A tiny group of FireFox developers have pushed out a blocklist that automatically installs itself without permission, that cannot be rejected and cannot be removed. And by so doing, they knowingly prevented mission critical applications based on Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation from working.
I think this unilateral action by FireFox is outrageous. What were they thinking?
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FireFox browser trashes Windows users
October 17, 2009
Paul R. Vaulin
May 30, 2009
For some reason, I typed in the name of one of my college professors, from 40 years ago, Paul R. Vaulin, into a search engine. Sad to say, he died in 2007. It’s no surprise, since he was about 89 years old. Still it’s a shock when a part of my past winks out.
I have [...]
Banned: Sleeper Troll
December 26, 2008
Yes, friends, I am a “sleeper troll” according to FreeRepublic.com who has banned me from replying to articles there.
A troll is some posts a message for the purpose of starting an argument that is irrelevant, but long and persistent. In my case, I tried to refute some of their silliness, by pretending to be one [...]
United States v. Blog
December 9, 2008
I have been fascinated for a long time with the fact that there are groups of people who firmly believe one thing and other groups that firmly believe the opposite thing. I’m not talking about religion or philosophy, but rather disagreements about things that reasonable people should be able to come to consensus on.
For example: [...]
Blog Your Passion
December 7, 2008
That’s what Huffington said on the Daily Show, “blog your passion”. Readers of this blog over the last few weeks might think my passion was Barack Obama because that’s certainly a topic I’ve talked a lot about. But Obama is not my passion; my passion is critical thinking and opposing misleading arguments. Obama Citizenship Denial [...]