromecast.

Hardcoded "everything is NTSC" vs a mutual handshake/negotiation and mode change makes sense, though I too wish it was much faster.

If we're talking about Mendelevian use of alleles that exist in a species already, sure.

But have you seen those glow in the dark aquarium fish? Or the tomatoes that use flounder DNA to make them hardier in the freezer? How rigorously is it possible to test ramifications from those things?

> 3) The developers responsible were having fun with an opt-in research service.

Having fun at whose expense, though? Widely deployed platforms used for extremely sensitive, personal materials shouldn't be subjected to "for fun experiments". That's the height of unprofessionalism.

What if the add-on had a bug, or an unintended side effect? Come on.

GP meant the style of writing English, not code. Funny messages almost always end up causing problems at the end of the day.

Except that the incumbent ISPs virtually always have right-of-way agreements with municipalities, granting them exclusive cable rights.

Many states even legally prevent municipally-run lines, which is frankly ridiculous.

Thailand is lawless individualic striving gone out of control.

The USA is monopolistic lobbying and cronyism out of control.

"North America"? Please do not lump Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in with your fiasco.

True, but it does make it much harder to do while at school (if enforced passably), which is likely when much of it occurs already.

I was excited until I realized that HSTS Preload is just a hardcoded list in the Chrome source!? Ugh, that's sort of disappointing :(

Couldn't something like a TXT record also address this, but on a cross-client, scalable fashion? Like how SMTP with SPF or DKIM works right now.

(And yes, I know DNS also has trust problems!)

At the very worst, a central, programmatic source of truth, like DNSBL and company... just like how Google offers their "malware sites" hash table for all to use.

Not a bad "spitball"/brainstorm idea, but what about slower clients? Mobile, screen readers, etc?

And what about abuse via advertisers, injection, cross-site, etc?

This ban doesn't protect them from regular in-person bullying.

Just crowd-sourced, Internet scale bullying.

Ever had your photo released mockingly, and been laughed at by an entire school? Or even millions?

WebSockets leverages TCP and is based on/compatible with HTTP. Nothing new about it, at least in the sense the article is discussing.

Invoking via cmd is not comparable at all.

If it was direct to Powershell, you could pipe objects directly into remote cmdlets.

I'm a "regular" guy too for the same reasons as you. My scroll wheel on traditional mice dictates how I scroll trackpads.

Potentially related datapoint: I hate inverted controls in FPSes too. (Though I use them in dedicated flight sims!)

Hmm. I just did a poor job combining two sentences into one. Not sure if that's the case at all for non-moms. :)

...for now. Google has shamelessly abandoned Nexus and Moto devices in the past: who's to say they won't just do it again when they decide it's too much work/not shiny enough?