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It's a bug. Bugs happen. You encounter one, fix it, and then it isn't a bug anymore.

Have you ever written a computer program before?



Some bugs are worse than others - and some bugs are more avoidable than others. This one falls under the category of "who was asleep at the wheel?".

Really? Outsmarting the OS's built-in PRNG by scanning the HDD of all things?


Firefox 3.5 was in beta for months. Why didn't you fix it then?

Oh yeah, it's somebody else's problem. There you go.


It's interesting how no one noticed this during the beta.


Everyone thought it was someone else's problem.




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