What does opera use for link navigation? I just see link step/cycling in the opera documentation [1]. Is there a better paradigm than link hitting [2]? Opera always seems to have impressive hidden tricks.
Hum, I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl, but I might say I prefer Opera's mode: Pressing shift and the arrow keys allows you to navigate links visually, i.e. as they appear on the page. Since this scrolls the page too (to the next link), this is faster when you have to scroll around to find the links.
It might not be faster than hitting one key per link, but it's more intuitive than the link-cycling all the other browsers do. Give it a shot, you might like it.
I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl
Oh.. I figured that link hinting is the way of navigating links in uzbl, so if you did not discover that (the cheat sheet lists it!) then you really missed out. As for page scrolling, hjkl does that just fine IMHO (actually, I use AltGr+u/j/k/l because hjkl is not convenient on my keyboard layout).
One technique I use is to search to get focus on the link, and press enter.
So for instance, to follow your first link I'd type ".tut[enter]", or for your second, ".tube[enter]"
This works in Firefox too, if you dismiss the search box first.
Not really better than link hinting, but good enough that I haven't felt the need to find an extension that does it.
"....On these computers was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists around the world."
Does science collaboration/espionage endanger people's lives?
The quote you cited was not an example of scientific collaboration or espionage. In this case, yes, the espionage probably endangered someone's life, given China's human rights track record.
I see your point, though, and agree that science collaboration is not harmful. However, I think that the article was mainly focusing on Chinese military advancement, as most of the attacks cited in the article were on our military infrastructure. Again, I would say that a more advanced military will endanger people's lives.
As with any preference, the illusion of choice is usually necessary. If you feel you have to be doing it, it's not going to be all that much fun, at least starting out.
To enjoy it, you also need to tie the effort put in to significantly rewarding output. You have emphasized the design, interface, and user. It doesn't take much to see the code as important to these things in a direct and easily manipulable way. For instance, the implementation of AJAX-y stuff on a previously static page has huge implications to the user. A few lines of jQuery can bump the feel of the page by a decade.
Devotion of resource arguments are detrimental to the spirit of liberty in OSS. I think of these works more like exploration than some effort ultimately asymptotic to a goal. Exploration is hardly ever an unrewarding pursuit. And it has beneficial externalities. In this case more than most even!
From http://www.winehq.org/site/acknowledgement:
"Wine is at the heart of ReactOS' Win32 support. Initial work improved Wine's portability by cleaning things up so MinGW could compile it. From there, a considerable amount of effort was spent improving Wine's shell32 infrastructure and various controls. The ReactOS team is also responsible for the regedit and task manager utilities."
More details are in http://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE
I understand your point, still, exploring the Windows-like OS space is not what I would consider fun. I even happen to use some of the beneficial externalities of their exploration and I am glad they explore it and devote their resources to the side-effects I enjoy.
And those are their resources. I respect their decision, even if I cannot agree with their taste for OSs ;-)
I can put the Levenshtein perl one-liner in the blue bar and middle click it to get the distance of two highlighted words.