Like always, to google and other mega-corps, the web is javascript and that's what they'll concentrate on. Browsers are now virtual machines designed for running opaque DRM applications instead of of actual HTML and files being served.

What a load of FUD. I've found the Pale Moon people, on IRC and otherwise, to be extremely helpful. I use Pale Moon on linux exclusively and it is well supported.

As for being "frozen" in the past, have you used Pale Moon recently? Just because the version number doesn't increase at the rate of Chrome or Firefox doesn't mean they aren't making improvements from sub version to sub version. It's noticeable.

And what do you mean by "all the HTML 5 features"? Do you mean they refuse to implement the digital rights management extensions that were forced into Firefox? All the better. The Pale Moon team is consistently on the side of the user.

Firefox has added DRM, removed about:config options, added unremoveable bloatware (ie, Pocket), and they intend to abandon the vast majority of the existing XUL based add-on/extension ecosystem.

Pale Moon's future is as bright as Mozilla Firefox's is dark.

None of the "links" to those actions have been heard in a court of law. He was never charged with a crime, and never indicted. In fact when asked about it the Dept. of Justice says that all such evidence are state secrets and we'll just have to take their word and arbitrary assertions as fact.

Does this effect the Flash 11 beta?

The best videos, processed and raw, are available in javascript, flash, and mpg from the lockheedmartin/solarsoft group that handles SDO AIA: http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/ssw/ssw_client/data/ssw_service_110606_235609_98013/www/

If you look at the proton monitors in L1 http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/SIS_24h.html and earth geosynchronous http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Proton.gif orbit there is a very suggestive correlation between this flare and a flux of high energy protons! The timing is about right and the flare itself is positioned such that the parker spiral http://spaceweather.uma.es/solarstorms_files/figura1bc.JPG of the interplanetary magnetic field http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2434rAbImf0 would put earth in sun spot 1226's path http://i.imgur.com/ZIffl.gif. This tight coupling of timing between the flare time (~06:30:00) and proton arrival (07:00:00) suggests not a coronal mass ejection (that takes days) but instead of weakly relativistic particle beam traveling down the magnetic field lines to earth in only tens of minutes. This interpetation is confirmed by the UMA automatic solar energetic particle forcaster http://spaceweather.uma.es/forecastpanel.htm and later in the day mentioned by a press release http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-unusual-solar-storm-disrupt-earth.html.

For those that avoid apple and want to use computers; you can view the model predictions with the 'iNTEGRATED SPACE WEATHER ANALYSIS SYSTEM' which is very cross platform and browser: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html , look under the "Events" tab.

Here's a direct link to the heliosphere model showing the coronal mass ejection and Messenger that was discussed: http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/StreamArgumentServlet?cygnetInstanceId=65209753&argumentId=1

I'm not sure why this is considered news, except for that Messenger is orbiting Mecury now and has been in the news recently. Messenger has been in the direct path of larger CMEs many times in it's looping paths to reach Mercury.

I wonder if anyone at CNET remembers being around that age. I did the same thing, with the same script kiddie software when I was 13. My ISP had it's mail servers knocked offline for 4 hours that night as 60,000 or so emails piled up in a school adversary's parent's mailbox. My local dial-up ISP, being rational, simply cut off my parent's account. No other action was taken.

A couple of apology letters from me to the ISP and target later, my parent's dia-up account was restored/reactivated. I learned my lesson and no great harm was done.

By labeling such juvenile pranks as 'spam' people's wrath can be gathered quite easily. The proper distinction between this and the spam most everyone hates, once made, makes even the punishment given out in this case seem too great.

Obviously when one is dealing with objective law very little room can be allowed for context and non-emprically statable variables to influence justice. But in the situations of the type above I believe there is adequete 'wiggle-room' in the statues to allow for case-by-case interpetation. If this can not be done, perhaps it is the statues themselves that need to be reconsidered.