It does - but your phone has to be jailbroken before you can access it.

Actually, you are wrong. If you read the article, you'll see its main focus is on the "goto fail" bug and what the author perceives as the development shortcomings that allowed it to happen in the first place. The focus is pretty Apple-centric, mainly because he's using the "goto fail" bug as the primary evidence to support his central tenet. However I did not get the impression the author was anti-Apple.

Heartbleed is only mentioned as an afterthought because (as the article mentions) it became public knowledge some time after the author wrote the first draft of the article.

The "finding more than one worm" phrase doesn't appear to refer to Heartbleed at all - it's about (in the author's opinion) changing practices so more bugs can be caught and/or prevented.

Well, let's take what he says at face value for a moment.

Basically, he is arguing the ends justify the means. There's nothing in the US Constitution to support that, though, so it's an invalid argument. The Constitution states - pretty much as absolutes - what our rights as citizens are. There's no "well, you can have this freedom only if it doesn't make things too hard on the police" clause... as far as I can tell, anyway.

He also says that, because of the Snowden revelations, "the intel community, the military community, and law enforcement are going to work harder." Well, good! If the threat is indeed growing, they *should* work harder. To stop threats against the country and its citizens, they should use every tool that's available to them within the law. But what they *shouldn't* do is violate the constitution or civil laws in pursuit of those goals.

I always thought those acoustic coupled modems were cool... now I just need to get a landline again and dig that old Ma Bell phone out from the junk box!

Well, no - with Windows it's handing the decoding tasks off to the OS. It's only on Windows that it does it - it doesn't work on a Mac (even though it could do the same thing), and on Linux without gstreamer you're SOL.

Although until they start supporting h.264 and h.265, isn't this whole discussion a bit premature?

You've just detailed why Slashdot submissions - unlike links posted as part of the discussions - don't display the name of the site any included link directs to. If it did, there would likely be 99% fewer clickthroughs.

1) Yes - for a wormhole to stay open longer than 38 minutes, a crucial plot point must require it.

2) No, you're thinking of the opening scene from Stargate Universe - it only seemed to drag on for days.

I think we'd better learn the words to Waltzing Matilda and maybe keep the cyanide pills handy.

I remember hearing Wally Broecker talk about the ice dam + flooding hypothesis back in the mid-1990s (or possibly earlier).

I believe you've just described a Tracker Jacker.

How about a picture of a dead bee with a cigarette hanging out of its tiny little mouth?

I heard he invented the Internet!

I mainly interact with my work gmail via IMAP - so I probably won't notice the redesign for a good, long while.

Same as always - they are getting paid by advertisers to place ads alongside our email messages. So it is reasonable to assume any redesign is being done with the goal of improving the efficiency of those ads - improving click through rates and maximizing each ad's visibility.