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""I didn't get my password reset email yet, so I'm going to go try and score some karma on HN with Browser Wars link bait." is how I interpret that response."

Not at all how I intended it. As for taking open source for granted, in this case Mozilla has hundreds of well paid people, they'll make it without my input.

It really was just a random goodbye, since I couldn't do it on their site.

Fundamentally because it's been more than two hours since I asked for a password reset.

But really, because I'm not trying to fix this. This message was mostly for me, because I'm leaving what has been a fundamental part of my experience on the Internet, since Netscape. I wrestled with the decision to go with either Netscape or Mozilla, when that was a decision.

I just feel bad, and needed to say something to someone. Anyone. Which I've done.

If other people are having the same problem, someone who still knows their password will report it. And if it's just me, well, I'm just one of millions. The galaxy turns.

Shouldn't we consumers just cut to the chase and use foreign banks directly?

He just did. There's a video and ad hiding everything about the site.

To me, the site is "something I'll never know because you have to watch a video to find out." A simple sentence wouldn't have been taxing on the creators.

Great tip, but I thought it was going to be how to identify and remove all the digital cruft in your environment. Tools and packages that were tried, abandoned and forgotten.

Anyone have tips like that?

My method: I occasionally do a scorched-earth OS reinstall, and install very few packages and tools on the new installation. When I hit the speedbump of reaching for something naturally, I install it and move on.

It's kind of like a policy of throwing boxes out if you haven't touched them since your last move.

Anyone do anything different? Something more ongoing and less drastic?

"Pay them poorly."

I was with them until this. There's no reason to treat a valuable person as a throwaway, and poor pay does that.

The nose in the tent is that they didn't say it's full of water, they said it's full of [something I've never heard of], and presented in a newsy-alarming way, in venue where people are accustomed to getting snippets of news while they're doing something else. "Traffic on the freeway, be careful." "It's cold today, dress warm." "Something you've never heard of in the water, take precautions."

Suspension and disavowal probably went too far. A corporate and DJ apology would have been enough.

The left vertical bar all the way down the text makes it look like the entire text is a quote from somewhere else. I experienced unresolved tension, waiting to see who "really" wrote the text.

They already have, or are in the process, to the extent that classroom time is dictated by the needs of preparing students for the flood of standardized tests in use today.

It's "artistic license" in the original sense.

"Google has taken aim at the companies who sell off their patents so they can be used in lawsuits."

Yeah, it's so much better when you can buy a whole company for the contained patents.

"in a store through a phone's camera."

If it was for the store then you'd do one or more stationary mounts of something better and more purpose-built than a camera phone. Or something even simpler like counting bodies in and out at the door with the door dinger thing.

So I assume it's for surveilling the store surreptitiously, right?

I suppose it's an interesting problem for the machine vision people. But how do you deal with people down the aisles that you can't see? How do you avoid looking like you're collecting upskirts or kiddie porn? How do you avoid just plain getting your face punched in?

Is there a way to count cell phone signals, from your own phone or from special equipment? There were stories a year or so ago about some mall that was going to track individual phones through the mall, to discern shopping patterns and such. I imagine it's not impossible to create something that you could use surreptitiously (again, I'm assuming).

Ads suck, but the bigger danger is that the uber-profile will be available for subpoena, or the govt might just flip the fuckit bit and take it because they can. Being allowed to run a billion dollar business unmolested by the govt would be a strong incentive, especially for a company not known for privacy advocacy.

Why would you trust any company of that size?