Firing someone is never a pretty business. You can't expect it to go smooth and rational. This is a stressful moment for any employee. The least, as a manager, you could do is give them a sense of dignity and comfort by delivering the news in person. Yes, it may be uncomfortable for you, or people may talk crap behind your back, but this is where your qualities as a leader are tested. Let them speak out, process their grief. It's not about you, it's them whose lives are about to change. Them who have to bring the bad news home. Give them some slack. My advice is to worry less about your image and more about people you manage.
In my case, the reason I keep using Firefox is privacy. Chrome is trying too hard to enforce the walled garden on you and collect data. There's also one "little", but very telling point - you can not set a homepage in Chrome. I could not believe when I first discovered it.
> Sometimes we even receive requests to remove content 'from the Internet'
Today Google resembles the once dominating Internet Explorer of Microsoft. Except one thing - it's a great search tool. Which means it's going to be very hard to find a new "Firefox" [1] to provide a viable alternative.
[1] In case someone doesn't know, it was Firefox that spearheaded the break out of the IE monopoly.
Expectedly, tptacek is all over the infosec thread, arrogantly dissuading the public from the notion of a possible involvement of the US intelligence community :)
"We shoved this product up your ass real hard, but we still failed to compete with Facebook. Today, we are taking the last step: allowing you to choose any name you want. We hope to gain a little bit of Internet karma with this before we become irrelevant."
> Firefly is an American space western drama television series [...] The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.
> America: Watch out how far you take the bullying
America has enough power and influence to shut down any possible discontent - both within the country and of their minion states in Europe. It's been ruling over EU for many decades now and knows well how to handle "unpopular opinions".
If Snowden didn't leak data on NSA surveillance none of the "internet giants" would care about encryption now. They'd continue cooperating as usual. What they do now is saving face, appearing like privacy heroes. These actions are likely agreed upon with the relevant agencies and designed to calm down the public.
The request by the PRISM companies is just as hilarious as the hearing. A good show for the public to "commemorate" the one-year anniversary of the Snowden leaks.
LGBT community has a very strong support network and is a visible target. In case of Rice, her evil-doing is less apparent and diffused. There's no "minority" to protect - everyone is affected - but not in a personal discriminating manner. Wars happen, but some place else. Surveillance happen, but we don't really see it. Hence, public reaction is a lot less emotional.
Russia hijacked the plain, spoofed the satellite data, landed it in Baikonur and then buried under the ground.