Posted 07/03/2009 at 07:10:13pm

I just want the close tab button on the last tab again.

Posted 06/30/2009 at 09:15:33pm

They... they took away my close button on a single tab.  And... I think they touched me inappropriately when I wasn't looking at the screen.

Posted 06/30/2009 at 05:58:17pm

Answering my own question here, just download the following extension:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10535

Sure, it's a cheat, but it's easy to back up an extension at least.  Hopefully FireFox 3.5.0.1 will get rid of the damn thing.

Posted 06/30/2009 at 05:46:49pm

Swing and a miss.

Posted 06/30/2009 at 01:44:58pm

So... anyone know how to disable the stupid '+' in the tabs?  I'll probably scour about:config when I get home to try and find it, that really irks me.

Also, I need my snaplinks extension to work!  I need it!

Posted 06/29/2009 at 09:09:37am

I personally think Core Temp is more valuable for the actual temps, but I like having an 'all-in-1' value for the GPU heat as well.  Ah well, maybe someday they can update the program.

Posted 06/21/2009 at 07:50:01am

Given the proclivity of the XBox360, shouldn't that be a red ring behind Gates?

Posted 06/19/2009 at 08:57:22pm

Using their logic, if an ISP allows child porn to go through its' servers, then the ISP must be held legally accountable rather than the individual users.  I wonder how many ISP's would seriously accept that level of responsibility?

Posted 06/19/2009 at 08:45:52pm

I would take a slightly different tack.  The mp3's that were downloaded would be, by their very nature, inferior copies of original songs, and that downloading an mp3 would be akin to taping a song off the radio.  Now if it were a lossless codec there would certainly be an easy point to make that the whole, entire music had been pirated, but in this case (much like the princess bride) it was only 'mostly pirated'. 

However, since we can tape songs from the radio we have an already-established and accepted tradition where music that is not whole or complete may be taken in an as-is state without legal repercussion.  In fact, some companies--such as Sony--have been the creators of this technology for decades.  Now they wish to sue people using the technology and with the same fundimental rights as we have had for more than a generation becase they own data that was never included in the copies that are shared?  Tsk, tsk, RIAA.  

Because the music downloaded was not truly the legitimate copies that can be purchased via CD (or online music services), Ms. Thomas cannot be liable for stealing them, sharing them illegally, altering them, or anything similar.  There are bit-by-bit errors that degrade the total 'musical experience' offered by a full and complete, unaltered lossless copy of the music in question.  Further, the missing data was not merely chopped off at the beginning or end of the music in such a way as to fully recreate it on hers, or anyone else's computer by merely adding the missing data; no, the copies she was sharing could in no way ever be used in whole or in part to create the full, unaltered music the RIAA claims was shared.  Ms. Thomas made no assertion that the music she was trading was complete and unaltered, nor did she try to profit from the sharing of these incomplete copies.  In the very technical letter of the law, she has not violated the DMCA, and therefor cannot be guilty.  Hope she wins on appeal.

Posted 06/18/2009 at 09:59:22am

Wait, what?