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Comment with any luck (Score 1) 125

Maybe they'll use the name change as an opportunity to generate some further goodwill and kill off the browser plugin.

Flash does have uses outside the browser, and the new name reflects that. It's a completely dippy name for a browser plugin, though.

Adobe has ever been accused of forward thinking, but we can always hope.

Comment O, the irony (Score 1) 288

Monster complaining that they're being bullied is rich.

Now they know how the legions of companies they've gone after for completely unrelated reasons feel.

They've deserved this for a very long time. It's nice to know that the boot they're feeling is being administered by a company big enough to not even remotely care how they feel about it.

Comment passwords are only half of a login (Score 1) 336

There's one important element of these leaks that I've never seen anyone comment on: it's all well and good to hack a weak password, but how do these people wind up getting their hands on lists of celebrities' private email addresses? It's not like you can just throw some terms at Google and come up with anything useful.

Comment Re:You asked for this (Score 1) 289

Better create a new govt program to give universal access to the web and another govt program to teach grandma how to use it and a govt watchdog agency to make sure that the web trainers are politically unbiased and another govt program to insure that new immigrants are able to get political information in their native tongue and ...

New immigrants aren't allowed to vote, to become a citizen you have to have lived here for 5 years. That should be plenty to learn the language.

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