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> The wonks freeze it into place

And make it dysfunctional, because it's too busy serving itself.

> Gmail is far from developer friendly anymore.

Was it ever?

So far the possibility of JavaScript attacks looks the biggest concern for the normal users. (Assuming that you don't install any software from fishy sources, of course). And cloud service and virtualization service providers are under the biggest threat.

I'm surprised this is getting so little attention.

I didn't see any option for that. Got a screenshot?

You can report a user for "hate speech" or something like that. There isn't any option to report a fraudulent account.

Ah Facebook... I stumbled upon a con artist's account on Facebook once. And I couldn't find any way to report it as a scam.

Well... it seems that disagreeing to the opinion of the crowd is a very bad thing. /s

> This new release is all about attracting new users to FF from Chrome.

And I'm actually thinking of switching from Firefox to Chrome now.

> Do you have any specific examples?

Labels of background tabs became very transparent. This makes them completely unreadable, as my desktop background is quite dark. So, these tab labels are written with black letters on a dark blue background. So freaking good usability! /s

I think the new design is absolutely horrible.

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer

Browsers consume some 10x-20x resources comparing to a native application that performs exactly the same task.

> lightweight client machine.... The universal client (web browser) is all most users need.

That was quite funny. Of all heavy-weight professional applications I currently use, the modern web browser is the very worst resource hog (even when running rather simple web-apps). Even VS2017 can't beat it.

Well, it's better than nothing. But I think that 99.99% of the current UK cirtizens would never meet these requirements.

This is still not a good reason to set the bar so high that only few people from thousands can pass it.

Not a middle-income location and not from middle-class. I still managed to leave it, but you have no single idea how much effort and pain it cost me.

> The oft-repeated meme that we're all the same doesn't hold to even superficial scrutiny.

Yeah. Ask some KKK members what do they think about minority rights.

"Tier 1 (General) visa 1. Overview

You can no longer apply for or extend Tier 1 (General) visas."

As far as I remember, this type of visa is abolished many years ago.

Their point system is set really very, very high and costs much more money than most people can ever save (try saving 5-10 thousands when your monthly salary is some 200 US$ and you have to live off it). I'm pretty sure that some 95% of Australians would never pass it if they were born in a different country. (Long live the privilege of birth!)

Unfortunately, the immigration policies of most countries in the world are one huge stupid joke. Why so much obsession about the country where people were born into? It wasn't their choice at all. It just doesn't matter.

The only questions you should be asking are "are they decent people? Are they willing to integrate? Will they contribute to our economy? Will they make us problems?" And none of these questions you can answer by reading the name of the country on their passport.

He didn't write about doing something really bad, did he?

I think this can be used as a pretext, but these screens look extremely old anyway. My TN monitor 10 years ago had a much better picture.

Some of those screens look literally decades old. Horrible viewing angles, huge pixels, etc.

> When you roll up to someone’s house in a Tesla, how can they help but assume that you’re just a judgmental asshole?

Am I the only one who feels that those guys were judgmental assholes rather than the author?

> This is pure rational and objective logic.

You know nothing about rationality, objectivity and logic.

And the fact that you're trying to silence me by downvoting doesn't make your "arguments" look better at all. So much for your argument against "censorship".

> Prove me wrong on anything

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luwcg4ArMF1r6yihbo1_500.jp...

> In the years 1400

"My hobby: extrapolating."

We aren't living in 1400 anymore. Show me the facts - and I'll believe you. And if all your argumentation is based on mental gymnastics only, then you don't have a place in science or technology.

We have an extensive scientific picture of the world we live in, and it's verified and validated by a huge number of experiments. This picture doesn't have any place for anything supernatural. You can't fit demons into physics and biology, as you can't fit a bull into a china shop. If you want to think that demons can exist, you have to abandon science. You can't sit on two chairs.

It's not about censorship, it's about ability to pass a simplest reality check. I don't want to have any doctors or engineers around me who don't pass this check.

The world has gone bonkers. This guy should have his doctor's license revoked, to avoid cases like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel

And any engineer talking about possibility of "demonic posession" seriously must have his diploma cancelled as well.