@Red_Flag: Maybe that's true, but many people already have it much better than that, and that's due to the free market. If two or three businesses want you, and they must compete between them to get you, guess who's coming out of it better at the end of the day?

@Rhayader: Legalization is a good solution, provided those who traded on drugs while it was illegal, and thus became rich by way of money laundering, violence and assassinations, don't get a free pass into the world of legality. Investigations and imprisonment of those who did it should continue until all of them are…

@LiC: No need to censor then. Best approach is to teach kids how to deal with money. Show them everything before they have actual access to credit.

1. Lots of education focusing on entrepreneurship, on self-responsibility, on honesty, on trusting each-other, on competition, and on the "can do" frame of mind.

I don't use a smart phone, but to this day I still use an old Palm Zire device (the monochromatic, PalmOS 4.1-powered one) upgraded from 2 to 8MB and filled with useful apps that I love and would hate to depart with. Sure enough, were I to start using a smart phone, I'd go with either with a Palm Treo or Palm Centro,…

There should actually be two options: best free and best paid for Windows firewalls. My votes would be:

@alexgieg: Oops! The 2nd link went wrong. Here's the correct one: filter subscriptions page. Sorry!

@Deprong Mori: But notice that using Filterset.G with Adblock Plus isn't recommended. A good replacement is to go to Adblock Plus' filter subscriptions page and install the "EasyElement+EasyList" one (plus any other that interests you). Same result, better performance and integration. Here's a direct link for those…

@Bweetza: Having English as a 2nd language, and not being American nor ever having been to USA to begin with, I find it very interesting, not to mention funny, when I read discussions about "the n-word". That's because here in Brazil the usage is reversed.

@RogueSpear: Well, for the sake of my country, Brazil, I hope it doesn't. Republicans can have many, many problems, but at least they are more pro-market than democrats, not imposing as many protectionist measures against other countries' goods and services. All the 3rd world countries that depend on selling to the…

3.0.2 makes all the white and white-ish areas in my Firefox turn light-yellow. If you experience this behavior, the solution is to go to "about:config" and change "gfx.color_management.enabled" from "true" to "false". It was disabled by default until this version, but now it's enabled, and some people are going to…

@startswithone1: From the software that comes with Windows, I can say I'm a happy user of "calc.exe". No one shows any love for our default OS calculators anymore? I'd miss it. ;)

@equazcion: Google cannot prevent ad-blocking to see its way into Chrome simply because the browser is open source. Sure, the official release might not allow it, but in this case, an ad-blocking alternative version will be available for download mere minutes after an official release goes live, if not before.

VOTE: Transmission (Linux)

I've tried this in some of my computers, and what I can say is that a lot of people who have their screens set at the default temperature of 9300K will start wondering why the whites have suddenly turned into light yellow (a result of Firefox's color profile defaulting to sRGB, which works, if I remember correctly, at…

For "cloud" backup I use Jungle Disk, which in turn uses Amazon S3 for storage. (Amazon, Jungle, get it? Haha... NOT!)

@giblet: Websites (most of them at least) aren't paid by simply showing ads. They're paid when people actually click those ads. And the amount paid depends on the likelihood of said clickers actually purchasing what's advertised. In other words, showing ads to someone is only useful if that person is likely to click…