Yes, for news and such it doesn't make that much sense. Still, HTTPS would at least prevent your ISP from monitoring your browsing activity.

I wish they would index real FTP servers, not just those with an HTTP interface.

It could create an incentive to switch to a different ISP that supports it (where possible), which could in turn create an incentive for ISPs themselves to switch to IPv6.

That's a really great step from Google, I had never thought that it can be done in such a neat way. What's next? Can they also do it for IPv6?

People didn't live alone before agriculture. Even hunter-gatherers lived in tribes.

Do you imagine that you are addressing the organizers of those events? Who knows, some of them might even read Slashdot, but I doubt the general opinion of Slashdotters determines who gets to be given slots like a "glamorous Hollywood celebrity" and who doesn't. Ultimately, those things are decided by the people who organize those events, and it's their call.

Well, dear Americans, who elected this Congress? If you don't like them, elect yourselves another Congress.

Unless someone among "us" is a high-ranking government official then no we can't. I'm not even sure who has the authority to order him investigated.

Do they make a lot of profits from China? With all the piracy and all, their offices in China might be more for symbolic presence than because they're making money in that country.

I've heard that it doesn't work as well, that sites will look different, or not all ads will be blocked. Or that some sites will refuse to load if the ads fail, etc. I've never tried it personally, so I can't tell if it's true first hand.

I switched from transmission for the ability to preview which files to download for magnet links. My problem is that qBittorrent seems to crash very often, I still haven't figured out why it does that.

This reminds me of SRWare Iron then, where the author admitted that he had changed some random strings to hide how little difference there really was (just some different defaults), and that he had went to forums to build hype about how Big Brother is watching you through Chrome (which amounted to the address bar suggestions).

If those attacks continue, and if they cause damage, people will start paying attention and will change the way their OS is secured. I think that the Android OS has it right - no user-generated files should be executable in any way, including scripts. You have 2 partitions - one that is executable, but only admins can write to it, and one that the user can write in, but nothing is executable there.

The way SpaceX was asking for more funding for NASA made it look like they themselves are counting on that government money.

That's great, it means they have an independent source of demand that's relatively stable (unlike space tourism where you depend on just a few very rich people). So they could theoretically grow on their own even without the government contracts.