Subject: Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 1, Issue 178

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:03:50 GMT

From: Dan Olivares <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 1, Issue 163

I stand by my statement about opensouce being non-user-friendly, and ultimately about closed societies of coders who aren't accountable to the general public and sometimes operate outside of restraints of liberal democracy in ways that are often destructive (promoting hacker culture and crime).

I don't at all feel compelled to have to provide some lengthy exegesis on why this is true about every single one of the types of software you indicate although I could write pages. A really good example is Firefox, which harasses you constantly asking you if you want to save your password forever or for this session or never, based on the misguided concept that people just love the idea of all those options constantly shoved at them with only an opt-out, that they just are dying to have the option to always save their log-ons -- although of course, that creates security problems especially on multi-user computers which are *most* computers. It's the sort of hilarious "solution" that came about because of people complaining in both directions and opensourcery then providing all these choices and add-ons.

To get rid of it, all you have to do (which you can't "just know" until you finally find it) is go to tools/options/security/uncheck remember password (but it keeps falling out and needs redoing after each update). If you google this issue, you will see many frustrated people, and many geeks offering hilarious and contorted ways to get rid of it. But...if you have checked off a box saying "remember passwords" why can't it just do that, and not keep offering you choices each time? It's an example of the wonky non-usefulness of geekitude that the average person simply finds stupid and annoying but can't escape.Firefox constantly hangs and stalls, it constantly crashes and has to remember itself. Yet we're all frog-marched into using it or told we're not cool and starving little babies or something if we use IE.

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